Editing TIMELINE (section)

===February 2004===
* February 1 - A hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 251 pilgrims.
* February 1 - The New England Patriots win Super Bowl XXXVIII, as Adam Vinetari kicks the game-winning field goal with 4 seconds left.
* February 2 - An 11-story apartment building collapses in Konya, Turkey, killing more than 90 residents.
* February 3 - The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
* February 3 - Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
* February 6 - A suicide bomber kills 41 people on a metro car in Moscow.
* February 7 - Several leaders of Abnaa el-Balad are arrested in Israel.
* February 10 - At least 50 people are killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad.
* February 10 - The French National Assembly votes to pass a law banning religious items and clothing from schools.
* February 12 - Same sex marriage in the United States: San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.
* February 13 - Scientists in South Korea announce the cloning of 30 human embryos.
* February 14 - Riots break out between New South Wales Police and Aboriginal residents of Redfern, a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
* February 14 - The roof of the Transvaal water park in Moscow collapses, killing 25 and injuring more than 100.
* February 18 - A train carrying a convoy of petrol, fertiliser, and sulfur derails and explodes in Iran, killing 320 people.
* February 20 - Conservatives win a majority in the Iranian parliament election.
* February 24 - A 6.5 Richter scale earthquake in Northern Morocco hits in the Rif mountains near the city of Al Hoceima, killing 400. Ait Kamara is destroyed; 517 are killed.
* February 26 - The United States lifts a 23-year travel ban against Libya.
* February 26 -Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* February 29 - 2004 Haiti rebellion: Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as president of Haiti. The chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in as interim president.
* February 29 - The film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directed by Peter Jackson, wins Academy Awards in every category it was nominated for, with 11 wins in total, including Best Picture and Best Director.