- February 12, 1903 - Historian Jorge Basadre author of Historia de la República (History of the Republic) is born.
- February 12, 1939 - At the South American Championship the national football team wins its first Copa América.
- February 14, 2009 - The Milk of Sorrow, a film by Claudia Llosa wins a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
- February 25, 1825 - The Coat of arms is adopted as national symbolic emblem of Peru.
- February 28, 1995 - End of the Cenepa War, the third war in the territorial dispute between Peru and Ecuador in the 20th century.