What Happened In February 1866 - Historical Events 1866 February

Historical Events for February, 1866

16th » Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire e.g Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
25th » Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.

2nd » Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter (d. 1927)
5th » Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician, 3rd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963)
6th » Karl Sapper, German linguist and explorer (d. 1945)
8th » Moses Gomberg, Russian-American chemist (d. 1947)
13th » Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (d. 1938)
15th » Edward William Exshaw, English sailor (d. 1927)
16th » Billy Hamilton (baseball, born 1866) or Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (d. 1940)
19th » Louis-Henri Foreau, French painter (d. 1938)
20th » Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum (d. 1936)
24th » Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
24th » Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (d. 1961)
25th » Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (d. 1952)
26th » Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (d. 1930)
28th » Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1949)