- Feb 5 Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
- Feb 7 Belgium adopts its Constitution
- Feb 14 Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay
- Feb 19 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run in Pennsylvania
- Feb 20 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow