This day in History - February 14

419 Historic Events for February 14
1670 Event Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1670 Birth Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer
1679 Birth Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer
1681 Death Francesco Nigetti, composer, dies at 77
1689 Event English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
1707 Birth Claude-Prosper J de Cr‚billon, French writer (Le sopha)
1711 Event H„ndels opera Rinaldo, premieres
1746 Event Henry Pelham appointed English premier
1760 Death Fran‡ois Collin de Blamont, composer, dies at 69
1760 Birth Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church
1766 Birth Thomas Malthus, England, population expert (Law of Malthus)
1766 Event Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
1778 Event "Stars and Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1778 Birth Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer
1779 Death James Cook, Scottish explorer, killed in fracas with Hawaiian
1780 Death William Blackstone, English lawyer, dies at 56
1790 Death Capel Bond, composer, dies at 59
1794 Event 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
1803 Event Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
1806 Birth Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
1813 Birth John McNeil, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1813 Birth Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer
1817 Birth Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor
1818 Death John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician, dies at 61
1819 Birth James Green Martin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878