February 3 1900 - Strikers in Aachen, Vienna and Brussels demand an 8 hour working day and higher wages.
February 5 1900 - Britain and the USA sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua
February 6 1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
February 7 1900 - The British Labour Party is formed.
February 8 1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
February 9 1900 - Richard Wigginton Thompson, U.S. congressman, dies.
February 11 1900 - Second Boer War: Colonel Hannay begins invasion of Orange Free State with march from Orange River to Ramdam
February 12 1900 - Meeting held in Mile End, London to protest against the Second Boer War ends in uproar
February 14 1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
February 14 1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
February 16 1900 - Appearance of "Savrola (A Tale of Revolution in Laurania)", the first novel of Winston Spencer Churchill
February 17 1900 - Battle of Paardeberg in the Second Boer War.
February 18 1900 - Harry Vardon becomes world golf champion
February 18 1900 - A man claims that X-rays have cured his cancer.
February 19 1900 - German Minister of Navy says the German fleet "must be strong enough to ensure it's mastery of the North Sea
February 22 1900 - Hawaii officially becomes a territory of the United States.
February 23 1900 - Second Boer War: Battle of Hart's Hill - In South Africa the Boers and British troops battle.
February 26 1900 - The Grand Theatre, Islington is destroyed by fire
February 27 1900 - Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje.
February 27 1900 - Ramsay MacDonald appointed secretary of newly formed British Labour Party.