Historic Event
Feb 3 Circus owner P. T. Barnum buys his world-famous elephant Jumbo
- Feb 6 The society of the Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut
Boxing Title Fight
Feb 7 Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
- Feb 10 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St Petersburg
- Feb 12 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
- Feb 15 SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand for Britain with the first cargo of frozen meat.
- Feb 17 Australian cricket opening bowlers Joey Palmer (7/68) and Edwin Evans (3/64) dismiss England for 133 in 2nd Test; first Test match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
- Feb 21 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
- Feb 22 With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
- Feb 22 The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
- Feb 28 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University