✦ History

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Events

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
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
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
2011 South Sudanese independence referendum 2011-01-09 - 2011-01-15
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
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
2020 Beirut explosion 2020-08-04

People

Hamad II of Bahrain age 53
King - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 44
President - Gabon
John Mahama age 44
President - Ghana
János Áder age 43
President - Hungary
Alassane Ouattara age 61
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 59
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 48
President - Poland
Pierre Nkurunziza age 38
President - Burundi
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 61
President - Costa Rica
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 33
President - Georgia
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 46
President - Greece
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 22
Emir - Qatar
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 60
President - Zimbabwe
Lee Myung-bak age 61
President - South Korea
Nana Akufo-Addo age 58
President - Ghana
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 47
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Tomislav Nikolić age 51
President - Serbia
Boris Tadić age 45
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 53
President - Timor-Leste
Juan Guaidó age 19
President - Venezuela
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 49
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 58
President - Ghana
Reuven Rivlin age 63
President - Israel
Hashim Thaçi age 34
President - Kosovo
Almazbek Atambaev age 46
President - Kyrgyzstan
Roza Otunbayeva age 52
President - Kyrgyzstan
Alan García age 53
President - Peru
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 51
President - South Sudan
Armen Sarkissian age 49
President - Armenia
Jovenel Moïse age 34
President - Haiti
Joyce Banda age 52
President - Malawi
Goodluck Jonathan age 45
President - Nigeria
Halimah Yacob age 48
President - Singapore
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 61
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 48
President - Armenia
Laura Chinchilla age 43
President - Costa Rica
Zoran Milanović age 36
President - Croatia
Nikos Anastasiades age 56
President - Cyprus
Laurent Gbagbo age 57
President - Ivory Coast
Macky Sall age 41
President - Senegal
Benigno Aquino III age 43
President - Philippines
Stjepan Mesić age 68
President - Croatia
Michel Aoun age 69
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 39
King - Lesotho
Gitanas Nausėda age 38
President - Lithuania
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 63
President - Portugal
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 57
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 45
President - Croatia
Isaias Afwerki age 57
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 48
President - Montenegro
Milo Đukanović age 41
President - Montenegro
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 51
President - Nigeria
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 54
President - Portugal
Ion Iliescu age 73
President - Romania
Gjorge Ivanov age 42
President - North Macedonia
Tabaré Vázquez age 63
President - Uruguay
Félix Tshisekedi age 39
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 73
Emir - Kuwait
Olusegun Obasanjo age 66
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 37
President - The Gambia
Beji Caid Essebsi age 76
President - Tunisia
Alpha Condé age 65
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 59
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 51
President - Ireland
Uhuru Kenyatta age 41
President - Kenya
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 36
President - Togo
Bujar Nishani age 36
President - Albania
Abdul Hamid age 59
President - Bangladesh
Lenín Moreno age 49
President - Ecuador
Karolos Papoulias age 73
President - Greece
John Magufuli age 43
President - Tanzania
Horacio Cartes age 46
President - Paraguay
Patrice Talon age 44
President - Benin
Blaise Compaoré age 52
President - Burkina Faso
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 52
President - Greece
Valdas Adamkus age 76
President - Lithuania
Mamnoon Hussain age 62
President - Pakistan
Andrej Kiska age 40
President - Slovakia
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 57
President - Yemen
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 57
President - Sri Lanka
Thomas Boni Yayi age 50
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 45
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 71
President - Kenya
Oleksandr Turchynov age 38
President - Ukraine
Ollanta Humala age 40
President - Peru
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 45
President - Central African Republic
John Kufuor age 64
President - Ghana
Atifete Jahjaga age 27
President - Kosovo
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 58
President - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 52
President - Slovenia
João Lourenço age 49
President - Angola
Dimitris Christofias age 56
President - Cyprus
Igor Dodon age 28
President - Moldova
Ivan Gašparovič age 61
President - Slovakia
Bamir Topi age 45
President - Albania
Ilir Meta age 33
President - Albania
Jeanine Áñez age 35
President - Bolivia
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 53
President - Kyrgyzstan
Andry Rajoelina age 28
President - Madagascar
Peter Mutharika age 62
President - Malawi
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 79
Prince - Monaco
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 39
President - Mongolia
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 51
Emir - Qatar
Adama Barrow age 38
President - The Gambia
Fernando Lugo age 51
President - Paraguay
Kgalema Motlanthe age 53
President - South Africa
Mathieu Kérékou age 69
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 55
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 74
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 57
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 58
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 54
President - Mali
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 43
President - Mauritius
Ram Baran Yadav age 55
President - Nepal
Stevo Pendarovski age 39
President - North Macedonia
Desi Bouterse age 57
President - Suriname
Xanana Gusmão age 56
President - Timor-Leste
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 47
King - Bhutan
László Sólyom age 61
President - Hungary
Valdis Zatlers age 47
President - Latvia
Bingu wa Mutharika age 69
President - Malawi
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 45
President - Burkina Faso
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 50
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 65
President - Latvia
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 44
President - Malta
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 46
President - Mauritania
Nicolae Timofti age 54
President - Moldova
Danilo Türk age 51
President - Slovenia
Tupou VI of Tonga age 43
King - Tonga
Edgar Lungu age 46
President - Zambia
Iván Duque age 26
President - Colombia
Guðni Jóhannesson age 34
President - Iceland
Raimonds Vējonis age 36
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 63
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 73
President - Namibia
Haitham bin Tarik Al Said age 47
Sultan - Oman
Abdoulaye Wade age 76
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 84
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 70
President - Austria
Mokgweetsi Masisi age 41
President - Botswana
Mauricio Funes age 43
President - El Salvador
Manuel Zelaya age 50
President - Honduras
Pál Schmitt age 60
President - Hungary
Sooronbay Jeenbekov age 44
President - Kyrgyzstan
Egils Levits age 47
President - Latvia
Filipe Nyusi age 44
President - Mozambique
Mahamadou Issoufou age 51
President - Niger
Arif Alvi age 53
President - Pakistan
Maithripala Sirisena age 51
President - Sri Lanka
Milorad Dodik age 43
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rosen Plevneliev age 38
President - Bulgaria
Tassos Papadopoulos age 69
President - Cyprus
João Bernardo Vieira age 63
President - Guinea-Bissau
Askar Akayev age 58
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 63
President - Botswana
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 50
President - Botswana
Jorge Carlos Fonseca age 52
President - Cape Verde
Juan Orlando Hernández age 34
President - Honduras
Charles Taylor age 55
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 65
President - Maldives
Branko Crvenkovski age 40
President - North Macedonia
Simonetta Sommaruga age 42
President - Switzerland
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 52
President - Tanzania
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 67
President - Togo
Moncef Marzouki age 57
President - Tunisia
Kais Saied age 45
President - Tunisia
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud age 47
President - Somalia
Mulatu Teshome age 46
President - Ethiopia
Hage Geingob age 61
President - Namibia
Tony Tan Keng Yam age 63
President - Singapore
Micheline Calmy-Rey age 57
President - Switzerland
Alfred Moisiu age 73
President - Albania
Zillur Rahman age 74
President - Bangladesh
François Bozizé age 56
President - Central African Republic
Abdulla Yameen age 43
President - Maldives
Mohamed Nasheed age 35
President - Maldives
Thein Sein age 57
President - Myanmar
Than Shwe age 70
President - Myanmar
Doris Leuthard age 39
President - Switzerland
Luis Lacalle Pou age 29
President - Uruguay
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed age 40
President - Somalia
Bakir Izetbegović age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 78
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 68
President - Guinea
René Préval age 60
President - Haiti
Andris Bērziņš age 58
President - Latvia
Hilda Heine age 51
President - Marshall Islands
Vladimir Voronin age 61
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 63
President - Portugal
George Tupou V of Tonga age 54
King - Tonga
Eduardo Duhalde age 61
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 65
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 76
President - Greece
Umaro Sissoco Embaló age 30
President - Guinea-Bissau
Fatmir Sejdiu age 51
President - Kosovo
Chan Santokhi age 44
President - Suriname
Michael Sata age 65
President - Zambia
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski age 64
President - Peru
Martín Vizcarra age 39
President - Peru
Choummaly Sayasone age 67
President - Laos