Events in History
Event of Interest
Feb 3 Samuel Clemens first uses the pen name Mark Twain in a Virginia City newspaper, the "Territorial Enterprise"

Mark Twain
- Feb 7 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189
Event of Interest
Feb 26 Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act, establishes single national US currency

Abraham Lincoln
- Feb 28 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister, Georgia
Birthdays in History
Weddings in History
- Feb 10 P. T. Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren, both midgets, in NYC