Page 2: Historical Events In February - 16

1742  Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier on February - 16.   

1746  Government forces under Lord Louden attempted to capture Prince Charles Edward stewart at Moy Hall but were surprised and routed by a handful of Jacobites. The only death in the Rout of Moy was Duncan Bam MacCrimmon, Hereditory Piper to the MacLeods of Dunvegan, who took the Hanoverian side in the 45 on February - 16.   

1746  Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic on February - 16.   

1751  1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" on February - 16.   

1754  Richard Mead, physician, dies on this day in history.   

1760  Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC on this day in history.   

1771  On February - 16 messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy   

1774  Pierre Rode, composer on February - 16.   

1777  Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice) on February - 16.   

1779  On February - 16 william Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies   

1787  On this day in history andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer   

1788  On February - 16 juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer   

1790  On February - 16 chretien Urhan, composer   

1791  On February - 16 richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58   

1799  Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts & Bayern), dies at 74 on February - 16.   

1803  Jan V clav Stich, Bohemian composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1804  Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age." on this day in history.   

1804  On this day in history lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it   

1807  On February - 16 lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866   

1812  On February - 16 henry Wilson, (R) 18th VP (1873-75)   

1813  On this day in history joseph Reid Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1892   

1815  On February - 16 uSS Constitution captures British Susannah   

1821  On this day in history heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa)   

1822  On this day in history francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist & geneticist   

1823  On this day in history john Daniel Imboden, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895   

1823  On February - 16 johann Gottfried Schict, composer, dies at 69   

1824  Athenaeum founded on this day in history.   

1825  On this day in history explorer John Franklin 1786-1847 leaves England on second expedition, with George Back, John Richardson, and surveyor Edward Kendall, to explore from the Mackenzie Delta   

1825  George Gerson, composer, dies at 34 on this day in history.   

1826  On February - 16 franz von Holstein, composer   

1829  On this day in history francois-Joseph Gossec, Belg/Fr composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95   

1831  On this day in history nikolai Leskow, writer   

1832  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1ºN, 29ºW) on February - 16.   

1832  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1°N, 29°W) on February - 16.   

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1032  Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067) was born on February - 16.   

1075  On this day in history birth of ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet   

1497  Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie) was born on February - 16.   

1519  Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral was born on February - 16.   

1543  Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590) was born on February - 16.   

1620  Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia was born on this day in history.   

1643  On February - 16 birth of john Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)   

1669  On this day in history birth of arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter   

0309  Death of Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded on February - 16.   

0923  Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1247  Death of Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204) on February - 16.   

1279  Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies on February - 16.   

1391  Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies on this day in history.   

1531  Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) on this day in history.   

1538  Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1560  Death of Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat on this day in history.