- Feb 2 American industrialist James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
- Feb 3 Booth Theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
- Feb 5 World's largest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, found by John Deason and Richard Oates (weighting 97.14kg) in Moliagul, Australia
- Feb 6 Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
US History
Feb 15 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
- Feb 19 US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
- Feb 20 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
- Feb 23 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
- Feb 26 US 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states to ratify
- Feb 27 John Menard is 1st African American to make a speech in the US Congress
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