# 28 February 1960 - The Daegu Democracy Movement (also known as the 2.28 Daegu Democracy Movement) broke out ahead of the South Korean presidential election, March 1960 during the period of Syngman Rhee's government, in resistance against his Liberal Party's dictatorship. After this movement, the 3.15 Masan democracy movement broke out, and the Daegu Democracy Movement became the main cause of the April Revolution.
# 27 February 2015 – Assassination of Boris Nemtsov occurs.
# 26 February 1979 – The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
# 26 February 1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
# 25 February 1968 – Vietnam War: One hundred thirty-five unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre.
# 24 February 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
# 23 February 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
# 22 Février 1987 - Andy Warhol est mort.
# 21 February 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
# 20 February 1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
# 19 February 1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
# 18 February 2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
# 17 February 1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
# 17 February 1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome.
# 16 February 1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
# 15 February 1946 – ENIAC(Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
# 1910년 2월 14일 - 한국의 독립 운동가 안중근에게 사형이 선고되다.
# 13 February 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
# 12 February 1968 – Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre. 퐁니・퐁넛 학살 사건(베트남어: Thảm sát Phong Nhất và Phong Nhị, 영어: Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre)은 1968년 2월 12일 베트남 꽝남 성 디엔반 현 퐁니, 퐁넛 마을 주민들이 대한민국 해병대의 청룡 부대에 의해 학살당하여 70여 명(69 ~ 79명 추정)이 죽은 전쟁범죄이다. 이 사건은 2000년 '베트남전 민간인학살 진실위원회'가 진상조사를 벌이면서 사건의 전말이 밝혀지게 되었다. 2004년 6월, 대한민국의 시민단체는 성금을 모아 관련 희생자에 대한 추모비를 세웠다.
# 1896년 2월 11일 - 아관파천: 조선의 고종과 세자가 경복궁을 떠나, 어가를 러시아 제국 공사관으로 옮겨서 거처한 사건.
# 1948년 2월 10일 - 백범 김구가 < 삼천만 동포에게 읍소함 >이란 제목으로 남한 단독정부 수립반대 성명을 발표하다.
# 10 Februay 2016 – South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
# 09 February 1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
# 08 February 1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
# 07 February 1951 – Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces.
# 06 February 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
# 06 February 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
# 06 February 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
# 05 February 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
# 05 February AD 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
# 04 February 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
# 03 February 1933 – Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
# 03 February 1966 – The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
# 02 February 2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
# 1er Février 1879 : la Marseillaise est choisie comme hymne national français.
# 1er Février 1879 : la Marseillaise est choisie comme hymne national français.