Historical Events
- Feb 1 -Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS
- Feb 1 Second Schleswig War begins when Prussian and Austrian forces cross into Schleswig challenging Danish control
- Feb 2 -Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida
- Feb 3 Sherman's march through Mississippi
- Feb 4 Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
- Feb 5 Danish army begins its withdrawal from Danevirke to Dybbøl through driven snow, last time the Danes would occupy Danevirke, symbol of Danish identity
- Feb 5 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
- Feb 6 -7] Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia
- Feb 7 Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
- Feb 13 Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi
- Feb 15 Fire in Rotterdam damages Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Feb 16 Battle of Mobile, Alabama - operations by Union Army
- Feb 17 Confederate submarine CSS H.L. Hunley sinks Union ship USS Housatonic at Charleston, South Carolina in the world's first successful submarine attack; crews of both vessels were killed [1]
- Feb 19 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington, D.C. (12 members)
- Feb 20 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
- Feb 21 -22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
- Feb 21 1st US Catholic parish church for black worshippers dedicated in Baltimore
- Feb 22 -27] Battle at Dalton Georgia
- Feb 22 2nd and last day of Battle of Okolona, Mississippi
- Feb 22 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Battle of Dug Hill), Tennessee
- Feb 24 -Feb 25] Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)
- Feb 27 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
- Feb 27 Near Andersonville, Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
- Feb 28 -Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
- Feb 28 -Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 5 Carl Teike, German military composer, born in Stettin-Altdamm, Pomerania (now Szczecin, Poland) (d. 1922)
- Feb 6 John Henry Mackay, Scottish-born German writer (Anarchists), born in Greenock, United Kingdom (d. 1933)
- Feb 7 Arthur Collins, American baritone vocalist, known as 'King of the Ragtime Singers' (Peerless Quartet), and comedian, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1933)
- Feb 7 Ricardo Castro Herrera, Mexican concert pianist and composer, born at Hacienda de santa Bárbara, Mexico (d. 1907)
- Feb 14 Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, born in London (d. 1926)
- Feb 14 Robert E. Park, American sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), born in Harveyville, Pennsylvania (d. 1944)
- Feb 17 Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, Australian bush poet (Waltzing Matilda, The Man From Snowy River), born near Orange, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1941)
- Feb 17 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
- Feb 22 Jules Renard, French writer (Poil de Carotte), born in Châlons-du-Maine, France (d. 1910)
Famous Weddings
George Armstrong Custer
Feb 9 Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Clift Bacon
Famous Deaths
- Feb 1 Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, dies at 44
- Feb 3 Jarena Lee, African American travelling minister (1st woman preacher in African Methodist Episcopal Church), dies at 80
- Feb 14 William Dyce, Scottish painter and educator, dies at 57
- Feb 16 Vaclav Jindrich Veit, Czech composer, dies at 58
- Feb 19 William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in a horse accident at 36
- Feb 21 Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle
- Feb 26 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (Prime Minister of the Province of Canada), dies at 56
