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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
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
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
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998-12-31
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
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
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
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
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
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
2010 Haiti earthquake 2010-01-12
Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2010-04-20 - 2010-09-19
Arab Spring 2010-12-17 - 2012-12-31
2011 South Sudanese independence referendum 2011-01-09 - 2011-01-15
Libyan civil war (2011) 2011-02-15 - 2011-10-23
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 2011-03-11
Fukushima nuclear disaster 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
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation 2014-02-20 - 2014-03-26
Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-02-20
Fall of Mosul 2014-06-04 - 2014-06-10
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 2014-07-17
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
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
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

Barack Obama age 32
President - United States
Donald Trump age 47
President - United States
Vladimir Putin age 41
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 47
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 67
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 47
President - United States
François Hollande age 39
President - France
Fidel Castro age 67
President - Cuba
Emmanuel Macron age 16
President - France
Nicolas Sarkozy age 38
President - France
Xi Jinping age 40
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Naruhito age 33
Emperor - Japan
Saddam Hussein age 56
President - Iraq
Dmitry Medvedev age 28
President - Russia
Boris Yeltsin age 62
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 54
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 61
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 28
President - Syria
Jair Bolsonaro age 38
President - Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 48
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 37
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 65
President - Egypt
Dilma Rousseff age 46
President - Brazil
François Mitterrand age 77
President - France
Akihito age 60
Emperor - Japan
Hassan Rouhani age 45
President - Iran
Hu Jintao age 51
President - People's Republic of China
Mohamed Morsi age 42
President - Egypt
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 38
President - Germany
Mohammad Khatami age 50
President - Iran
Tsai Ing-wen age 37
President - Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 62
President - Cuba
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 39
President - Egypt
Jiang Zemin age 67
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Joachim Gauck age 53
President - Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 63
President - Syria
Horst Köhler age 50
President - Germany
Philippe of Belgium age 33
King - Belgium
Christian Wulff age 34
President - Germany
Richard von Weizsäcker age 73
President - Germany
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 33
President - Cuba
Albert II of Belgium age 59
King - Belgium
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 59
President - Iran
Michel Temer age 53
President - Brazil
Johannes Rau age 63
President - Germany
Trương Tấn Sang age 44
President - Vietnam
Victor Chernomyrdin age 55
President - Russia
Roman Herzog age 59
President - Germany
Jalal Talabani age 60
President - Iraq
Vicente Fox age 51
President - Mexico
Trần Đại Quang age 37
President - Vietnam
Ma Ying-jeou age 43
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 49
President - Vietnam
Itamar Franco age 63
President - Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 62
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 43
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 71
President - Republic of China
Barham Salih age 33
President - Iraq
Fuad Masum age 56
President - Iraq
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 51
President - Vietnam
Jimmy Morales age 24
President - Guatemala
Adly Mansour age 48
President - Egypt
Otto Pérez Molina age 43
President - Guatemala
Álvaro Colom age 42
President - Guatemala
Trần Đức Lương age 56
President - Vietnam
Alejandro Giammattei age 37
President - Guatemala
Óscar Berger age 47
President - Guatemala
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 47
President - Guatemala
Le Duc Anh age 73
President - Vietnam
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 34
President - Vietnam
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 35
President - Iraq
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 61
President - Syria
Alfonso Portillo age 42
President - Guatemala
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 58
President - Guatemala
Ramiro de León Carpio age 52
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 81
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Kim Jong-il age 52
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 31
President - Mexico
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 40
President - Mexico
Enrique Peña Nieto age 27
President - Mexico
Ernesto Zedillo age 42
President - Mexico
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 45
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Ban Ki-moon age 49
Secretary-General - United Nations
António Guterres age 44
Secretary-General - United Nations
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 71
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 39
Chancellor - Germany
Narendra Modi age 43
Prime Minister - India
Aung San Suu Kyi age 48
State Counsellor - Myanmar
Benjamin Netanyahu age 44
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Shinzo Abe age 39
Prime Minister - Japan
Tony Blair age 40
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
David Cameron age 27
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 29
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 37
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 63
Chancellor - Germany
Gordon Brown age 42
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Shimon Peres age 70
Prime Minister - Israel
Gerhard Schröder age 49
Chancellor - Germany
Ursula von der Leyen age 35
President - European Commission
Ariel Sharon age 65
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 61
Prime Minister - India
Yitzhak Rabin age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Donald Tusk age 36
Prime Minister - Poland
John Major age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jens Stoltenberg age 34
Secretary General - NATO
Matteo Renzi age 18
Prime Minister - Italy
Romano Prodi age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Conte age 29
Prime Minister - Italy
Jean-Claude Juncker age 39
President - European Commission
Li Keqiang age 38
Premier - People's Republic of China
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 54
Director-General - World Health Organization
Naoto Kan age 47
Prime Minister - Japan
Junichiro Koizumi age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Tarō Asō age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 40
Secretary General - NATO
Wen Jiabao age 51
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Olmert age 48
Prime Minister - Israel
Paolo Gentiloni age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Mario Monti age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
François Fillon age 39
Prime Minister - France
Yukio Hatoyama age 46
Prime Minister - Japan
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 73
Prime Minister - Italy
Enrico Letta age 27
Prime Minister - Italy
Jarosław Kaczyński age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Yoshihiko Noda age 36
Prime Minister - Japan
Yasuo Fukuda age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Dominique de Villepin age 40
Prime Minister - France
Manuel Valls age 31
Prime Minister - France
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 28
Director-General - World Health Organization
Leo Varadkar age 14
Taoiseach - Ireland
Beata Szydło age 30
Prime Minister - Poland
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 43
Prime Minister - France
Mateusz Morawiecki age 25
Prime Minister - Poland
Édouard Philippe age 23
Prime Minister - France
Ehud Barak age 51
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 73
President - International Olympic Committee
Lai Ching-te age 34
Premier - Republic of China
Lionel Jospin age 56
Prime Minister - France
Thomas Bach age 40
President - International Olympic Committee
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 72
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Delors age 68
President - European Commission
Jacques Rogge age 51
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Enda Kenny age 42
Taoiseach - Ireland
Yoshirō Mori age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Bernard Cazeneuve age 30
Prime Minister - France
Ewa Kopacz age 37
Prime Minister - Poland
Tomiichi Murayama age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Micheál Martin age 33
Taoiseach - Ireland
Li Peng age 65
Premier - People's Republic of China
Lamberto Dini age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 39
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Alain Juppé age 48
Prime Minister - France
Jerzy Buzek age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 42
Taoiseach - Ireland
Inder Kumar Gujral age 74
Prime Minister - India
Javier Solana age 51
Secretary General - NATO
Bounnhang Vorachit age 56
Prime Minister - Laos
Tsutomu Hata age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 45
Prime Minister - France
Édouard Balladur age 64
Prime Minister - France
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 44
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Ryutaro Hashimoto age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Brian Cowen age 34
Taoiseach - Ireland
Paul Wolfowitz age 50
President - World Bank
Keizō Obuchi age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 45
Secretary General - NATO
Thongloun Sisoulith age 48
Prime Minister - Laos
Jacques Santer age 56
President - European Commission
Morihiro Hosokawa age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Jim Yong Kim age 34
President - World Bank
Mostafa Madbouly age 27
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sherif Ismail age 38
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 34
Prime Minister - Poland
Marek Belka age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Margaret Chan age 46
Director-General - World Health Organization
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 47
Secretary General - NATO
Essam Sharaf age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ahmed Nazif age 41
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 40
President - World Bank
Khamtai Siphandone age 69
Prime Minister - Laos
John Bruton age 46
Taoiseach - Ireland
Ahmed Shafik age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Leszek Miller age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Su Tseng-chang age 46
Premier - Republic of China
Manfred Wörner age 59
Secretary General - NATO
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 30
Prime Minister - Cuba
Thongsing Thammavong age 49
Prime Minister - Laos
Kim Yong-il age 49
Premier - North Korea
Phan Văn Khải age 60
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Józef Oleksy age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Waldemar Pawlak age 34
Prime Minister - Poland
Hesham Qandil age 31
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ibrahim Mahlab age 44
Prime Minister - Egypt
Choe Yong-rim age 63
Premier - North Korea
Hazem Al Beblawi age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt