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January 23 - 5000 Austrian miners go on strike.

January 24 - Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop.

January 26 - The Labor League Conference opens in Sydney, Australia with plans to form a Federal Labor Party.

January 29 - The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight founding teams.

February 1 - Western Australia refuses to join the Federation unless given 5 years of fiscal freedom.

U.S. gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky. Former Secretary of State Caleb Powers is later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.

Strikers in Aachen, Vienna and Brussels demand an 8-hour working day and higher wages.

Britain and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua.

Second Boer War: The British House of Commons' vote of censure over the British government's handling of the war is defeated by a majority of 213.

February 9 - Dwight F. Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament.