✦ History

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Events

Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
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
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Marrakesh Agreement 1994-04-15
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29
First Chechen War 1994-12-11 - 1996-08-31
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Oklahoma City bombing 1995-04-19
Operation Flash 1995-05-01 - 1995-05-04
Srebrenica massacre 1995-07-11 - 1995-07-22
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Operation Storm 1995-08-04 - 1995-08-07
Operation Deliberate Force 1995-08-30 - 1995-09-20
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 1995-11-04
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
First Congo War 1996-10-24 - 1997-05-16
1997 Albanian civil unrest 1997-01-16 - 1997-08-11
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997-08-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998-07-17
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20
Introduction of the euro 1999-01-01
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 1999-03-24 - 1999-06-10
Battle of Košare 1999-04-09 - 1999-06-10
Columbine High School massacre 1999-04-20
Kargil War 1999-05-03 - 1999-07-26
Battle of Tololing 1999-05-22 - 1999-06-13
Battle of Tiger Hill 1999-07-03 - 1999-07-08
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 Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
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
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10
Eurozone crisis 2009
Launch of Bitcoin 2009-01-03
2009 Iranian presidential election protests 2009-06-13 - 2010-02-11
Boko Haram insurgency 2009-07-26
2010 Haiti earthquake 2010-01-12
Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2010-04-20 - 2010-09-19
Tunisian revolution 2010-12-17 - 2011-01-14
Arab Spring 2010-12-17 - 2012-12
2011 South Sudanese independence referendum 2011-01-09 - 2011-01-15
Egyptian revolution of 2011 2011-01-25 - 2011-02-11
Libyan civil war (2011) 2011-02-15 - 2011-10-23
Fukushima nuclear disaster 2011-03-11
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 2011-03-11
Syrian civil war 2011-03-15 - 2024-12-08
Killing of Osama bin Laden 2011-05-02
Occupy Wall Street 2011-09-17 - 2011-11-15
Mali War 2012-01-16
Discovery of the Higgs boson 2012-07-04
Euromaidan 2013-11-21 - 2014-02-22
Western African Ebola epidemic 2013-12-26 - 2016-06-09
Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-02-20
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation 2014-02-20 - 2014-03-26
Fall of Mosul 2014-06-04 - 2014-06-10
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 2014-07-17
Yemeni civil war 2014-09-16
2014 Scottish independence referendum 2014-09-18
2015 European migrant crisis 2015
Charlie Hebdo shooting 2015-01-07
April 2015 Nepal earthquake 2015-04-25
Obergefell v. Hodges 2015-06-26
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 2015-07-14
November 2015 Paris attacks 2015-11-13
Paris Agreement 2015-12-12
Panama Papers 2016-04-03
Brexit 2016-06-23 - 2020-01-31
2016 United States presidential election 2016-11-08
Colombian peace agreement 2016-11-24
2017 Catalan independence referendum 2017-10-01
Me Too movement 2017-10-15
2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit 2018-06-12
Prespa agreement 2018-06-17
Christchurch mosque shootings 2019-03-15
2019–2020 Hong Kong protests 2019-03-15 - 2020-06-30
Notre-Dame de Paris fire 2019-04-15
COVID-19 pandemic 2019-12-01 - 2023-05-05
George Floyd protests 2020-05-26

People

Ian Liddell-Grainger age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 71
New York State Senate - United States
Pope Francis age 57
Pope - Vatican City
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 15
President - Ukraine
John Paul II age 73
Pope - Vatican City
Benedict XVI age 66
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 39
President - Venezuela
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 39
President - Turkey
Lech Wałęsa age 50
President - Poland
Rafael Correa age 30
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 39
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 57
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 66
King - Thailand
Nicolás Maduro age 31
President - Venezuela
Robert Mugabe age 69
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 32
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 55
President - Liberia
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 56
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 34
President - Bolivia
Joko Widodo age 32
President - Indonesia
Petro Poroshenko age 28
President - Ukraine
Mikheil Saakashvili age 26
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 40
President - Argentina
Michelle Bachelet age 42
President - Chile
Suharto age 72
President - Indonesia
Felipe VI of Spain age 25
King - Spain
Viktor Yanukovych age 43
President - Ukraine
Sergio Mattarella age 52
President - Italy
Pervez Musharraf age 50
President - Pakistan
Abdullah Gül age 43
President - Turkey
Lech Kaczyński age 44
President - Poland
Giorgio Napolitano age 68
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 53
President - Kazakhstan
Rodrigo Duterte age 48
President - Philippines
Abdullah II of Jordan age 31
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 53
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 36
President - Afghanistan
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 26
King - Netherlands
José Mujica age 58
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 25
President - Croatia
Andrzej Duda age 21
President - Poland
Harald V of Norway age 56
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 39
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 56
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 52
President - Serbia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 30
King - Morocco
Park Geun-hye age 41
President - South Korea
Martti Ahtisaari age 56
President - Finland
Zuzana Čaputová age 20
President - Slovakia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 47
King - Sweden
Moon Jae-in age 40
President - South Korea
Juan Manuel Santos age 42
President - Colombia
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 58
King - Saudi Arabia
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 62
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 55
Queen - Netherlands
Sauli Niinistö age 45
President - Finland
Eduard Shevardnadze age 65
President - Georgia
Serzh Sargsyan age 39
President - Armenia
Pranab Mukherjee age 58
President - India
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 46
President - Indonesia
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 36
President - Uzbekistan
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 13
King - Bhutan
Kersti Kaljulaid age 24
President - Estonia
Muhammadu Buhari age 51
President - Nigeria
Sebastián Piñera age 44
President - Chile
Tarja Halonen age 50
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 48
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 55
President - Uzbekistan
George Weah age 27
President - Liberia
Paul Kagame age 36
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 50
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 59
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 44
President - Indonesia
Heydar Aliyev age 70
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 71
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 70
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 53
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 38
President - Pakistan
F. W. de Klerk age 57
State President - South Africa
Ashraf Ghani age 44
President - Afghanistan
Alexander Van der Bellen age 49
President - Austria
Miloš Zeman age 49
President - Czech Republic
Mobutu Sese Seko age 63
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Salome Zourabichvili age 41
President - Georgia
Emomali Rahmon age 41
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 36
President - Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 53
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 49
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 55
President - Ukraine
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 40
President - Kazakhstan
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 35
Prince - Monaco
Klaus Iohannis age 34
President - Romania
Aleksandar Vučić age 23
President - Serbia
Süleyman Demirel age 69
President - Turkey
Bronisław Komorowski age 41
President - Poland
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 46
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 40
King - Cambodia
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 57
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 52
President - Czech Republic
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 37
President - Lithuania
Leonid Kravchuk age 60
President - Ukraine
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 46
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 55
President - Austria
Michael D. Higgins age 52
President - Ireland
Alberto Fujimori age 55
President - Peru
Roh Moo-hyun age 47
President - South Korea
Ram Nath Kovind age 48
President - India
José Eduardo dos Santos age 51
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 43
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 41
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 22
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 25
King - Eswatini
Sahle-Work Zewde age 43
President - Ethiopia
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 32
President - Nepal
Mauricio Macri age 34
President - Argentina
Traian Băsescu age 42
President - Romania
Rumen Radev age 30
President - Bulgaria
Paul Biya age 60
President - Cameroon
Nayib Bukele age 12
President - El Salvador
Hussein I of Jordan age 58
King - Jordan
Borut Pahor age 30
President - Slovenia
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 45
President - United Arab Emirates
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 48
President - Algeria
Teodoro Obiang age 51
President - Equatorial Guinea
B. J. Habibie age 57
President - Indonesia
Mary Robinson age 49
President - Ireland
Hastings Banda age 104
President - Malawi
Alberto Fernández age 34
President - Argentina
Hamad II of Bahrain age 43
Emir - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 34
President - Gabon
John Mahama age 35
President - Ghana
János Áder age 34
President - Hungary
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 63
President - Iceland
Abdurrahman Wahid age 53
President - Indonesia
Alassane Ouattara age 52
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 50
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 39
President - Poland
Pierre Nkurunziza age 29
President - Burundi
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 52
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 58
President - Gabon
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 24
President - Georgia
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 37
President - Greece
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 13
Emir - Qatar
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 51
President - Zimbabwe
Lee Myung-bak age 52
President - South Korea
Alija Izetbegović age 68
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nana Akufo-Addo age 49
President - Ghana
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 38
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Tomislav Nikolić age 41
President - Serbia
Boris Tadić age 35
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 44
President - Timor-Leste
Juan Guaidó age 10
President - Venezuela
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 40
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 49
President - Ghana
Reuven Rivlin age 54
President - Israel
Hashim Thaçi age 25
President - Kosovo
Almazbek Atambaev age 37
President - Kyrgyzstan
Roza Otunbayeva age 43
President - Kyrgyzstan
Hassan II age 64
King - Morocco
Alan García age 44
President - Peru
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 42
President - South Sudan
Armen Sarkissian age 40
President - Armenia
Jovenel Moïse age 25
President - Haiti
Joyce Banda age 43
President - Malawi
Goodluck Jonathan age 36
President - Nigeria
Halimah Yacob age 39
President - Singapore
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 52
President - Turkey
Carlos Menem age 63
President - Argentina
Robert Kocharyan age 39
President - Armenia
Laura Chinchilla age 34
President - Costa Rica
Zoran Milanović age 27
President - Croatia
Nikos Anastasiades age 47
President - Cyprus
Laurent Gbagbo age 48
President - Ivory Coast
Macky Sall age 32
President - Senegal
Benigno Aquino III age 33
President - Philippines
Sali Berisha age 49
President - Albania
Stjepan Mesić age 59
President - Croatia
Michel Aoun age 60
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 30
King - Lesotho
Gitanas Nausėda age 29
President - Lithuania
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 54
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 48
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 36
President - Croatia
Isaias Afwerki age 47
President - Eritrea
Meles Zenawi age 38
President - Ethiopia
Filip Vujanović age 39
President - Montenegro
Milo Đukanović age 31
President - Montenegro
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 42
President - Nigeria
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 45
President - Portugal
Ion Iliescu age 63
President - Romania
Kim Young-sam age 66
President - South Korea
Gjorge Ivanov age 33
President - North Macedonia
Tabaré Vázquez age 53
President - Uruguay
Mohammed Omar age 34
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Félix Tshisekedi age 30
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 64
Emir - Kuwait
Olusegun Obasanjo age 56
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 28
President - The Gambia
Beji Caid Essebsi age 67
President - Tunisia