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Events

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
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 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
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
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 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

Barack Obama age 38
President - United States
Donald Trump age 53
President - United States
Vladimir Putin age 47
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 53
President - United States
Joe Biden age 57
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 73
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 53
President - United States
François Hollande age 45
President - France
Fidel Castro age 73
President - Cuba
Emmanuel Macron age 22
President - France
Nicolas Sarkozy age 44
President - France
Xi Jinping age 46
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Naruhito age 39
Emperor - Japan
Charles III age 51
King - United Kingdom
Saddam Hussein age 62
President - Iraq
Dmitry Medvedev age 34
President - Russia
Ali Khamenei age 60
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 67
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 34
President - Syria
Jair Bolsonaro age 44
President - Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 54
President - Brazil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 43
President - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 71
President - Egypt
Dilma Rousseff age 52
President - Brazil
Akihito age 66
Emperor - Japan
Hassan Rouhani age 51
President - Iran
Hu Jintao age 57
President - People's Republic of China
Mohamed Morsi age 48
President - Egypt
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 44
President - Germany
Mohammad Khatami age 56
President - Iran
Tsai Ing-wen age 43
President - Republic of China
Raúl Castro age 68
President - Cuba
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 45
President - Egypt
Jiang Zemin age 73
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Ebrahim Raisi age 39
President - Iran
Joachim Gauck age 59
President - Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 69
President - Syria
Horst Köhler age 56
President - Germany
Philippe of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Christian Wulff age 40
President - Germany
Masoud Pezeshkian age 45
President - Iran
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 39
President - Cuba
Albert II of Belgium age 65
King - Belgium
Ahmed al-Sharaa age 17
President - Syria
Michel Temer age 59
President - Brazil
Johannes Rau age 69
President - Germany
Trương Tấn Sang age 50
President - Vietnam
Jalal Talabani age 66
President - Iraq
Vicente Fox age 57
President - Mexico
Trần Đại Quang age 43
President - Vietnam
Ma Ying-jeou age 49
President - Republic of China
Lai Ching-te age 40
President - Republic of China
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 55
President - Vietnam
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 68
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 49
President - Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 77
President - Republic of China
Barham Salih age 39
President - Iraq
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc age 45
President - Vietnam
Fuad Masum age 62
President - Iraq
Nguyễn Minh Triết age 57
President - Vietnam
Tô Lâm age 42
President - Vietnam
Jimmy Morales age 30
President - Guatemala
Adly Mansour age 54
President - Egypt
Otto Pérez Molina age 49
President - Guatemala
Álvaro Colom age 48
President - Guatemala
Trần Đức Lương age 62
President - Vietnam
Alejandro Giammattei age 43
President - Guatemala
Bernardo Arévalo de León age 41
President - Guatemala
Mohammad Mokhber age 44
President - Iran
Abdul Latif Rashid age 55
President - Iraq
Võ Văn Thưởng age 29
President - Vietnam
Óscar Berger age 53
President - Guatemala
Lương Cường age 42
President - Vietnam
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen age 53
President - Guatemala
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh age 40
President - Vietnam
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 41
President - Iraq
Abdul Halim Khaddam age 67
President - Syria
Alfonso Portillo age 48
President - Guatemala
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre age 64
President - Guatemala
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân age 30
President - Vietnam
Nizar Amidi age 31
President - Iraq
Kim Jong-il age 58
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Kim Jong-un age 17
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Felipe Calderón age 37
President - Mexico
Claudia Sheinbaum age 37
President - Mexico
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 46
President - Mexico
Enrique Peña Nieto age 33
President - Mexico
Ernesto Zedillo age 48
President - Mexico
Kofi Annan age 61
Secretary-General - United Nations
Ban Ki-moon age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
António Guterres age 50
Secretary-General - United Nations
Angela Merkel age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Narendra Modi age 49
Prime Minister - India
Aung San Suu Kyi age 54
State Counsellor - Myanmar
Benjamin Netanyahu age 50
Prime Minister - Israel
Silvio Berlusconi age 63
Prime Minister - Italy
Shinzo Abe age 45
Prime Minister - Japan
Tony Blair age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
David Cameron age 33
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 35
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 43
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Rishi Sunak age 19
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gordon Brown age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giorgia Meloni age 22
Prime Minister - Italy
Olaf Scholz age 41
Chancellor - Germany
Keir Starmer age 37
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 55
Chancellor - Germany
Liz Truss age 24
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ursula von der Leyen age 41
President - European Commission
Ariel Sharon age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 67
Prime Minister - India
Mark Rutte age 32
Secretary General - NATO
Donald Tusk age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Yoshihide Suga age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Jens Stoltenberg age 40
Secretary General - NATO
Matteo Renzi age 24
Prime Minister - Italy
Friedrich Merz age 44
Chancellor - Germany
Romano Prodi age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Giuseppe Conte age 35
Prime Minister - Italy
Jean-Claude Juncker age 45
President - European Commission
Li Keqiang age 44
Premier - People's Republic of China
Fumio Kishida age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Sanae Takaichi age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 60
Director-General - World Health Organization
Naoto Kan age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Mario Draghi age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
Junichiro Koizumi age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Tarō Asō age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Naftali Bennett age 27
Prime Minister - Israel
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 46
Secretary General - NATO
Wen Jiabao age 57
Premier - People's Republic of China
Andy Burnham age 30
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ehud Olmert age 54
Prime Minister - Israel
Paolo Gentiloni age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Mario Monti age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
François Fillon age 45
Prime Minister - France
Yukio Hatoyama age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Enrico Letta age 33
Prime Minister - Italy
Jarosław Kaczyński age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
Yoshihiko Noda age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Yasuo Fukuda age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Dominique de Villepin age 46
Prime Minister - France
Manuel Valls age 37
Prime Minister - France
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus age 34
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yair Lapid age 36
Prime Minister - Israel
Jean Castex age 34
Prime Minister - France
Leo Varadkar age 20
Taoiseach - Ireland
Beata Szydło age 36
Prime Minister - Poland
Jean-Marc Ayrault age 49
Prime Minister - France
Mateusz Morawiecki age 31
Prime Minister - Poland
Édouard Philippe age 29
Prime Minister - France
Ehud Barak age 57
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 61
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 79
President - International Olympic Committee
Shigeru Ishiba age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Lionel Jospin age 62
Prime Minister - France
Élisabeth Borne age 38
Prime Minister - France
Thomas Bach age 46
President - International Olympic Committee
Gabriel Attal age 10
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 57
President - International Olympic Committee
Kirsty Coventry age 16
President - International Olympic Committee
Massimo D'Alema age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Zhu Rongji age 71
Premier - People's Republic of China
Michel Barnier age 49
Prime Minister - France
Enda Kenny age 48
Taoiseach - Ireland
Yoshirō Mori age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Bernard Cazeneuve age 36
Prime Minister - France
Ewa Kopacz age 43
Prime Minister - Poland
Li Qiang age 40
Premier - People's Republic of China
Micheál Martin age 39
Taoiseach - Ireland
François Bayrou age 48
Prime Minister - France
Jerzy Buzek age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Sébastien Lecornu age 13
Prime Minister - France
Bertie Ahern age 48
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 62
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 51
Prime Minister - France
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng age 50
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Brian Cowen age 40
Taoiseach - Ireland
Paul Wolfowitz age 56
President - World Bank
Keizō Obuchi age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 51
Secretary General - NATO
Thongloun Sisoulith age 54
Prime Minister - Laos
Simon Harris age 13
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jim Yong Kim age 40
President - World Bank
Mostafa Madbouly age 33
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sherif Ismail age 44
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz age 40
Prime Minister - Poland
Phạm Minh Chính age 41
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Marek Belka age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Margaret Chan age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 53
Secretary General - NATO
Essam Sharaf age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ahmed Nazif age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad al-Bashir age 17
Prime Minister - Syria
Robert Zoellick age 46
President - World Bank
Ahmed Shafik age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Leszek Miller age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Su Tseng-chang age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Marrero Cruz age 36
Prime Minister - Cuba
Thongsing Thammavong age 55
Prime Minister - Laos