Page 2: Historical Events In February - 16

1742  On this day in history earl of Wilmington becomes British premier   

1746  On February - 16 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.   

1746  On this day in history johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic   

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

1754  Richard Mead, physician, dies on February - 16.   

1760  On February - 16 native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC   

1771  Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy on February - 16.   

1774  On February - 16 pierre Rode, composer   

1777  On this day in history messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)   

1779  On this day in history william Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies   

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

1788  Juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer on this day in history.   

1790  Chretien Urhan, composer on February - 16.   

1791  Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58 on February - 16.   

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

1803  On this day in history jan V clav Stich, Bohemian composer, dies at 56   

1804  On February - 16 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."   

1804  Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it on February - 16.   

1807  On this day in history lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866   

1812  On this day in history henry Wilson, (R) 18th VP (1873-75)   

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

1815  USS Constitution captures British Susannah on February - 16.   

1821  On February - 16 heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa)   

1822  Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist & geneticist on this day in history.   

1823  John Daniel Imboden, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 on this day in history.   

1823  On this day in history johann Gottfried Schict, composer, dies at 69   

1824  On this day in history athenaeum founded   

1825  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 on February - 16.   

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

1826  Franz von Holstein, composer on February - 16.   

1829  On February - 16 francois-Joseph Gossec, Belg/Fr composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95   

1831  On February - 16 nikolai Leskow, writer   

1832  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1ºN, 29ºW) on this day in history.   

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

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1032  On February - 16 birth of emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)   

1075  On February - 16 birth of ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet   

1497  On February - 16 birth of philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie)   

1519  On this day in history birth of gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral   

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

1620  On February - 16 birth of frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia   

1643  John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714) was born on February - 16.   

1669  Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter was born on this day in history.   

0309  On this day in history death of pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded   

0923  Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83 on February - 16.   

1247  On February - 16 death of heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)   

1279  Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies on this day in history.   

1391  Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies on February - 16.   

1531  Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) on February - 16.   

1538  On this day in history everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65   

1560  On February - 16 death of jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat