02 – February

– FEBRUARY –

February 1813 – Maria at school in Richmond

1-8 February 1797 – Monroe family traveling in the Netherlands and Belgium

1-[10] February 1791 – Elizabeth and Eliza Monroe in New York City (JM in Philadelphia)

2 February 1789 – Madison defeated JM in election for seat in the House of Representatives

5 February 1813 – ended two-month term as acting secretary of war

7 February 1791 – admitted to the bar of the US Supreme Court

7-[10] – in New York City

16 February 1786 – married Elizabeth Kortright

17 February 1815 – Treaty of Ghent ratified at Washington

19 February 1794 – Lawrence Kortright (Elizabeth Monroe’s father) died

22 February 1783 – at Portsmouth, VA, intending to depart for France – voyage aborted

25 February 1819 – signed the Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain

February 1776 – commissioned a lieutenant in the Third Virginia Regiment

February 1777 – recuperating from wound in Bucks County, PA

February 1778 – at Valley Forge

February 1794 – Elizabeth and Eliza Monroe in New York City (JM in Philadelphia)