* Un ballo in maschera, 17 February 1859

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.

* February 16 – Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach ( d. 1859 )

* February 24 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist ( d. 1859 )

Also there, on February 21, 1859, together with 151 republicans he signed a manifesto against the alliance between Piedmont and the King of France which resulted in the Second War of Italian Independence and the conquest of Lombardy.

The Brothers Grimm ( or Die Gebrüder Grimm ), Jacob ( January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859 ), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected folklore.

Wilhelm Carl Grimm ( also Karl ; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859 ) was a German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm.

During February 1859, Robert continues searching for evidence.

Sailing south, De Genouilly then captured the poorly defended city of Saigon on 18 February 1859.

Houston served from February 21, 1846, until March 4, 1859.

Capture of Saigon by Charles Rigault de Genouilly on 18 February 1859, painted by Antoine Morel-Fatio.

He published in 1860, Results of the Magnetical, Nautical and Meteorological Observations from March 1858 to February 1859, and did a large amount of travelling in Victoria in connection with his magnetic survey of the colony.

Route 35 northbound approaching the intersection with New Jersey Route 34 | Route 34 and New Jersey Route 70 | Route 70 in Wall Township, New Jersey | Wall Township, which was the Brielle Circle until 2001, when it was replaced with an at-grade intersection with jughandle s. The present-day alignment of Route 35 follows parts of many 19th-century turnpikes, including the Keyport and Middletown Turnpike, which was chartered on March 5, 1852, the Middletown Turnpike, chartered in 1866 to run from Middletown Township to Red Bank, the Middletown and Keyport Turnpike, which was chartered on March 15, 1859 to run from Middletown Township to Keyport, the Red Bank and Eatontown Turnpike, chartered on February 9, 1865 along present-day Broad Street, County Route 11, and Route 35, and the Shrewsbury Turnpike, which was chartered in 1857 to run from Red Bank to Eatontown.

Dirk Postma came from Zwolle to the South African Republic in 1858, and was accepted as a minister of the Hervormde Kerk, but on learning that he and his congregation could be required to sing hymns ( rather than the Psalms only ), he and the Doppers, numbering about 300 adults, among whom was the later President Paul Kruger, broke away from the state church to form the Gereformeerde Kerk in Rustenburg in February 1859.

Delia Bacon ( February 2, 1811 – September 2, 1859 ) was an American writer of plays and short stories, a sister of the Congregational minister Leonard Bacon.

The state legislature officially incorporated the city of Milan on February 8, 1859.

County government was organized on February 11, 1859.

On February 11, 1859 the State Legislature authorized the organization of Mecosta County and established the Village of Leonard as the county seat.

Ford County was formed February 17, 1859.

* The Georgia General Assembly passed legislation to create Banks County on February 1, 1859, from Franklin and Habersham Counties.

Craighead County is Arkansas's 58th county, formed on February 19, 1859, and named for state Senator Thomas Craighead.

Craighead County was officially formed February 19, 1859 ; in gratitude, the citizens then named the main county seat Jonesboro, for Senator Jones.

Waterloo received its charter as a town February 12, 1849, and the charter was amended in 1855 and 1859.

* Jake Kilrain-Champion, Bare Knuckles Boxer ( February 9, 1859 – December 22, 1937 )

It was given a post office named " Pottersburg " in February 1859.

It dates to 1783, when the North Carolina legislature created the county and named it in honor of William Lee Davidson, a North Carolina general who was killed opposing General Cornwallis and the British Army's crossing of the Catawba River on February 1, 1781.

However, on February 23, 2006, Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled that the proposed amendment would be on the ballot in 2006.

On February 15, 2006 ; Clement formed an exploratory committee for a possible run for mayor of Metropolitan Nashville / Davidson County in 2007.

John Colin Campbell Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson GCVO CH, CB, PC ( 23 February 1889 – 11 December 1970 ), known before his elevation to the peerage as J. C. C. Davidson, was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician, best known for his close alliance with Stanley Baldwin.

Arnold Davidson Dunton, ( July 4, 1912 – February 7, 1987 ) was a Canadian educator and public administrator.

* College Discipline: An Inaugural Address Aelivered at Davidson College, N. C., on the 28th February, 1855. p .: n. p., 1855.

Davidson was named for Sir Walter Davidson, Governor of New South Wales from 18 February 1918 to 4 September 1923.

Nora Fontaine Maury Davidson ( February 19, 1836 – February 10, 1929 ) was an American schoolteacher in Petersburg, Virginia.

Phillip Buford Davidson, Jr. ( November 26, 1915 – February 7, 1996 ) was an American Lieutenant general, who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

Davidson died February 7, 1996 in San Antonio, Texas.

In February 2006, Davidson revealed the true identity of the Six Flags Dancing Guy Mr. Six on his blog as Queer Eye for the Straight Girl's Danny Teeson.

He was initially a Lieutenant and held the rank of Captain when he was killed in action February 10, 1916 ( only 8 months after the death of fellow hockey great, and Kingstonian, Allan McLean " Scotty " Davidson ).

Carroll Davidson Wright ( July 25, 1840 – February 20, 1909 ) was an American statistician.

Gustav Davidson ( 1895 – New York, 6 February 1971 ) was a poet, writer, and publisher.

* Lee Davidson, “ Conservatives Rally in D. C .”, Deseret News, 29 February 2004

Seeking to expand its operations into the field of interactive entertainment, CUC, in February 1996, approached software companies Sierra On-Line Inc. and Davidson & Associates Inc.

John Davidson ( born February 27, 1953 in Ottawa, Ontario ), is the president of hockey operations of the St. Louis Blues and a former goaltender for the St. Louis Blues ( 1973 – 75 ) and New York Rangers ( 1975 – 83 ) of the National Hockey League.

On 8 February 1962, Gordon Davidson was appointed to the vacancy that she herself created.