1st » American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
4th » American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
9th » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Montgomery Convention named Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
10th » Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
11th » American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
13th » In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.
18th » In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
18th » With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy known as Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
19th » Serfdom is Emancipation reform of 1861 named abolished in Russia.
23rd » President of the United States known as President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged Baltimore Plot or assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
27th » Russian Empire known as Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1861
2nd » Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949)