- Feb 2 Greece declares war on Turkey
- Feb 10 Pact of Zanjón signed between Cubans rebels and the Spanish bringing the 10 Years War to an end
- Feb 11 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
- Feb 11 1st weekly weather report published in UK
- Feb 12 Harvard player Frederick Thayer patents baseball catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
- Feb 17 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones
- Feb 18 John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
Thomas Edison's Phonograph
Feb 19 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his gramophone (phonograph)
- Feb 21 World's 1st telephone directory issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)
Music Premiere
Feb 22 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F premieres at a Russian Musical Society concert in Moscow [February 10 O.S.]
- Feb 22 Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo, Ohio)
Historic Event
Feb 28 Congress overrides US President Rutherford B. Hayes veto of the Bland-Allison Act, requiring the Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars
- Feb 28 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate