Father Narciso Durán became the pastor of the mission in 1806, and remained until he was replaced by Father José González Rubio in February 1833 as part of a post-independence policy requiring the replacement of Spanish-born clerics with those born in Mexico.

* February 27-Joaquín Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer ( d. 1910 )

Luisa Durán de la Fuente ( born February 27, 1941 ) is the wife of the former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos.

Ar., lxiv, and De Syn., xviii ), St Athanasius does not recall from memory being a first hand witness to the onset of the great persecution by the Tetrarchy of Diocletian and Maximian in February 303, for in referring to the events of this period he makes no direct appeal to his own personal recollections, but falls back on tradition.

The Gulf Stream's powerful influence makes seasonal temperature variations extremely small considering the latitude of the island, with ranges from around in August to in February, but also makes the island extremely cloudy with little sunshine even during the continuous polar day — in fact the island is one of the gloomiest places in the world with any sunshine data.

He has appeared in thirteen episodes since the show's inception in 1989, the most recent being " At Long Last Leave " that aired in February 2012, in which his character makes a cameo speaking appearance.

* February 9 – The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight.

* February 24 – Italy makes a surprise attack on the Ottoman port of Beirut, when the cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi and the gunboat Volturno bombard the harbour.

* February 4 – An earthquake near Lijiang in southwest China, measuring up to 7 on the Richter scale, kills at least 240 people, injures more than 14, 000 and makes hundreds of thousands homeless.

* January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech for the first time ( see February 3 ).

* February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town ( although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – now Ghana – on January 10 ).

* February 21 – February 28 – U. S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.

* February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.

* February 15 – The Beechcraft Starship makes its maiden flight.

* February 25 – Emperor Hadrian makes Antoninus Pius his successor, on condition that he adopts Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

Article 5 of the Treaty of Tolentino ( 19 February 1797 ) definitively sanctioned the annexation, stating that " The Pope renounces, purely and simply, all the rights to which he might lay claim over the city and territory of Avignon, and the Comtat Venaissin and its dependencies, and transfers and makes over the said rights to the French Republic.

* Shakespeare makes Caesar's triumph take place on the day of Lupercalia ( 15 February ) instead of six months earlier.

* Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck makes mention of playing faro in his memoirs ( February 1726 – 25 July 1794 ); he was a Prussian officer, adventurer, and author.

* February 22 – Plácido Domingo makes his international breakthrough at the première of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo in New York City.

* February 4 – Ljuba Welitsch makes her Metropolitan Opera début in Salome.

" This collection underlines again that Uriah Heep are deserving great respect for their past achievements but far more importantly it makes it crystal clear that this is a band with a bright future as well as a glorious history ", wrote Chris Kee in his 9 / 10 review in Powerplay magazine ’ s February 2010 issue.

* February 19 – Sammy Davis Jr. makes a guest appearance on All in the Family.

A. C. Grayling in his book Among the Dead Cities makes the point that as the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942, focused on the " morale of the enemy civil population ", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF " Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries " to help them carry out the directive – the RAF were well aware that the technique was effective against cities and not against industrial targets because cities such as Coventry had been subject to such attacks by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.

* 18 February — Ireland makes its international debut, losing 13 – 0 to England in Belfast.

1 February 2008-King Abdullah II of Jordan's Airbus A340-200 landed at Port Elizabeth as he makes his way down the Garden Route to Cape Town on a Harley-Davidson motorbike.

Australia's take on the show, Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, premiered on Network Ten in February 2005 but was cancelled after three episodes ; a Spanish version named El equipo G aired on Antena 3 for only a few weeks ; the German equivalent, RTL 2's Schwul macht cool (" Gay makes you cool ") was canceled after six episodes ; Queer, Cinq Experts dans le Vent was shown in France on TF1 for eight episodes in 2004 ; and Esquadrão G, a Portuguese version of the show, was cancelled in Portugal after the end of the first season.

The Gallup Organization published a poll in February 2007, a correspondents to name the greatest president in U. S. history ; Clinton came in fourth place, capturing 13 % of the vote.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

On February 26, Bush issued a formal letter of apology to Cardinal John Joseph O ' Connor of New York for failing to denounce Bob Jones University's history of anti-Catholic statements.

* Wolfram Eberhard, A history of China ( online ), February 7, 2006 # 17695, ISO-8859-1

The 17th Party Congress ( 26 January – 10 February 1934 ) has gone down in history as the Congress of Victors, because of the success of the First-Five Year Plan.

On February 3, 2007, Barrymore hosted Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) for the fifth time, making her the second female host ( after Candice Bergen ) in the show's history to do so.

An Irish newspaper, The Evening Herald, based in Dublin, said in February 2010 that Britannica offers a " farcically inaccurate version " of the country's history.

In 1964, he achieved that with the first live American appearance of The Beatles, on February 9, 1964, the most-watched program in TV history to that point and still one of the most-watched programs of all time.

According to National Football League history, it legalized the forward pass from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage on February 25, 1933.

* 1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history ; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25, 1942.

Fortaleza's history began on February 2, 1500, when Spaniard Vicente Pinzón landed in Mucuripe's cove and named the new land Santa Maria de la Consolación.

Gary Kilgore North ( born February 1942 ) is an economic historian and publisher who prolifically writes on topics including economics, history, and Christian theology.

The transfer of power from Menzies to Holt in February 1966 was smooth and unproblematic, and at the federal election later that year the electorate overwhelmingly endorsed Holt, giving the Holt-McEwen Coalition government a 41-seat majority, the largest in Australian history at the time.

In public, Goebbels remained confident of German victory: " We live at the most critical period in the history of the Occident ," he wrote in Das Reich in February 1943.

It continues to be the best-selling two-seat convertible sports car in history and by February 2011 over 900, 000 MX-5s had been built and sold around the world.

On 23 February 2005, the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) conservative majority at the French National Assembly voted a law compelling history textbooks and teachers to " acknowledge and recognize in particular the positive role of the French presence abroad, especially in North Africa ".

Moreover, further debate about colonialism, which is linked to immigration, continued in France ; historian Benjamin Stora noted that colonialism is an important " memory " stake influencing how communities, and the nation, itself, represent themselves, because official state history has accepted French historic crimes and errors with great difficulty ; the historian Olivier LeCour Grandmaison also criticized the 23 February 2005 law.

In their history of rockets published on the Internet, NASA says " Rockets appear in Arab literature in 1258 A. D., describing Mongol invaders ' use of them on February 15 to capture the city of Baghdad.

The first known printed use of " retroactive continuity " as referring to the altering of history within a fictional work is in All-Star Squadron # 18 ( cover-dated February 1983 ) from DC Comics.

His third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus ( delivered on 2 February 1786 and published in 1788 ) with the famed " philologer " passage is often cited as the beginning of comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies.

This marked the first time in NFL history that the Super Bowl was played in the month of February ; however, all subsequent Super Bowls ( excluding Super Bowl XXXVII ) would be played in February.

Beset by depression, and with a history of suicide attempts, Plath took her own life on 11 February 1963, although it is unclear whether she meant to ultimately succeed.

* Yorktown-class aircraft carrier ( 12 May 1938 – 17 February 1947 ), the seventh ship to bear this name, served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, becoming the most-decorated vessel in the history of the U. S. Navy.