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February 2026 will be the second month of the current common year. The month, which will begin on a Sunday, will end on a Saturday after 28 days.

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February 2026

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Ongoing events

Disasters and humanitarian

• Gaza genocide
• Sudan famine

Economics

• United States tariff policy

• United States–Canada–Mexico trade war
• United States–China trade war

Politics and diplomacy

• China–Japan diplomatic crisis
• Gaza peace plan
• Greenland crisis
• Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
• United States federal forces deployments

• Operation Metro Surge

Protests and strikes

• Gen Z protests
• Georgian protests and political crisis
• Iranian protests
• Serbian anti-corruption protests
• Ugandan protests

Weather

• North American winter

• January 2026 North American winter storm

Elections and referendums

Recent

• January

• • 11: Myanmar, National Assembly, People's Assembly (2nd phase)
• 11: Benin, National Assembly
• 15: Uganda, President, Parliament
• 18: Portugal, President (1st round)
• • 25: Myanmar, National Assembly, People's Assembly (3rd phase)

Upcoming

• 28: Iraq, President (indirect)

• February

• 01: Costa Rica, President, Legislative Assembly
• 08: Japan, House of Representatives
• • 08: Thailand, House of Representatives, Constitutional referendum
• 08: Portugal, President (2nd round)

Sports

• American football

• Super Bowl LX

• Association football

• 2025–26 UEFA Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Europa League
• 2025–26 UEFA Conference League
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
• 2025–26 Premier League
• 2025–26 La Liga
• 2025–26 Bundesliga
• 2025–26 Serie A
• 2025–26 Ligue 1
• 2025–26 Women's Super League

• Basketball

• 2025–26 EuroLeague
• 2025–26 NBA season
• 2025–26 EuroLeague Women
• 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's season
• 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's season

• International cricket

• 2025–27 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2026 PGA Tour
• 2026 European Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2025–26 NHL season
• 2025–26 PWHL season

• Motorsport

• 2026 World Rally Championship

• Rugby union

• 2025–26 Premiership Rugby
• 2025–26 United Rugby Championship

• Tennis

• 2026 ATP Tour
• 2026 WTA Tour

• 2026 Australian Open

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

January0/0December

• 23: John Brodie
• 22: Francis Buchholz
• 22: Floyd Vivino
• 20: Rifaat al-Assad
• 20: Marie Bashir
• 20: Rob Hirst
• 19: Valentino
• 18: Ralph Towner
• 17: Roger Allers
• 17: Wilbur Wood
• 16: Rocco B. Commisso
• 16: Luísa Diogo
• 15: Princess Irene of Greece
• 15: Kenny Morris
• 13: Scott Adams
• 13: Claudette Colvin
• 13: George Vassiliou
• 13: David Webb
• 12: John Forté
• 12: Alain Orsoni
• 10: Erich von Däniken
• 10: Derek Martin
• 10: Bob Weir
• 09: Ai
• 09: T. K. Carter
• 09: Tina Packer
• 08: Guy Moon
• 08: Terry Yorath
• 07: Martin Chivers
• 07: Glenn Hall
• 06: Ron Boswell
• 06: Doug LaMalfa
• 06: Béla Tarr
• 05: Aldrich Ames
• 05: Ahn Sung-ki
• 04: Michael Reagan
• 03: Eva Schloss
• 02: Ian Balding
• 02: Sir Patrick Duffy
• 01: Nexhat Daci
• 01: Karen Poutasi
• 01: Amit Saar
• 30: Ben Nighthorse Campbell
• 30: Tatiana Schlossberg
• 30: Richard Smallwood
• 30: Isiah Whitlock Jr.
• 30: Khaleda Zia
• 29: Carmen de Lavallade
• 28: Brigitte Bardot
• 27: Lou Gerstner
• 27: Jeffrey R. Holland
• 25: Dado Banatao
• 25: John Robertson
• 24: Mohammad Bakri
• 24: Perry Bamonte
• 24: M. Ravi

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• M23 campaign

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Ethiopia

• Fano insurgency

• Sahel

• Mali War
• Chad Basin

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Colombia

• Colombian conflict

• Haiti

• Gang war

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

• Venezuela

• United States intervention

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban

• Republican insurgency

• Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Myanmar

• Civil war

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russo-Ukrainian war

Middle East

• Gaza and Israel

• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip

• Middle Eastern crisis

• Hezbollah–Israel conflict
• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Red Sea crisis
• Syrian conflict

• Yemen

• Civil war

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2026 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

By place

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Angola
• Antarctica
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• The Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Cape Verde
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Comoros
• Congo
• DR Congo
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Eswatini
• Equatorial Guinea
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Ivory Coast
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Liechtenstein
• Libya
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macau
• Madagascar
• Marshall Islands
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nauru
• Namibia
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Korea
• North Macedonia
• Norway
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palau
• Palestine
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Solomon Islands
• South Korea
• South Sudan
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

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• Works entering the public domain