✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Surinamese Civil War 1986-07-22 - 1992-08-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
1988 Chilean presidential referendum 1988-10-05
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
Spitak earthquake 1988-12-07
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989-03-24
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
Baltic Way 1989-08-23
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
Romanian Revolution 1989-12-16 - 1989-12-27
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Release of Nelson Mandela 1990-02-11
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope 1990-04-24
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
German reunification 1990-10-03
Air campaign of the Gulf War 1991-01-17 - 1991-02-23
Somali Civil War 1991-01-26
Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01
Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of Medina Ridge 1991-02-27 - 1991-02-27
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07
1991 Soviet coup attempt 1991-08-19 - 1991-08-21
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Vukovar 1991-08-25 - 1991-11-18
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31
Djiboutian Civil War 1991-11-01 - 1994-12-26
Belovezha Accords 1991-12-08
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
Transnistria War 1992-03-02 - 1992-07-21
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
Earth Summit 1992-06-03 - 1992-06-14
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia 1993-01-01
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
Battle of Mogadishu (1993) 1993-10-03 - 1993-10-04
Zapatista uprising 1994-01-01 - 1994-01-12
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Marrakesh Agreement 1994-04-15
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29

People

Mohamed Abdou Madi age 32
Prime Minister - Comoros
Ibrahim Halidi age 33
Prime Minister - Comoros
Hailu Yimenu age 53
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Almanbet Matubraimov age 35
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Dismas Nsengiyaremye age 43
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Daniel Daio age 41
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Anatole Kanyenkiko age 36
Prime Minister - Burundi
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh age 40
Prime Minister - Togo
Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra age 50
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Jean-Luc Mandaba age 44
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Enoch Derant Lakoué age 43
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Tesfaye Dinka age 48
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller age 47
Prime Minister - Peru
Alfonso Bustamante age 46
Prime Minister - Peru
Guillermo Larco Cox age 56
Prime Minister - Peru
Carlos Torres y Torres Lara age 45
Prime Minister - Peru
Vuko Vukadinović age 50
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Óscar de la Puente Raygada age 49
Prime Minister - Peru
Saïd Ali Mohamed age 42
Prime Minister - Comoros
Alfonso de los Heros age 49
Prime Minister - Peru
Bill Hayden age 55
Governor-General - Australia
Colville Young age 55
Governor-General - Belize
Catherine Tizard age 56
Governor-General - New Zealand
Elmira Minita Gordon age 57
Governor-General - Belize
James Carlisle age 50
Governor-General - Antigua and Barbuda
Ninian Stephen age 64
Governor-General - Australia
Howard Cooke age 72
Governor-General - Jamaica
Toaripi Lauti age 59
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Clifford Darling age 66
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Tupua Leupena age 65
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Nita Barrow age 71
Governor-General - Barbados
Florizel Glasspole age 78
Governor-General - Jamaica
Gerald Cash age 70
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Vincent Eri age 51
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Tomu Sione age 46
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Ignatius Kilage age 46
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Edward Zacca age 56
Governor-General - Jamaica
Kingsford Dibela age 55
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Henry Milton Taylor age 84
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Wiwa Korowi age 39
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Dennis Young age 52
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 26
University of Chicago Law
Donald Trump age 41
Michael Jackson age 29
Vladimir Putin age 35
George W. Bush age 41
Bill Gates age 32
Jimmy Wales age 21
Pope Francis age 51
Steve Jobs age 33
Angela Merkel age 33
Neil Armstrong age 57
François Hollande age 33
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 10
Gabriel García Márquez age 61
Elon Musk age 16
Stephen Hawking age 46
Jimmy Carter age 63
Emmanuel Macron age 10
Benedict XVI age 60
Mother Teresa age 77
Hillary Clinton age 40
Kamala Harris age 23
Nicolas Sarkozy age 33
Richard Nixon age 75
Xi Jinping age 34
Naruhito age 28
Hugo Chávez age 33
Muammar Gaddafi age 45
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 34
Muhammad Ali age 46
Kofi Annan age 49
Charles III age 39
Osama bin Laden age 30
Kim Jong-un age 6
Gerald Ford age 74
Leo XIV age 32
Diego Maradona age 27
Narendra Modi age 37
Rafael Correa age 24
Aung San Suu Kyi age 42
Benjamin Netanyahu age 38
Dmitry Medvedev age 22
14th Dalai Lama age 52
Mark Zuckerberg age 3
Shinzo Abe age 33
Tim Berners-Lee age 32
Guillermo Lasso age 32
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 69
Alexander Lukashenko age 33
Yasser Arafat age 58
David Cameron age 21
Linus Torvalds age 18
Ban Ki-moon age 43
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 40
Boris Johnson age 23
Diana, Princess of Wales age 26
Bashar al-Assad age 22
Jair Bolsonaro age 32
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 42
Theresa May age 31
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 31
Henry Kissinger age 64
Rishi Sunak age 7
Justin Trudeau age 16
Nicolás Maduro age 25
Dilma Rousseff age 40
Ferdinand Marcos age 70
Milton Friedman age 75
Valentina Tereshkova age 50
Pol Pot age 62
Ilham Aliyev age 26
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 49
António Guterres age 38
Rosa Parks age 75
Shimon Peres age 64
Wangari Maathai age 47
Giorgia Meloni age 11
Prince Philip age 66
Olaf Scholz age 29
Keir Starmer age 25
Willy Brandt age 74
Gerhard Schröder age 43
Hassan Rouhani age 39
Evo Morales age 28
Joko Widodo age 26
Petro Poroshenko age 22
Mikheil Saakashvili age 20
Liz Truss age 12
Ursula von der Leyen age 29
Mike Pence age 28
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 35
Michelle Bachelet age 36
Ariel Sharon age 60
Felipe VI of Spain age 20
Desmond Tutu age 56
Viktor Yanukovych age 37
Mohamed Morsi age 36
Viktor Orbán age 24
Sergio Mattarella age 46
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 62
Manmohan Singh age 55
Pervez Musharraf age 44
Julia Gillard age 26
Abdullah Gül age 37
Lech Kaczyński age 38
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 32
Jeff Bezos age 24
Buzz Aldrin age 58
Mohammad Khatami age 44
Tsai Ing-wen age 31
Mariano Rajoy age 32
Andrei Sakharov age 66
Larry Sanger age 19
Condoleezza Rice age 33
Raúl Castro age 56
Sheikh Hasina age 40
Giorgio Napolitano age 62
Mark Rutte age 21
Idi Amin age 63
Yulia Tymoshenko age 27
Rodrigo Duterte age 42
JD Vance age 3
Abdullah II of Jordan age 26
William, Prince of Wales age 5
Helmut Schmidt age 69
Stephen Harper age 28
Donald Tusk age 30
James Watson age 59
Madeleine Albright age 50
Hamid Karzai age 30
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 20
Jacinda Ardern age 7
José Mujica age 52
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 63
Yoshihide Suga age 39
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 19
Andrzej Duda age 15
Thabo Mbeki age 45
Viktor Yushchenko age 34
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 33
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 51
Jens Stoltenberg age 28
Vajiralongkorn age 35
Kaja Kallas age 10
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 24
Jacob Zuma age 45
Park Geun-hye age 36
Zuzana Čaputová age 14
Moon Jae-in age 35
Mitt Romney age 40
Juan Manuel Santos age 36
Matteo Renzi age 13
Pedro Sánchez age 15
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 52
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 56
Friedrich Merz age 32
Sauli Niinistö age 39
Romano Prodi age 48
Giuseppe Conte age 23