- Feb 1 At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said
- Feb 2 Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
- Feb 2 MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside)
- Feb 2 NHL player Sam Gagner becomes the first player to scores eight points in one game for the Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks since 1989
- Feb 4 Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland
- Feb 5 Super Bowl XLVI: New York Giants beat New England Patriots, 21-17 at the Lucas Oil Stadium MVP: Eli Manning, New York, QB
Event of Interest
Feb 5 Flavor Flav and Elton John appear in a Pepsi Co. ad during Super Bowl XLVI
Flavor Flav
Elton John
- Feb 6 6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths
Event of Interest
Feb 6 Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of becoming British monarch, becoming only the second to do so
Elizabeth II
Event of Interest
Feb 6 Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Gordon Lightfoot
- Feb 9 62nd Berlin International Film Festival: "Caesar Must Die" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 11 Israeli Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip
- Feb 12 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected President of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
- Feb 12 Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations
- Feb 12 54th Grammy Awards: Rolling In The Deep, Bon Iver wins
- Feb 12 65th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "The Artist" Best Film, Michel Hazanavicius Best Director
- Feb 15 United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
- Feb 15 Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358
- Feb 17 Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
- Feb 17 The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal
- Feb 17 43rd NAACP Image Awards: "The Help" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- Feb 19 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels
- Feb 20 South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders
- Feb 20 Scientists successfully regenerate the flowering plant, Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
- Feb 21 Yemeni voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi
- Feb 22 Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds
- Feb 23 A series of bomb attacks across 12 Iraqi cities kills 60 and injures 200
- Feb 25 Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
- Feb 25 Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen
- Feb 25 World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
- Feb 26 Bus plunges off a cliff in Shanxi, China causing 15 deaths
- Feb 26 Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario
Film Awards
Feb 26 84th Academy Awards: "The Artist" wins five Oscars and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927, Jean Dujardin & Meryl Streep also win
Meryl Streep
Jean Dujardin
- Feb 26 61st NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 152-149 at Orlando
- Feb 27 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
- Feb 28 Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's Cathedral
- Feb 28 Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall
- Feb 28 54th Daytona 500: Matt Kenseth wins (140.256 MPH)