✦ 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 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
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
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
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
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
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal 2018-03-17
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
2020 Beirut explosion 2020-08-04
2020–2021 Belarusian protests 2020-08-09 - 2021-03-25

People

Behgjet Pacolli age 51
President - Kosovo
Bakili Muluzi age 59
President - Malawi
France-Albert René age 67
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 71
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 60
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 65
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Baldwin Lonsdale age 54
President - Vanuatu
Laurentino Cortizo age 50
President - Panama
Pierre Buyoya age 53
President - Burundi
Ikililou Dhoinine age 40
President - Comoros
Antonio Saca age 37
President - El Salvador
José Mário Vaz age 45
President - Guinea-Bissau
David A. Granger age 57
President - Guyana
Tammam Salam age 57
President - Lebanon
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 50
President - Maldives
Guido de Marco age 71
President - Malta
Marian Lupu age 36
President - Moldova
Myint Swe age 51
President - Myanmar
Danny Faure age 40
President - Seychelles
Moritz Leuenberger age 56
President - Switzerland
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 51
President - Switzerland
Eduardo Rodríguez age 47
President - Bolivia
Kumba Ialá age 49
President - Guinea-Bissau
Christopher Loeak age 50
President - Marshall Islands
Mihai Ghimpu age 51
President - Moldova
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 52
President - Pakistan
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 59
President - United Arab Emirates
Guy Scott age 58
President - Zambia
Martín Torrijos age 39
President - Panama
Abel Pacheco age 69
President - Costa Rica
Charles Savarin age 59
President - Dominica
Moussa Dadis Camara age 38
President - Guinea
Roberto Micheletti age 59
President - Honduras
Khamtai Siphandone age 79
President - Laos
Artūras Paulauskas age 49
President - Lithuania
David Kabua age 51
President - Marshall Islands
Ludwig Scotty age 54
President - Nauru
Akhtar Mansour age 35
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 61
President - Algeria
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 72
President - Bolivia
Michel Djotodia age 54
President - Central African Republic
Boniface Alexandre age 66
President - Haiti
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 65
President - Mauritania
Enrique Bolaños age 74
President - Nicaragua
Michel Kafando age 60
President - Burkina Faso
Domitien Ndayizeye age 49
President - Burundi
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 61
President - Mauritania
Johnson Toribiong age 56
President - Palau
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 44
President - Comoros
Epeli Nailatikau age 61
President - Fiji
Dioncounda Traoré age 61
President - Mali
Yacouba Isaac Zida age 37
President - Burkina Faso
Manny Mori age 54
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Ricardo Maduro age 56
President - Honduras
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 72
Emir - Kuwait
Lionel Aingimea age 37
President - Nauru
Crin Antonescu age 43
President - Romania
Anthony Carmona age 50
President - Trinidad and Tobago
A. N. R. Robinson age 76
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 53
President - Vanuatu
Šefik Džaferović age 45
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nebojša Radmanović age 53
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragan Čović age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giuseppe Bertello age 60
President - Vatican City
Giovanni Lajolo age 68
President - Vatican City
Lucio Gutiérrez age 45
President - Ecuador
Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo age 44
President - Guinea-Bissau
Henrique Rosa age 57
President - Guinea-Bissau
Donald Ramotar age 52
President - Guyana
Kailash Purryag age 55
President - Mauritius
Natsagiin Bagabandi age 52
President - Mongolia
Slavica Đukić Dejanović age 51
President - Serbia
Samuel Schmid age 56
President - Switzerland
Joseph Deiss age 57
President - Switzerland
Nigmatilla Yuldashev age 40
President - Uzbekistan
Tallis Obed Moses age 48
President - Vanuatu
Sulejman Tihić age 51
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Peter M. Christian age 55
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Raimundo Pereira age 46
President - Guinea-Bissau
Prithvirajsing Roopun age 43
President - Mauritius
David W. Panuelo age 38
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Gyude Bryant age 54
President - Liberia
Luis González Macchi age 55
President - Paraguay
Amadou Sanogo age 30
President - Mali
Mohamed Ennaceur age 68
President - Tunisia
Mladen Ivanić age 44
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Francisco Flores age 43
President - El Salvador
Kessai Note age 52
President - Marshall Islands
Sprent Dabwido age 30
President - Nauru
Joseph Urusemal age 50
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Moses Blah age 55
President - Liberia
Litokwa Tomeing age 63
President - Marshall Islands
Salou Djibo age 37
President - Niger
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 47
President - Sudan
Hipólito Mejía age 62
President - Dominican Republic
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 56
President - Guinea-Bissau
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 50
President - Mauritania
René Harris age 55
President - Nauru
Leo Falcam age 67
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 61
President - Mauritius
Nexhat Daci age 58
President - Kosovo
Jakup Krasniqi age 52
President - Kosovo
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri age 65
President - South Africa
Gilbert Diendéré age 43
President - Burkina Faso
Sékouba Konaté age 38
President - Guinea
Teburoro Tito age 49
President - Kiribati
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan age 62
President - Somalia
Borislav Paravac age 60
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jocelerme Privert age 50
President - Haiti
Bonfoh Abass age 54
President - Togo
Alessandro Mancini age 27
Captain Regent - San Marino
Rivo Rakotovao age 42
President - Madagascar
Frederick Pitcher age 36
President - Nauru
Eliud Williams age 54
President - Dominica
Ishenbai Kadyrbekov age 53
President - Kyrgyzstan
Mohamed Osman Jawari age 57
President - Somalia
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 46
President - Somalia
Valeria Ciavatta age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Maria Luisa Berti age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mariella Mularoni age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Grazia Zafferani age 30
Captain Regent - San Marino
John Bani age 61
President - Vanuatu
Phelekezela Mphoko age 62
President - Zimbabwe
Luca Beccari age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fausta Morganti age 58
Captain Regent - San Marino
Denise Bronzetti age 30
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonella Mularoni age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Stefano Palmieri age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Honoré Traoré age 45
President - Burkina Faso
Vernon Shaw age 72
President - Dominica
Jurelang Zedkaia age 52
President - Marshall Islands
Derog Gioura age 70
President - Nauru
Nataša Mićić age 37
President - Serbia
Maxime Carlot Korman age 61
President - Vanuatu
Marino Riccardi age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alessandro Rossi age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Filippo Tamagnini age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Francesco Mussoni age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Nicola Renzi age 23
Captain Regent - San Marino
Lorella Stefanelli age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mamadu Ture Kuruma age 55
President - Guinea-Bissau
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 57
President - Mauritania
Predrag Marković age 47
President - Serbia
Mimma Zavoli age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vanessa D'Ambrosio age 14
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mirko Šarović age 46
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivo Miro Jović age 52
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet age 30
President - Central African Republic
Casten Nemra age 31
President - Marshall Islands
Barlen Vyapoory age 58
President - Mauritius
Karl Offmann age 62
President - Mauritius
Ljupčo Jordanovski age 50
President - North Macedonia
Fernando Pereira age 40
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Gianfranco Terenzi age 62
Captain Regent - San Marino
Matteo Ciacci age 12
Captain Regent - San Marino
Esmon Saimon age 47
President - Vanuatu
Gian Nicola Berti age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Oscar Mina age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pascal Nyabenda age 36
President - Burundi
Ruben Zackhras age 55
President - Marshall Islands
Josias Moli age 48
President - Vanuatu
Italo Righi age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Anna Maria Muccioli age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mirko Tomassoni age 33
Captain Regent - San Marino
Guerrino Zanotti age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Luca Santolini age 18
Captain Regent - San Marino
Chérif Sy age 42
President - Burkina Faso
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 56
President - Gabon
Tion Otang age 3
President - Kiribati
Dragan Maršićanin age 53
President - Serbia
Vojislav Mihailović age 51
President - Serbia
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle age 62
President - Somalia
Matteo Fiorini age 25
Captain Regent - San Marino
Michele Muratori age 19
Captain Regent - San Marino
Massimo Andrea Ugolini age 24
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Venturini age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fabio Berardi age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Andrea Belluzzi age 34
Captain Regent - San Marino
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 51
President - Madagascar
Roger Abiut age 31
President - Vanuatu
Philip Boedoro age 44
President - Vanuatu
Rosa Zafferani age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Assunta Meloni age 51
Captain Regent - San Marino
Andrea Zafferani age 20
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alberto Selva age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Luca Boschi age 30
Captain Regent - San Marino
Nicola Selva age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enrico Carattoni age 17
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Giorgetti age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonio Carattoni age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gabriele Gatti age 49
Captain Regent - San Marino
Glauco Sansovini age 64
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Francesco Ugolini age 50
Captain Regent - San Marino
Massimo Cenci age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Denis Amici age 30
Captain Regent - San Marino
Dragan Kujović age 55
President - Montenegro
Gian Carlo Capicchioni age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Teodoro Lonfernini age 26
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonello Bacciocchi age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino