✦ History

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Events

Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
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
Eurozone crisis 2009
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10
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
Arab Spring 2010-12-17 - 2012-12
Tunisian revolution 2010-12-17 - 2011-01-14
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
2019–2020 Hong Kong protests 2019-03-15 - 2020-06-30
Christchurch mosque shootings 2019-03-15
Notre-Dame de Paris fire 2019-04-15
COVID-19 pandemic 2019-12-01 - 2023-05-05
George Floyd protests 2020-05-26
2020 Beirut explosion 2020-08-04
2020–2021 Belarusian protests 2020-08-09 - 2021-03-25

People

Barack Obama age 41
President - United States
Donald Trump age 56
President - United States
Vladimir Putin age 50
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 56
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 76
Queen - United Kingdom
François Hollande age 48
President - France
Fidel Castro age 76
President - Cuba
Emmanuel Macron age 25
President - France
Nicolas Sarkozy age 48
President - France
Xi Jinping age 49
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Naruhito age 43
Emperor - Japan
Saddam Hussein age 65
President - Iraq
Dmitry Medvedev age 37
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 63
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 70
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 37
President - Syria
Jair Bolsonaro age 47
President - Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 57
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 46
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 74
President - Egypt
Dilma Rousseff age 55
President - Brazil
Akihito age 69
Emperor - Japan
Hassan Rouhani age 54
President - Iran
Hu Jintao age 60
President - People's Republic of China
Mohamed Morsi age 51
President - Egypt
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 47
President - Germany
Mohammad Khatami age 59
President - Iran
Tsai Ing-wen age 46
President - Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 71
President - Cuba
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 48
President - Egypt
Jiang Zemin age 76
President - People's Republic of China
Joachim Gauck age 63
President - Germany
Horst Köhler age 60
President - Germany
Philippe of Belgium age 42
King - Belgium
Christian Wulff age 43
President - Germany
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 42
President - Cuba
Albert II of Belgium age 68
King - Belgium
Michel Temer age 62
President - Brazil
Johannes Rau age 72
President - Germany
Trương Tấn Sang age 54
President - Vietnam
Jalal Talabani age 69
President - Iraq
Vicente Fox age 60
President - Mexico
Trần Đại Quang age 46
President - Vietnam
Ma Ying-jeou age 52
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 58
President - Vietnam
Chen Shui-bian age 52
President - Republic of China
Barham Salih age 42
President - Iraq
Fuad Masum age 65
President - Iraq
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 60
President - Vietnam
Jimmy Morales age 33
President - Guatemala
Adly Mansour age 57
President - Egypt
Otto Pérez Molina age 52
President - Guatemala
Álvaro Colom age 51
President - Guatemala
Trần Đức Lương age 65
President - Vietnam
Alejandro Giammattei age 47
President - Guatemala
Óscar Berger age 56
President - Guatemala
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 43
President - Vietnam
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 44
President - Iraq
Alfonso Portillo age 51
President - Guatemala
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 67
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 62
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 40
President - Mexico
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 49
President - Mexico
Enrique Peña Nieto age 36
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 64
Secretary-General - United Nations
Ban Ki-moon age 58
Secretary-General - United Nations
António Guterres age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 48
Chancellor - Germany
Narendra Modi age 52
Prime Minister - India
Aung San Suu Kyi age 57
State Counsellor - Myanmar
Benjamin Netanyahu age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Shinzo Abe age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Tony Blair age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
David Cameron age 36
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 38
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 58
Chancellor - Germany
Ursula von der Leyen age 44
President - European Commission
Ariel Sharon age 75
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 70
Prime Minister - India
Donald Tusk age 45
Prime Minister - Poland
Jens Stoltenberg age 43
Secretary General - NATO
Matteo Renzi age 28
Prime Minister - Italy
Romano Prodi age 63
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Conte age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Jean-Claude Juncker age 48
President - European Commission
Li Keqiang age 47
Premier - People's Republic of China
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 63
Director-General - World Health Organization
Naoto Kan age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Junichiro Koizumi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Tarō Asō age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 50
Secretary General - NATO
Wen Jiabao age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Ehud Olmert age 57
Prime Minister - Israel
Paolo Gentiloni age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Mario Monti age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
François Fillon age 49
Prime Minister - France
Yukio Hatoyama age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Enrico Letta age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Jarosław Kaczyński age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Yoshihiko Noda age 45
Prime Minister - Japan
Yasuo Fukuda age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Dominique de Villepin age 49
Prime Minister - France
Manuel Valls age 40
Prime Minister - France
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 38
Director-General - World Health Organization
Jean Castex age 37
Prime Minister - France
Leo Varadkar age 24
Taoiseach - Ireland
Beata Szydło age 39
Prime Minister - Poland
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 53
Prime Minister - France
Mateusz Morawiecki age 34
Prime Minister - Poland
Édouard Philippe age 32
Prime Minister - France
Lai Ching-te age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Thomas Bach age 49
President - International Olympic Committee
Jacques Rogge age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhu Rongji age 74
Premier - People's Republic of China
Enda Kenny age 51
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bernard Cazeneuve age 39
Prime Minister - France
Ewa Kopacz age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Micheál Martin age 42
Taoiseach - Ireland
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 48
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Bertie Ahern age 51
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 65
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 54
Prime Minister - France
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 53
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Brian Cowen age 43
Taoiseach - Ireland
Paul Wolfowitz age 59
President - World Bank
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 54
Secretary General - NATO
Thongloun Sisoulith age 57
Prime Minister - Laos
Jim Yong Kim age 43
President - World Bank
Mostafa Madbouly age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sherif Ismail age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Marek Belka age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Margaret Chan age 55
Director-General - World Health Organization
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Essam Sharaf age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ahmed Nazif age 50
Prime Minister - Egypt
Robert Zoellick age 49
President - World Bank
Ahmed Shafik age 61
Prime Minister - Egypt
Leszek Miller age 56
Prime Minister - Poland
Su Tseng-chang age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 39
Prime Minister - Cuba
Thongsing Thammavong age 58
Prime Minister - Laos
Kim Yong-il age 58
Premier - North Korea
Phan Văn Khải age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Hesham Qandil age 40
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ibrahim Mahlab age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Choe Yong-rim age 72
Premier - North Korea
Hazem Al Beblawi age 66
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal Ganzouri age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hussein Arnous age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Bouasone Bouphavanh age 48
Prime Minister - Laos
Pak Pong-ju age 63
Premier - North Korea
Kim Tok-hun age 42
Premier - North Korea
Imad Khamis age 41
Prime Minister - Syria
Wael al-Halqi age 39
Prime Minister - Syria
Wu Den-yih age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Lee Jong-wook age 57
Director-General - World Health Organization
Riyad Farid Hijab age 37
Prime Minister - Syria
David Malpass age 47
President - World Bank
James Wolfensohn age 69
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 59
Prime Minister - Syria
Frank Hsieh age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Kim Jae-ryong age 44
Premier - North Korea
Liu Chao-shiuan age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Lin Chuan age 51
Premier - Republic of China
Adel Safar age 50
Prime Minister - Syria
Hong Song-nam age 73
Premier - North Korea
Sean Chen age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Jiang Yi-huah age 42
Premier - Republic of China
Chang Chun-hsiung age 64
Premier - Republic of China
Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Simon Chang age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Mao Chi-kuo age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Shyi-kun age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 62
Prime Minister - Syria
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 78
Prime Minister - India
José Manuel Barroso age 46
President - European Commission
John Roberts age 48
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Kim Jong-un age 21
Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army - North Korea
Joe Biden age 60
Vice President - United States
Mike Pence age 43
Vice President - United States
Dick Cheney age 62
Vice President - United States
Nouri al-Maliki age 52
Vice President - Iraq
Adil Abdul-Mahdi age 61
Vice President - Iraq
Ayad Allawi age 58
Vice President - Iraq
Wang Qishan age 54
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 55
Vice President - Iraq
Li Yuanchao age 52
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Chen Chien-jen age 51
Vice President - Republic of China
Zeng Qinghong age 63
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Frank Underwood age 43
Vice President - United States
Claire Underwood age 38
Vice President - United States
Roj Shaweis age 55
Vice President - Iraq
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 60
Vice President - Iraq
Han Zheng age 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China