✦ History

Explore October 1, 1990 – April 14, 2003

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

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
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
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
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
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
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 Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
Battle of Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29
Battle of Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06
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

Vladimir Putin age 38
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 44
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 64
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 44
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 64
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 59
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
George H. W. Bush age 66
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 53
President - Iraq
Boris Yeltsin age 59
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 51
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 57
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 25
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 44
President - Brazil
Hosni Mubarak age 62
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 73
President - France
Akihito age 56
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 47
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 46
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 64
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 60
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 70
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 56
Monarch - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 56
President - Iran
Johannes Rau age 59
President - Germany
Victor Chernomyrdin age 52
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 56
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 48
President - Mexico
Baudouin of Belgium age 60
Monarch - Belgium
Itamar Franco age 60
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 59
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 39
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 67
President - Republic of China
Fernando Collor de Mello age 41
President - Brazil
Trần Đức Lương age 53
President - Vietnam
Yang Shangkun age 83
President - People's Republic of China
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 44
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 69
President - Vietnam
Vladimir Ivashko age 57
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 58
President - Syria
Vo Chi Cong age 78
President - Vietnam
Alfonso Portillo age 39
President - Guatemala
Vinicio Cerezo age 47
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 48
President - Guatemala
Jorge Serrano Elías age 45
President - Guatemala
Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero age 43
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 78
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Kim Jong-il age 49
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Ernesto Zedillo age 38
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 42
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 52
Secretary-General - United Nations
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 67
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 70
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benjamin Netanyahu age 40
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 37
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 60
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 67
Prime Minister - Israel
Gerhard Schröder age 46
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 62
Prime Minister - Israel
Yitzhak Rabin age 68
Prime Minister - Israel
John Major age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Romano Prodi age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 51
Director-General - World Health Organization
Junichiro Koizumi age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Giulio Andreotti age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Wen Jiabao age 48
Premier - People's Republic of China
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 69
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 74
Prime Minister - Israel
Ehud Barak age 48
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 70
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 53
Prime Minister - France
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 69
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 65
President - European Commission
Jacques Rogge age 48
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 61
Premier - People's Republic of China
Édith Cresson age 56
Prime Minister - France
Yoshirō Mori age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 63
Prime Minister - Poland
Tomiichi Murayama age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Li Peng age 61
Premier - People's Republic of China
Lamberto Dini age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Alain Juppé age 45
Prime Minister - France
Chandra Shekhar age 63
Prime Minister - India
Jerzy Buzek age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 39
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 70
Prime Minister - India
V. P. Singh age 59
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 48
Secretary General - NATO
Bounnhang Vorachit age 53
Prime Minister - Laos
Toshiki Kaifu age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiichi Miyazawa age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
Tsutomu Hata age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 42
Prime Minister - France
Édouard Balladur age 61
Prime Minister - France
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 60
Prime Minister - France
Keizō Obuchi age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Jacques Santer age 53
President - European Commission
Morihiro Hosokawa age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 61
Chairman - Soviet Union
Gennady Yanayev age 53
President - Soviet Union
Hanna Suchocka age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Pierre Bérégovoy age 64
Prime Minister - France
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 44
Secretary General - NATO
Ante Marković age 65
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 69
Prime Minister - Laos
Khamtai Siphandone age 66
Prime Minister - Laos
John Bruton age 43
Taoiseach - Ireland
Leszek Miller age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Manfred Wörner age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Jan Olszewski age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Charles Haughey age 65
Taoiseach - Ireland
Phan Văn Khải age 56
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Oleksy age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Waldemar Pawlak age 31
Prime Minister - Poland
Do Muoi age 73
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Kamal Ganzouri age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Willy Claes age 51
Secretary General - NATO
Vo Van Kiet age 67
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Albert Reynolds age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
James Wolfensohn age 56
President - World Bank
Lien Chan age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Atef Ebeid age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hau Pei-tsun age 71
Premier - Republic of China
Hong Song-nam age 61
Premier - North Korea
Atef Sedki age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 62
Prime Minister - Laos
Chang Chun-hsiung age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Shyi-kun age 42
Premier - Republic of China
Hiroshi Nakajima age 62
Director-General - World Health Organization
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Vincent Siew age 51
Premier - Republic of China
Yon Hyong-muk age 58
Premier - North Korea
Tang Fei age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 67
President - World Bank
Lewis Thompson Preston age 64
President - World Bank
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 65
Prime Minister - India
H. D. Deve Gowda age 57
Prime Minister - India
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz age 40
Prime Minister - Poland
William Rehnquist age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 42
Vice President - United States
Dick Cheney age 49
Vice President - United States
Dan Quayle age 43
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 82
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Zeng Qinghong age 51
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Rong Yiren age 74
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Lee Yuan-tsu age 67
Vice President - Republic of China
Colin Powell age 53
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
John Shalikashvili age 54
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Richard Myers age 48
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 48
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
David E. Jeremiah age 56
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Madeleine Albright age 53
Secretary Of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 58
Secretary Of Defense - United States
James Baker age 60
Secretary Of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 64
Secretary Of State - United States
Lawrence Eagleburger age 60
Secretary Of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 48
Attorney General - United States
Janet Reno age 52
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 44
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 39
Attorney General - United States
Larry Summers age 35
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Michael Howard age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Barr age 40
Attorney General - United States
William J. Perry age 63
Secretary Of Defense - United States
William Cohen age 50
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 69
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Kenneth Clarke age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 51
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Eric Shinseki age 47
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Les Aspin age 52
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Robert Rubin age 52
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Norman Lamont age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nicholas F. Brady age 60
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 58
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 61
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Gordon R. Sullivan age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Frank G. Wisner age 52
Secretary Of State - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dennis Reimer age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Stuart M. Gerson age 46
Attorney General - United States
Robert Mueller age 46
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William S. Sessions age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 40
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Nelson Mandela age 72
President - African National Congress
Thabo Mbeki age 48
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 42
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 52
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 82
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary