Mathematics, Statistics and Metrology
- February 11 - Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry invents gerrymandering.
- February 12 - Napoleon authorises the usage of Mesures usuelles, the basis of the Metric System.
- Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes Théorie analytique des probabilités in which he lays down many fundamental results in statistics.
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