- Feb 2 US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
- Feb 3 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched at Bath, Maine
- Feb 5 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
- Feb 6 Bottle opener patented by William Painter
- Feb 7 The Cripple Creek miners' strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Feb 8 US Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
- Feb 12 Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20
- Feb 14 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
- Feb 16 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
- Feb 24 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras