| 14041 | February 4 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Sri Lanka from the United Kingdom in 1948 |
| 14042 | February 4 | Holiday and observance | Rosa Parks Day (United States of America) |
| 14043 | February 4 | Holiday and observance | World Cancer Day (International) |
| 14044 | February 5 | Event | 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. |
| 14045 | February 5 | Event | 756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty. He declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan. |
| 14046 | February 5 | Event | 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. |
| 14047 | February 5 | Event | 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. |
| 14048 | February 5 | Event | 1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. |
| 14049 | February 5 | Event | 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. |
| 14050 | February 5 | Event | 1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. |
| 14051 | February 5 | Event | 1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. |
| 14052 | February 5 | Event | 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins. |
| 14053 | February 5 | Event | 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. |
| 14054 | February 5 | Event | 1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy. |
| 14055 | February 5 | Event | 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. |
| 14056 | February 5 | Event | 1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state. |
| 14057 | February 5 | Event | 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. |
| 14058 | February 5 | Event | 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. |
| 14059 | February 5 | Event | 1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal. |
| 14060 | February 5 | Event | 1905 – in Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with 4 basic specialities. |
| 14061 | February 5 | Event | 1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. |
| 14062 | February 5 | Event | 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. |
| 14063 | February 5 | Event | 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. |
| 14064 | February 5 | Event | 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia. |
| 14065 | February 5 | Event | 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. |
| 14066 | February 5 | Event | 1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. |
| 14067 | February 5 | Event | 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists. |
| 14068 | February 5 | Event | 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". |
| 14069 | February 5 | Event | 1937 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 14070 | February 5 | Event | 1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain. |