Historical Events In February - 15

1789  On February - 15 friedrich Fesca, composer  

1795  On February - 15 charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)  

1797  Battle of Cape St Vincent on February - 15.  

1797  Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway) on this day in history.  

1799  On February - 15 first US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania  

1799  On this day in history 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania  

1800  On this day in history frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer  

1803  On this day in history john Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill)  

1804  On this day in history new Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery  

1805  On February - 15 harmony Society is officially formed.  

1807  Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer on this day in history.  

1809  On February - 15 cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)  

1811  Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74) on February - 15.  

1812  Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany) on February - 15.  

1817  On this day in history charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter  

1818  Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69 on February - 15.  

1819  On February - 15 christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter)  

1820  Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette on February - 15.  

1820  Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1821  On February - 15 abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet  

1822  Theodor Uhlig, composer on this day in history.  

1823  Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton on this day in history.  

1826  George J Stoney, Irish physicist on February - 15.  

1828  Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary) on this day in history.  

1829  Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake) on this day in history.  

1831  On this day in history henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies  

1832  Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1834  On this day in history william Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer  

1835  On this day in history alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911  

1835  Henry Hunt, British politican, dies on this day in history.  

1841  On this day in history sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53  

1842  Postage stamps with adhesive on the back are sold for the first time at the New York City post office on this day in history.  

1842  On this day in history 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC  

1844  Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86 on February - 15.  

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1368  On February - 15 birth of sigismund, Nornberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37)  

1458  On February - 15 birth of ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)  

1471  On February - 15 birth of piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)  

1483  On this day in history birth of babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30  

1497  On this day in history birth of philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant  

1519  On this day in history birth of pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer (found St Augustine Florida)  

1524  Charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims was born on February - 15.  

1557  On this day in history birth of alfonso Fontanelli, composer  

1043  Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52 on this day in history.  

1145  On February - 15 lucius II, [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies  

1152  On this day in history konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58  

1503  On this day in history henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies  

1568  Hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36 on this day in history.  

1580  Cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies on February - 15.  

1597  Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66 on this day in history.  

1600  Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?) on this day in history.