February

• 1 1799 - John Fries raises opposition to federal property tax created in 1798 in anticipation of war with France.
  
• 2 1905 - Ayn Rand born.
  
• 4 1861 - Confederate States of America organized at first session of the Provisional Confederate Congress.
  
• 10 - Gun Owner Day makes honest, decent, honorable gun owners visible.
  
• 11 1768 - Samuel Adams distributes letter denying Parliament has power of taxation, in response to Townshend Acts.
  
• 15 1791 - Thomas Jefferson argues against National Bank.
  
• 16 1878 - U.S. silver dollar coin introduced.
  
• 17 1922 - Second annual "Tax Freedom Day."
  
• 18 1765 - North Carolina people form association opposing Stamp Act.
  
• 19 1808 - Lysander Spooner born.
  
• 21 1765 - North Carolinans force court and customs officials to swear oaths not to enforce Stamp Act.