7th » 'HMS Orpheus (1861) called HMS Orpheus' sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
17th » A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the ICRC e.g International Committee of the Red Cross.
24th » Arizona is organized as a Political divisions of the United States called United States territory.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1863
9th » Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (d. 1933)
17th » Fyodor Sologub, Russian author and poet (d. 1927)
22nd » Charles McLean Andrews, American historian (d. 1943)