What Happened In February 1859 - Historical Events 1859 February

Historical Events for February, 1859

4th » The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
5th » Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the Danubian Principalities e.g United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
14th » Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
19th » Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.

1st » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor (d. 1924)
3rd » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (d. 1935)
6th » Wilhelm Cohn, German chess player (d. 1913)
10th » Alexandre Millerand, French politician, 12th President of France (d. 1943)
14th » George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel (d. 1896)
19th » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
27th » Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-German activist and author (d. 1936)