✦ History

Explore July 2, 1997 – December 31, 1998

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
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
Bougainville conflict 1988-12-01 - 1998-04-20
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
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
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
Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18
Guinea-Bissau Civil War 1998-06-07 - 1999-05-10
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

Ingrid of Sweden age 87
Princess Beatrice age 8
Tigran Sargsyan age 37
Azali Assoumani age 38
Alfredo Palacio age 58
Mostafa Madbouly age 31
Siim Kallas age 48
Frank Bainimarama age 43
Rose Francine Rogombe age 54
Otto Pérez Molina age 46
Álvaro Colom age 46
Joseph Michel Martelly age 36
Halla Tómasdóttir age 28
Ciriaco De Mita age 69
Assimi Goïta age 13
Myriam Spiteri Debono age 44
Khaltmaagiin Battulga age 34
Zdravko Krivokapić age 38
Dritan Abazović age 11
Boris Trajkovski age 41
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 82
Mikhail Kasianov age 39
Bassirou Diomaye Faye age 17
Miro Cerar age 33
Alain Berset age 25
Srettha Thavisin age 35
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 45
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 88
Choi Kyu-hah age 78
Željka Cvijanović age 30
Zenkō Suzuki age 86
Leon Panetta age 59
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan age 31
Princess Caroline of Monaco age 40
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh age 32
Mario Cuomo age 65
Timothy McVeigh age 29
Liz Cheney age 30
George Wallace age 77
Alexander Haig age 72
Xavier Espot Zamora age 17
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 82
Carlos Mesa age 43
Sergey Stanishev age 31
Évariste Ndayishimiye age 29
Patricio Aylwin age 78
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 42
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 78
Konstantinos Tasoulas age 37
Irfaan Ali age 17
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 49
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 49
Arnaldo Forlani age 71
Raila A Odinga age 52
Anote Tong age 45
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 56
Mohamed Muizzu age 19
Anerood Jugnauth age 67
Zinaida Greceanîi age 41
Aziz Akhannouch age 35
Armando Guebuza age 54
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 45
Eduard Heger age 21
Evaristo Carvalho age 55
Abdulla Aripov age 36
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo age 71
Sōsuke Uno age 74
Jeremy Hunt age 30
Ri Sol-ju age 12
Michael Gove age 29
Gennady Yanayev age 59
Chadli Bendjedid age 68
Franz Vranitzky age 59
Wilfried Martens age 61
Dean Barrow age 46
Aristides Pereira age 73
Pedro Pires age 63
Mahamat Déby age 13
Roosevelt Skerrit age 25
Sherif Ismail age 42
Geir Haarde age 46
Ephraim Katzir age 81
Asqar Mamin age 31
Rolandas Paksas age 41
Algirdas Butkevičius age 38
Gediminas Kirkilas age 45
Muhyiddin Yassin age 50
Moussa Traoré age 60
Milojko Spajić age 9
Ibrahim Babangida age 55
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo age 67
Dacian Cioloș age 27
Julius Maada Bio age 33
Ronald Venetiaan age 61
Karin Keller-Sutter age 33
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf age 41
Hanna Suchocka age 51
Federico Franco age 34
Fernando Belaúnde age 84
Abdalla Hamdok age 41
William Westmoreland age 83
George Osborne age 26
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar age 47
Eduardo Saverin age 15
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece age 50
Princess Eugenie age 7
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland age 23
Craig Venter age 50
Francis Collins age 47
Yang Shangkun age 89
Christian Stocker age 37
Hubert Maga age 80
Lidia Gueiler Tejada age 75
Kiril Petkov age 17
Sylvie Kinigi age 44
Hun Manet age 19
Jioji Konrote age 49
Rose Christiane Raponda age 34
Mikheil Kavelashvili age 25
Alejandro Giammattei age 41
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 38
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 50
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi age 30
Piet de Jong age 82
Ramush Haradinaj age 29
Hassan Diab age 38
Gintautas Paluckas age 17
Lawrence Gonzi age 44
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani age 40
Mircea Snegur age 57
Dorin Recean age 23
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 39
Christopher Luxon age 26
Shaukat Aziz age 48
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 41
Marcel Ciolacu age 29
Andrei Belousov age 38
Sergei Stepashin age 45
Marjan Šarec age 19
Guy Parmelin age 37
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 73
Paula-Mae Weekes age 38
Najla Bouden age 39
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 74
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 37
Nicanor Duarte age 40
Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970) age 27
Ash Carter age 42
Sajid Javid age 27
Karl von Habsburg age 36
Mohammad Mokhber age 42
Michael Dukakis age 63
Dobrica Ćosić age 75
Lawrence Eagleburger age 66
Cyrus Vance age 80
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 49
Lotay Tshering age 28
Joe Clark age 58
Luis Abinader age 29
Harri Holkeri age 60
Zurab Zhvania age 33
Efraín Ríos Montt age 71
László Kövér age 37
Basappa Danappa Jatti age 84
Māris Kučinskis age 35
Saulius Skvernelis age 26
Gaston Thorn age 68
Duško Marković age 39
Saadeddine Othmani age 41
Htin Kyaw age 50
Marcus Stephen age 27
Yakubu Gowon age 62
Shehu Shagari age 72
António José Seguro age 35
Mirko Cvetković age 46
Rudolf Schuster age 63
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 54
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 72
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 77
Michael Somare age 61
Mario Abdo Benítez age 25
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 32
Fuad II of Egypt age 45
Milka Planinc age 72
Günter Schabowski age 68
Infanta Cristina of Spain age 32
John Kasich age 45
Peter Mandelson age 43
Chris Christie age 34
Elena Kagan age 37
John Gorton age 85
César Gaviria age 50
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 76
Mart Laar age 37
Péter Medgyessy age 54
Poul Schlüter age 68
Fouad Siniora age 53
Vlad Filat age 28
Balendra Shah age 7
Ilie Bolojan age 28