Page 2: Historical Events In February - 25

1727  On February - 25 armand-Louis Couperin, composer   

1731  On February - 25 simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer   

1732  Robert Hudson, composer on February - 25.   

1735  Ernst William Wolf, composer on February - 25.   

1746  On this day in history cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen   

1751  On February - 25 first performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢)   

1751  1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent) on this day in history.   

1778  Jose Francisco de San Martin, liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru on February - 25.   

1788  Mateo Ferrer, composer on February - 25.   

1791  1st Bank of US chartered on February - 25.   

1793  On February - 25 uS President George Washington and his department heads hold their first Cabinet meeting.   

1793  1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home) on this day in history.   

1794  On this day in history gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam   

1797  Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain on this day in history.   

1799  On February - 25 congress passes first federal quarantine legislation   

1799  On this day in history 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land   

1803  On this day in history 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states   

1804  On this day in history jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus   

1807  On this day in history george Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876   

1808  James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 on this day in history.   

1809  George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892 on February - 25.   

1811  On this day in history carl Schuberth, composer   

1814  Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS] on this day in history.   

1815  On this day in history robert Hall Chilton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879   

1826  On this day in history piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60   

1828  John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House on this day in history.   

1828  On this day in history john Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House   

1830  On February - 25 victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris   

1832  On this day in history theodorus J I Arnold, bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian)   

1833  Clement Anselm Evans, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911 on February - 25.   

1836  Samuel Colt patents first revolving barrel multishot firearm on February - 25.   

1836  Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm on this day in history.   

1837  On this day in history the first US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport   

1837  On February - 25 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport   

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1398  On this day in history birth of xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)   

1591  On this day in history birth of friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)   

1635  On this day in history birth of walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen   

1643  Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) was born on February - 25.   

1663  On this day in history birth of pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)   

1680  Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer was born on February - 25.   

1682  Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771) was born on this day in history.   

1692  Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775) was born on this day in history.   

0779  Walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies on this day in history.   

1246  On this day in history death of dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd   

1247  Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies on February - 25.   

1495  Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1522  On February - 25 death of william Lilye, English classical scholar   

1536  On this day in history death of berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)   

1553  On this day in history death of hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)   

1558  On this day in history death of eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)