✦ 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
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War on terror 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 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
Rose Revolution 2003-11-03 - 2003-11-23
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
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
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
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
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 Gabonese coup d'état 2023-08-30
2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh 2023-09-19 - 2023-09-20
October 7 attacks 2023-10-07
Gaza war 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

Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 59
Sultan - Oman
Asif Ali Zardari age 44
President - Pakistan
Yoon Suk Yeol age 39
President - South Korea
Ashraf Ghani age 50
President - Afghanistan
Javier Milei age 29
President - Argentina
Alexander Van der Bellen age 55
President - Austria
Miloš Zeman age 55
President - Czech Republic
Salome Zourabichvili age 47
President - Georgia
Emomali Rahmon age 47
President - Tajikistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 42
President - Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 59
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 55
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 61
President - Ukraine
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 46
President - Kazakhstan
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 41
Prince - Monaco
Klaus Iohannis age 40
President - Romania
Aleksandar Vučić age 29
President - Serbia
Süleyman Demirel age 75
President - Turkey
Bronisław Komorowski age 47
President - Poland
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 52
President - Philippines
Norodom Sihamoni age 46
King - Cambodia
Gabriel Boric age 13
President - Chile
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 63
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 58
President - Czech Republic
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 43
President - Lithuania
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 52
President - Yemen
Heinz Fischer age 61
President - Austria
Michael D. Higgins age 58
President - Ireland
Alberto Fujimori age 61
President - Peru
Roh Moo-hyun age 53
President - South Korea
Ram Nath Kovind age 54
President - India
José Eduardo dos Santos age 57
President - Angola
Néstor Kirchner age 49
President - Argentina
Idriss Déby age 47
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 28
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 31
King - Eswatini
Sahle-Work Zewde age 49
President - Ethiopia
Bidya Devi Bhandari age 38
President - Nepal
Mauricio Macri age 40
President - Argentina
Traian Băsescu age 48
President - Romania
Rumen Radev age 36
President - Bulgaria
Paul Biya age 66
President - Cameroon
Nayib Bukele age 18
President - El Salvador
Borut Pahor age 36
President - Slovenia
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 51
President - United Arab Emirates
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 54
President - Algeria
Teodoro Obiang age 57
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 79
President - Italy
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 78
King - Saudi Arabia
Alberto Fernández age 40
President - Argentina
Hamad II of Bahrain age 49
Emir - Bahrain
Ali Bongo Ondimba age 40
President - Gabon
John Mahama age 41
President - Ghana
János Áder age 40
President - Hungary
Abdurrahman Wahid age 59
President - Indonesia
Alassane Ouattara age 58
President - Ivory Coast
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 56
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 45
President - Poland
Pierre Nkurunziza age 35
President - Burundi
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 58
President - Costa Rica
Omar Bongo age 64
President - Gabon
Giorgi Marghvilashvili age 30
President - Georgia
Katerina Sakellaropoulou age 43
President - Greece
Frederik X of Denmark age 31
King - Denmark
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani age 19
Emir - Qatar
Samia Suluhu Hassan age 39
President - Tanzania
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 57
President - Zimbabwe
Lee Myung-bak age 58
President - South Korea
Alija Izetbegović age 74
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nana Akufo-Addo age 55
President - Ghana
Prabowo Subianto age 48
President - Indonesia
Isaac Herzog age 39
President - Israel
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Tomislav Nikolić age 47
President - Serbia
Boris Tadić age 41
President - Serbia
José Ramos-Horta age 50
President - Timor-Leste
Juan Guaidó age 16
President - Venezuela
Gustavo Petro age 39
President - Colombia
Toomas Hendrik Ilves age 46
President - Estonia
John Evans Atta Mills age 55
President - Ghana
Reuven Rivlin age 60
President - Israel
Hashim Thaçi age 31
President - Kosovo
Almazbek Atambaev age 43
President - Kyrgyzstan
Roza Otunbayeva age 49
President - Kyrgyzstan
Haakon VIII of Norway age 26
King - Norway
Alan García age 50
President - Peru
Salva Kiir Mayardit age 48
President - South Sudan
Armen Sarkissian age 46
President - Armenia
Jovenel Moïse age 31
President - Haiti
Joyce Banda age 49
President - Malawi
Goodluck Jonathan age 42
President - Nigeria
Halimah Yacob age 45
President - Singapore
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 58
President - Turkey
Karol Nawrocki age 16
President - Poland
Robert Kocharyan age 45
President - Armenia
Laura Chinchilla age 40
President - Costa Rica
Zoran Milanović age 33
President - Croatia
Nikos Anastasiades age 53
President - Cyprus
Laurent Gbagbo age 54
President - Ivory Coast
Macky Sall age 38
President - Senegal
Benigno Aquino III age 39
President - Philippines
Hibatullah Akhundzada age 32
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Stjepan Mesić age 65
President - Croatia
Alexander Stubb age 31
President - Finland
Katalin Novák age 22
President - Hungary
Michel Aoun age 66
President - Lebanon
Letsie III of Lesotho age 36
King - Lesotho
Gitanas Nausėda age 35
President - Lithuania
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 60
President - Portugal
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 50
President - United Arab Emirates
Mahinda Rajapaksa age 54
President - Sri Lanka
Ivo Josipović age 42
President - Croatia
Petr Pavel age 38
President - Czech Republic
Isaias Afwerki age 53
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 45
President - Montenegro
Milo Đukanović age 37
President - Montenegro
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua age 48
President - Nigeria
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa age 51
President - Portugal
Ion Iliescu age 69
President - Romania
Gjorge Ivanov age 39
President - North Macedonia
Tabaré Vázquez age 59
President - Uruguay
Mohammed Omar age 40
Supreme Leader - Afghanistan
Félix Tshisekedi age 36
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 70
Emir - Kuwait
Olusegun Obasanjo age 62
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 34
President - The Gambia
Beji Caid Essebsi age 73
President - Tunisia
Alpha Condé age 61
President - Guinea
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 56
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 48
President - Ireland
Uhuru Kenyatta age 38
President - Kenya
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 33
President - Togo
Dina Boluarte age 37
President - Peru
Bongbong Marcos age 42
President - Philippines
Bujar Nishani age 33
President - Albania
Abdul Hamid age 56
President - Bangladesh
Lenín Moreno age 46
President - Ecuador
Karolos Papoulias age 70
President - Greece
John Magufuli age 40
President - Tanzania
Horacio Cartes age 43
President - Paraguay
Patrice Talon age 41
President - Benin
Blaise Compaoré age 48
President - Burkina Faso
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 49
President - Greece
Valdas Adamkus age 73
President - Lithuania
Mamnoon Hussain age 59
President - Pakistan
Andrej Kiska age 36
President - Slovakia
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 54
President - Yemen
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 54
President - Sri Lanka
Thomas Boni Yayi age 47
President - Benin
Georgi Parvanov age 42
President - Bulgaria
Ibrahim Traoré age 11
President - Burkina Faso
Mwai Kibaki age 68
President - Kenya
Oleksandr Turchynov age 35
President - Ukraine
Ollanta Humala age 37
President - Peru
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 42
President - Central African Republic
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 60
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
John Kufuor age 61
President - Ghana
Vjosa Osmani age 17
President - Kosovo
Atifete Jahjaga age 24
President - Kosovo
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 54
President - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 49
President - Slovenia
Keiko Fujimori age 24
President - Peru
João Lourenço age 45
President - Angola
Dimitris Christofias age 53
President - Cyprus
Alar Karis age 41
President - Estonia
Igor Dodon age 24
President - Moldova
Peter Pellegrini age 24
President - Slovakia
Ivan Gašparovič age 58
President - Slovakia
Bamir Topi age 42
President - Albania
Ilir Meta age 30
President - Albania
Luis Arce age 36
President - Bolivia
Jeanine Áñez age 32
President - Bolivia
K. R. Narayanan age 79
President - India
Daniel arap Moi age 75
President - Kenya
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 50
President - Kyrgyzstan
Andry Rajoelina age 25
President - Madagascar
Peter Mutharika age 59
President - Malawi
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 76
Prince - Monaco
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 36
President - Mongolia
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 48
Emir - Qatar
Adama Barrow age 34
President - The Gambia
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 38
President - United Arab Emirates
Fernando Lugo age 48
President - Paraguay
Kgalema Motlanthe age 50
President - South Africa
Mathieu Kérékou age 66
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 52
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 71
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 54
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 55
President - Kosovo
Sadyr Japarov age 31
President - Kyrgyzstan
Amadou Toumani Touré age 51
President - Mali
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 40
President - Mauritius
Ram Baran Yadav age 51
President - Nepal
Stevo Pendarovski age 36
President - North Macedonia
Desi Bouterse age 54
President - Suriname
Xanana Gusmão age 53
President - Timor-Leste
Serdar Berdimuhamedow age 18
President - Turkmenistan
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 59
President - Afghanistan
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 44
King - Bhutan
László Sólyom age 58
President - Hungary