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A medieval manuscript illustration depicting the work on an agricultural estate during the month of February. From 'Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry', c. 1412-1440 CE. (Condé Museum, Château de Chantilly...

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln on 27 February 1860, taken only a few hours before his famous Cooper Union speech in Manhattan; three months later, he would be nominated as the Republican candidate for president. Photo...

The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States, chromolithograph by Strobridge & Co., c. 1878. Depicted here is the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as the provisional president of the Confederate...

The explosion onboard USS Princeton on 28 February 1844, hand-colored lithograph by N. Currier, 1844. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

After a nine-month siege, Austrian Field Marshal Dagobert von Wurmser surrenders the fortress of Mantua to French General Jean Sérurier on 2 February 1797, marking the completion of the French conquest of northern...

USS Constitution engages the French frigate La Vengeance in February 1800 during the Quasi-War. Image by Benson Lossing, from Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History, 1912.

A photograph showing the destruction after the bomber raid on Dresden in 1945 by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

The Battle of Fort Donelson (11-16 February 1862) was a Union victory in the Western theater of the American Civil War on the Cumberland River near the Tennessee-Kentucky border...

The Siege of the Alamo (23 February to 6 March 1836) was an engagement of Texian forces with the Mexican Army, leading up to the Battle of the Alamo on the morning of 6 March 1836. The 13-day...

The Battle of Fort Henry (6 February 1862) is often referenced as the first major Union victory in the Western theater of the American Civil War, but it was not. The first major Union...