Historical Events
- Feb 7 Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College opens by Lorman, Mississippi - 1st US black land grant college
- Feb 14 1st US state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)
- Feb 20 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
- Feb 20 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
- Feb 20 New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
- Feb 20 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
- Feb 22 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
- Feb 27 Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
- Feb 1 Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
- Feb 1 Paul Fort, French poet (founder of Vers et Prose), born in Reims, France (d. 1960)
- Feb 4 Gotse Delchev, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, born in Kukush, Ottoman Empire (d. 1903)
- Feb 6 Alfred Mombert, German poet, born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1942)
- Feb 7 Nikolaos Politis, Greek foreign minister and diplomat (Greek representative League of Nations), born in Corfu, Greece (d. 1943)
- Feb 8 Theodor Lessing, German writer, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1933)
- Feb 11 Edward Johnston, British craftsman and calligrapher - "the father of modern calligraphy" (d. 1944)
- Feb 24 John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (Olympic gold 1,000m, 4,000m, water polo 1900), born in Leicester, England (d. 1933)