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)
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Snake
Year of the Horse
Year of the Goat/Sheep
Year of the Monkey