- Feb 2 Joseph Haydn's 102nd Symphony in B premieres
- Feb 5 Zealand, Netherlands, surrenders to French general Michaud
- Feb 7 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
- Feb 7 Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
- Feb 13 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
- Feb 17 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
- Feb 21 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
- Feb 25 French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an “educational utopia” aiming to “put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment."