✦ History

Explore August 26, 1999 – April 16, 2009

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Events

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
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
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
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10
Eurozone crisis 2009
Launch of Bitcoin 2009-01-03

People

Frank Underwood age 39
House of Representatives - United States
Margaret Beckett age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 76
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Benedict XVI age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 45
President - Venezuela
Rafael Correa age 36
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 45
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 62
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 71
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 75
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 37
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 60
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 76
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 61
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 39
President - Bolivia
Mikheil Saakashvili age 31
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 46
President - Argentina
Michelle Bachelet age 47
President - Chile
Pervez Musharraf age 56
President - Pakistan
Abdullah Gül age 48
President - Turkey
Lech Kaczyński age 50
President - Poland
Giorgio Napolitano age 74
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 59
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 37
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 59
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 41
President - Afghanistan
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 75
King - Saudi Arabia
Harald V of Norway age 62
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 45
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 62
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 58
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 36
King - Morocco
Martti Ahtisaari age 62
President - Finland
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 53
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 67
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 71
President - Georgia
Serzh Sargsyan age 45
President - Armenia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 52
President - Indonesia
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 19
King - Bhutan
Tarja Halonen age 55
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 53
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 61
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 41
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 55
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 64
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 49
President - Indonesia
Heydar Aliyev age 76
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 76
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 75
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 58
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 44
President - Pakistan
Emomali Rahmon age 46
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 42
President - Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 59
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 54
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 61
President - Ukraine
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 41
Prince - Monaco
Süleyman Demirel age 74
President - Turkey
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 52
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 46
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 63
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 58
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 52
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 60
President - Austria
Alberto Fujimori age 61
President - Peru
Roh Moo-hyun age 53
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 57
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 49
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 47
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 28
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 31
King - Eswatini
Traian Băsescu age 47
President - Romania
Paul Biya age 66
President - Cameroon
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 51
President - United Arab Emirates
Teodoro Obiang age 57
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 63
President - Indonesia
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 78
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 49
Emir - Bahrain
Abdurrahman Wahid age 59
President - Indonesia
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 55
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 44
President - Poland
Pierre Nkurunziza age 34
President - Burundi
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 57
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 63
President - Gabon
Lee Myung-bak age 57
President - South Korea
Alija Izetbegović age 74
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Boris Tadić age 41
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 49
President - Timor-Leste
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 45
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 55
President - Ghana
Alan García age 50
President - Peru
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 57
President - Turkey
Carlos Menem age 69
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 45
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 54
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 64
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 36
King - Lesotho
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 60
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 53
President - Sri Lanka
Isaias Afwerki age 53
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 45
President - Montenegro
Milo Đukanović age 37
President - Montenegro
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 48
President - Nigeria
Ion Iliescu age 69
President - Romania
Tabaré Vázquez age 59
President - Uruguay
Mohammed Omar age 39
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 70
Emir - Kuwait
Olusegun Obasanjo age 62
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 34
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 56
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 48
President - Ireland
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 33
President - Togo
Karolos Papoulias age 70
President - Greece
Blaise Compaoré age 48
President - Burkina Faso
Valdas Adamkus age 72
President - Lithuania
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 54
President - Sri Lanka
Thomas Boni Yayi age 47
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 42
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 67
President - Kenya
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 59
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 60
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 49
President - Slovenia
Dimitris Christofias age 53
President - Cyprus
Ivan Gašparovič age 58
President - Slovakia
Bamir Topi age 42
President - Albania
K. R. Narayanan age 78
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 75
President - Kenya
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 50
President - Kyrgyzstan
Andry Rajoelina age 25
President - Madagascar
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 76
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 47
Emir - Qatar
Fernando Lugo age 48
President - Paraguay
Kgalema Motlanthe age 50
President - South Africa
Mathieu Kérékou age 66
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 51
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 71
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 53
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 54
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 50
President - Mali
Ram Baran Yadav age 51
President - Nepal
Xanana Gusmão age 53
President - Timor-Leste
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 58
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 43
King - Bhutan
László Sólyom age 57
President - Hungary
Valdis Zatlers age 44
President - Latvia
Bingu wa Mutharika age 65
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 47
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 61
President - Latvia
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 42
President - Mauritania
Danilo Türk age 47
President - Slovenia
Joaquim Chissano age 59
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 70
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 73
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 81
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 66
President - Austria
Jerry Rawlings age 52
President - Ghana
Manuel Zelaya age 46
President - Honduras
Tassos Papadopoulos age 65
President - Cyprus
João Bernardo Vieira age 60
President - Guinea-Bissau
Askar Akayev age 54
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 60
President - Botswana
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 46
President - Botswana
Lennart Meri age 70
President - Estonia
Charles Taylor age 51
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 61
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 36
President - North Macedonia
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 48
President - Tanzania
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 63
President - Togo
Joseph Estrada age 62
President - Philippines
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 54
President - Switzerland
Alfred Moisiu age 69
President - Albania
Zillur Rahman age 70
President - Bangladesh
François Bozizé age 52
President - Central African Republic
Mohamed Nasheed age 32
President - Maldives
Than Shwe age 66
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 74
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 64
President - Guinea
René Préval age 56
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 58
President - Moldova
Kiro Gligorov age 82
President - North Macedonia
Jorge Sampaio age 59
President - Portugal
George Tupou V of Tonga age 51
King - Tonga
Eduardo Duhalde age 57
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 61
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 73
President - Greece
Fatmir Sejdiu age 47
President - Kosovo
Choummaly Sayasone age 63
President - Laos
Michel Suleiman age 50
President - Lebanon
George Abela age 51
President - Malta
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 64
President - Namibia
Girija Prasad Koirala age 75
President - Nepal
Abdou Diouf age 64
President - Senegal
Ernest Bai Koroma age 45
President - Sierra Leone
Milan Kučan age 58
President - Slovenia