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Table : Important February events
(from the February article)

February 1

—Supreme Court of the United States first met, 1790.

—Louis S. St. Laurent, second French Canadian prime minister of Canada, born 1882.

—Langston Hughes, African American author, born 1902.

February 2

—Ground-Hog Day.

—Talleyrand, French statesman, born 1754.

—Charles Sturt discovered Darling River, Australia, 1829.

—By the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gave New Mexico and California to the United States, 1848.

—New Zealand's first railway, the Don Mountain line, opened in Nelson, 1862.

—James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet, born 1882.

—Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian American violinist, born 1901.

—The last German troops surrendered in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II, 1943.

February 3

—Felix Mendelssohn, German composer, born 1809.

—Horace Greeley, American publisher, born 1811.

—Elizabeth Blackwell, first modern woman doctor, born 1821.

—Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft landed on the Moon, 1966.

February 4

—Confederate States of America organized, 1861.

—Emilio Aguinaldo began Philippine Rebellion against the United States, 1899.

—Charles A. Lindbergh, American aviator, born 1902.

—Yalta Conference began, 1945.

—Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) became independent in 1948.

—Amendment 24 to the U.S. Constitution, banning poll tax, proclaimed in 1964.

February 5

—Sir Robert Peel, British statesman, born 1788.

—Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist, born 1837.

February 6

—Queen Anne of England, born 1665.

—Aaron Burr, American political leader, born 1756.

—Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution, 1788.

—Waitangi Day, New Zealand. In recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1840 between the native Maori and European settlers.

—"Babe" Ruth, American home run king, born 1895.

—The United States Senate ratified the peace treaty ending the Spanish-American War, 1899.

—Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president, born 1911.

—Elizabeth II became queen of the United Kingdom, 1952.

February 7

—Charles Dickens, British novelist, born 1812.

—Sinclair Lewis, Nobel Prize-winning American novelist, born 1885.

—Sir Russell Drysdale, Australian painter, born 1912.

—Grenada became independent, 1974.

February 8

—Mary, Queen of Scots, executed in 1587.

—College of William and Mary, second oldest college in the United States, chartered in 1693.

—John Ruskin, English essayist and critic, born 1819.

—William T. Sherman, Union Army general in the American Civil War, born 1820.

—Jules Verne, French novelist, born 1828.

—Russo-Japanese War began, 1904.

—Boy Scouts of America incorporated, 1910.

February 9

—William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. president, born 1773.

—Australian aviator Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles born 1897.

February 10

—Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War, 1763.

—Charles Lamb, English essayist and critic, born 1775.

—British prime minister Macmillan, Harold (later the Earl of Stockton) born 1894.

February 11

—National Foundation Day, Japan.

—Thomas A. Edison, American inventor, born 1847.

February 12

—Lady Jane Grey, the "nine-day queen" of England, executed 1554.

—Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish patriot, born 1746.

—Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president, born 1809.

—Charles Darwin, British naturalist, born 1809.

—John L. Lewis, American labor leader, born 1880.

—Nash, Sir Walter, New Zealand statesman, born 1882.

February 13

—Banks, Sir Joseph, botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook, born 1743.

—Grant Wood, American painter, born 1891.

February 14

—Valentine's Day.

—Captain James Cook, British navigator and explorer, died 1779.

—Oregon became the 33rd U.S. state, 1859.

—John Barrymore, American actor, born 1882.

—Arizona became the 48th U.S. state, 1912.

February 15

—Galileo, Italian astronomer and physicist, born 1564.

—Cyrus McCormick, American inventor, born 1809.

—Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage leader, born 1820.

—Elihu Root, U.S. statesman and lawyer, born 1845.

February 16

—Henry Adams, American historian, born 1838.

February 17

—Thomas Robert Malthus, British economist, born 1766.

February 18

—Democracy Day, Nepal.

—Mary I, first reigning queen of England, born 1516.

—John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was licensed for publication, 1678.

—Jefferson Davis took the oath as provisional president of the Confederate States of America, 1861.

—Wendell Willkie, American political leader, born 1892.

—San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition opened, 1939.

—Gambia became independent, 1965.

February 19

—Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, born 1473.

—David Garrick, English actor, born 1717.

—Thomas A. Edison patented the phonograph, 1878.

February 20

—John H. Glenn, Jr., astronaut, became the first American to orbit the earth, 1962.

February 21

—Shaheed Dibash (Martyrs' Day), Bangladesh.

—British poet W. H. Auden born 1907.

—The Battles of Verdun began during World War I, 1916.

February 22

—George Washington, first U.S. president, born 1732.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, born 1788.

—James Russell Lowell, American poet, born 1819.

—The United States acquired the Florida territory from Spain, 1819.

—Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, born 1857.

—Norman Lindsay, Australian artist and writer, born 1879.

February 23

—Samuel Pepys, English diarist, born 1633.

—George Frideric Handel, composer, born in Germany in 1685.

—W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights leader, historian, and sociologist, born 1868.

—First regular radio broadcasts in the United Kingdom, 1920.

—Amendment 25 to the U.S. Constitution, on presidential succession, proclaimed in 1967.

February 24

—Winslow Homer, American painter, born 1836.

February 25

—National Day, Kuwait.

—José de San Martín, liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru, born 1778.

—Enrico Caruso, Italian singer, born 1873.

—Amendment 16 to the U.S. Constitution, authorizing the income tax, proclaimed in 1913.

—President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines resigned from office and fled the country, 1986.

February 26

—Victor Hugo, French poet and novelist, born 1802.

—Napoleon escaped from the island of Elba, 1815.

—William Frederick Cody (better known as "Buffalo Bill"), American frontiersman, born 1846.

February 27

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, born 1807.

—Battle of Majuba Hill, South Africa, led to independence of the Transvaal under Paul Kruger, 1881.

—Marian Anderson, American singer, born 1897.

—British Labour Party founded, 1900.

February 28

—Marquis de Montcalm, French commander in Quebec, born 1712.

—Vincent Massey took the oath as the first Canadian-born governor general of Canada, 1952.

February 29

—Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer, born 1792.

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