Page 2: Historical Events In February - 16

1742  Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier on February - 16.   

1746  On February - 16 government forces under Lord Louden attempted to capture Prince Charles Edward stewart at Moy Hall but were surprised and routed by a handful of Jacobites. The only death in the Rout of Moy was Duncan Bam MacCrimmon, Hereditory Piper to the MacLeods of Dunvegan, who took the Hanoverian side in the 45.   

1746  Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic on February - 16.   

1751  1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" on this day in history.   

1754  Richard Mead, physician, dies on February - 16.   

1760  Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC on February - 16.   

1771  Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy on this day in history.   

1774  On this day in history pierre Rode, composer   

1777  On this day in history messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)   

1779  William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies on this day in history.   

1787  Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer on this day in history.   

1788  On February - 16 juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer   

1790  Chretien Urhan, composer on February - 16.   

1791  On February - 16 richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58   

1799  Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts & Bayern), dies at 74 on February - 16.   

1803  On this day in history jan V clav Stich, Bohemian composer, dies at 56   

1804  Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age." on February - 16.   

1804  On this day in history lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it   

1807  On this day in history lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866   

1812  On February - 16 henry Wilson, (R) 18th VP (1873-75)   

1813  On this day in history joseph Reid Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1892   

1815  On this day in history uSS Constitution captures British Susannah   

1821  Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa) on this day in history.   

1822  On this day in history francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist & geneticist   

1823  On February - 16 john Daniel Imboden, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895   

1823  Johann Gottfried Schict, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1824  On February - 16 athenaeum founded   

1825  Explorer John Franklin 1786-1847 leaves England on second expedition, with George Back, John Richardson, and surveyor Edward Kendall, to explore from the Mackenzie Delta on February - 16.   

1825  George Gerson, composer, dies at 34 on this day in history.   

1826  On February - 16 franz von Holstein, composer   

1829  Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belg/Fr composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95 on this day in history.   

1831  On February - 16 nikolai Leskow, writer   

1832  On this day in history hMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1ºN, 29ºW)   

1832  On this day in history hMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1°N, 29°W)   

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1032  Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067) was born on February - 16.   

1075  On February - 16 birth of ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet   

1497  Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie) was born on February - 16.   

1519  On February - 16 birth of gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral   

1543  On this day in history birth of kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)   

1620  On this day in history birth of frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia   

1643  On this day in history birth of john Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)   

1669  On February - 16 birth of arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter   

0309  On February - 16 death of pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded   

0923  On February - 16 abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83   

1247  Death of Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204) on February - 16.   

1279  On February - 16 afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies   

1391  On February - 16 johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies   

1531  On this day in history death of johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)   

1538  On this day in history everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65   

1560  Death of Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat on this day in history.