Music Premiere
Feb 1 Giacomo Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut" premieres in Turin
Giacomo Puccini
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
Thomas Edison
- Feb 2 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, New Jersey
- Feb 5 Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
- Feb 7 Vanderbilt University claims it participated in the first organised intercollegiate basketball game at the Nashville YMCA Gymnasium; Vanderbilt beats YMCA, 9-3
- Feb 9 Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
Music Premiere
Feb 9 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
Giuseppe Verdi
- Feb 22 1st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 32-22 in Birmingham
- Feb 24 The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America
- Feb 26 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
- Feb 26 Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec)
- Feb 28 Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" (Silicon carbide)