Page 2: Historical Events In February - 06

1778  England declares war on France.   

1778  France officially recognizes the new nation known as the United States of America   

1778  France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris (inaugural US treaty). England immediately declares war on France.   

1778  Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)   

1783  Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67   

1785  Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at 48.   

1788  Massachusetts is recorded as becoming the sixth of the United States.   

1788  Massachusetts is recorded as becoming the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.   

1788  Mass is recorded as becoming 6th state to ratify constitution.   

1793  Pietro Rovelli, composer.   

1793  Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85.   

1797  Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs.   

1798  Niels Schiorring, composer, dies at 54.   

1802  Charles Wheatstone, English physicist/musician [or Feb 7]   

1804  Ragnerus L van Andringa de Kempenaer, Dutch officer/swindler.   

1804  Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70   

1807  Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer.   

1807  John Reid, composer, dies at 85.   

1812  Carlo Goldoni, writer, dies at 104.   

1815  NJ issues inaugural US railroad charter (John Stevens).   

1815  NJ issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens).   

1818  William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), died in 1901   

1819  Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore   

1820  86 free black colonists sail from New York NY to Sierra Leone, Africa.   

1820  1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)   

1830  Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brig gen (Union volunteers), died in 1865).   

1832  inaugural appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland.   

1832  US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy.   

1832  1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland.   

1832  John Brown Gordon, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1904   

1833  James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General (Confederate Army)   

1834  William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863.   

1836  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)   

1838  Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)   

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1461  Dzore drzic: Croatian poet   

1564  Christopher marlowe: English poet/dramatist (dr faustus)   

1577  Beatrice cenci: Italian noblewoman   

1608  Antonio vieira: Portuguese jesuit preacher   

1611  Chongzhen emperor: Emperor of china   

1612  Antoine arnauld: [grand arnauld], french lawyer/theologist   

1637  Toyotomi hideyoshi: Unified japan   

1639  Daniel georg morhof: German writer and scholar   

0743  Death of Hisham ibn 'abd al-malik: 10th moslem caliph,   

0891  Photius: Byzantine theologist/patriarch of constantinople/saint,   

1140  Thurstan: Archbishop of york,   

1378  Jeanne de bourbon: Wife of charles v of france (b. 1338)   

1497  John ockeghem: Flemish singer/composer,   

1515  Death of Aldus manutius: Italian printer   

1585  Edmund plowden: English legal scholar (b. 1518)   

1593  Emperor ogimachi of japan: Emperor ogimachi of japan (b. 1517)