| 13051 | February 2 | Event | 1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda. |
| 13052 | February 2 | Event | 1971 – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. |
| 13053 | February 2 | Event | 1972 – The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday. |
| 13054 | February 2 | Event | 1976 – The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. |
| 13055 | February 2 | Event | 1980 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation. |
| 13056 | February 2 | Event | 1982 – 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama. |
| 13057 | February 2 | Event | 1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution. |
| 13058 | February 2 | Event | 1988 – Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| 13059 | February 2 | Event | 1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul. |
| 13060 | February 2 | Event | 1990 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela. |
| 13061 | February 2 | Event | 2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments. |
| 13062 | February 2 | Event | 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks. |
| 13063 | February 2 | Event | 2007 – The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins. |
| 13064 | February 2 | Event | 2012 – The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing. |
| 13065 | February 2 | Birth | 1208 – James I of Aragon (d. 1276) |
| 13066 | February 2 | Birth | 1455 – John, King of Denmark (d. 1513) |
| 13067 | February 2 | Birth | 1457 – Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italian-Spanish historian and author (d. 1526) |
| 13068 | February 2 | Birth | 1494 – Bona Sforza, Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old (d. 1557) |
| 13069 | February 2 | Birth | 1502 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher and historian (d. 1574) |
| 13070 | February 2 | Birth | 1506 – René de Birague, Italian-French cardinal and politician (d. 1583) |
| 13071 | February 2 | Birth | 1522 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1565) |
| 13072 | February 2 | Birth | 1600 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653) |
| 13073 | February 2 | Birth | 1613 – Noël Chabanel, French missionary and saint (d. 1649) |
| 13074 | February 2 | Birth | 1621 – Johannes Schefferus, Swedish author and hymn-writer (d. 1679) |
| 13075 | February 2 | Birth | 1650 – Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730) |
| 13076 | February 2 | Birth | 1650 – Nell Gwyn, English actress (d. 1687) |
| 13077 | February 2 | Birth | 1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (d. 1732) |
| 13078 | February 2 | Birth | 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer (d. 1745) |
| 13079 | February 2 | Birth | 1695 – William Borlase, English geologist and archaeologist (d. 1772) |
| 13080 | February 2 | Birth | 1695 – François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769) |