✦ History

Explore August 26, 1999 – April 16, 2009

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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
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 Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
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
Cyclone Nargis 2008-05-02
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

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
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar age 67
President - Bangladesh
John Bani age 58
President - Vanuatu
Fausta Morganti age 55
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vernon Shaw age 69
President - Dominica
Derog Gioura age 67
President - Nauru
Nataša Mićić age 33
President - Serbia
Marino Riccardi age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alessandro Rossi age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Zlatko Tomčić age 54
President - Croatia
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 53
President - Mauritania
Cassam Uteem age 58
President - Mauritius
Predrag Marković age 43
President - Serbia
Mirko Šarović age 42
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivo Miro Jović age 49
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hamada Madi age 34
President - Comoros
Karl Offmann age 58
President - Mauritius
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 46
President - North Macedonia
Fernando Pereira age 36
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Gianfranco Terenzi age 58
Captain Regent - San Marino
Oscar Mina age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Josias Moli age 45
President - Vanuatu
Mirko Tomassoni age 30
Captain Regent - San Marino
Živko Radišić age 62
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tion Otang born 2000-01-01
President - Kiribati
Dragan Maršićanin age 49
President - Serbia
Vojislav Mihailović age 48
President - Serbia
Fabio Berardi age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 47
President - Madagascar
Roger Abiut age 27
President - Vanuatu
Rosa Zafferani age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Assunta Meloni age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alberto Selva age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Giorgetti age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonio Carattoni age 53
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Massimo Cenci age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Beriz Belkić age 53
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragan Kujović age 51
President - Montenegro
Antonello Bacciocchi age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ernesto Benedettini age 51
Captain Regent - San Marino
Loris Francini age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Federico Pedini Amati age 23
Captain Regent - San Marino
Maria Domenica Michelotti age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jozo Križanović age 55
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Angidi Chettiar age 71
President - Mauritius
Cesare Gasperoni age 55
Captain Regent - San Marino
Claudio Muccioli age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Halid Genjac age 41
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ante Jelavić age 36
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Raouf Bundhun age 62
President - Mauritius
Rifat Rastoder age 49
President - Montenegro
Gian Marco Marcucci age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Paolo Bollini age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Arzilli age 58
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enzo Colombini age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Luigi Lonfernini age 61
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Raschi age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Lonfernini age 22
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ariranga Pillay age 54
President - Mauritius
Eddy Kapend age 39
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fernando de la Rúa age 61
President - Argentina
Pasteur Bizimungu age 49
President - Rwanda
Alfred Maseng age 50
President - Vanuatu
Marino Bollini age 66
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alberto Cecchetti age 55
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 55
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gino Giovagnoli age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Giannoni age 51
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Maria Morganti age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mauro Chiaruzzi age 46
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pier Marino Menicucci age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 78
King - Saudi Arabia
Svetozar Marović age 44
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 45
Prime Minister - Turkey
Mahathir Mohamad age 74
Prime Minister - Malaysia
António Guterres age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Viktor Yanukovych age 49
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Viktor Orbán age 36
Prime Minister - Hungary
Sheikh Hasina age 51
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Yulia Tymoshenko age 38
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Stephen Harper age 40
Prime Minister - Canada
Jens Stoltenberg age 40
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 44
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 42
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 39
Prime Minister - Spain
Kevin Rudd age 41
Prime Minister - Australia
Hassanal Bolkiah age 53
Prime Minister - Brunei
Miloš Zeman age 54
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 46
Prime Minister - Kazakhstan
Robert Fico age 34
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 83
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 46
Prime Minister - Denmark
Nawaz Sharif age 49
Prime Minister - Pakistan
John Howard age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 79
Prime Minister - Peru
Borut Pahor age 35
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Thaksin Shinawatra age 50
Prime Minister - Thailand
Najib Razak age 46
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Helen Clark age 49
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Lee Hsien Loong age 47
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hashim Thaçi age 31
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Almazbek Atambaev age 42
Prime Minister - Kyrgyzstan
John Key age 38
Prime Minister - New Zealand
José María Aznar age 46
Prime Minister - Spain
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 56
Prime Minister - Iceland
Macky Sall age 37
Prime Minister - Senegal
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 34
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sali Berisha age 54
Prime Minister - Albania
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 50
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Meles Zenawi age 44
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 43
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Janez Janša age 40
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Bülent Ecevit age 74
Prime Minister - Turkey
Yves Leterme age 38
Prime Minister - Belgium
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 35
Prime Minister - Denmark
Hun Sen age 47
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Rafiq Hariri age 54
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Paul Martin age 61
Prime Minister - Canada
Jean Chrétien age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 42
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 54
Prime Minister - Mali
Werner Faymann age 39
Chancellor - Austria
Guy Verhofstadt age 46
Prime Minister - Belgium
Morgan Tsvangirai age 47
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Ilir Meta age 30
Prime Minister - Albania
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 62
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 36
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Zoran Đinđić age 47
Prime Minister - Serbia
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 35
Prime Minister - Thailand
Nouri al-Maliki age 49
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ivo Sanader age 46
Prime Minister - Croatia
Andrus Ansip age 42
Prime Minister - Estonia
Nikola Gruevski age 29
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Göran Persson age 50
Prime Minister - Sweden
Matti Vanhanen age 43
Prime Minister - Finland
Mohamed Agha age 43
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Tupou VI of Tonga age 40
Prime Minister - Tonga
Mykola Azarov age 51
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 59
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 38
Prime Minister - Hungary
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Viktor Zubkov age 57
Prime Minister - Russia
Valdis Dombrovskis age 28
Prime Minister - Latvia
Algirdas Brazauskas age 66
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 44
Prime Minister - Nepal
José Sócrates age 41
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 50
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Wim Kok age 60
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Emil Boc age 32
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrius Kubilius age 42
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Hage Geingob age 58
Prime Minister - Namibia
Mikhhail Fradkov age 49
Prime Minister - Russia
Mirek Topolánek age 43
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Masoud Barzani age 53
Prime Minister - Iraq
Thein Sein age 54
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Alfred Gusenbauer age 39
Chancellor - Austria
Gordon Bajnai age 31
Prime Minister - Hungary
Andris Bērziņš age 54
Prime Minister - Latvia
Wolfgang Schüssel age 54
Chancellor - Austria
Artur Rasizade age 64
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 41
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Goh Chok Tong age 58
Prime Minister - Singapore
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 60
Prime Minister - Peru
Kostas Karamanlis age 42
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 58
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Jan Fischer age 48
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Costas Simitis age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
Sher Bahadur Deuba age 53
Prime Minister - Nepal
Portia Simpson-Miller age 53
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Jenny Shipley age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Kjell Magne Bondevik age 52
Prime Minister - Norway
Han Duck-soo age 50
Prime Minister - South Korea
Tigran Sargsyan age 39
Prime Minister - Armenia
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 63
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 56
Prime Minister - Denmark
Mikhail Kasianov age 41
Prime Minister - Russia
Fatos Nano age 46
Prime Minister - Albania
Sergey Stanishev age 33
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Anneli Jäätteenmäki age 44
Prime Minister - Finland
Halldór Ásgrímsson age 52
Prime Minister - Iceland
Davíð Oddsson age 51
Prime Minister - Iceland
Raila A Odinga age 54
Prime Minister - Kenya
Zinaida Greceanîi age 43
Prime Minister - Moldova
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu age 47
Prime Minister - Romania
Evaristo Carvalho age 57
Prime Minister - São Tomé and Príncipe
Dean Barrow age 48
Prime Minister - Belize
Roosevelt Skerrit age 27
Prime Minister - Dominica
Geir Haarde age 48
Prime Minister - Iceland
Gediminas Kirkilas age 48
Prime Minister - Lithuania