✦ History

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Events

Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
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
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998-05-06 - 2000-06-18
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
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
War on terror 2001-09-11
September 11 attacks 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 Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
Battle of Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
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
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
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
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
Central African Republic Civil War 2012-12-10
Euromaidan 2013-11-21 - 2014-02-22
Western African Ebola epidemic 2013-12-26 - 2016-06-09
War in Iraq (2013–2017) 2013-12-30 - 2017-12-09
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
2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis 2016-12-09 - 2017-01-21
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
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War 2020-09-27 - 2020-11-10
2020 United States presidential election 2020-11-03
First COVID-19 vaccines approved 2020-12-02
January 6 United States Capitol attack 2021-01-06
2021 Myanmar coup d'état 2021-02-01
Fall of Kabul (2021) 2021-08-15
Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope 2021-12-25
2022 Kazakh unrest 2022-01-02 - 2022-01-11
Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022-02-24
Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II 2022-09-08 - 2022-09-19
Mahsa Amini protests 2022-09-16 - 2023-09
Release of ChatGPT 2022-11-30
2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes 2023-02-06
Sudanese civil war (2023–present) 2023-04-15
Wagner Group rebellion 2023-06-23 - 2023-06-24
2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh 2023-09-19 - 2023-09-20
Gaza war 2023-10-07
October 7 attacks 2023-10-07
2024 United States presidential election 2024-11-05
Fall of the Assad regime 2024-11-27 - 2024-12-08
2025 papal conclave 2025-05-07 - 2025-05-08

People

Patrick McLoughlin age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Lidington age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Anne-Marie Trevelyan age 30
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Greg Clark age 32
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Louise Haigh age 12
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Rod Rosenstein age 34
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Kit Malthouse age 33
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Cheng Li-wun age 30
Chairman - Kuomintang
Pat McFadden age 34
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hung Hsiu-chu age 51
Chairman - Kuomintang
Alan Milburn age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Peter Kyle age 29
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Wu Po-hsiung age 60
Chairman - Kuomintang
Hilary Armstrong age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jonathan Reynolds age 19
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Darren Jones age 13
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Lisa Monaco age 31
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Johnny Chiang age 27
Chairman - Kuomintang
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde age 39
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Liam Byrne age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Chiang Pin-kung age 67
Chairman - Kuomintang
Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Gus Macdonald age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Lin Junq-tzer age 55
Chairman - Kuomintang
Huang Min-hui age 40
Chairman - Kuomintang
Larry Thompson age 54
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Paul McNulty age 41
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
David W. Ogden age 46
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
James M. Cole age 47
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Robert McCallum Jr. age 54
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Emil Bove age 19
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Craig S. Morford age 40
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Lin Rong-te age 40
Chairman - Kuomintang
Ed O'Callaghan age 31
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Richard Donoghue
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
John P. Carlin
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Gary Grindler age 50
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Elena Kagan age 39
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Olson age 59
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Barbara Underwood age 55
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Neal Katyal age 29
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Elizabeth Prelogar age 20
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Donald B. Verrilli Jr. age 42
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Noel Francisco age 30
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Jeff Wall
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Ian Heath Gershengorn age 32
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
D. John Sauer age 25
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Gregory G. Garre age 35
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Edwin Kneedler age 54
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John McCain age 63
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 75
Senate - United States
John Major age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Liz Cheney age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Margaret Beckett age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 52
Governor of California - United States
Mitt Romney age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Gavin Newsom age 32
Governor of California - United States
Andrew Cuomo age 42
Governor of New York - United States
Mike Huckabee age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Rick Perry age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Greg Abbott age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
Tim Kaine age 41
Governor of Virginia - United States
Jerry Brown age 61
Governor of California - United States
John Kasich age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
Chris Christie age 37
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Kathy Hochul age 41
Governor of New York - United States
Sarah Huckabee Sanders age 17
Governor of Arkansas - United States
David Paterson age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Martin O'Malley age 36
Governor of Maryland - United States
Deval Patrick age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mark Warner age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
Eliot Spitzer age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Brian Kemp age 36
Governor of Georgia - United States
George Pataki age 54
Governor of New York - United States
Abigail Spanberger age 20
Governor of Virginia - United States
Ralph Northam age 40
Governor of Virginia - United States
Mike Beebe age 53
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Asa Hutchinson age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jon Corzine age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Phil Murphy age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Charlie Baker age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike DeWine age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
Larry Hogan age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
Nathan Deal age 57
Governor of Georgia - United States
Sonny Perdue age 53
Governor of Georgia - United States
Mitch Daniels age 50
Governor of Indiana - United States
Gray Davis age 57
Governor of California - United States
Jim Gilmore age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
Bob McDonnell age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
Terry McAuliffe age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
Mike Braun age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
Bill Lee age 40
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Eric Holcomb age 31
Governor of Indiana - United States
Mikie Sherrill age 27
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Glenn Youngkin age 33
Governor of Virginia - United States
Bill Haslam age 41
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Christine Todd Whitman age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Wes Moore age 21
Governor of Maryland - United States
Maura Healey age 28
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Ted Strickland age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Phil Bredesen age 56
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob Ehrlich age 42
Governor of Maryland - United States
Paul Cellucci age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim McGreevey age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Jane Swift age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Richard Codey age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Bob Taft age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Don Sundquist age 63
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Roy Barnes age 51
Governor of Georgia - United States
Donald DiFrancesco age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Joe Kernan age 53
Governor of Indiana - United States
Parris Glendening age 57
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank O'Bannon age 69
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Farmer Jr. age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John O. Bennett age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Barber Conable age 77
New York State Senate - United States
Pope Francis age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 21
President - Ukraine
John Paul II age 79
Pope - Vatican City
Benedict XVI age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 45
President - Venezuela
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 45
President - Turkey
Leo XIV age 44
Pope - Vatican City
Rafael Correa age 36
President - Ecuador
Guillermo Lasso age 44
President - Ecuador
Alexander Lukashenko age 45
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 63
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 72
King - Thailand
Nicolás Maduro age 37
President - Venezuela
Robert Mugabe age 75
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 38
President - Azerbaijan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 61
President - Liberia
Shimon Peres age 76
President - Israel
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 62
King - Spain
Evo Morales age 40
President - Bolivia
Joko Widodo age 38
President - Indonesia
Petro Poroshenko age 34
President - Ukraine
Mikheil Saakashvili age 32
President - Georgia
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 46
President - Argentina
Michelle Bachelet age 48
President - Chile
Felipe VI of Spain age 31
King - Spain
Viktor Yanukovych age 49
President - Ukraine
Sergio Mattarella age 58
President - Italy
Pervez Musharraf age 56
President - Pakistan
Abdullah Gül age 49
President - Turkey
Lech Kaczyński age 50
President - Poland
Giorgio Napolitano age 74
President - Italy
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 59
President - Kazakhstan
Rodrigo Duterte age 54
President - Philippines
Abdullah II of Jordan age 37
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 59
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 42
President - Afghanistan
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands age 32
King - Netherlands
José Mujica age 64
President - Uruguay
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 75
King - Saudi Arabia
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović age 31
President - Croatia
Andrzej Duda age 27
President - Poland
Harald V of Norway age 62
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 45
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 62
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 58
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Vajiralongkorn age 47
King - Thailand
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 36
King - Morocco
Park Geun-hye age 47
President - South Korea
Martti Ahtisaari age 62
President - Finland
Zuzana Čaputová age 26
President - Slovakia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 53
King - Sweden
Moon Jae-in age 46
President - South Korea
Juan Manuel Santos age 48
President - Colombia
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 68
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Sauli Niinistö age 51
President - Finland
Eduard Shevardnadze age 71
President - Georgia
Serzh Sargsyan age 45
President - Armenia
Pranab Mukherjee age 64
President - India
Maia Sandu age 27
President - Moldova
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 52
President - Indonesia
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 42
President - Uzbekistan
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck age 19
King - Bhutan
Kersti Kaljulaid age 30
President - Estonia
Muhammadu Buhari age 57
President - Nigeria
Sebastián Piñera age 50
President - Chile
Tarja Halonen age 56
President - Finland
Daniel Ortega age 54
President - Nicaragua
Islam Karimov age 61
President - Uzbekistan
George Weah age 33
President - Liberia
Paul Kagame age 42
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 56
President - Sudan
Pratibha Patil age 65
President - India
Droupadi Murmu age 41
President - India
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 50
President - Indonesia
Heydar Aliyev age 76
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 77
King - Cambodia
Kim Dae-jung age 76
President - South Korea