What Happened in February 1857

Historical Events

Feb 3 Early ice hockey game played between teams from Swavesey and Over on Mare Fen, England [1]

Feb 7 French writer Gustave Flaubert is acquitted on a charge of obscenity for his work "Madame Bovary"

Feb 18 Chinese residents in the fledging state of Sarawak rebel against the "White Rajah" James Brooke

Feb 2 Jan Six, Dutch art historian and art collector (Six Collection), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1926)
Feb 3 Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen, Danish Botanist and Geneticist (provided evidence for Hugo de Vries' mutation theory), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1927)
Feb 7 Alfred Lyttelton, English politician and sportsman, 1st to represent England at cricket and football, born in London (d. 1913)
Feb 12 Bobby Peel, English cricket all-rounder (20 Tests, 3 x 50, 101 wickets, BB 7/31; Yorkshire CCC), born in Churwell, England (d. 1941)
Feb 17 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor, publisher and muckracker (McClure's Magazine), born in County Antrim, Ireland (d. 1949)
Feb 18 Max Klinger, German graphic artist, painter and sculptor (Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove), born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1920)
Feb 21 Jules de Trooz, Belgium politician and Prime Minister of Belgium (1907), born in Leuven, Belgium (d. 1907)
Feb 22 Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1894)

Feb 22 British officer and founder of the modern scouting movement, born in Paddington, London

Feb 25 Friedrich Reinitzer, Austrian chemist and botanist (discovered properties of liquid crystals), born in Prague (d. 1927)
Feb 26 Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion), born in Troyes, France (d. 1926)
Feb 28 Gustave Kerker, German born American composer for Broadway musicals (The Belle of New York), born in Hertford, Germany (d. 1923)

Feb 7 Félix de Merode, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War and Finance, dies at 65
Feb 9 Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem, dies at 58

Feb 10 English-Canadian explorer (Columbia River, mapped more Canadian territory than anyone else), dies at 86

Feb 14 Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 56
Feb 15 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (Kamarinskaya; Ruslan and Ludmilla), dies at 53
Feb 16 Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77
Feb 16 Elisha Kent Kane, American naval surgeon and Arctic explorer (led expedition to Greenland discover fate of John Franklin), dies at 37
Feb 26 Ole Andreas Lindeman, Norwegian organist (Trondheim Vor Frelsers Kirke, 1799-57), composer, and educator, dies at 88
Feb 28 André Dumont, Belgian geologist, dies at 48