✦ History

Explore August 2, 1998 – July 18, 2003

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Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
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
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999) 1997-06-05 - 1999-12-29
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18
Guinea-Bissau Civil War 1998-06-07 - 1999-05-10
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
War on terror 2001-09-11
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
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

Thomas Bach age 44
Manuel Noriega age 64
Raúl Alfonsín age 71
Thomas Boni Yayi age 46
Ibrahim Traoré age 10
Paul Martin age 59
Xavier Bettel age 25
Oleksandr Turchynov age 34
Ollanta Humala age 36
Chun Doo-hwan age 67
Zhao Ziyang age 78
Rex Tillerson age 46
Alexander Schallenberg age 29
Mia Mottley age 32
Elio Di Rupo age 47
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 41
Andrej Plenković age 28
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 77
Vjosa Osmani age 16
Atifete Jahjaga age 23
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 54
Keiko Fujimori age 23
Gabriel Attal age 9
Jacques Delors age 73
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 67
João Lourenço age 44
Werner Faymann age 38
Dimitris Christofias age 51
Alar Karis age 40
Giovanni Leone age 89
Igor Dodon age 23
Peter Pellegrini age 22
Paetongtarn Shinawatra age 11
Necmettin Erbakan age 71
Morgan Tsvangirai age 46
Felipe González age 56
George F. Kennan age 94
Itamar Franco age 68
Kirsty Coventry age 14
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 31
Bamir Topi age 41
Alexander De Croo age 22
Sophie Wilmès age 23
Luis Arce age 34
Jeanine Áñez age 31
Jüri Ratas age 20
Dick Schoof age 41
Rob Jetten age 11
Saad Harirị age 28
Andry Rajoelina age 24
Peter Mutharika age 58
Mário Soares age 73
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 34
Adama Barrow age 33
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 37
Fernando Lugo age 47
Kgalema Motlanthe age 49
Shamil Basayev age 33
Gough Whitlam age 82
Nouri al-Maliki age 48
Sadyr Japarov age 29
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 38
Ram Baran Yadav age 50
Stevo Pendarovski age 35
Desi Bouterse age 52
Serdar Berdimuhamedow age 16
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 24
Armand Fallières age 156
Pierre Mauroy age 70
Laurent Fabius age 51
Édith Cresson age 64
Michel Barnier age 47
Enda Kenny age 47
Queen Sofía of Spain age 59
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 34
Queen Letizia of Spain age 25
Robert McNamara age 82
Ivo Sanader age 45
Andrus Ansip age 41
Loukas Papademos age 50
László Sólyom age 56
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 24
Valdis Zatlers age 43
Bingu wa Mutharika age 64
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 46
Violeta Chamorro age 68
Bola Tinubu age 46
Nikola Gruevski age 27
Egor Gajdar age 42
Carl Bildt age 49
Prayut Chanocha age 44
Delcy Rodriguez age 29
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 161
Lloyd Austin age 45
Kim Yo Jong age 10
John Roberts age 43
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 41
Brian Mulroney age 59
R. Venkataraman age 87
William Ruto age 31
Najib Mikati age 42
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 39
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 41
Nicolae Timofti age 49
Chris Hipkins age 19
Danilo Türk age 46
Mykola Azarov age 50
Edgar Lungu age 41
Pedro Castillo age 28
Lee Jae Myung age 34
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 75
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 54
Vahagn Khachatryan age 39
Bob Hawke age 68
Sandra Mason age 49
Iván Duque age 22
Jadranka Kosor age 45
Daniel Noboa age 10
Irakli Garibashvili age 16
Guðni Jóhannesson age 30
Raimonds Vējonis age 32
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 58
Jonas Gahr Støre age 37
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 42
Iveta Radičová age 41
Yulia Svyrydenko age 12
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 71
Bernard Cazeneuve age 35
P. W. Botha age 82
Ed Miliband age 28
Queen Sonja of Norway age 61
Gavin Newsom age 30
Paul Keating age 54
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 37
Petr Fiala age 33
Mauricio Funes age 38
Bidzina Ivanishvili age 42
Manuel Zelaya age 45
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 37
Pál Schmitt age 56
Amintore Fanfani age 90
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 39
Egils Levits age 43
Filipe Nyusi age 39
Saara Kuugongelwa age 30
Sushila Karki age 46
Mahamadou Issoufou age 46
Arif Alvi age 49
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 46
Nicușor Dan age 28
Viktor Zubkov age 56
Robert Golob age 31
Ewa Kopacz age 41
Li Qiang age 39
Maithripala Sirisena age 46
Milorad Dodik age 39
Tomiichi Murayama age 74
Micheál Martin age 37
Pete Hegseth age 18
Soong Mei-ling age 100
Sarah Ferguson age 38
Li Peng age 69
Brigitte Bierlein age 49
Bart De Wever age 27
Rosen Plevneliev age 34
José Antonio Kast age 32
Petteri Orpo age 28
Antonis Samaras age 47
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 80
Lamberto Dini age 67
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 61
Valdis Dombrovskis age 27
Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 16
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 43
José Sócrates age 40
Victor Ponta age 25
Prem Tinsulanonda age 77
Roh Tae-woo age 65
François Bayrou age 47
Egon Krenz age 61
Fernando Collor de Mello age 49
Kim Jong-nam age 27
Ramiz Alia age 72
Leopoldo Galtieri age 72
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 53
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 45
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 47
Jyrki Katainen age 26
Giorgi Gakharia age 23
Juan Orlando Hernández age 29
Barham Salih age 37
Karim Massimov age 33
Albin Kurti age 23
Robert Abela age 20
Agatha Barbara age 75
Emil Boc age 31
Nataša Pirc Musar age 30
Simonetta Sommaruga age 38
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 47
Moncef Marzouki age 53