In February 1848 it was decided that Prince Albert would acquire the remaining part of the lease on Balmoral, together with its furniture and staff, and the couple arrived for their first visit on 8 September 1848.

Don Francisco Amorós y Ondeano, marquis de Sotelo, was born on February 19, 1770 in Valence and died on August 8, 1848 in Paris.

The climaxing banquet was scheduled for 22 February 1848 in Paris but the government banned it.

On February 21, 1848, the House of Representatives was discussing the matter of honoring US Army officers who served in the Mexican – American War.

First published on 21 February 1848, it laid out the beliefs of the Communist League, a group who had come increasingly under the influence of Marx and Engels, who argued that the League must make their aims and intentions clear to the general public rather than hiding them as they had formerly been doing.

During this century, Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January – February 1848 and become self-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe.

The February 25, 1836 patent was then reissued as entitled Revolving gun to Samuel Colt on October 24, 1848.

The first instance of responsible government in the British Empire was achieved by the colony of Nova Scotia in January – February 1848 through the efforts of Joseph Howe.

“ The first Executive Council chosen exclusively from the party having a majority in the representative branch of a colonial legislature was formed in Nova Scotia on 2 February 1848.

On February 2, 1848 California was annexed to the U. S. with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

On 27 April 1848, following the February revolution in France, a law was passed in Paris enabling the Four Quarters to elect a Deputy to the French Parliament for the first time.

* Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21, 1848.

* February 1 – Thomas Cole, American artist ( d. 1848 )

* February 3 – Belle Starr, American outlaw ( b. 1848 )

* February 12 – Henri Duparc, French composer ( b. 1848 )

* February 10 – Captain Frederick Marryat, British author ( d. 1848 )

* February 13 – Brooks Adams, American historian ( b. 1848 )

In January and February 1848, he delivered lectures on " The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government " explaining his tax resistance at the Concord Lyceum.

The Bourbon monarchy in France ended on 24 February 1848, when Louis-Philippe was forced to abdicate and the short-lived French Second Republic was established.

Another revolution erupted on 12 January 1848 and Ferdinand was also forced to grant a constitution on 10 February.

It was first published on 21 February 1848 and ends with the world famous phrase: " Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.

In Padua, the year of revolutions of 1848 saw a student revolt which on February 8 turned the University and the Caffè Pedrocchi into battlegrounds in which students and ordinary Paduans fought side by side.

Andrew Inglis Clark ( 24 February 1848 – 14 November 1907 ) was an Australian barrister, politician, electoral reformer and jurist.

* February 14 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the United States to have his photograph taken.

Lincoln County was created by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on February 20, 1893, from the western portion of Benton and Polk counties.

On February 26, 1845, six days before Polk took office, Congress passed the joint resolution.

Polk unsuccessfully attempted to oppose Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's raid against Meridian, Mississippi, in February 1864.

Scott Ryan Williamson ( born February 17, 1976, in Fort Polk North, Louisiana ) is a former right-handed relief pitcher.

Joshua Micah Marshall ( born February 15, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri ) is an American Polk Award-winning journalist who founded Talking Points Memo, which The New York Times Magazine called " one of the most popular and most respected sites " in the blogosphere.

Named to honor the World War II veterans of Polk County, the 7, 227-seat Veterans Memorial Auditorium opened on February 1, 1955.

Polk presided over the meeting in February 1892 that formally created the party.

On February 1, 1861, before the war really began in earnest, Hendry led efforts to create Polk County, Florida, and was elected to its first Board of County Commissioners.

In February 2007, Polk's " status as a symbol of journalistic integrity " was challenged by historian Richard Frank, who concluded that Polk made false claims about his service record in World War II.

As Lieutenant Governor he became the 13th Governor of Missouri in 1857, taking office after previous Democratic Governor Trusten Polk resigned on February 27, 1857.

* February 3 – Battle of Lácar ( Third Carlist War )-Carlist commander Torcuato Mendíri secured a brilliant victory when he surprised and routed a Government force under General Enrique Bargés at Lácar, east of Estella, nearly capturing newly crowned King Alfonso XII.

In February, 1882, he was surprised to see in the Comptes rendus that the subject proposed by the Paris Academy of Science

On February 20, 2012, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Friendship 7 flight, Glenn was surprised with the opportunity to speak with the orbiting crew of the International Space Station while Glenn was on-stage with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden at Ohio State, where the public affairs school is named for him.

MacArthur gave the authors less than a week to complete the draft, which was presented to surprised Japanese officials on 13 February 1946.

On February 7, 1778, when Boone was hunting meat for the expedition, he was surprised and captured by warriors led by Chief Blackfish of the Chilicothe Shawnee.

Downpatrick was an open ecclesiastical town of the old type and the invaders rode in and surprised it in the small hours of February 2.

In the last week of November 1985, Marcos surprised the nation by announcing on American television that he will hold a snap presidential election in February 1986, in order to dispel and remove doubts against his regime's legitimacy and authority.

After weeks of tension following the disputed outcome of the snap election, disgruntled and reformist military officers, led by then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and General Fidel V. Ramos, surprised the entire nation and the whole world when they announced their defection from President Marcos and their strong belief that Aquino was the real winner in the presidential election on February 22, 1986.

But on February 24, 1954, Yankee fans were surprised to see him traded to the St. Louis Cardinals.

On 2 February 1645, while following Montrose northwards, Argyll was surprised by him at Inverlochy.

In fact, Anslinger was surprised to be re-appointed by President John F. Kennedy in February 1961.

After a period of introspection and deliberation, on February 6, 2007 Turner surprised many observers by joining the Liberal Party caucus at the invitation of its leader, Stéphane Dion.

On February 27, 1836, Urrea's advance patrol surprised Frank W. Johnson and about 34 men initiating the Battle of San Patricio, where they killed about 10 and took 18 prisoners.

" I knew the minute I signed the contract that there would be people who would not be happy, but the vehemence surprised me ," Pearl told The New York Times in February 2012.

Céspedes was later surprised and killed by a swift-moving patrol of Spanish troops on February 27, 1874.

The Polish counter-attack in the area of Białołęka on February 24 surprised the Russians.

In Eurogamer's February 2009 preview of Resident Evil 5, Dan Whitehead expressed concerns about the controversy the game may generate, stating that " it plays so blatantly into the old clichés of the dangerous ' dark continent ' and the primitive lust of its inhabitants that you'd swear the game was written in the 1920s " and " there are even more outrageous and outdated images to be found later in the game, stuff that I was honestly surprised to see in 2009.

The Battle of Debre Tabor was fought nearby on February 6, 1842 ; although Dejazmach Wube Haile Maryam and his allies defeated the armies of Ras Ali II and sacked Debre Tabor once again, they were surprised while celebrating their victory by Birru Aligas, an ally of Ras Ali, who captured Wube and his son and extracted concessions from them in return for their release.

Few observers were surprised by the reduction in profitability that resulted from this ' unconventional ' business tactic, and fewer still were surprised when Thorn closed the remaining 285 Rumbelows shops in February 1995.

At 08: 33 on 16 February, barely three minutes late from their intended time, and facing 16-18 knot winds over the drop zones, the first of one thousand troopers of the 503rd PRCT based at Mindoro, began dropping out of C-47 troop carriers of the U. S. Thirteenth Air Force and to float down on the surprised Japanese defenders, remnants of Maj. Gen. Rikichi Tsukada's Kembu Group at the two tiny go-point areas of Topside's western heights.