✦ History

Explore September 28, 2000 – February 8, 2005

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Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
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

Svetozar Marović age 45
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Gyude Bryant age 51
President - Liberia
Arnoldo Alemán age 54
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 63
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Luis González Macchi age 52
President - Paraguay
Eduardo Camaño age 54
President - Argentina
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 60
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 40
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 50
President - Marshall Islands
Ramón Puerta age 49
President - Argentina
Joseph Urusemal age 48
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Moses Blah age 53
President - Liberia
Hipólito Mejía age 59
President - Dominican Republic
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 53
President - Guinea-Bissau
René Harris age 52
President - Nauru
Diosdado Cabello age 37
President - Venezuela
Leo Falcam age 64
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 56
President - Palau
Adolf Ogi age 58
President - Switzerland
Carlos Roberto Flor age 50
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 54
President - Nauru
Kaspar Villiger age 59
President - Switzerland
Teburoro Tito age 47
President - Kiribati
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 59
President - Somalia
Borislav Paravac age 57
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 67
President - Bangladesh
Pedro Carmona age 59
President - Venezuela
Valeria Ciavatta age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 68
President - Bangladesh
John Bani age 59
President - Vanuatu
Vernon Shaw age 70
President - Dominica
Derog Gioura age 68
President - Nauru
Nataša Mićić age 34
President - Serbia
Marino Riccardi age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Cassam Uteem age 59
President - Mauritius
Predrag Marković age 44
President - Serbia
Mirko Šarović age 44
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hamada Madi age 35
President - Comoros
Karl Offmann age 59
President - Mauritius
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 47
President - North Macedonia
Fernando Pereira age 37
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Gianfranco Terenzi age 59
Captain Regent - San Marino
Josias Moli age 46
President - Vanuatu
Živko Radišić age 63
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tion Otang age 9 months
President - Kiribati
Dragan Maršićanin age 50
President - Serbia
Vojislav Mihailović age 49
President - Serbia
Fabio Berardi age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alfred Maseng age 51
President - Vanuatu
Roger Abiut age 28
President - Vanuatu
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Beriz Belkić age 54
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragan Kujović age 52
President - Montenegro
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jozo Križanović age 56
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Angidi Chettiar age 72
President - Mauritius
Halid Genjac age 42
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ante Jelavić age 37
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Raouf Bundhun age 63
President - Mauritius
Rifat Rastoder age 50
President - Montenegro
Gian Marco Marcucci age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Paolo Bollini age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Arzilli age 59
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enzo Colombini age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Luigi Lonfernini age 62
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Raschi age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Lonfernini age 24
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ariranga Pillay age 55
President - Mauritius
Eddy Kapend age 40
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Alberto Cecchetti age 56
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 56
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gino Giovagnoli age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Giannoni age 52
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Maria Morganti age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mauro Chiaruzzi age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Marino Menicucci age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 46
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mahathir Mohamad age 75
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Yanukovych age 50
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Viktor Orbán age 37
Prime Minister - Hungary
Abdullah Gül age 49
Prime Minister - Turkey
Sheikh Hasina age 53
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Yulia Tymoshenko age 39
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jens Stoltenberg age 41
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 45
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 43
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 40
Prime Minister - Spain
Hassanal Bolkiah age 54
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 56
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 47
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 47
Prime Minister - Denmark
John Howard age 61
Prime Minister - Australia
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 80
Prime Minister - Peru
Thaksin Shinawatra age 51
Prime Minister - Thailand
Helen Clark age 50
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Hsien Loong age 48
Prime Minister - Singapore
José María Aznar age 47
Prime Minister - Spain
Macky Sall age 38
Prime Minister - Senegal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 54
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Meles Zenawi age 45
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 44
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Janez Janša age 42
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Bülent Ecevit age 75
Prime Minister - Turkey
Jalal Talabani age 66
Prime Minister - Iraq
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 71
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Hun Sen age 48
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 55
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Khaleda Zia age 54
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Paul Martin age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Jean Chrétien age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Guy Verhofstadt age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ilir Meta age 31
Prime Minister - Albania
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 63
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 51
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 37
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Zoran Đinđić age 48
Prime Minister - Serbia
Ivo Sanader age 47
Prime Minister - Croatia
Göran Persson age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Matti Vanhanen age 44
Prime Minister - Finland
Tupou VI of Tonga age 41
Prime Minister - Tonga
Mykola Azarov age 52
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 60
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 39
Prime Minister - Hungary
Algirdas Brazauskas age 68
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 51
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Wim Kok age 62
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Andrius Kubilius age 43
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Hage Geingob age 59
Prime Minister - Namibia
Mikhhail Fradkov age 50
Prime Minister - Russia
Masoud Barzani age 54
Prime Minister - Iraq
Wolfgang Schüssel age 55
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 65
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 42
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Goh Chok Tong age 59
Prime Minister - Singapore
Kostas Karamanlis age 44
Prime Minister - Greece
Girija Prasad Koirala age 76
Prime Minister - Nepal
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 59
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Costas Simitis age 64
Prime Minister - Greece
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 54
Prime Minister - Nepal
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 53
Prime Minister - Norway
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 64
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Siim Kallas age 52
Prime Minister - Estonia
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Mikhail Kasianov age 42
Prime Minister - Russia
Fatos Nano age 48
Prime Minister - Albania
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 45
Prime Minister - Finland
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 53
Prime Minister - Iceland
Davíð Oddsson age 52
Prime Minister - Iceland
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 48
Prime Minister - Romania
Evaristo Carvalho age 58
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Roosevelt Skerrit age 28
Prime Minister - Dominica
Paavo Lipponen age 59
Prime Minister - Finland
Ramush Haradinaj age 32
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Lawrence Gonzi age 47
Prime Minister - Malta
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 42
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Shaukat Aziz age 51
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Zurab Zhvania age 36
Prime Minister - Georgia
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 55
Prime Minister - Samoa
Michael Somare age 64
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Mart Laar age 40
Prime Minister - Estonia
Péter Medgyessy age 57
Prime Minister - Hungary
Mikuláš Dzurinda age 45
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Ahmad Uyahya age 48
Prime Minister - Algeria
Vladimír Špidla age 49
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Aigars Kalvītis age 34
Prime Minister - Latvia
Adrian Năstase age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Sam Hinds age 56
Prime Minister - Guyana
Andranik Margaryan age 49
Prime Minister - Armenia
Jigme Thinley age 48
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Pedro Santana Lopes age 44
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ralph Gonsalves age 54
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 56
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Nandó dos Santos age 50
Prime Minister - Angola
Baldwin Spencer age 52
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 46
Prime Minister - Belarus
Juhan Parts age 34
Prime Minister - Estonia
Ayad Allawi age 56
Prime Minister - Iraq
Omar Karami age 66
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Stanislav Gross age 30
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Pakalitha Mosisili age 55
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Vlado Bučkovski age 37
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Mame Madior Boye age 59
Prime Minister - Senegal
Manasseh Sogavare age 45
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 67
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Keith Mitchell age 53
Prime Minister - Grenada
Radmila Šekerinska age 28
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Owen Arthur age 50
Prime Minister - Barbados
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 42
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Zafarullah Khan Jamali age 56
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Denzil Douglas age 47
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Chuan Leekpai age 62
Prime Minister - Thailand
Perry Christie age 57
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Mari Alkatiri age 50
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Ivica Račan age 56
Prime Minister - Croatia
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 70
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Driss Jettou age 55
Prime Minister - Morocco
Lee Hae Chan age 48
Prime Minister - South Korea
Vasile Tarlev age 37
Prime Minister - Moldova
Victor Khristenko age 43
Acting Prime Minister - Russia