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Month February 1866 Calendar

About Month of February Calendar

  • February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 days in leap years.

    February symbols: Its birth flower is the violet (Viola) and the common primrose (Primula vulgaris). Its birthstone is the amethyst. It symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity. Its Zodiac signs are Aquarius (until February 18) and Pisces (February 19 onwards).

Historical Events for February, 1866

  • Day of Week 16th » Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire e.g Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
  • Day of Week 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.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1866

  • 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)

Calendar for the year 1866 and a calender for the month of February

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