✦ History

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Events

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
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
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
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War on terror 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
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
Tulip Revolution 2005-03-22 - 2005-04-11
Andijan massacre 2005-05-13
7 July 2005 London bombings 2005-07-07
Hurricane Katrina 2005-08-23 - 2005-08-31
Battle of Ramadi (2006) 2006-06-17 - 2006-11-15
Launch of the iPhone 2007-01-09
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30
Treaty of Lisbon 2007-12-13
2008 Sichuan earthquake 2008-05-12
Russo-Georgian War 2008-08-07 - 2008-08-16
2008 Summer Olympics 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-24
2008 United States presidential election 2008-11-04
2008 Mumbai attacks 2008-11-26 - 2008-11-29
Eurozone crisis 2009
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10
Launch of Bitcoin 2009-01-03

People

Barack Obama age 38
President - United States
Vladimir Putin age 46
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 53
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 73
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 53
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 73
President - Cuba
Nicolas Sarkozy age 44
President - France
Saddam Hussein age 62
President - Iraq
Dmitry Medvedev age 33
President - Russia
Boris Yeltsin age 68
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 60
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 66
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 33
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 53
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 42
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 71
President - Egypt
Akihito age 65
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 56
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 55
President - Iran
Raúl Castro age 68
President - Cuba
Jiang Zemin age 73
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 68
President - Syria
Horst Köhler age 56
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 65
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 68
President - Germany
Jalal Talabani age 65
President - Iraq
Vicente Fox age 57
President - Mexico
Ma Ying-jeou age 49
President - Republic of China
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 68
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 48
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 76
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 56
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Colom age 48
President - Guatemala
Trần Đức Lương age 62
President - Vietnam
Óscar Berger age 53
President - Guatemala
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 53
President - Guatemala
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 41
President - Iraq
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 67
President - Syria
Alfonso Portillo age 47
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 58
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 37
President - Mexico
Ernesto Zedillo age 47
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 61
Secretary-General - United Nations
Ban Ki-moon age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Benjamin Netanyahu age 49
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Shinzo Abe age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Tony Blair age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 55
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 66
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Romano Prodi age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 60
Director-General - World Health Organization
Junichiro Koizumi age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Tarō Asō age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 56
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Olmert age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
François Fillon age 45
Prime Minister - France
Jarosław Kaczyński age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
Yasuo Fukuda age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Dominique de Villepin age 45
Prime Minister - France
Ehud Barak age 57
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 79
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 62
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 57
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 70
Premier - People's Republic of China
Yoshirō Mori age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Jerzy Buzek age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 47
Taoiseach - Ireland
Javier Solana age 57
Secretary General - NATO
Bounnhang Vorachit age 62
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 51
Prime Minister - France
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 49
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Brian Cowen age 39
Taoiseach - Ireland
Paul Wolfowitz age 55
President - World Bank
Keizō Obuchi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 51
Secretary General - NATO
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 39
Prime Minister - Poland
Marek Belka age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Margaret Chan age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 53
Secretary General - NATO
Ahmed Nazif age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 46
President - World Bank
Leszek Miller age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Su Tseng-chang age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Kim Yong-il age 55
Premier - North Korea
Phan Văn Khải age 65
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Kamal Ganzouri age 66
Prime Minister - Egypt
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 45
Prime Minister - Laos
Pak Pong-ju age 60
Premier - North Korea
Lee Jong-wook age 54
Director-General - World Health Organization
James Wolfensohn age 65
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 67
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Frank Hsieh age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Liu Chao-shiuan age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Hong Song-nam age 69
Premier - North Korea
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 71
Prime Minister - Laos
Chang Chun-hsiung age 61
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Shyi-kun age 51
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 58
Prime Minister - Syria
Vincent Siew age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Tang Fei age 67
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 64
Prime Minister - Syria
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 74
Prime Minister - India
José Manuel Barroso age 43
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 44
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 74
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 56
Vice President - United States
Xi Jinping age 46
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Al Gore age 51
Vice President - United States
Dick Cheney age 58
Vice President - United States
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 57
Vice President - Iraq
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 52
Vice President - Iraq
Lien Chan age 63
Vice President - Republic of China
Zeng Qinghong age 60
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Roj Shaweis age 51
Vice President - Iraq
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 57
Vice President - Iraq
Li Keqiang age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Wang Qishan age 51
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Michael Mullen age 52
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Peter Pace age 53
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Richard Myers age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Hillary Clinton age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Condoleezza Rice age 44
Secretary of State - United States
Madeleine Albright age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 67
Secretary of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 62
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Gates age 55
Secretary of Defense - United States
John Ashcroft age 57
Attorney General - United States
Janet Reno age 61
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 48
Attorney General - United States
Henry Paulson age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Larry Summers age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Timothy Geithner age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William J. Burns age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Alberto Gonzales age 44
Attorney General - United States
William Cohen age 59
Secretary of Defense - United States
Jacqui Smith age 36
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 45
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
David Blunkett age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 60
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Eric Shinseki age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Michael Mukasey age 58
Attorney General - United States
George W. Casey Jr. age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Charles Clarke age 48
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Schoomaker age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Paul Clement age 33
Attorney General - United States
Mark Filip age 33
Attorney General - United States
Peter Keisler age 38
Attorney General - United States
Robert Mueller age 55
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 49
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Cameron age 32
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Thabo Mbeki age 57
President - African National Congress
Jacob Zuma age 57
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Comey age 38
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Clarence Thomas age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 63
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Peter Mandelson age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Michael Howard age 58
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Paul Stevens age 79
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alan Milburn age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hilary Armstrong age 53
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Liam Byrne age 28
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Chiang Pin-kung age 66
Chairman - Kuomintang
Gus Macdonald age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sandra Day O'Connor age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 38
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Iain Duncan Smith age 45
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Ed Miliband age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Wu Po-hsiung age 60
Chairman - Kuomintang
Gerry Adams age 50
President - Sinn Féin
Christopher Wray age 32
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Matthew Whitaker age 29
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
John Kerry age 55
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 52
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 75
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 52
Senate - United States
John McCain age 63
Senate - United States
Boris Johnson age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 40
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andy Burnham age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 59
House of Representatives - United States