✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31
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
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
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 1995-11-04
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
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
Introduction of the euro 1999-01-01
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 1999-03-24 - 1999-06-10
Battle of Košare 1999-04-09 - 1999-06-10
Columbine High School massacre 1999-04-20
Kargil War 1999-05-03 - 1999-07-26
Battle of Tololing 1999-05-22 - 1999-06-13
Battle of Tiger Hill 1999-07-03 - 1999-07-08
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
East Timorese independence referendum 1999-08-30
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War on terror 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30

People

Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 46
President - Armenia
Festus Mogae age 52
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 62
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 43
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 54
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 56
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 54
President - Philippines
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 84
President - Greece
Than Shwe age 58
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 67
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 57
President - Guinea
René Préval age 48
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 50
President - Moldova
Kiro Gligorov age 74
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 52
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 50
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 53
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 65
President - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 56
President - Senegal
Milan Kučan age 50
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 43
President - Zambia
Abulfaz Elchibey age 53
President - Azerbaijan
Zhelyu Zhelev age 56
President - Bulgaria
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 38
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 60
President - Hungary
Árpád Göncz age 69
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 48
President - Zambia
Alejandro Toledo age 46
President - Peru
Ezer Weizman age 67
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 55
President - Lebanon
Benjamin Mkapa age 53
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 47
President - Albania
Ayaz Mutallibov age 53
President - Azerbaijan
Quett Masire age 66
President - Botswana
Leonel Fernández age 38
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 71
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Mamadou Tandja age 53
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 67
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 33
President - Comoros
Frank Bainimarama age 37
President - Fiji
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 45
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 35
President - North Macedonia
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 76
President - Pakistan
Petar Stoyanov age 39
President - Bulgaria
Patricio Aylwin age 73
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 75
President - Djibouti
Farooq Leghari age 51
President - Pakistan
Emil Constantinescu age 52
President - Romania
Chadli Bendjedid age 62
President - Algeria
Pedro Pires age 57
President - Cape Verde
Ibrahim Babangida age 50
President - Nigeria
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 62
President - Pakistan
Vladimír Mečiar age 49
President - Slovakia
Ronald Venetiaan age 55
President - Suriname
Rafael Caldera age 75
President - Venezuela
Sylvie Kinigi age 39
President - Burundi
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 44
President - Guinea-Bissau
Guntis Ulmanis age 52
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 51
President - Moldova
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 35
President - Palau
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 67
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 69
President - Venezuela
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 44
President - Argentina
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 49
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 57
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 65
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 58
President - Slovakia
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 66
President - Tanzania
César Gaviria age 44
President - Colombia
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 70
President - Ecuador
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 36
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 64
President - Uruguay
Julio María Sanguinetti age 56
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 45
President - Panama
Melchior Ndadaye age 39
President - Burundi
Bharrat Jagdeo age 27
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 55
President - Madagascar
Pascal Lissouba age 60
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 61
President - Slovakia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 73
King - Tonga
Mohamed Boudiaf age 72
President - Algeria
Hugo Banzer age 65
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 54
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 72
President - Cyprus
Joaquín Balaguer age 85
President - Dominican Republic
Josefa Iloilo age 71
President - Fiji
Sam Hinds age 48
President - Guyana
Janet Jagan age 71
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 48
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 49
President - Nigeria
Milan Milutinović age 49
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 56
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 59
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 51
President - Switzerland
Fradique de Menezes age 49
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Pierre Buyoya age 42
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 37
President - Colombia
Guido de Marco age 60
President - Malta
Moritz Leuenberger age 45
President - Switzerland
Nicéphore Soglo age 57
President - Benin
Kumba Ialá age 38
President - Guinea-Bissau
Kaysone Phomvihane age 71
President - Laos
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 50
President - Uruguay
Valentín Paniagua age 55
President - Peru
Liamine Zéroual age 50
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 58
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 60
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 76
President - Singapore
Rahmon Nabiyev age 61
President - Tajikistan
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 66
President - Afghanistan
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 61
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 61
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 65
President - Lebanon
Enrique Bolaños age 63
President - Nicaragua
Mahamane Ousmane age 41
President - Niger
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 59
Emir - Qatar
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 36
President - Burundi
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 47
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 41
President - Colombia
Gustavo Noboa age 54
President - Ecuador
Albert Zafy age 64
President - Madagascar
Amata Kabua age 63
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 50
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 51
President - Moldova
Momir Bulatović age 35
President - Montenegro
André Kolingba age 55
President - Central African Republic
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 35
President - Ecuador
Robert Guéï age 50
President - Ivory Coast
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 49
President - Mongolia
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 57
President - Somalia
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 65
President - Bangladesh
Ricardo Maduro age 45
President - Honduras
Ruth Perry age 52
President - Liberia
Jules Wijdenbosch age 50
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 65
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Jaime Paz Zamora age 52
President - Bolivia
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 56
President - Ecuador
Kamisese Mara age 71
President - Fiji
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 53
King - Lesotho
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 41
President - Mongolia
Jorge Quiroga age 31
President - Bolivia
Jamil Mahuad age 42
President - Ecuador
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 39
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 48
President - Ethiopia
Ċensu Tabone age 78
President - Malta
Daouda Malam Wanké age 45
President - Niger
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 42
President - Niger
Ernest Shonekan age 55
President - Nigeria
Ong Teng Cheong age 55
President - Singapore
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 67
President - Sri Lanka
José María Figueres Olsen age 37
President - Costa Rica
Alfredo Cristiani age 44
President - El Salvador
Arnoldo Alemán age 45
President - Nicaragua
Wasim Sajjad age 50
President - Pakistan
Miguel Trovoada age 55
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Edward Natapei age 37
President - Vanuatu
Luis González Macchi age 44
President - Paraguay
Ali Saibou age 51
President - Niger
Ali Kafi age 63
President - Algeria
Eduardo Camaño age 45
President - Argentina
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 35
President - Burundi
Armando Calderón Sol age 43
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 59
President - Malta
Ramón José Velásquez age 75
President - Venezuela
Momčilo Krajišnik age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Andrés Rodríguez age 68
President - Paraguay
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 51
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 32
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 41
President - Marshall Islands
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 54
President - Sierra Leone
Guillermo Endara age 55
President - Panama
Ramón Puerta age 40
President - Argentina
Desmond Hoyte age 62
President - Guyana
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 77
President - Laos
Flavio Cotti age 52
President - Switzerland
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 75
President - Sri Lanka
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 42
President - Costa Rica
Hipólito Mejía age 50
President - Dominican Republic
Jacob Nena age 50
President - Federated States of Micronesia
René Harris age 44
President - Nauru
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 53
President - Somalia
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 65
President - Afghanistan
Said Mohamed Djohar age 73
President - Comoros
Vlatko Pavletić age 61
President - Croatia
Leo Falcam age 56
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 48
President - Honduras
Amos Sawyer age 46
President - Liberia
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 53
President - Madagascar
Kuniwo Nakamura age 48
President - Palau
Adolf Ogi age 49
President - Switzerland
Isa Gambar age 34
President - Azerbaijan
Fabián Alarcón age 44
President - Ecuador
Ansumane Mané age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Carlos Roberto Flor age 41
President - Honduras
Carlos Roberto Reina age 65
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 45
President - Nauru
Valentine Strasser age 24
President - Sierra Leone
Kaspar Villiger age 50
President - Switzerland
Octavio Lepage age 68
President - Venezuela
Teburoro Tito age 38
President - Kiribati