Historical Events
- Feb 1 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
- Feb 3 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
- Feb 10 Johannes Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
- Feb 13 King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
- Feb 16 Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns
- Feb 22 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time between the Eagles and the Red Rovers
- Feb 22 Shoe-making workers of Lynn, Massachusetts, strike successfully for higher wages
Event of Interest
Feb 27 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency
Abraham Lincoln
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 2 Curtis Guild, Jr., 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
- Feb 6 Eliza Johannes Meester, Dutch journalist & writer (Geertje), born in Harderwijk, Netherlands (d. 1931)
- Feb 11 Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus)
- Feb 14 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and liberal politician, born in Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1954)
- Feb 14 Waldemar Lindgren, Swedish-American Geologist (economic geology, ore classification), born in Vassmolösa, Kalmar, Sweden (d. 1939)
- Feb 18 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa)
- Feb 21 Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
- Feb 21 Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
- Feb 24 Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
- Feb 25 Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/water colors painter
- Feb 25 William James Ashley, English economic-historian
- Feb 29 Herman Hollerith, inventor (1st electric tabulating machine)