Historic Event
Feb 12 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
Music Premiere
Feb 12 Symphony in B minor "Polonia", by Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski has its public premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Great White Fleet
Feb 22 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia
Historic Event
Feb 23 Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet
- Feb 26 Austria and Turkey conclude an agreement in which Turkey recognizes Austria's 1908 annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is to receive compensation
- Feb 28 1st National Woman's Day is observed in the United States. Organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.