✦ 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

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
Levy Mwanawasa age 51
President - Zambia
Nino Burjanadze age 35
President - Georgia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 46
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 68
President - Hungary
Árpád Göncz age 77
President - Hungary
Frederick Chiluba age 56
President - Zambia
Alejandro Toledo age 54
President - Peru
Željko Komšić age 35
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iajuddin Ahmed age 68
President - Bangladesh
Ezer Weizman age 75
President - Israel
Émile Lahoud age 63
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 49
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 60
President - Tanzania
Haris Silajdžić age 53
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rexhep Meidani age 55
President - Albania
Leonel Fernández age 45
President - Dominican Republic
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 78
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Mamadou Tandja age 61
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 75
President - Singapore
Rupiah Banda age 62
President - Zambia
Azali Assoumani age 40
President - Comoros
Alfredo Palacio age 60
President - Ecuador
Frank Bainimarama age 45
President - Fiji
Alpha Oumar Konaré age 53
President - Mali
Boris Trajkovski age 43
President - North Macedonia
Carlos Mesa age 46
President - Bolivia
Petar Stoyanov age 47
President - Bulgaria
Anote Tong age 47
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 69
President - Mauritius
Armando Guebuza age 56
President - Mozambique
Emil Constantinescu age 59
President - Romania
Pedro Pires age 65
President - Cape Verde
Rolandas Paksas age 43
President - Lithuania
Eddie Fenech Adami age 65
President - Malta
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar age 69
President - Pakistan
Ronald Venetiaan age 63
President - Suriname
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 41
President - Mongolia
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 43
President - Palau
Nicanor Duarte age 42
President - Paraguay
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá age 52
President - Argentina
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle age 57
President - Chile
Henri Konan Bédié age 65
President - Ivory Coast
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 73
Emir - Kuwait
Marcus Stephen age 29
President - Nauru
Rudolf Schuster age 65
President - Slovakia
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 56
President - Switzerland
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 35
President - Somalia
Fouad Siniora age 56
President - Lebanon
James Michel age 55
President - Seychelles
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 71
President - Uruguay
Julio María Sanguinetti age 63
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 53
President - Panama
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed age 64
President - Somalia
Nicholas Liverpool age 65
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 35
President - Guyana
Didier Ratsiraka age 62
President - Madagascar
Pascal Couchepin age 57
President - Switzerland
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 81
King - Tonga
Hugo Banzer age 73
President - Bolivia
Ange-Félix Patassé age 62
President - Central African Republic
Glafcos Clerides age 80
President - Cyprus
Josefa Iloilo age 78
President - Fiji
Bakili Muluzi age 56
President - Malawi
Milan Milutinović age 56
President - Serbia
France-Albert René age 63
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 67
President - Sierra Leone
Ruth Dreifuss age 59
President - Switzerland
Fradique de Menezes age 57
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 67
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Pierre Buyoya age 49
President - Burundi
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 45
President - Colombia
Antonio Saca age 34
President - El Salvador
Guido de Marco age 68
President - Malta
Moritz Leuenberger age 52
President - Switzerland
Eduardo Rodríguez age 43
President - Bolivia
Kumba Ialá age 46
President - Guinea-Bissau
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 49
President - Pakistan
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 56
President - United Arab Emirates
Martín Torrijos age 36
President - Panama
Valentín Paniagua age 62
President - Peru
Abel Pacheco age 65
President - Costa Rica
Moussa Dadis Camara age 34
President - Guinea
Khamtai Siphandone age 75
President - Laos
Artūras Paulauskas age 46
President - Lithuania
Ludwig Scotty age 51
President - Nauru
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 69
President - Bangladesh
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 69
President - Bolivia
Boniface Alexandre age 63
President - Haiti
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 61
President - Mauritania
Enrique Bolaños age 71
President - Nicaragua
Domitien Ndayizeye age 46
President - Burundi
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro age 55
President - Cape Verde
Gustavo Noboa age 62
President - Ecuador
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 57
President - Mauritania
Petru Lucinschi age 59
President - Moldova
Johnson Toribiong age 53
President - Palau
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 41
President - Comoros
Robert Guéï age 58
President - Ivory Coast
Manny Mori age 50
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ricardo Maduro age 53
President - Honduras
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 69
Emir - Kuwait
Jules Wijdenbosch age 58
President - Suriname
A. N. R. Robinson age 72
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 50
President - Vanuatu
Nebojša Radmanović age 49
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragan Čović age 43
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giovanni Lajolo age 64
President - Vatican City
Lucio Gutiérrez age 42
President - Ecuador
Kamisese Mara age 79
President - Fiji
Henrique Rosa age 53
President - Guinea-Bissau
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 49
President - Mongolia
Samuel Schmid age 52
President - Switzerland
Joseph Deiss age 53
President - Switzerland
Sulejman Tihić age 47
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jorge Quiroga age 39
President - Bolivia
Jamil Mahuad age 50
President - Ecuador
Negasso Gidada age 56
President - Ethiopia
Raimundo Pereira age 43
President - Guinea-Bissau
Daouda Malam Wanké age 53
President - Niger
Ong Teng Cheong age 63
President - Singapore
Gyude Bryant age 50
President - Liberia
Arnoldo Alemán age 53
President - Nicaragua
Miguel Trovoada age 62
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Luis González Macchi age 51
President - Paraguay
Eduardo Camaño age 53
President - Argentina
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría age 59
President - Costa Rica
Francisco Flores age 39
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 49
President - Marshall Islands
Ramón Puerta age 47
President - Argentina
Joseph Urusemal age 47
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Moses Blah age 52
President - Liberia
Litokwa Tomeing age 59
President - Marshall Islands
Hipólito Mejía age 58
President - Dominican Republic
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 46
President - Mauritania
René Harris age 51
President - Nauru
Diosdado Cabello age 36
President - Venezuela
Vlatko Pavletić age 68
President - Croatia
Leo Falcam age 63
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kuniwo Nakamura age 55
President - Palau
Adolf Ogi age 57
President - Switzerland
Carlos Roberto Flor age 49
President - Honduras
Nexhat Daci age 55
President - Kosovo
Bernard Dowiyogo age 53
President - Nauru
Kaspar Villiger age 58
President - Switzerland
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 61
President - South Africa
Teburoro Tito age 46
President - Kiribati
Imata Kabua age 56
President - Marshall Islands
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 58
President - Somalia
Borislav Paravac age 56
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bonfoh Abass age 50
President - Togo
Alessandro Mancini age 23
Captain Regent - San Marino
A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury age 66
President - Bangladesh
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 50
President - Kyrgyzstan
Pedro Carmona age 58
President - Venezuela
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 43
President - Somalia
Valeria Ciavatta age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino