* February 24-The Lake of the Woods Treaty works out joint Canadian-American control of the Lake of the Woods.

* February 24-The three British trainload freight companies, Load-Haul, Mainline Freight and Trans-Rail, are acquired together by North & South Railways Ltd, an affiliate of Wisconsin Central Ltd, as part of the privatisation of British Rail.

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

A Little Night Music opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973, and closed on August 3, 1974 after 601 performances and 12 previews.

A US national tour began on February 26, 1974 at the Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, and ended on February 13, 1975 at the Shubert Theatre, Boston.

" In February 1858, he played in Lucrezia Borgia at the Arch Street Theatre.

She starred in Whose Life Is It Anyway with James Naughton, which opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on February 24, 1980, and ran for 96 performances, and in Sweet Sue, which opened at the Music Box Theatre ( transferred to the Royale Theatre ) on Jan. 8, 1988, and ran for 164 performances.

* In February 2012 a London based Theatre company Improbable performed a string of shows at the Barbican Theatre London, called " The Devil & Mr Punch " which is an adaptation of the Punch & Judy story.

The West End production opened on February 11, 1953 at Her Majesty's Theatre and ran for 477 performances.

This became the one-act play The Bed-Sitting Room, which Milligan co-wrote with John Antrobus, and which premiered at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury on 12 February 1962.

" Sondheim and Rich had more conversations on January 18, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall, on February 2, 2009 at the Landmark Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, on February 21, 2009 at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and on April 20, 2009 at the University of Akron College of Fine and Applied Arts, EJ Thomas Hall, Akron, Ohio.

In February / March 1847, before the serial was even completed, The String of Pearls was adapted as a melodrama by George Dibden Pitt for the Britannia Theatre in Hoxton.

* Royal Court Theatre, 9 February 1956.

First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

A Broadway revival opened at the Minskoff Theatre on February 14, 1980 and closed on November 30, 1980, after 333 performances.

The Broadway revival began previews at the Palace Theatre on February 23, 2009 and opened on March 19, 2009.

* February 10 – Death of a Salesman opens in the Morosco Theatre and runs for 742 performances.

* February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest is first shown at St. James ' Theatre in London.

* February 2 – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian Theatre Practitioner ( b. 1874 )

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 received Royal Assent in February 2011 to allow the referendum to occur.

* His Royal Highness Archduke Francis of Austria ( 12 February 1768 – 1 March 1792 )

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

The regiment was renumbered the 60th ( Royal American ) Regiment in February 1757 when the 50th ( Shirley's ) and 51st ( Pepperel's ) foot regiments were removed from the British Army roll after their surrender at Fort Oswego.

In February 1937, the South African Parliament formally gave its " assent " by passing the Abdication Act, which declared that Edward had abdicated on 10 December 1936 ; that he and his descendants, if any, would have no right of succession to the throne ; and that the Royal Marriages Act would not apply to him or his descendants, if any.

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

On 27 February 1858 the University received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, giving degrees conferred by the university rank and recognition equal to those given by universities in the UK.

On February 8, 2007, the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford opened the National Cold War Exhibition at RAF Cosford in Shropshire to tell the story of the cold war.

He repeated this to the Royal Institution ( February 4, 1892 ).

With Gotobed back in the line-up ( now using his birth name, Robert Grey ), the group initially reworked much of their back catalogue for a performance at Royal Festival Hall on 26 February 2000.

* February 5 – Upon his death, King Charles XIII of Sweden ( Charles II of Norway ) is succeeded on both thrones by his adoptive son Charles XIV / III John, starting the Royal House of Bernadotte.

* February 10 – Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, British marshal of the Royal Air Force ( b. 1873 )

* February 5-GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

* February 20 – Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, named director of Spain's La Real Academia Española de la Lengua ( Royal Academy of Spanish Language ).

* February 15 – At 04: 51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, United Kingdom with a bomb.

* February 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing 9 officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

* February 6 – The Royal Navy gains a victory off Santo Domingo ( see Action of 6 February 1806 ).

* February 1 – The Royal Colony of North Carolina officially creates Mecklenburg County from the western portion of Anson County.

* February 15 – The British Royal Navy ship HMS Royal Katherine runs aground off Bolt Head in England with the loss of 699 lives.

* February 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel Johnston.

The bombing of Dresden by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force between 13 and 15 February 1945 remains a controversial Allied action of the Western European theatre of war.