✦ 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
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
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
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
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
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
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
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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
2002 Bali bombings 2002-10-12
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 2003-02-01
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Battle of Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
Battle of Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29
Battle of Najaf (2003) 2003-03-24 - 2003-04-04
Operation Northern Delay 2003-03-26 - 2003-03-26
Battle of Baghdad (2003) 2003-04-03 - 2003-04-12

People

Azali Assoumani age 31
President - Comoros
Frank Bainimarama age 36
President - Fiji
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 44
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 34
President - North Macedonia
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 75
President - Pakistan
Petar Stoyanov age 38
President - Bulgaria
Patricio Aylwin age 71
President - Chile
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 74
President - Djibouti
Farooq Leghari age 50
President - Pakistan
Emil Constantinescu age 50
President - Romania
Chadli Bendjedid age 61
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 66
President - Cape Verde
Pedro Pires age 56
President - Cape Verde
Rolandas Paksas age 34
President - Lithuania
Moussa Traoré age 54
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 49
President - Nigeria
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 60
President - Pakistan
Vladimír Mečiar age 48
President - Slovakia
Ronald Venetiaan age 54
President - Suriname
Rafael Caldera age 74
President - Venezuela
Sylvie Kinigi age 37
President - Burundi
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 43
President - Guinea-Bissau
Guntis Ulmanis age 51
President - Latvia
Mircea Snegur age 50
President - Moldova
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 34
President - Palau
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 66
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 67
President - Venezuela
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 43
President - Argentina
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 48
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 56
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 64
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 56
President - Slovakia
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 65
President - Tanzania
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 70
President - Poland
Souphanouvong age 81
President - Laos
César Gaviria age 43
President - Colombia
Sixto Durán-Ballén age 69
President - Ecuador
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 35
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 62
President - Uruguay
Julio María Sanguinetti age 54
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 44
President - Panama
Melchior Ndadaye age 37
President - Burundi
Bharrat Jagdeo age 26
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 53
President - Madagascar
Pascal Lissouba age 58
President - Republic of the Congo
Michal Kováč age 60
President - Slovakia
Pascal Couchepin age 48
President - Switzerland
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 72
King - Tonga
Mohamed Boudiaf age 71
President - Algeria
Hugo Banzer age 64
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 53
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 71
President - Cyprus
Joaquín Balaguer age 84
President - Dominican Republic
Josefa Iloilo age 69
President - Fiji
Sam Hinds age 46
President - Guyana
Janet Jagan age 69
President - Guyana
Bakili Muluzi age 47
President - Malawi
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 48
President - Nigeria
Milan Milutinović age 47
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 54
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 58
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 50
President - Switzerland
Fradique de Menezes age 48
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 53
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 58
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 60
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 40
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 36
President - Colombia
Patrick Hillery age 67
President - Ireland
Guido de Marco age 59
President - Malta
Moritz Leuenberger age 44
President - Switzerland
Nicéphore Soglo age 55
President - Benin
Kumba Ialá age 37
President - Guinea-Bissau
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 49
President - Uruguay
Valentín Paniagua age 54
President - Peru
Liamine Zéroual age 49
President - Algeria
Isa II of Bahrain age 57
Emir - Bahrain
Abel Pacheco age 56
President - Costa Rica
Giorgos Vasiliou age 59
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 74
President - Singapore
Rahmon Nabiyev age 60
President - Tajikistan
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 65
President - Afghanistan
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 60
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 60
President - Bolivia
Elias Hrawi age 64
President - Lebanon
Enrique Bolaños age 62
President - Nicaragua
Mahamane Ousmane age 40
President - Niger
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 58
Emir - Qatar
Cyprien Ntaryamira age 35
President - Burundi
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 46
President - Cape Verde
Ernesto Samper age 40
President - Colombia
Gustavo Noboa age 53
President - Ecuador
Albert Zafy age 63
President - Madagascar
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 48
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 50
President - Moldova
Momir Bulatović age 34
President - Montenegro
André Kolingba age 54
President - Central African Republic
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano age 33
President - Ecuador
Robert Guéï age 49
President - Ivory Coast
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat age 48
President - Mongolia
Mohamed Farrah Aidid age 55
President - Somalia
Abdur Rahman Biswas age 64
President - Bangladesh
Ricardo Maduro age 44
President - Honduras
Ruth Perry age 51
President - Liberia
Jules Wijdenbosch age 49
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 63
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Dragan Čović age 34
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jaime Paz Zamora age 51
President - Bolivia
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 55
President - Ecuador
Lucio Gutiérrez age 33
President - Ecuador
Kamisese Mara age 70
President - Fiji
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 52
King - Lesotho
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 40
President - Mongolia
Sulejman Tihić age 38
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jorge Quiroga age 30
President - Bolivia
Jamil Mahuad age 41
President - Ecuador
Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz age 38
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 47
President - Ethiopia
Ċensu Tabone age 77
President - Malta
Daouda Malam Wanké age 44
President - Niger
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara age 41
President - Niger
Ernest Shonekan age 54
President - Nigeria
Ong Teng Cheong age 54
President - Singapore
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 66
President - Sri Lanka
José María Figueres Olsen age 35
President - Costa Rica
Alfredo Cristiani age 42
President - El Salvador
Arnoldo Alemán age 44
President - Nicaragua
Wasim Sajjad age 49
President - Pakistan
Miguel Trovoada age 53
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Edward Natapei age 36
President - Vanuatu
Luis González Macchi age 42
President - Paraguay
Ali Saibou age 50
President - Niger
Ali Kafi age 62
President - Algeria
Eduardo Camaño age 44
President - Argentina
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 34
President - Burundi
Armando Calderón Sol age 42
President - El Salvador
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 57
President - Malta
Ramón José Velásquez age 73
President - Venezuela
Momčilo Krajišnik age 45
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Andrés Rodríguez age 67
President - Paraguay
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 50
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 30
President - El Salvador
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 47
President - Haiti
Kessai Note age 40
President - Marshall Islands
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 53
President - Sierra Leone
Qahhor Mahkamov age 58
President - Tajikistan
Guillermo Endara age 54
President - Panama
Ramón Puerta age 39
President - Argentina
Desmond Hoyte age 61
President - Guyana
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 76
President - Laos
Flavio Cotti age 50
President - Switzerland
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 74
President - Sri Lanka
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 41
President - Costa Rica
Hipólito Mejía age 49
President - Dominican Republic
Jacob Nena age 49
President - Federated States of Micronesia
René Harris age 42
President - Nauru
Diosdado Cabello age 27
President - Venezuela
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 51
President - Somalia
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 64
President - Afghanistan
Said Mohamed Djohar age 72
President - Comoros
Vlatko Pavletić age 59
President - Croatia
Leo Falcam age 54
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 46
President - Honduras
Amos Sawyer age 45
President - Liberia
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 51
President - Madagascar
Kuniwo Nakamura age 46
President - Palau
Adolf Ogi age 48
President - Switzerland
Isa Gambar age 33
President - Azerbaijan
Fabián Alarcón age 43
President - Ecuador
John Haglelgam age 41
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ansumane Mané age 50
President - Guinea-Bissau
Carlos Roberto Flor age 40
President - Honduras
Carlos Roberto Reina age 64
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 44
President - Nauru
Valentine Strasser age 23
President - Sierra Leone
Kaspar Villiger age 49
President - Switzerland
Octavio Lepage age 66
President - Venezuela
Teburoro Tito age 37
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 47
President - Marshall Islands
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 62
President - Rwanda
Otto Stich age 63
President - Switzerland
Arnold Koller age 57
President - Switzerland
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 49
President - Somalia
Borislav Paravac age 47
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bailey Olter age 58
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ramsewak Shankar age 52
President - Suriname
René Felber age 57
President - Switzerland
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 57
President - Bangladesh
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 53
President - Ethiopia
Penaia Ganilau age 72
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 81
President - Laos
Mamohato of Lesotho age 49
Regent - Lesotho
Johnny Paul Koroma age 30
President - Sierra Leone
Johan Kraag age 77
President - Suriname
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 69
President - Algeria
Ieremia Tabai age 40
President - Kiribati
Ngiratkel Etpison age 65
President - Palau
Dragan Tomić age 54
President - Serbia
Noor Hassanali age 72
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Pedro Carmona age 49
President - Venezuela