- Feb 11 Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
- Feb 12 US Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1873, abolishing bimetallism and placing the country on the gold standard
- Feb 20 British Naval Officer John Moresby is the first European to discover Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, claims it for the United Kingdom
- Feb 20 University of California gets its first Medical School (UC/San Francisco)
- Feb 27 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
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