3rd » Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.
4th » The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
9th » After no presidential candidate receives a majority of U.S. Electoral College or electoral votes in United States presidential election, 1824 or the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the Uni
12th » The Muscogee people or Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1825
8th » Henry Walter Bates, English explorer (d. 1892)
15th » Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician, 29th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1893)
22nd » Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (d. 1898)
Famous Deaths for February 1825
24th » Thomas Bowdler, English physician (b. 1754)