✦ History

Explore September 28, 2000 – February 8, 2005

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Events

Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
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
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
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 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
Launch of Facebook 2004-02-04
2004 Madrid train bombings 2004-03-11
First Battle of Fallujah 2004-04-04 - 2004-05-01
2004 enlargement of the European Union 2004-05-01
Battle of Najaf (2004) 2004-08-05 - 2004-08-27
Beslan school siege 2004-09-01 - 2004-09-03
Second Battle of Fallujah 2004-11-07 - 2004-12-23
Orange Revolution 2004-11-22 - 2005-01-23
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 2004-12-26

People

Megawati Soekarnoputri age 53
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 56
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 62
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 42
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 56
President - Sudan
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 51
President - Indonesia
Heydar Aliyev age 77
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 77
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 76
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 59
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 48
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 60
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 56
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 62
President - Ukraine
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 53
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 47
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 64
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 59
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 53
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 62
President - Austria
Alberto Fujimori age 62
President - Peru
Roh Moo-hyun age 54
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 58
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 50
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 48
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 29
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 32
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 48
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 67
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 52
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 58
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 79
President - Italy
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 79
King - Saudi Arabia
Hamad II of Bahrain age 50
Emir - Bahrain
Abdurrahman Wahid age 60
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 56
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 45
President - Poland
Omar Bongo age 64
President - Gabon
Alija Izetbegović age 75
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 45
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 42
President - Serbia
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 59
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 46
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 55
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 65
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 37
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 54
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 46
President - Montenegro
Milo Đukanović age 38
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 70
President - Romania
Mohammed Omar age 40
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Olusegun Obasanjo age 63
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 35
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 57
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 49
President - Ireland
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 34
President - Togo
Blaise Compaoré age 49
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 73
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 55
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 43
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 68
President - Kenya
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 60
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 61
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 50
President - Slovenia
Ivan Gašparovič age 59
President - Slovakia
K. R. Narayanan age 79
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 76
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 77
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 48
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 67
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 52
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 72
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 54
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 55
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 51
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 54
President - Timor-Leste
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 60
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 44
King - Bhutan
Bingu wa Mutharika age 66
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 48
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 62
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 60
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 71
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 74
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 82
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 67
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 53
President - Ghana
Vojislav Koštunica age 56
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Tassos Papadopoulos age 66
President - Cyprus
Askar Akayev age 55
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 61
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 71
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 52
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 62
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 37
President - North Macedonia
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 64
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 63
President - Philippines
Alfred Moisiu age 70
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 53
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 67
President - Myanmar
Fernando de la Rúa age 63
President - Argentina
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 75
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 65
President - Guinea
René Préval age 57
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 59
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 61
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 59
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 62
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 74
President - Greece
Milan Kučan age 59
President - Slovenia
Levy Mwanawasa age 52
President - Zambia
Nino Burjanadze age 36
President - Georgia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 47
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 69
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 57
President - Zambia
Alejandro Toledo age 55
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 69
President - Bangladesh
Émile Lahoud age 64
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 50
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 61
President - Tanzania
Rexhep Meidani age 56
President - Albania
Leonel Fernández age 46
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 79
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Mamadou Tandja age 62
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 76
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 41
President - Comoros
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 54
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 44
President - North Macedonia
Carlos Mesa age 47
President - Bolivia
Petar Stoyanov age 48
President - Bulgaria
Anote Tong age 48
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 70
President - Mauritius
Armando Guebuza age 57
President - Mozambique
Emil Constantinescu age 60
President - Romania
Pedro Pires age 66
President - Cape Verde
Rolandas Paksas age 44
President - Lithuania
Eddie Fenech Adami age 66
President - Malta
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 70
President - Pakistan
Ronald Venetiaan age 64
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 44
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 43
President - Paraguay
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 53
President - Argentina
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 74
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 66
President - Slovakia
James Michel age 56
President - Seychelles
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 72
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 54
President - Panama
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 65
President - Somalia
Nicholas Liverpool age 66
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 36
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 63
President - Madagascar
Pascal Couchepin age 58
President - Switzerland
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 82
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 74
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 63
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 81
President - Cyprus
Josefa Iloilo age 79
President - Fiji
Bakili Muluzi age 57
President - Malawi
Milan Milutinović age 57
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 64
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 68
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 58
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 68
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Pierre Buyoya age 50
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 46
President - Colombia
Antonio Saca age 35
President - El Salvador
Guido de Marco age 69
President - Malta
Moritz Leuenberger age 54
President - Switzerland
Kumba Ialá age 47
President - Guinea-Bissau
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 57
President - United Arab Emirates
Martín Torrijos age 37
President - Panama
Valentín Paniagua age 64
President - Peru
Abel Pacheco age 66
President - Costa Rica
Khamtai Siphandone age 76
President - Laos
Artūras Paulauskas age 47
President - Lithuania
Ludwig Scotty age 52
President - Nauru
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 70
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 70
President - Bolivia
Boniface Alexandre age 64
President - Haiti
Enrique Bolaños age 72
President - Nicaragua
Domitien Ndayizeye age 47
President - Burundi
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 56
President - Cape Verde
Gustavo Noboa age 63
President - Ecuador
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 58
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 60
President - Moldova
Robert Guéï age 59
President - Ivory Coast
Ricardo Maduro age 54
President - Honduras
A. N. R. Robinson age 73
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 51
President - Vanuatu
Dragan Čović age 44
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lucio Gutiérrez age 43
President - Ecuador
Henrique Rosa age 54
President - Guinea-Bissau
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 50
President - Mongolia
Samuel Schmid age 53
President - Switzerland
Joseph Deiss age 54
President - Switzerland
Sulejman Tihić age 48
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jorge Quiroga age 40
President - Bolivia
Negasso Gidada age 57
President - Ethiopia
Svetozar Marović age 45
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Gyude Bryant age 51
President - Liberia