✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Battle of Hamburger Hill 1969-05-10 - 1969-05-20
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Garibpur 1971-11-20 - 1971-11-21
Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
Bloody Sunday (1972) 1972-01-30
Nixon's visit to China 1972-02-21 - 1972-02-28
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16
Munich massacre 1972-09-05 - 1972-09-06
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
Third Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-21 - 1973-10-22
Carnation Revolution 1974-04-25
Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1974-07-20 - 1974-08-18
1975 spring offensive 1974-12-13 - 1975-04-30
Battle of Xuân Lộc 1975-04-09 - 1975-04-21
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Fall of Saigon 1975-04-30 - 1975-04-30
Helsinki Accords 1975-08-01
Green March 1975-11-06
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
Chinese economic reform 1978-12-18
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Egypt–Israel peace treaty 1979-03-26
Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
IBM Personal Computer 1981-08-12
Assassination of Anwar Sadat 1981-10-06
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
Invasion of South Georgia 1982-04-03 - 1982-04-03
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Paraquet 1982-04-25 - 1982-04-25
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02
Battle of San Carlos (1982) 1982-05-21 - 1982-05-25
Battle of Goose Green 1982-05-28 - 1982-05-29
Bluff Cove air attacks 1982-06-08 - 1982-06-08
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-10-29
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31
Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
Live Aid 1985-07-13
Plaza Accord 1985-09-22
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
First Battle of al-Faw 1986-02-11 - 1986-03-10
Second Battle of Zhawar 1986-02-28 - 1986-04-19
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Operation Karbala-5 1987-01-08 - 1987-02-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Battle of Jaji 1987-04-17 - 1987-06-13
Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987-12-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08
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
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
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
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
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
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
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07
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
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
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
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
First Chechen War 1994-12-11 - 1996-08-31
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Oklahoma City bombing 1995-04-19
Operation Flash 1995-05-01 - 1995-05-04
Srebrenica massacre 1995-07-11 - 1995-07-22
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Operation Storm 1995-08-04 - 1995-08-07
Operation Deliberate Force 1995-08-30 - 1995-09-20
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997-08-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10

People

William Hague age 7
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Michael Foot age 55
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Neil Kinnock age 26
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
John Smith age 30
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Margaret Beckett age 25
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 30
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jeremy Thorpe age 39
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jo Grimond age 55
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 50
President - African National Congress
Tomás Mac Giolla age 44
President - Sinn Féin
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 36
President - Sinn Féin
Gerry Adams age 20
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 25
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 24
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 44
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 28
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Bush age 22
Governor of Texas - United States
John Paul II age 48
Pope - Vatican City
Lech Wałęsa age 25
President - Poland
Alexander Lukashenko age 14
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 32
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 40
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 44
President - Zimbabwe
Ferdinand Marcos age 51
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 75
Caudillo - Spain
John Paul I age 56
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 30
King - Spain
Paul VI age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Salvador Allende age 60
President - Chile
Augusto Pinochet age 52
President - Chile
Suharto age 47
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 50
President - Romania
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 28
President - Kazakhstan
Idi Amin age 43
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 28
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 35
President - Philippines
Harald V of Norway age 31
King - Norway
Slobodan Milošević age 27
President - Serbia
Martti Ahtisaari age 31
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 22
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 30
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 40
President - Georgia
Park Chung-hee age 50
President - South Korea
Thomas Sankara age 18
President - Burkina Faso
Muhammadu Buhari age 25
President - Nigeria
Daniel Ortega age 22
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 30
President - Uzbekistan
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 48
President - Bangladesh
Omar al-Bashir age 24
President - Sudan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 40
President - Pakistan
Juan Perón age 73
President - Argentina
Heydar Aliyev age 45
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 45
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 44
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 27
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 62
President - Senegal
F. W. de Klerk age 32
State President - South Africa
Mobutu Sese Seko age 38
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 75
President - Kenya
Emomali Rahmon age 16
President - Tajikistan
Julius Nyerere age 46
President - Tanzania
Saparmurat Niyazov age 28
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 24
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 30
President - Ukraine
Süleyman Demirel age 43
President - Turkey
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 32
President - Tunisia
Leonid Kravchuk age 34
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 21
President - Yemen
Alberto Fujimori age 30
President - Peru
José Eduardo dos Santos age 26
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 16
President - Chad
Turgut Özal age 41
President - Turkey
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 47
President - Central African Republic
Mswati III age 5 months
King - Eswatini
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 62
King - Saudi Arabia
Paul Biya age 35
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 32
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 65
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 37
President - Argentina
Teodoro Obiang age 26
President - Equatorial Guinea
Mary Robinson age 24
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 78
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 38
President - Iceland
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 24
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 13
President - Poland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 27
President - Costa Rica
Alija Izetbegović age 43
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jorge Rafael Videla age 43
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 68
President - Finland
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 29
President - Georgia
Éamon de Valera age 86
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 39
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 44
President - Zambia
Alan García age 19
President - Peru
Carlos Menem age 38
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 14
President - Armenia
Kenan Evren age 51
President - Turkey
Sali Berisha age 23
President - Albania
Michel Aoun age 35
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 5
King - Lesotho
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 44
President - Pakistan
Isaias Afwerki age 22
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 13
President - Ethiopia
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 31
President - Ethiopia
Milo Đukanović age 6
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 38
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 40
President - South Korea
Sandro Pertini age 72
President - Italy
Mohammed Omar age 8
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 31
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 65
King - Norway
Yahya Jammeh age 3
President - The Gambia
Alfredo Stroessner age 55
President - Paraguay
Fidel Ramos age 40
President - Philippines
Agostinho Neto age 46
President - Angola
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 46
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 25
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 17
President - Ireland
Ayub Khan age 61
President - Pakistan
Mauno Koivisto age 44
President - Finland
Zakir Husain age 71
President - India
Juliana of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Milton Obote age 42
President - Uganda
Blaise Compaoré age 17
President - Burkina Faso
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 50
President - Italy
Valdas Adamkus age 41
President - Lithuania
Samora Moisés Machel age 35
President - Mozambique
Fahri Korutürk age 65
President - Turkey
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 23
President - Sri Lanka
Raúl Alfonsín age 41
President - Argentina
Frederik IX of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 85
King - Sweden
Chun Doo-hwan age 37
President - South Korea
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 28
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mohammad Najibullah age 21
President - Afghanistan
V. V. Giri age 74
President - India
Yahya Khan age 51
President - Pakistan
Cevdet Sunay age 69
President - Turkey
K. R. Narayanan age 47
President - India
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 63
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 44
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 45
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 43
President - Portugal
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 16
Emir - Qatar
Houari Boumédiène age 36
President - Algeria
Mathieu Kérékou age 35
President - Benin
François Duvalier age 61
President - Haiti
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 63
President - India
Amadou Toumani Touré age 19
President - Mali
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 28
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 12
King - Bhutan
Ivo Sanader age 15
President - Croatia
Violeta Chamorro age 38
President - Nicaragua
R. Venkataraman age 57
President - India
Siad Barre age 49
President - Somalia
Makarios III age 55
President - Cyprus
Joaquim Chissano age 28
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 39
President - Namibia
Sani Abacha age 25
President - Nigeria
Juvénal Habyarimana age 31
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 50
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 35
President - Austria
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 44
President - Equatorial Guinea
Jerry Rawlings age 21
President - Ghana
Zail Singh age 52
President - India
João Bernardo Vieira age 29
President - Guinea-Bissau
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 50
President - India
Chaim Herzog age 50
President - Israel
Giuseppe Saragat age 70
President - Italy
Askar Akayev age 23
President - Kyrgyzstan
Algirdas Brazauskas age 36
President - Lithuania
Roh Tae-woo age 35
President - South Korea
Ramiz Alia age 42
President - Albania
Leopoldo Galtieri age 42
President - Argentina
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 23
President - Armenia
Festus Mogae age 29
President - Botswana
Seretse Khama age 47
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 44
President - Cameroon
Lennart Meri age 39
President - Estonia
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy age 55
President - India
Charles Taylor age 20
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 30
President - Maldives
Agatha Barbara age 45
President - Malta
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 32
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 17
President - Haiti
Hafizullah Amin age 39
President - Afghanistan
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 61
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 35
President - Myanmar
Lansana Conté age 33
President - Guinea
René Préval age 25
President - Haiti
Kiro Gligorov age 51
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 29
President - Portugal
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 59
President - Afghanistan
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 42
President - Greece
Modibo Keïta age 53
President - Mali
Anastasio Somoza Debayle age 42
President - Nicaragua
Ziaur Rahman age 32
President - Bangladesh
Abdou Diouf age 33
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 27
President - Slovenia
Abulfaz Elchibey age 30
President - Azerbaijan