Gerry was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress from February 1776 to 1780.

* 1776 23 February – One of the heaviest storms ever recorded in Gibraltar.

In February 1776, colonists learned of Parliament's passage of the Prohibitory Act, which established a blockade of American ports and declared American ships to be enemy vessels.

* Enterprise ( 1776 ) schooner ( 20 December 1776 – February 1777 ), the second American ship to bear this name served on Chesapeake Bay during the Revolutionary War.

A fire destroyed the previous theatre, the Teatro Regio Ducale, on 25 February 1776, after a carnival gala.

In February 1776, the Georgia Legislature created a county from St. Phillip's parish.

* John Simpson born 1744 died February 3, 1809. was a lieutenant in the Continental Army and in the fall fall of 1776 fought along side Washington in the battle of Trenton and Princeton

Legend has it that she exhorted the Loyalist force at Cross Creek, North Carolina ( present-day Fayetteville ) that included her husband, Allan, as it headed off to its eventual defeat at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in February, 1776.

Jean-Pierre Boyer ( possibly 15 February 1776 – 9 July 1850 ), a native of Saint-Domingue, was a soldier, one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, and President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843.

Although the term " sons of liberty " had been used in a generic fashion well before 1765, it was only around February 1766 that its influence as an organized group, using the formal name " Sons of Liberty ", extended throughout the colonies, leading to the development of a pattern for future resistance to the British that would carry the colonies towards 1776.

His opera The Maid of the Vale premiered at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on 12 February 1775, and in December 1776 he was engaged by Thomas Ryder to produce Cymon in Dublin.

In February 2010, letters written by Edward Drax concerning the 1776 excavation were found in the British Library describing a " perpendicular cavity " wide.

* February 23-Sir George Thomas Smart, multi-instrumentalist and conductor ( b. 1776 )

On 21 February 1776 he was in Durham, where he attended the meeting of the city's masonic lodge at the Marquis of Granby tavern.

Richard Mant ( February 12, 1776 – 1848 ) was an English churchman and writer.

In February 1776 he was appointed to the command of the North American Station.

Abraham Raimbach ( 16 February 1776 – 17 January 1843 ), was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent.

The first American naval squadron was launched on 18 February 1776.

Between November 1775 and February 1776, Colonel Henry Knox and a team of engineers used sledges to retrieve 60 tons of heavy artillery that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga.

Washington was elected a Captain of Stafford County Minutemen on September 12, 1775, and became part of the 3rd Virginia Regiment, Continental Line on February 25, 1776, commanding its 7th Company.

When the Middle Department was created on February 27, 1776 the New York Department was merged into it.

The Middle Department was established on February 27, 1776.

The Southern Department was formally established on February 27, 1776.

* Henry Salusbury ( 15 February 1766-23 March 1776 )

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.

Reynolds died on 23 February 1792 in his house in Leicester Fields in London between eight and nine in the evening.

On 27 February 1658 the ducal house divided in two branches: Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

On 15 February 1977, army corporal Osvaldo Ramón Ríos was killed after his patrol came under fire from a group of Montoneros that had barricaded themselves inside a house in the Ezpeleta suburb of Buenos Aires.

After the February Revolution, Nicholas II and his family were placed under house arrest in the Alexander Palace.

The opera received its Canadian premiere at the opera house in Vancouver on 9 February 1891 with Emma Juch as Elsa.

* February 14 – Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach ( d. 1576 )

* February – After the death of Erik Eriksson on February 2, Valdemar I, who is the eldest son of Birger jarl, is elected king of Sweden and becomes the first Swedish king of the Folkung house.

" Nevertheless, " Jack was still so kind and gentle with Bessie that when Cloudsley Johns was a house guest in February 1903 he didn't suspect a breakup of their marriage.

He remained a Senator until, in accordance with the Westminster tradition that the Prime Minister is a member of the lower house of parliament, he resigned on 1 February 1968 in order to contest the House of Representatives by-election for the electorate of Higgins in south Melbourne ( necessitated by Holt's death ).

Between 2 and 23 February ( both dates inclusive ) he was a member of neither house of parliament.

In February 2007, a 1921 portrait of an unidentified man with a red scarf ( L ' Homme au Foulard Rouge ) by Chaim Soutine sold for $ 17. 2 million-a new record-at Sotheby's London auction house.

On 19 February 1919, during the Paris Peace Conference, as Clemenceau was leaving his house in the Rue Franklin to drive to a meeting with House and Balfour at the Crillon, a man jumped out and fired several shots at the car.

For that reason, when Congress formally proposed the repeal of Prohibition on February 20, 1933 ( with the requisite two-thirds having voted in favor in each house ; 63 to 21 in the United States Senate and 289 to 121 in the United States House of Representatives ), they chose the other ratification method established by Article V, that being via state conventions.

According to Rankin, in February 1838 a young slave woman had escaped across the frozen Ohio River to the town of Ripley with her child in her arms and stayed at his house on her way further north.

In February 1917, Nicholas II abdicated the throne and Anastasia and her family were placed under house arrest at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo during the Russian Revolution.

The opera was composed in 1941 – 1944 and first performed at La Scala opera house in Milan on February 22, 1948.

As of February 2011, none of the Greek fraternities and sororities have an established on-campus house.

After substantial hesitation on her part, they married on February 7, 1931, in Putnam's mother's house in Noank, Connecticut.

* Ultima Online: Age of Shadows ( 11 February 2003 ) brought the landmass of Malas with space for new housing, two new character classes ( Paladin and Necromancer ) and the ability to customize house designs.

James Austin, George McGahan and James W. Smith were appointed by the Governor as a county court, and their first meeting, held February 25, 1822, was at the house of Jesse Murphy, where they appointed John D. Peers as county clerk.

Zamora and his six castmates ( Mohammed Bilal, Rachel Campos, Pam Ling, Cory Murphy, David " Puck " Rainey, and Judd Winick ) moved into the house at 953 Lombard Street on Russian Hill on February 12, 1994.

Then, in February 23, 1942, the Zweigs were found dead of a barbiturate overdose in their house in the city of Petrópolis, holding hands.

On 23 February 1984, the official first inhabitant of the village of Zeewolde was handed the keys of his house.