Page 4: Historical Events In February - 01

1837  38 smallpox epidemic in Great Plains killing 17000+ people   

1838  Abraham de Veer, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71.   

1839  James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak).   

1839  Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76   

1840  The inaugural U.S. college of Dentistry is chartered in Baltimore, MD.   

1840  Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated   

1841  William H H Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium   

1844  Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen).   

1846  In this year, Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation   

1850  Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.   

1850  Yellow fever in United States   

1850  Influenza in North America   

1851  Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies   

1851  Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein.   

1851  Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53   

1851  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53.   

1851  Cholera in United States   

1852  Yellow fever in United States.   

1852  Yellow fever in Argentina.   

1853  Plague in Ottoman Empire.   

1853  Cholera epidemic of Copenhagen 1853 in Copenhagen, Denmark killing 4737 people.   

1854  Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec; government transfers to Toronto; hastens the decision to move to Ottawa   

1854  Broad Street cholera outbreak in England killing 616 people.   

1855  Yellow fever in United States   

1855  Third plague pandemic in Worldwide killing 12 million+ in India and China alone people   

1856  Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.   

1857  Yellow fever in Portugal.   

1857  Smallpox in Victoria, Australia   

1857  Influenza in Europe, North America, South America   

1858  Douglas Law comes into force in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley   

1859  Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)   

1860  1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC   

1861  Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands.   

1861  Texas votes to secede from the Union.   

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1261  Walter de stapledon: English bishop   

1459  Conrad celtes: German scholar   

1462  Johannes trithemius: German cryptographer   

1552  Edward coke: Mileham norfolk, jurist/politician (defended common law)   

1603  Michael trumper: Composer   

1605  Isaac aboab de fonseca: Portuguese/neth rabbi/mystic   

1633  Gabriel schutz: Composer   

1635  Marquard gude: German archaeologist   

0656  Death of Sigebert iii: King of austrasia,   

1204  Alexius iv angelus: Regent of byzantium (1203-04), murdered   

1248  Hendrik ii: Duke of brabant (1235-48),   

1294  Death of Louis ii: The stern, ruler of upper-bayern,   

1328  Death of Charles iv: The handsome, king of france (1322-28),   

1502  Olivier de la marche: Flemish writer/poet/governor,   

1542  Death of Girolamo aleandro: Italian catholic cardinal (b. 1480)   

1563  Death of Menas: Emperor of ethiopia (died of fever)