Page 3: Historical Events In February - 15

1789  On this day in history friedrich Fesca, composer   

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

1797  On February - 15 battle of Cape St Vincent   

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

1799  First US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania on this day in history.   

1799  On February - 15 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania   

1800  Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer on February - 15.   

1803  John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill) on this day in history.   

1804  New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery on February - 15.   

1805  Harmony Society is officially formed on this day in history.   

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

1809  Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper) on February - 15.   

1811  Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74) on this day in history.   

1812  On February - 15 charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany)   

1817  Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter on February - 15.   

1818  On February - 15 charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69   

1819  Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter) on February - 15.   

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

1820  On February - 15 pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63   

1821  Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history george J Stoney, Irish physicist   

1828  On February - 15 johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)   

1829  On this day in history silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake)   

1831  On February - 15 henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies   

1832  On this day in history hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85   

1834  On February - 15 william Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer   

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

1835  On this day in history henry Hunt, British politican, dies   

1841  Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53 on February - 15.   

1842  On February - 15 postage stamps with adhesive on the back are sold for the first time at the New York City post office.   

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

1844  Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86 on this day in history.   

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1368  Sigismund, Nornberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37) was born on this day in history.   

1458  Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490) was born on this day in history.   

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  Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant was born on this day in history.   

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

1524  On February - 15 birth of charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims   

1557  On February - 15 birth of alfonso Fontanelli, composer   

1043  On February - 15 gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52   

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

1152  Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58 on this day in history.   

1503  Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies on this day in history.   

1568  On this day in history hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36   

1580  On this day in history cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies   

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

1600  On this day in history jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)