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.

In February 1860, he went to England for the New York Illustrated News to depict one of the major sporting events of the era, the prize fight between the American John C. Heenan and the English Thomas Sayers sponsored by George Wilkes, publisher of Wilkes ' Spirit of the Times.

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 ).

He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers on February 3, 1862, and was assigned to duty in northern Virginia while the Army of the Potomac conducted the Peninsula Campaign.

When the peace treaty was signed in February, 1828, Abbas Mirza sought to restore order in the province of Khorasan, which was nominally under Persian supremacy, and while engaged in the task died at Mashhad in 1833.

On the night of 29 February and the early morning of 1 March three Italian brigades advanced separately towards Adwa over narrow mountain tracks, while a fourth remained camped.

Saint Bruno of Querfurt ( c. 974 – February 14, 1009 ), also known as Brun and Boniface, is a sainted missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania while trying to spread Christianity in Eastern Europe.

On average, the sunniest months are May and June, while the wettest month is October with of rain, and the driest month is February with.

It charted on February 14th, 1981 and reached number 28 while " Crying " climbed to number 5 on the pop singles chart.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

* Earliest day on which National Wear Red Day can fall, while February 7 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Friday in February ( United States )

In non-leap years, some leaplings celebrate their birthday on either February 28 or March 1, while others only observe birthdays on the authentic intercalary dates.

This was won by Inis Mór in a 2 – 0 match allowing them to use the title of Craggy Island until February 2008, while Inis Oírr was given the title of Rugged Island.

Some of them, such as Mikhail Svetšnikov, led Red troops in western Finland throughout February 1918, while other officers were mistrustful of their revolutionary underlings and co-operated with their former colleague General Mannerheim, assisting the Whites in the disarmament of the Russian garrisons in Finland.

At an exclusive Milan screening on February 5, 1960, one outraged patron spat on Fellini while others hurled insults.

Kenneth Hawks and Mary Astor eventually married in February 1928, while Bill Hawks and Bessie Love married in December 1929.

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.

Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.

* Earliest day on which Triodion can fall, while February 14 is the latest ; celebrated 70 days before Easter.

* Earliest day on which Saturday of Souls can fall, while February 27 ( or 28 during Leap Year ) is the latest ; observed 57 days before Easter.

In the elections of February 1961, KANU won 19 of the 33 African seats while KADU won 11 ( twenty seats were reserved by quota for Europeans, Asians, and Arabs ).

" Samuel Pepys used it in his diary entry of 28 February 1660 " Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole as big as it was before.

Only two eggs were incubated and hatched due to space issues ; the first hatched on January 31, 2008 while the second hatched on February 1.

The former Navy Ministry became the Imperial Admiralty on 1 February 1872, while Stosch became formally an admiral in 1875.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

Göldi surrendered to Libyan authorities on 22 February 2010, while Hamdani returned to Switzerland on 24 February.