Albert Sidney Johnston ( February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862 ) served as a general in three different armies: the Texas Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

February 15, 1803

On February 24, 1803, the Court rendered a unanimous ( 4 – 0 ) decision, that Marbury had the right to his commission but the court did not have the power to force Madison to deliver the commission.

The draft constitution with this proviso was accepted by the United States Congress, but before Ohio's admission to the Union in February 1803, the proposed constitution was referred to a Congressional committee.

Due to religious persecution by the Lutheran Church and the government in Württemberg, the society moved to the United States on October 7, 1803, settled in Pennsylvania, and on February 15, 1805, they, together with about 400 followers, formally organized the Harmony Society, placing all their goods in common.

* February 17 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer ( d. 1803 )

* February 23 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia ( b. 1803 )

He won the by-election for U. S. Senator from New York after the resignation of John Armstrong, Jr. and served from February 23, 1802, to November 4, 1803.

Ohio became a state in 1803 and on February 18, 1804, the state legislature passes an act establishing the " Ohio University " in the town of Athens.

For each variety, there was a new enabling statute or executive decree: 28 March 1803 ; 7 April 1803 ; 26 June 1804 ; 8 September 1805 ; 11 February 1807 ; 5 August 1807 ; and 22 October 1808.

Frederick assumed the title Prince-Elector () on 25 February 1803, and was thereafter known as the Elector of Württemberg.

On February 25, 1803, the name was changed to Lyman in honor of Theodore Lyman, a wealthy merchant who established a successful shipping firm in the 1790s at York before moving to Boston.

At that time, the lands in this area were annexed to Newberry Township, where they remained until February 1803, when the York County Court approved petitions of area citizens to create the Township of Fairview.

In February 1803, as a result of the Peace of Amiens, the colony came under the control of the Batavian Republic.

Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke ( February 25, 1803, Wettin – February 4, 1878, Halle an der Saale ), was a German theologian.

Jean François de Saint-Lambert ( 26 December 1716 – 9 February 1803 ) was a French poet and military officer, but he is most remembered for his involvement in two love affairs.

Ludwig GleimJohann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim ( 2 April 1719 – 18 February 1803 ) was a German poet.

He died at Halberstadt on 18 February 1803.

Louis René Édouard de Rohan known as Cardinal de Rohan ( 25 September 1734 – 16 February 1803 ), prince de Rohan-Guéméné, was a French bishop of Strasbourg ( Strassburg in German ), politician, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and cadet of the Rohan family ( which traced its origin to the kings of Brittany ).

In 29 November 1801, he resigned his nominal office as Bishop of Strasbourg and went back to Ettenheim, where he died on 17 February 1803.

* February 24, 1803: First time an Act of Congress was declared unconstitutional: U. S. Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison

* The Coat of Arms of Colin Powell was granted by the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh on February 4, 2004.

In addition, Cecil had been elevated to the peerage as Lord Burghley in February 1571, increasing his daughter's value as a member of the peerage, so the negotiations were cancelled.

In February 1577, it was rumoured that Oxford's sister Mary would marry Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ( 1559 – 1580 ), but by 2 July, she was linked with Peregrine Bertie, later Lord Willoughby d ' Eresby.

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, seen during his tour of the Arakan Front in February 1944.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( born on 14 February 1924 ), sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and Lady Pamela Carmen Louise ( Hicks ) ( born on 19 April 1929 ), who accompanied them to India in 1947-48 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895 ) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 ) and as Lord President of the Council.

Lord Aberdare died in London on 25 February 1895, aged 79, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son from his first marriage, Henry.

In February 1794, the Governor-in-Chief Lord Dorchester, anticipating that the Americans would honour their treaty with France, said that war was likely to break out between the United States and Great Britain before the year was out.

In February 1937, before a meeting with the Lord Privy Seal, Lord Halifax, Ribbentrop suggested to Hitler that Germany, Italy, and Japan begin a worldwide propaganda campaign with the aim of forcing Britain to return the former German colonies in Africa.

On 26 February 1491, a matrimonial arrangement was drawn up between Lucrezia and the Lord of Val D ' Ayora in the kingdom of Valencia, Don Cherubino Joan de Centelles, which was annulled less than two months later in favour of a new contract engaging Lucrezia to Don Gaspare Aversa, count of Procida.

Between November 1858 and February 1859, Gladstone, on behalf of Lord Derby's government, was made Extraordinary Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands embarking via Vienna and Trieste on a twelve week mission to the southern Adriatic entrusted with complex challenges that had arisen in connection with the future of the British Protectorate of the Ionian islands.

In a letter to Lord Acton on 11 February 1885, Gladstone criticised Tory Democracy as " demagogism " that " put down pacific, law-respecting, economic elements that ennobled the old Conservatism " but " still, in secret, as obstinately attached as ever to the evil principle of class interests ".

* February 14 – George Monck ’ s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards ( which later becomes Coldstream Guards )

* February 12 – Viceroy of India Lord Curzon creates the new North-West Frontier Province in the north of the Punjab region, bordering Afghanistan.

* February 17 – The uninhabited Lord Howe Island is discovered by the brig HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who is on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.

* February 25 – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore ( Lord Dunmore )

* February 12 – John Carteret, 2nd Lord Carteret becomes Secretary of State for the Northern Department in Great Britain.

* February 6, 1820 – Lord Cochrane occupies Valdivia in the name of the Republic of Chile.

* February 1 – Lord Byron's semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair is published by John Murray in London and sells 10, 000 copies on this day.

* February 27 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.

* February 25 – The Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.

* February 23 – In England, the Humble Petition and Advice offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown.