- Feb 2 Frank Sprague opens the first successful U.S. electric street railway system, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia
- Feb 22 “Father of American Golf” John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends
- Feb 24 Louisville, Kentucky, becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot (i.e. secret ballot on standard voting forms)
- Feb 28 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
- Feb 28 Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres