On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

The Finnish markka (,, currency code: FIM ) was the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002, when it ceased to be legal tender.

Saint Raphael of Brooklyn ( November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915 ), also known as Father Raphael, was born as Raphael Hawaweeny () in Beirut, Lebanon, of Damascene Syrian parents.

He thereupon ( in February 1860 ) obtained six months ' leave of absence and repaired to Bloemfontein, in the hope of peacefully bringing about a union between the two republics.

Gladstone's budget of 1860 was introduced on 10 February along with the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty between Britain and France that would reduce tariffs between the two countries.

* February 5 – Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait ( b. 1860 )

* February 22 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher ( d. 1860 )

* February 22 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer ( b. 1860 )

* February 18 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer ( b. 1860 )

* February 8 – Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States ( b. 1860 )

* February 24 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1860 )

* February 22 – Rembrandt Peale, American artist ( d. 1860 )

In February 1860 Iowa Representative Samuel Curtis introduced a bill to build the railroad.

The undertaking involved 120 riders, 184 stations, 400 horses and several hundred personnel during January and February 1860.

The duchy was constituted by rescript of 20 December 1860, and by imperial patent of 26 February 1861, modified by legislation of 21 December 1867, granting power to the home parliament to enact all laws not reserved to the imperial diet, at which it was represented by eleven delegates, of whom two elected by the landowners, three by the cities, towns, commercial and industrial boards, five by the village communes, and one by a fifth curia by secret ballot, every duly registered male twenty-four years of age has the right to vote.

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.

He was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, England, to Joseph Dixon Asquith ( 10 February 1825 – 16 June 1860 ) and his wife Emily Willans ( 4 May 1828 – 12 December 1888 ).

The skirmish known as the battle of La Bolsa occurred on February 4, 1860, in El Zacatal, south of Progreso in southeast Hidalgo County.

Charles Curtis ( January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936 ) was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

* Roscommon railway station opened on 13 February 1860.

The historic courthouse was begun in mid-summer of 1860, used as a Union hospital during the American Civil War and served as the courthouse until February 1994, at which time all county offices were relocated in the new Phelps County Courthouse.

Magoffin County is a county located in the U. S. state of Kentucky which was formed from parts of Floyd, Johnson, and Morgan Counties and officially created on 22 February 1860.

But on February 23, 1860, the legislature changed the boundaries with the southern portion being granted to Osage County, and the northern boundary was moved a few miles north of the river ( to the second standard parallel ).

CBBS went online on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.

Buddy – as it is abbreviated on occasion – is still running in the UK after 22 years, with a UK tour that went out in February 2011.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

The team went on to beat Whittier College on February 10, for its second SCIAC win, and placed its first member on the All Conference team.

On the morning of 29 February 2012, Jones went to tend his 14 horses at a farm in Indiantown, Florida.

The British Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint announcement on 22 February 2007 that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment to the front line in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Mechanised Divisiona move supported by Harry, who had stated that he would leave the army if he was told to remain in safety while his regiment went to war ; he said: " There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

Another Irgun bomb went off in the Ramla market on February 18, killing 7 residents and injuring 45.

KSR went out of business in February 1994 when their stock was delisted from the stock exchange.

Mary Bergman died February 14, 1953, aboard a National Airlines DC-6 which went down in the Gulf of Mexico during a thunderstorm on a flight from Tampa to New Orleans.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe went to Livermore in February 1983 for a two-day briefing on the X-ray laser, and " Although impressed with its scientific novelty, Bethe went away highly skeptical it would contribute anything to the nation's defense.

Aimee Semple McPherson began her radio broadcasts in the early 1920s and even purchased her own station, KFSG which went on the air in February 1924 ; by the mid-1930s, controversial radio priest Father Charles Coughlin's radio broadcasts were reaching millions per week.

Disney went to New York in February 1928 to negotiate a higher fee per short and was shocked when Mintz told him that not only did he want to reduce the fee he paid Disney per short but also that he had most of his main animators, including Harman, Ising, Maxwell, and Freleng — but not Iwerks, who refused to leave Disney — under contract and would start his own studio if Disney did not accept the reduced production budgets.

NEAR went into a 321 x 366 km elliptical orbit around Eros on February 14.

Although the Riksdag of the Estates of 1840 meditated compelling him to abdicate, Charles John survived that abdication controversy and he went on to have his silver jubilee, which was celebrated with great enthusiasm on 18 February 1843.

He achieved the rank of seaman second class, but never went to sea and was discharged in February 1919.

Catherine went to England with her new husband and was crowned queen in Westminster Abbey on 23 February 1421.

In February 1984, Doe Maar went into the studio to record their fifth album ; however, the band couldn't get into the recording, and during a crisis meeting on February 13 they decided to call it a day.

On February 16, 1990, Cisco Systems went public ( with a market capitalization of $ 224 million ) and was listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Navarro and de Court went on to Toulon, where they remained till February 1744.

Later that year, he went to London as Deputy United States Delegate to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization, a position he held until February 1946.

Perhaps his best performance of the season came on 2 February 1997 when Newcastle went into the final 15 minutes of the game 3 – 1 down at home to Leicester City in the league, only for Shearer to win them the game 4 – 3 by scoring a late hat-trick.

In their 37 games ( including the 3-1 victory on February 11, 1995 against the New Jersey Devils ), the Flyers went 25 – 9 – 3 and outscored their opponents 128 – 98 enroute.