Historical Events
- Feb 1 Oldest continuous writer of insurance in America - The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (MONY) opens
- Feb 2 US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee
- Feb 6 The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
I Lombardi
Feb 11 Giuseppe Verdi's dramatic opera "I Lombardi" premieres at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy
The General, The Schoolgirl, And The Famous One-Word Despatch
Feb 17 Battle of Miani: Bombay Army of the East India Company led by Charles Napier defeats a Baluch army of Talpur Emirs of Sindh led by Mir Nasir Khan Talpur; the company captures parts of Sindh, their first possession in modern-day Pakistan
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 12 John Graham Chambers, English athlete who wrote the Queensberry rules for boxing (d. 1883)
- Feb 19 Adelina Patti, Italian opera soprano (Lucio), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1919)
- Feb 22 Aldredo de Escragnolle Taunay, Brazilian writer (Inocencia), musician and politician, born in Rio Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1899)
Famous Weddings
Kit Carson
Feb 6 American Frontiersman Kit Carson (33) weds Mexican socialite Josefa Jaramillo (14) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, in Taos, Mexico
Famous Deaths
- Feb 15 Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general and leader of the Greek War of Independence (1821-29), dies at 72
