Month February 1869 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, 1869

• Day of Week 5th » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1869

• 11th » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum (d. 1939)
• 11th » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author (d. 1945)
• 12th » Kien Phuc, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1884)
• 14th » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 15th » Cormic Cosgrove, American soccer player (d. 1930)
• 19th » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet (d. 1923)
• 25th » Phoebus Levene, Russian-American biochemist (d. 1940)
• 27th » Alice Hamilton, American physician and academic (d. 1970)

Famous Deaths for February 1869

• 15th » Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
• 28th » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)

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