Historical Events
- Feb 2 Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral on fire, does £60,000 damage
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 John Potts Slough, American politician, lawyer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1867)
- Feb 2 Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
- Feb 11 William Anderson Pile, American politician, minister, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1889)
- Feb 13 Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Netherlands Spectator) (d. 1899)
- Feb 14 Alfred Iverson Jr., Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Clinton, Georgia (d. 1911)
- Feb 15 Silas Weir Mitchell, American physician (discovered causalgia, erythromelalgia) and author (Roland Blake, Hugh Wynne), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1914)
- Feb 18 Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Opelousas, Louisiana (d. 1864)
- Feb 21 Johnson Hagood, American politician (Governor of South Carolina 1880-82) and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Barnwell, South Carolina (d. 1898)
Levi Strauss (1829-1902)
Feb 26 German-born American clothing designer who founded the 1st company to manufacture blue jeans (Levi Strauss & Co.), born in Buttenheim, Bavaria
Famous Deaths
- Feb 10 Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
- Feb 11 Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)
- Feb 16 François-Joseph Gossec, Belgian-French composer (Les Pêcheurs; Mirza), dies at 95
- Feb 18 Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, harpsichordist, mandolin player, composer, and opera conductor, dies at 77
- Feb 22 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general and Napoleon's wife Marie lover, dies at 53
- Feb 24 Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
