✦ History

Explore July 2, 1997 – December 31, 1998

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Events

The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
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
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998-07-17
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20

People

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 72
Yoshihide Suga age 48
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 29
Andrzej Duda age 25
Viktor Yushchenko age 43
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 42
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 60
Jens Stoltenberg age 38
Kaja Kallas age 20
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 33
Jacob Zuma age 55
Park Geun-hye age 45
Zuzana Čaputová age 24
Moon Jae-in age 44
Juan Manuel Santos age 45
Matteo Renzi age 22
Pedro Sánchez age 25
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 61
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 65
Friedrich Merz age 41
Sauli Niinistö age 48
Giuseppe Conte age 32
Ebrahim Raisi age 36
Cyril Ramaphosa age 44
Serzh Sargsyan age 43
Sanna Marin age 11
Pranab Mukherjee age 61
Maia Sandu age 25
Joachim Gauck age 57
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 50
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 39
Li Keqiang age 42
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 17
Kersti Kaljulaid age 27
Muhammadu Buhari age 54
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 36
Horst Köhler age 54
Fumio Kishida age 39
Sanae Takaichi age 36
Kevin Rudd age 39
Sebastián Piñera age 47
Tarja Halonen age 53
Alexis Tsipras age 22
Daniel Ortega age 51
Dan Quayle age 50
Scott Morrison age 29
George Weah age 30
Paul Kagame age 39
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 332
Naoto Kan age 50
Philippe of Belgium age 37
James Callaghan age 85
Pratibha Patil age 62
Droupadi Murmu age 39
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 47
Abiy Ahmed age 20
Mario Draghi age 49
Christian Wulff age 38
Radovan Karadžić age 52
Mohammed bin Salman age 11
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 74
Asif Ali Zardari age 41
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 90
Yoon Suk Yeol age 36
F. W. de Klerk age 61
Ashraf Ghani age 48
Javier Milei age 26
Kurt Waldheim age 78
Alexander Van der Bellen age 53
Mark Carney age 32
Mobutu Sese Seko age 66
Salome Zourabichvili age 45
Julius Nyerere age 75
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 40
Donald Rumsfeld age 65
Masoud Pezeshkian age 42
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 44
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 39
Klaus Iohannis age 38
Aleksandar Vučić age 27
Robert Fico age 32
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 38
Queen Camilla age 49
Pierre Trudeau age 77
Mikhail Mishustin age 31
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 74
Bronisław Komorowski age 45
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 50
Junichiro Koizumi age 55
Tarō Asō age 56
Colin Powell age 60
Marco Rubio age 26
Sebastian Kurz age 10
Norodom Sihamoni age 44
Gabriel Boric age 11
Naftali Bennett age 25
Giulio Andreotti age 78
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 44
Andy Burnham age 27
Anthony Albanese age 34
Ehud Olmert age 51
Francesco Cossiga age 68
Mette Frederiksen age 19
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 41
Leonid Kravchuk age 63
Antony Blinken age 35
Ahmed Ben Bella age 80
Tony Abbott age 39
Heinz Fischer age 58
Michael D. Higgins age 56
Paolo Gentiloni age 42
Mario Monti age 54
Roh Moo-hyun age 50
Richard von Weizsäcker age 77
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 37
Ram Nath Kovind age 51
François Fillon age 43
Néstor Kirchner age 47
Nikol Pashinyan age 22
Yukio Hatoyama age 50
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 14
Edi Rama age 33
Joseph Kabila age 26
Sahle-Work Zewde age 47
Kyriakos Mitsotakis age 29
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 36
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 77
Michel Temer age 56
Mauricio Macri age 38
Erna Solberg age 36
Traian Băsescu age 45
Yingluck Shinawatra age 30
Walter Mondale age 69
Mike Pompeo age 33
Rumen Radev age 34
Nayib Bukele age 15
Borut Pahor age 33
Habib Bourguiba age 93
Tansu Çiller age 51
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 48
Ratko Mladić age 55
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 51
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 66
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 76
Enrico Letta age 30
Hastings Banda age 107
Thaksin Shinawatra age 47
Jarosław Kaczyński age 48
Yoshihiko Noda age 40
Alberto Fernández age 38
Hamad II of Bahrain age 47
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 38
John Mahama age 38
János Áder age 38
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 67
Abdurrahman Wahid age 56
Alassane Ouattara age 55
Stefan Löfven age 39
Johannes Rau age 66
Yasuo Fukuda age 61
Dominique de Villepin age 43
Manuel Valls age 34
Malcolm Turnbull age 42
Charles Michel age 21
Pierre Nkurunziza age 32
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 55
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 27
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 41
Frederik X of Denmark age 29
Najib Razak age 43
Helen Clark age 47
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 17
Lee Hsien Loong age 45
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 37
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 54
Lee Myung-bak age 55
Franjo Tuđman age 75
Jorge Rafael Videla age 71
Nana Akufo-Addo age 53
Prabowo Subianto age 45
Isaac Herzog age 36
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 42
Tomislav Nikolić age 45
Boris Tadić age 39
José Ramos-Horta age 47
Juan Guaidó age 13
Gustavo Petro age 37
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 43
John Evans Atta Mills age 52
Reuven Rivlin age 57
Hashim Thaçi age 29
Almazbek Atambaev age 40
Roza Otunbayeva age 46
Haakon VIII of Norway age 23
Magdalena Andersson age 30
Denys Shmyhal age 21
Trương Tấn Sang age 48
Kenneth Kaunda age 73
Alan García age 48
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 45