Historical Events
Murder of Interest
Feb 4 Black donnelly massacre in Biddulph, Ontario. Irish immigrants James (63), Johannah (56), John (32), Thomas (25) and Bridget (21) Donnelly murdered at home by members of the Vigilance Committee
James Donnelly
- Feb 10 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
- Feb 12 US National Croquet League organizes (Philadelphia)
- Feb 13 Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards
- Feb 16 American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (NYC)
Assassination Attempt
Feb 17 Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
Alexander II
- Feb 29 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy completed
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Antonio Guarnieri, Italian opera conductor (La Scala), born in Venice, Italy (d. 1952)
- Feb 1 Francesco Balilla Pratella, Italian composer, born in Lugo, Italy (d. 1955)
- Feb 3 Arnoldus JH Aerts, bishop of Neth-Guinea (1920-42)
- Feb 8 Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter)
- Feb 9 Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
- Feb 10 Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
- Feb 12 John Llewellyn Lewis, union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60)
- Feb 14 Aida Overton Walker, African-American dancer and singer (In Dahomey, Salome), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1914)
- Feb 14 Edgar Bainton, British-Australian composer, born in Hackney, London (d. 1956)
- Feb 16 Frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- Feb 18 Eric De Lamarter, American organist, composer and conductor (Chicago Symphony), born in Lansing, Michigan (d. 1953)
- Feb 19 Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and President of Mexico (1920-24), born in Alamos, Mexico (d. 1928)
- Feb 19 Arthur Shepherd, composer
- Feb 20 Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
- Feb 21 Frank Orth, American actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1962)
- Feb 21 Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
- Feb 22 Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
- Feb 23 Edgar Istel, German composer, born in Mainz (d. 1948)
- Feb 26 Lionel Logue, Australian speech therapist who treated King George VI (The Kings Speech), born in Adelaide (d. 1953)
- Feb 27 Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist, teacher and playwright (Harlem Renaissance), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1958)
Famous Deaths
James Donnelly
Feb 4 James Donnelly, Irish-Canadian patriarch of the "Black Donnellys", murdered in the Black Donnelly massacre at 63
James Donnelly