Shortly after establishing the settlement at Port Jackson, on 15 February 1788, Phillip sent Lieutenant Philip Gidley King with 8 free men and a number of convicts to establish the second British colony in the Pacific at Norfolk Island.

* Parman, Donald L. " The Indian and the CCC ," Pacific Historical Review 40 ( February 1971 ): pp 54 +

According to NOAA, El Niño conditions were in place in the equatorial Pacific Ocean starting June 2009, peaking in January – February.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

Ribbentrop was instrumental in February 1938 in persuading Hitler to recognize the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and to renounce German claims upon her former colonies in the Pacific, which were now held by Japan.

The Northwest Pacific sees tropical cyclones year-round, with a minimum in February and March and a peak in early September.

* February 22 – The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's sinks entering San Francisco Bay, killing 128.

* February 6 – February 7 – Officers on the USS Ramapo record a 34-meter high sea-wave in the Pacific Ocean.

February position of the ITCZ and monsoon trough in the Pacific Ocean, depicted by area of convergent streamlines offshore Australia and in the equatorial eastern Pacific

The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.

Looking for a followup single for their radio hit, Brian and Mike Love wrote " Surfin ' Safari ", and attempts were made to record a usable take at World Pacific, including overdubs, on February 8, 1962, along with several other tunes including an early version of " Surfer Girl ".

The stores continued to operate under the Borders brand as the unaffiliated " Borders Asia Pacific " until RedGroup was placed into voluntary administration in February 2011 ; with the five New Zealand stores sold to the James Pascoe Group, and the Australian stores gradually shut down, with the last group to close by July 17.

Pacific County was formed by the government of Oregon Territory on February 4, 1851.

The state of Missouri took possession of the Pacific Railroad in February 1866, when the company defaulted in its interest payment.

On February 23, 1942, not long after the outbreak of war in the Pacific, the Japanese submarine I-17 surfaced offshore and lobbed 16 shells at the Ellwood Oil Field, about west of Santa Barbara, in the first wartime attack by an enemy power on the U. S. mainland since the War of 1812.

Valentine's name refers to the date of its founding in 1882 by a Southern Pacific Railroad construction crew: February 14.

The Pacific Fleet was formally recreated on 1 February 1941.

After Admiral James O. Richardson was removed as Commander in Chief, U. S. Fleet and Pacific Fleet in February 1941, Kimmel assumed command with the temporary rank of admiral.

The company was formed on February 16, 1852, but did not build track from Swanson's Landing at Caddo Lake to Marshall, Texas, until after changing its name to " Southern Pacific " on August 16, 1856.

Between February 1941 and September 1945 the Government of New Zealand used it for communication between New Zealand, the Chatham Islands and the Pacific Islands

* On February 7, 1968, a Canadian Pacific Airlines Boeing 707 overran a runway, and hit a building, while landing in heavy fog, killing one crew member.

* Nowell, Charles E. " The Discovery of the Pacific: A Suggested Change of Approach ," The Pacific Historical Review ( Volume XVI, Number 1 ; February, 1947 ): 1 – 10.

In this capacity, Davis gave Congress four annual reports ( in December of each year ), as well as an elaborate one ( submitted on February 22, 1855 ) on various routes for the proposed Transcontinental Railroad.

In February 1987 she co-founded, with Elaine Eason Steele, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an institute that runs the " Pathways to Freedom " bus tours which introduce young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.

* February 6 – A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500, in one of the worst rail disasters in American history.

* February 28, 1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

* February 28 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

* February 15 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the Western North Carolina Railroad to build a rail line from Salisbury to the western part of the state.

Carney was born simply as " William ," as a slave in Norfolk, Virginia February 29, 1840, but escaped to Massachusetts like his father through the Underground Railroad.

On February 11, 1968, the current Madison Square Garden ( sometimes referred to as Madison Square Garden IV ) opened after the Pennsylvania Railroad tore down the above-ground portions of Pennsylvania Station.

The Central of Georgia Railroad was then built through Oglethorpe in the 1850s, and the assembly called for a referendum on moving the seat to Oglethorpe in February of both 1854 and 1856.

Founded by Chauncey Rose, the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad began operations between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in February 1852 and its traffic soon surpassed that on the canal.

File: Albertville, Alabama Depot. JPG | The Albertville L & N Railroad Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1975.

" In February 1927 the Choctawhatchee and Northern Railroad was chartered ' To construct, acquire, maintain, lease, or operate a line of railroad or railroads from a point between Galliver and Crestview on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Okaloosa County, to a point in said county on Choctawhatchee Bay, a distance of approximately twenty-eight miles.

The final quarter jointly owned by two Bloomington brothers, Jesse W. Fell ( 10 November 1808 – 25 February 1878 ) and Kersey H. Fell ( 1 May 1815 – 1 May 1893 ) The five were a distinguished group of men and all had links to the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad.

to the 1980s, Until 1950 the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad provided both passenger and freight service from Annapolis to Baltimore ; passenger service ended in February 1950 due to increased competition from buses and private automobiles, but freight service continued until Hurricane Agnes did so much damage to a trestle crossing the Severn River in Annapolis that the trestle was condemned for use by trains by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1960s ( The trestle remained as a haven for fishermen and crabbers until it was dismantled ).

On February 12, 1838, the three companies merged to form a new Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, authorized to build a continuous line from Philadelphia to Baltimore.

It was formally incorporated on February 8, 1881 when it was a stop on the Nodaway Valley Railroad ( which was building the railroad for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad that eventually became part of the Burlington Northern network.

Under the provisions of the act of the General Assembly of North Carolina which was entitled “ An Act to Incorporate ,” the Oxford and Clarksville Railroad Company was notified on the 28th day of February 1885.

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad withdrew trackage rights between Fallis and Oklahoma City in January 1939 after FS & W defaulted on rental fees, and when the Fort Smith and Western ceased operations on February 9, 1939, Weleetka lost its major employer.

In February 1911 the Oregon Trunk Railroad decided to build a depot, turntable and roundhouse in the town.

Scottdale was incorporated as a borough on February 5, 1874 and at that time renamed in honor of Thomas Alexander Scott, who had been president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and served as Assistant Secretary of War during the Civil War.

The oldest railway in Texas, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad chartered on February 11, 1850, as the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company built the first Seguin depot in 1876.