What Happened in February 1827

Historical Events

Feb 1 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, born in Paris, France (d. 1905)
Feb 2 Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
Feb 2 Oswald Aschenbach, German landscape painter, born in Düsseldorf, Prussia (d. 1905)
Feb 19 Charles Robert Woods, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1855)
Feb 20 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, American politician, lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Unadilla, New York (d. 1912)
Feb 22 James Barnet Fry, American historian and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Carrollton, Illinois (d. 1894)
Feb 24 Charles Davis Jameson, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Gorham, Maine (d. 1862)
Feb 27 Richard W Johnson, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Livingston County, Kentucky (d. 1897)

Feb 2 Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, German organist, composer, and teacher of Carl Maria von Weber, dies at 62
Feb 7 Franz Anton Dimmler, German composer, dies at 73
Feb 17 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator (Leonard & Gertrude), dies at 81
Feb 22 Charles Willson Peale, American painter remembered for portraits of leading American Revolution figures (George Washington), dies at 85
Feb 26 David Moritz Michael, German composer who worked in America, dies at 75