Historical Events Happened In February - 20

1725  On this day in history 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty  Share it »

1725  On this day in history 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for £100 a scalp bounty  Share it »

1731  Frederich Karl Erbach, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.  Share it »

1732  On this day in history estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna  Share it »

1734  On this day in history franz Ignaz Beck, composer  Share it »

1737  French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns on this day in history.  Share it »

1737  Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies on this day in history.  Share it »

1745  Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Fort August, Scotland on this day in history.  Share it »

1745  Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Fort August, Scotland on this day in history.  Share it »

1745  On this day in history johann Peter Salomon, composer  Share it »

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness on this day in history.  Share it »

1746  Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68 on this day in history.  Share it »

1752  On this day in history charles Broche, composer  Share it »

1763  Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer on this day in history.  Share it »

1768  First American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania) on this day in history.  Share it »

1768  1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn) on this day in history.  Share it »

1770  Ferdinando Carulli, composer on this day in history.  Share it »

1773  Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia/Duke of Savoy (CE III), dies at 71 on this day in history.  Share it »

1779  On this day in history augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington  Share it »

1784  On this day in history adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher  Share it »

1786  Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  Share it »

1788  Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68 on this day in history.  Share it »

1790  Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48 on this day in history.  Share it »

1791  Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen) on this day in history.  Share it »

1792  US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance on this day in history.  Share it »

1792  On this day in history uS postal service created, postage 6 cents  Share it »

1796  On this day in history eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician  Share it »

1798  On this day in history louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.  Share it »

1802  On this day in history charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer  Share it »

1803  On this day in history friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer  Share it »

1805  On this day in history angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer  Share it »

1808  On this day in history daumier, Marseilles France, artist  Share it »

1809  The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the federal government's power is greater than any individual state on this day in history.  Share it »

1809  On this day in history supreme Court rules federal govt power greater than any state  Share it »

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1494  On this day in history birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)  Share it »

1507  On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)  Share it »

1523  On this day in history birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)  Share it »

1632  On this day in history birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)  Share it »

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on this day in history.  Share it »

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on this day in history.  Share it »

1734  On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer  Share it »

1745  On this day in history birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer  Share it »

1054  On this day in history yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies  Share it »

1154  On this day in history death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett  Share it »

1171  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on this day in history.  Share it »

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on this day in history.  Share it »

1258  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on this day in history.  Share it »

1408  On this day in history death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)  Share it »

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on this day in history.  Share it »

1524  Death of Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya on this day in history.  Share it »