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section: 2001"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> was launched.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_20" title="January 20">January 20</a>: <ul><li>President <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Estrada" title="Joseph Estrada">Joseph Estrada</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> is ousted in the <a href="/wiki/Second_EDSA_Revolution" title="Second EDSA Revolution">Second EDSA Revolution</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. 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Bush</a> is inaugurated as <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_26" title="January 26">January 26</a>: An <a href="/wiki/2001_Gujarat_earthquake" title="2001 Gujarat earthquake">earthquake</a> strikes <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, on <a href="/wiki/Republic_Day_(India)" title="Republic Day (India)">Republic Day</a>, resulting in more than 20,000 deaths.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_27" title="May 27">May 27</a>: <a href="/wiki/Dos_Palmas_kidnappings" title="Dos Palmas kidnappings">Dos Palmas kidnappings</a>: Twenty tourists are abducted by the <a href="/wiki/Abu_Sayyaf" title="Abu Sayyaf">Abu Sayyaf</a> Group terrorists from a popular island resort in the Philippines.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a>: Eleven members of the royal family of <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>, including the king and queen, <a href="/wiki/Nepalese_royal_massacre" title="Nepalese royal massacre">are killed</a> by Crown Prince <a href="/wiki/Dipendra_of_Nepal" title="Dipendra of Nepal">Dipendra</a>, who wounds himself and dies three days later.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_11" title="September 11">September 11</a>: <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>: Nineteen <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> terrorists hijack four planes, <a href="/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_11" title="American Airlines Flight 11">crashing</a> <a href="/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_175" title="United Airlines Flight 175">two</a> into the twin towers of the <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973%E2%80%932001)" title="World Trade Center (1973–2001)">World Trade Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, the <a href="/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77" title="American Airlines Flight 77">third</a> plane into <a href="/wiki/The_Pentagon" title="The Pentagon">the Pentagon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_DC" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, DC">Washington, DC</a>, while the <a href="/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93" title="United Airlines Flight 93">fourth</a> plane is downed on the outskirts of <a href="/wiki/Stonycreek_Township,_Somerset_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania">Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania</a>. 2,996 people, including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers, died in the attacks.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">October 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/December_17" title="December 17">December 17</a>: The <a href="/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan" title="United States invasion of Afghanistan">United States invades Afghanistan</a> and topples the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan">Taliban regime</a>, resulting in a <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">long-term war</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_23" title="October 23">October 23</a>: <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a> introduces the first <a href="/wiki/IPod" title="IPod">iPod</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_12" title="November 12">November 12</a>: Crash of <a href="/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587" title="American Airlines Flight 587">American Airlines Flight 587</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_3" title="December 3">December 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/Enron" title="Enron">Enron</a> files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after <a href="/wiki/Enron_scandal" title="Enron scandal">a series of scandals</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_11" title="December 11">December 11</a>: <a href="/wiki/China_and_the_World_Trade_Organization" title="China and the World Trade Organization">China becomes</a> a member of the <a href="/wiki/World_Trade_Organization" title="World Trade Organization">World Trade Organization</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_19" title="December 19">December 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/December_20" title="December 20">20</a>: During an <a href="/wiki/1998%E2%80%932002_Argentine_great_depression" title="1998–2002 Argentine great depression">economic crisis in Argentina</a>, the government effectively <a href="/wiki/Corralito" title="Corralito">freezes all bank accounts</a> for twelve months which <a href="/wiki/December_2001_riots_in_Argentina" title="December 2001 riots in Argentina">leads to riots</a> and President <a href="/wiki/Fernando_de_la_R%C3%BAa" title="Fernando de la Rúa">Fernando de la Rúa</a>'s resignation from office. There are five "presidents" in less than a month.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Intifada">al-Aqsa Intifada</a> continues.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Kamen" title="Dean Kamen">Dean Kamen</a> unveils <a href="/wiki/Segway" title="Segway">Segway</a>.</li> <li>Media magnate <a href="/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi" title="Silvio Berlusconi">Silvio Berlusconi</a> was elected <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Italy" title="Prime Minister of Italy">Prime Minister of Italy</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2001#Deaths" title="2001">2001 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2002"><a href="/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 2002"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">Euro</a> enters circulation.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_8" title="February 8">February 8</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Algerian_Civil_War" title="Algerian Civil War">Algerian Civil War</a> ends.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_27" title="February 27">February 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a>: <a href="/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots" title="2002 Gujarat riots">Riots and mass killings</a> in the Indian state of <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a> leave 1,044 dead.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a>: <a href="/wiki/SpaceX" title="SpaceX">SpaceX</a> is founded by <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_11" title="April 11">April 11</a> - <a href="/wiki/April_13" title="April 13">13</a>: <a href="/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt">2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt</a> fails to overthrow president <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Chavez" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugo Chavez">Hugo Chavez</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_20" title="May 20">May 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/East_Timor" title="East Timor">East Timor</a> gains independence.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_1" title="July 1">July 1</a>: The <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a> is established.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_9" title="July 9">July 9</a>: The <a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a> is founded.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_19" title="September 19">September 19</a>: The <a href="/wiki/First_Ivorian_Civil_War" title="First Ivorian Civil War">First Ivorian Civil War</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2" title="October 2">October 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/October_23" title="October 23">23</a>: <a href="/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks" title="D.C. sniper attacks">Beltway sniper attacks</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">October 12</a>: The <a href="/wiki/2002_Bali_bombings" title="2002 Bali bombings">2002 Bali bombings</a> killed 202 people and injured 209 more.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_23" title="October 23">October 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/October_26" title="October 26">26</a>: Chechen rebels <a href="/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis" title="Moscow theater hostage crisis">seize a theater</a> in Moscow. Amid this siege, around 200 people died.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_16" title="November 16">November 16</a>: The <a href="/wiki/2002-2004_SARS_outbreak" class="mw-redirect" title="2002-2004 SARS outbreak">2002-2004 SARS outbreak</a> begins in <a href="/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong">Guangdong</a>, China.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> joins the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> as the 190th member.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Fossett" title="Steve Fossett">Steve Fossett</a> becomes the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001%E2%80%932002_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_standoff" title="2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff">2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff</a> ends.</li> <li>Israel starts <a href="/wiki/Operation_Defensive_Shield" title="Operation Defensive Shield">Operation Defensive Shield</a> in the West Bank in response to a wave of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks#2000s" title="List of Palestinian suicide attacks">Palestinian suicide attacks</a>.</li> <li>Construction of the <a href="/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli West Bank barrier">Israeli West Bank barrier</a> begins.</li> <li>America demands <a href="/wiki/Iraq_disarmament_crisis" title="Iraq disarmament crisis">Iraq allow unfettered access to weapons inspectors</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp">Guantanamo Bay detention camp</a> is established.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hu_Jintao" title="Hu Jintao">Hu Jintao</a> is elected as <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" title="General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party">General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2002#Deaths" title="2002">2002 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2003"><a href="/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2003"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_1" title="February 1">February 1</a>: <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia" title="Space Shuttle Columbia">Space Shuttle <i>Columbia</i></a> <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_Disaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster">disintegrates upon reentry</a>, killing all seven astronauts on board.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_20" title="February 20">February 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire" title="The Station nightclub fire">The Station nightclub fire</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a>: The United States <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">invades Iraq</a> and ousts <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>, triggering <a href="/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War" title="Protests against the Iraq War">worldwide protests</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">8 year war</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_5" title="August 5">August 5</a>: <a href="/wiki/2003_Marriott_Hotel_bombing" title="2003 Marriott Hotel bombing">2003 Marriott Hotel bombing</a> kills 12 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_27" title="August 27">August 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/August_29" title="August 29">29</a>: The first <a href="/wiki/Six-party_talks" title="Six-party talks">six-party talks</a>, involving <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_3" title="November 3">November 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/November_23" title="November 23">23</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Rose_Revolution" title="Rose Revolution">Rose Revolution</a> occurs in <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_17" title="November 17">November 17</a>: <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California">Governor of California</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/War_in_Darfur" title="War in Darfur">War in Darfur</a> begins.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Human_Genome_Project" title="Human Genome Project">Human Genome Project</a> is completed.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Second_Congo_War" title="Second Congo War">Second Congo War</a> ends with more than 5 million dead.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Second_Liberian_Civil_War" title="Second Liberian Civil War">Second Liberian Civil War</a> ends.</li> <li>The last <a href="/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle" title="Volkswagen Beetle">Volkswagen Beetle</a> is made in Mexico, after 65 years in production.</li> <li>Final flight of the SST (Supersonic Transport) <a href="/wiki/Concorde" title="Concorde">Concorde</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2003#Deaths" title="2003">2003 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2004"><a href="/wiki/2004" title="2004">2004</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2004"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_4" title="February 4">February 4</a>: <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> is formed by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" title="Mark Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_McCollum" title="Andrew McCollum">Andrew McCollum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin" title="Eduardo Saverin">Eduardo Saverin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz" title="Dustin Moskovitz">Dustin Moskovitz</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chris_Hughes" title="Chris Hughes">Chris Hughes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_11" title="March 11">March 11</a>: <a href="/wiki/Madrid_train_bombings" class="mw-redirect" title="Madrid train bombings">Madrid train bombings</a> killed 193 people and injured around 2,000, Europe's deadliest attack since <a href="/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103" title="Pan Am Flight 103">Pan Am Flight 103</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/September_3" title="September 3">3</a>: On the first school day in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, a group of <a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechen</a> <a href="/wiki/Terrorists" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorists">terrorists</a> <a href="/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Beslan school hostage crisis">held students, parents and teachers hostage in Beslan school</a>, in <a href="/wiki/North_Ossetia%E2%80%93Alania" title="North Ossetia–Alania">North Ossetia–Alania</a>. During three days under attack, 334 people died.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_23" title="October 23">October 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/October_27" title="October 27">27</a>: <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/2004_World_Series" title="2004 World Series">World Series</a> for the first time since <a href="/wiki/1918_World_Series" title="1918 World Series">1918</a>, ending the <a href="/wiki/Curse_of_the_Bambino" title="Curse of the Bambino">Curse of the Bambino</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_7" title="November 7">November 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/December_23" title="December 23">December 23</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah" title="Second Battle of Fallujah">Second Battle of Fallujah</a> occurs. It is the deadliest American battle since the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, killing 95 troops.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_18" title="November 18">November 18</a>: <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> becomes the first <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> to <a href="/wiki/Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health" title="Goodridge v. Department of Public Health">legalize</a> <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_8" title="December 8">December 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations" title="Union of South American Nations">Union of South American Nations</a> formed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_26" title="December 26">December 26</a>: <a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami" title="2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami">Boxing Day Tsunami</a> occurs in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a>, leading to the deaths of 230,000.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO" title="Enlargement of NATO">NATO</a> and <a href="/wiki/2004_enlargement_of_the_European_Union" title="2004 enlargement of the European Union">the European Union</a> incorporates <a href="/wiki/2004_enlargement_of_the_European_Union" title="2004 enlargement of the European Union">most of the former Eastern Bloc</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_North-West_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="War in North-West Pakistan">War in North-West Pakistan</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirit_(rover)" title="Spirit (rover)">Spirit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Opportunity_(rover)" title="Opportunity (rover)">Opportunity</a> land on <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_Revolution" title="Orange Revolution">Orange Revolution</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>.</li> <li>First surface images of <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>'s moon <a href="/wiki/Titan_(moon)" title="Titan (moon)">Titan</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2004#Deaths" title="2004">2004 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2005"><a href="/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2005"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_9" title="January 9">January 9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War" title="Second Sudanese Civil War">Second Sudanese Civil War</a> ends.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_14" title="February 14">February 14</a>: <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> is founded by <a href="/wiki/Jawed_Karim" title="Jawed Karim">Jawed Karim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chad_Hurley" title="Chad Hurley">Chad Hurley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Chen" title="Steve Chen">Steve Chen</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_14" title="February 14">February 14</a> – April 27: <a href="/wiki/Cedar_Revolution" title="Cedar Revolution">Cedar Revolution</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a> triggered by the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Rafic_Hariri" title="Assassination of Rafic Hariri">assassination of Rafic Hariri</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_16" title="February 16">February 16</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" title="Kyoto Protocol">Kyoto Protocol</a> comes into effect.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/April_11" title="April 11">April 11</a>: <a href="/wiki/Tulip_Revolution" title="Tulip Revolution">Tulip Revolution</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2" title="April 2">April 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/April_19" title="April 19">19</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> dies, <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Benedict XVI</a> becomes Pope.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_7" title="July 7">July 7</a>: <a href="/wiki/7/7_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="7/7 attacks">7/7 attacks</a> on the <a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground">London Underground</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_26" title="July 26">July 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/July_27" title="July 27">27</a>: <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra_floods_of_2005" title="Maharashtra floods of 2005">Floods in Maharashtra, India</a> over 1000 people die.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_28" title="July 28">July 28</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Provisional Irish Republican Army</a> ends its <a href="/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">military campaign</a> in Northern Ireland.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_29" title="July 29">July 29</a>: <a href="/wiki/Michael_E._Brown" title="Michael E. Brown">Michael E. Brown</a> confirms the discovery of the dwarf planet <a href="/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)" title="Eris (dwarf planet)">Eris</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_3" title="August 3">August 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad" title="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/President_of_Iran" title="President of Iran">President of Iran</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_18" title="August 18">August 18</a>: <a href="/wiki/Peace_Mission_2005" title="Peace Mission 2005">Peace Mission 2005</a>, the first joint China–Russia <a href="/wiki/Military_exercise" title="Military exercise">military exercise</a>, begins its eight-day training on the <a href="/wiki/Shandong_Peninsula" title="Shandong Peninsula">Shandong Peninsula</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_29" title="August 29">August 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/August_31" title="August 31">31</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a> kills 1,836 people across the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a> coast.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_30" title="September 30">September 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy" title="Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy">Controversial drawings of Muhammad</a> are printed in the Danish newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Jyllands-Posten" title="Jyllands-Posten">Jyllands-Posten</a></i>, sparking outrage and violent riots by Muslims around the world.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_8" title="October 8">October 8</a>: 80,000 are killed in <a href="/wiki/2005_Kashmir_earthquake" title="2005 Kashmir earthquake">an earthquake</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_22" title="November 22">November 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a> becomes Germany's first female <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany" title="Chancellor of Germany">Chancellor</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_30" title="November 30">November 30</a>: Surgeons in France carry out the first human <a href="/wiki/Face_transplant" title="Face transplant">face transplant</a> with <a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Dinoire" title="Isabelle Dinoire">Isabelle Dinoire</a> becoming the first person to undergo it.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli disengagement from Gaza">Israel withdraws from Gaza</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War" title="Second Sudanese Civil War">Second Sudanese Civil War</a> ends.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2005#Deaths" title="2005">2005 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2006"><a href="/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2006"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf" title="Ellen Johnson Sirleaf">Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</a> becomes President of <a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a>, and thus Africa's first elected female head of state.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_25" title="January 25">January 25</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election" title="2006 Palestinian legislative election">2006 Palestinian legislative election</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_17" title="February 17">February 17</a>: <a href="/wiki/2006_Southern_Leyte_mudslide" title="2006 Southern Leyte mudslide">2006 Southern Leyte mudslide</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_22" title="February 22">February 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/2006_al-Askari_mosque_bombing" title="2006 al-Askari mosque bombing">2006 al-Askari mosque bombing</a> turns the escalation of <a href="/wiki/Sectarian_violence_in_Iraq" title="Sectarian violence in Iraq">sectarian violence in Iraq</a> into a full-scale war (the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Civil_War_(2006-2008)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi Civil War (2006-2008)">Iraqi Civil War of 2006-2008</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a>: <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> is launched.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_21" title="May 21">May 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/June_3" title="June 3">June 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/2006_Montenegrin_independence_referendum" title="2006 Montenegrin independence referendum">Independence of Montenegro</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_11" title="July 11">July 11</a>: <a href="/wiki/2006_Mumbai_train_bombings" title="2006 Mumbai train bombings">Mumbai bombings</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_19" title="September 19">September 19</a>: A <a href="/wiki/2006_Thai_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2006 Thai coup d'état">coup d'état</a> in Thailand overthrows the government of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Thailand" title="Prime Minister of Thailand">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Thaksin_Shinawatra" title="Thaksin Shinawatra">Thaksin Shinawatra</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">October 9</a>: North Korea conducts a <a href="/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2006 North Korean nuclear test">nuclear test</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">October 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/November_13" title="November 13">November 13</a>: <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> acquires <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> for US$1.65 billion.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_1" title="November 1">November 1</a>: Former Russian security agent <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko" title="Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko">Alexander Litvinenko dies from poisoning</a> in the UK.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_21" title="November 21">November 21</a>: <a href="/wiki/Comprehensive_Peace_Accord" title="Comprehensive Peace Accord">Comprehensive Peace Accord</a> ends the <a href="/wiki/Nepalese_Civil_War" title="Nepalese Civil War">Nepalese Civil War</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_26" title="December 26">December 26</a>: <a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Gerald_Ford" title="Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford">Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_30" title="December 30">December 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Execution_of_Saddam_Hussein" title="Execution of Saddam Hussein">Execution of Saddam Hussein</a> by hanging.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War" title="2006 Lebanon War">2006 Lebanon War</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Mexican Drug War">Mexican Drug War</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somalia_War_(2006%E2%80%932009)" class="mw-redirect" title="Somalia War (2006–2009)">Somalian War of 2006</a> begins.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/International_Astronomical_Union" title="International Astronomical Union">International Astronomical Union</a> creates <a href="/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet" title="IAU definition of planet">the first formal definition of a planet</a>, which drops <a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a>'s classification as a planet.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a> launches the <a href="/wiki/Wii" title="Wii">Wii</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Baiji" title="Baiji">Baiji</a>, the Yangtze <a href="/wiki/River_dolphin" title="River dolphin">river dolphin</a>, becomes <a href="/wiki/Functionally_extinct" class="mw-redirect" title="Functionally extinct">functionally extinct</a>.</li> <li>Israeli soldier <a href="/wiki/Gilad_Shalit" title="Gilad Shalit">Gilad Shalit</a> is abducted by <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2006#Deaths" title="2006">2006 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2007"><a href="/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2007"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> join the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_4" title="January 4">January 4</a>: <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> becomes the first female <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the United States House of Representatives</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_9" title="January 9">January 9</a>: Introduction of the <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a>: <a href="/wiki/First_Ivorian_Civil_War" title="First Ivorian Civil War">First Ivorian Civil War</a> ends.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_16" title="April 16">April 16</a>: <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting" title="Virginia Tech shooting">Virginia Tech shooting</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">June 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">15</a>: <a href="/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict" title="Fatah–Hamas conflict">Fatah-Hamas conflict</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Battle of Gaza (2007)</a> leads to <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> taking control of the Gaza strip.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a>: <a href="/wiki/Saffron_Revolution" title="Saffron Revolution">Anti-government protests</a> in <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> suppressed by ruling <a href="/wiki/Military_junta" title="Military junta">junta</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_13" title="December 13">December 13</a>: 27 EU member states sign the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon" title="Treaty of Lisbon">Treaty of Lisbon</a>, with the treaty coming into effect on <a href="/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a>, 2009.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_27" title="December 27">December 27</a>: <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Benazir_Bhutto" title="Assassination of Benazir Bhutto">Assassination of Benazir Bhutto</a>, opposition leader and former prime minister of Pakistan.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_price_crisis" title="2007–2008 world food price crisis">Spike in food prices</a> and <a href="/wiki/Subprime_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Subprime crisis">subprime crisis</a> help trigger <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">global recession</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Ivorian_Civil_War" title="First Ivorian Civil War">First Ivorian Civil War</a> ends.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007-08_Kenyan_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2007-08 Kenyan crisis">Crisis</a> follows the <a href="/wiki/2007_Kenyan_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 Kenyan presidential election">Kenyan presidential election of 2007</a>, leading to the formation of a coalition government.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2007#Deaths" title="2007">2007 § Deaths</a></div> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2008"><a href="/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2008"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roadster_2.5_windmills_trimmed.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Roadster_2.5_windmills_trimmed.jpg/220px-Roadster_2.5_windmills_trimmed.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Roadster_2.5_windmills_trimmed.jpg/330px-Roadster_2.5_windmills_trimmed.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Roadster_2.5_windmills_trimmed.jpg/440px-Roadster_2.5_windmills_trimmed.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2647" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(first_generation)" title="Tesla Roadster (first generation)">Tesla Roadster</a> launched in 2008, the first mass production lithium-ion battery electric car.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_2" title="May 2">May 2</a>: <a href="/wiki/Cyclone_Nargis" title="Cyclone Nargis">Cyclone Nargis</a> kills 133,000 in <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a>: <a href="/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake" title="2008 Sichuan earthquake">Magnitude 8.0 earthquake</a> occurs in Wenchuan, China, causing almost 90,000 people to die or go missing.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_28" title="May 28">May 28</a>: The <a href="/wiki/1st_Nepalese_Constituent_Assembly" title="1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly">1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly</a> declares <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a> a republic, ending its <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Nepal" title="Kingdom of Nepal">monarchy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/June_21" title="June 21">21</a>: <a href="/wiki/MV_Princess_of_the_Stars" title="MV Princess of the Stars">Sinking of the MV <i>Princess of the Stars</i></a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">October 7</a>: <a href="/wiki/Spotify" title="Spotify">Spotify</a> is launched.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_4" title="November 4">November 4</a>: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> is <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">elected</a> the first African-American President of the United States.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_26" title="November 26">November 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/November_29" title="November 29">29</a>: <a href="/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks" title="2008 Mumbai attacks">2008 Mumbai attacks</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a> is released.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%9309)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza War (2008–09)">Gaza War</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 South Ossetia war">2008 South Ossetia war</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a> <a href="/wiki/2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence" title="2008 Kosovo declaration of independence">declares independence</a>, though it is not recognised by the United Nations.</li> <li>Iraqi forces <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Basra_(2008)" title="Battle of Basra (2008)">crack down</a> on <a href="/wiki/Muqtada_al_Sadr" class="mw-redirect" title="Muqtada al Sadr">Muqtada al Sadr</a>'s Mahdi forces in <a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sadr_City" title="Sadr City">Sadr City</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider" title="Large Hadron Collider">Large Hadron Collider</a> is completed as the world's largest and most powerful <a href="/wiki/Particle_collider" class="mw-redirect" title="Particle collider">particle collider</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(first_generation)" title="Tesla Roadster (first generation)">Tesla Roadster</a> launched, the first mass production lithium-ion battery electric car.</li> <li>Stock markets <a href="/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial crisis of 2007–2008">plunge</a> around the world, signaling the start of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2008#Deaths" title="2008">2008 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2009"><a href="/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2009"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a>: The cryptocurrency <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a> is launched.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a>: <a href="/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549" title="US Airways Flight 1549">US Airways Flight 1549</a> ditches in the <a href="/wiki/Hudson_River" title="Hudson River">Hudson River</a> in an accident that becomes known as the "Miracle on the Hudson", as all 155 people on board are rescued.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_16" title="June 16">June 16</a>: Formation of <a href="/wiki/BRICS" title="BRICS">BRICS</a> economic bloc.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_26" title="September 26">September 26</a>: <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Ketsana" title="Typhoon Ketsana">Typhoon Ketsana</a> kills 789 people in the Philippines.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)" title="Avatar (2009 film)">Avatar</a></i> is released in cinemas and becomes the <a href="/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films" title="List of highest-grossing films">highest-grossing film of all time</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%9309)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza War (2008–09)">Gaza War</a> ends while the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_blockade" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza blockade">Gaza blockade</a> continues.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Civil War">Sri Lankan Civil War</a> ends.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009%E2%80%932010_Iranian_election_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2009–2010 Iranian election protests">Election protests</a> begin in Iran.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Second_Chechen_War" title="Second Chechen War">Second Chechen War</a> ends.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Boko_Haram_insurgency" title="Boko Haram insurgency">Boko Haram insurgency</a> begins in <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic" title="2009 swine flu pandemic">2009 swine flu pandemic</a> begins in <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2009#Deaths" title="2009">2009 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2010s"><a href="/wiki/2010s" title="2010s">2010s</a></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 2010s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010"><a href="/wiki/2010" title="2010">2010</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_12" title="January 12">January 12</a>: A <a href="/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake" title="2010 Haiti earthquake">7.0 magnitude earthquake</a> in <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a> kills 230,000.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_18" title="February 18">February 18</a>: <a href="/wiki/2010_Nigerien_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2010 Nigerien coup d'état">2010 Nigerien coup d'état</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a>: <a href="/wiki/2010_Moscow_Metro_bombings" title="2010 Moscow Metro bombings">2010 Moscow Metro bombings</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_10" title="April 10">April 10</a>: The President of Poland, <a href="/wiki/Lech_Kaczy%C5%84ski" title="Lech Kaczyński">Lech Kaczyński</a>, is among 96 killed when their airplane <a href="/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash">crashes</a> in <a href="/wiki/Smolensk" title="Smolensk">Smolensk</a>, Russia.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_20" title="April 20">April 20</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill" title="Deepwater Horizon oil spill">largest oil spill in US history</a> occurs in the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_31" title="May 31">May 31</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid" title="Gaza flotilla raid">Gaza flotilla raid</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_22" title="July 22">July 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/August_10" title="August 10">August 10</a>: <a href="/wiki/2010_Colombia%E2%80%93Venezuela_diplomatic_crisis" title="2010 Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis">2010 Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_23" title="November 23">November 23</a>: <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> <a href="/wiki/Bombardment_of_Yeonpyeong" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombardment of Yeonpyeong">shells</a> the island of <a href="/wiki/Yeonpyeong" class="mw-redirect" title="Yeonpyeong">Yeonpyeong</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Thai_military_crackdown" title="2010 Thai military crackdown">A military crackdown</a> occurs in <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>.</li> <li>The threat of <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> <a href="/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis" title="Greek government-debt crisis">defaulting on its debts</a> triggers the <a href="/wiki/2010_European_sovereign_debt_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 European sovereign debt crisis">European sovereign debt crisis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_economic_downturn" title="Post-2008 Irish economic downturn">financial crisis</a>.</li> <li>Burmese political prisoner <a href="/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi" title="Aung San Suu Kyi">Aung San Suu Kyi</a> is released from house arrest.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a> starts.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyrgyz_Revolution_of_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010">Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Burj_Khalifa" title="Burj Khalifa">Burj Khalifa</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a> becomes the <a href="/wiki/Tallest_structure_in_the_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Tallest structure in the world">tallest structure in the world</a>, standing at 829.8 m (2,722 ft).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilma_Rousseff" title="Dilma Rousseff">Dilma Rousseff</a> is elected as the first female <a href="/wiki/President_of_Brazil" title="President of Brazil">president of Brazil</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/IPad" title="IPad">iPad</a> is introduced.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram">Instagram</a> is launched.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull" title="2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull">2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julia_Gillard" title="Julia Gillard">Julia Gillard</a> is elected first woman <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia" title="Prime Minister of Australia">Prime Minister of Australia</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2010#Deaths" title="2010">2010 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2011"><a href="/wiki/2011" title="2011">2011</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 2011"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_22" title="February 22">February 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake" title="2011 Christchurch earthquake">Christchurch earthquake</a> kills 185 and injures 2,000.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_11" title="March 11">March 11</a>: A <a href="/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami" title="2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami">9.1 earthquake</a> in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> triggers a tsunami and the <a href="/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster">meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2" title="May 2">May 2</a>: <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden" class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden is shot dead</a> by <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALs" title="United States Navy SEALs">United States Navy SEALs</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_9" title="July 9">July 9</a>: Independence of <a href="/wiki/South_Sudan" title="South Sudan">South Sudan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_22" title="July 22">July 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks" title="2011 Norway attacks">2011 Norway attacks</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_6" title="August 6">August 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/August_11" title="August 11">11</a>: <a href="/wiki/2011_England_riots" title="2011 England riots">Riots flare across England</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_20" title="October 20">October 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi is captured and killed</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sirte_(2011)" title="Battle of Sirte (2011)">Battle of Sirte</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_population" title="World population">World population</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Day_of_Seven_Billion" class="mw-redirect" title="The Day of Seven Billion">reaches 7 billion</a>.</li> <li>Arab Spring: <a href="/wiki/Tunisian_revolution" title="Tunisian revolution">revolutions in Tunisia</a>, <a href="/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution" title="2011 Egyptian revolution">Egypt</a> <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan civil war">and Libya</a> follow, as well as <a href="/wiki/2011_Yemeni_uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Yemeni uprising">uprisings in Yemen</a> <a href="/wiki/2011_Bahraini_uprising" title="2011 Bahraini uprising">and Bahrain</a>, and protests in several other Arab countries.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Ivorian_Civil_War" title="Second Ivorian Civil War">Second Ivorian Civil War</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_movement" title="Occupy movement">Occupy movement</a> inspires worldwide protests.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal" title="News International phone hacking scandal">News International phone hacking scandal</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Kim_Jong-il" class="mw-redirect" title="Death and state funeral of Kim Jong-il">Death and state funeral of Kim Jong-il</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Danyang%E2%80%93Kunshan_Grand_Bridge" title="Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge">Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge</a>, the world's longest, opens in China.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Ivorian_Civil_War" title="Second Ivorian Civil War">Second Ivorian Civil War</a> ends with the arrest of former president <a href="/wiki/Laurent_Gbagbo" title="Laurent Gbagbo">Laurent Gbagbo</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Iraq_(2007%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (2007–2011)">Iraq War ends</a>.</li> <li>Bombings occur <a href="/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airport_bombing" title="Domodedovo International Airport bombing">in Russia</a> <a href="/wiki/2011_Mogadishu_bombing" title="2011 Mogadishu bombing">and Somalia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Sindh_floods" title="2011 Sindh floods">Floods in Pakistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods" title="2011 Thailand floods">Thailand</a> <a href="/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Washi" title="Tropical Storm Washi">and the Philippines</a> kill roughly 2,500 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program" title="Space Shuttle program">Space Shuttle program</a> is officially ended.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> launches <a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)">space</a><a href="/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)" title="Curiosity (rover)">craft</a> to visit <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2011#Deaths" title="2011">2011 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2012"><a href="/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2012"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_7" title="May 7">May 7</a>: <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> is elected president of Russia for the third time.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_20" title="July 20">July 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/2012_Aurora,_Colorado_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting">2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_11" title="September 11">September 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/September_12" title="September 12">12</a>: <a href="/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack" title="2012 Benghazi attack">2012 Benghazi attack</a> leads to the death of US ambassador <a href="/wiki/J._Christopher_Stevens" title="J. Christopher Stevens">J. Christopher Stevens</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">October 14</a>: Skydiver <a href="/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner" title="Felix Baumgartner">Felix Baumgartner</a> becomes the first person to <a href="/wiki/Sound_barrier#Breaking_the_sound_barrier_as_a_human_projectile" title="Sound barrier">break the sound barrier without a vehicle</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">October 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/November_22" title="November 22">November 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy" title="Hurricane Sandy">Hurricane Sandy</a> causes $70 billion in damage and kills 233 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_6" title="November 6">November 6</a>: Barack Obama wins second term as President of the United States, <a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election" title="2012 United States presidential election">defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_15" title="November 15">November 15</a>: <a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a> is elected as <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" title="General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party">General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_26" title="November 26">November 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/December_8" title="December 8">December 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/2012_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference">UN Climate Change Conference</a> agrees to extend the <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" title="Kyoto Protocol">Kyoto Protocol</a> until 2020.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_4" title="December 4">December 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/December_9" title="December 9">9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Bopha" title="Typhoon Bopha">Typhoon Bopha</a> kills over 1,600 in the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_14" title="December 14">December 14</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting" title="Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting">Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Higgs_boson" title="Higgs boson">Higgs boson</a> is discovered.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic_conflict_(2012%E2%80%9313)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central African Republic conflict (2012–13)">Conflict begins</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic" title="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> launches <a href="/wiki/Operation_Pillar_of_Defense" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Pillar of Defense">Operation Pillar of Defense</a> against the Hamas-governed <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>.</li> <li>The US rover, <i><a href="/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)" title="Curiosity (rover)">Curiosity</a></i>, takes a selfie on <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> and finds evidence of an <a href="/wiki/Water_on_Mars#Lakes_and_river_valleys" title="Water on Mars">ancient streambed of water</a> on the Red Planet.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenouda_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Shenouda III">Shenouda III</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pope_of_the_Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria" class="mw-redirect" title="Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria">Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria</a>, dies; <a href="/wiki/Pope_Tawadros_II_of_Alexandria" title="Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria">Tawadros II</a> succeeds him.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemeni</a> President <a href="/wiki/Ali_Abdullah_Saleh" title="Ali Abdullah Saleh">Ali Abdullah Saleh</a> steps down.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mali_War" title="Mali War">Northern Mali conflict</a>, the <a href="/wiki/National_Movement_for_the_Liberation_of_Azawad" title="National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad">MNLA</a> declares <a href="/wiki/Azawad" title="Azawad">Azawad</a> an independent state.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2012#Deaths" title="2012">2012 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2013"><a href="/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 2013"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_15" title="February 15">February 15</a>: An <a href="/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor" title="Chelyabinsk meteor">undiscovered meteor</a> strikes the Chelyabinsk oblast in Russia, with an airburst injuring thousands and damaging many buildings.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_28" title="February 28">February 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a>: <a href="/wiki/Resignation_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI">Pope Benedict XVI resigns</a>, the first Pope to do since 1415, and <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> is elected, becoming the first Pope from <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a>: <a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Hugo_Chavez" class="mw-redirect" title="Death and state funeral of Hugo Chavez">Death and state funeral of Hugo Chavez</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_24" title="April 24">April 24</a>: The <a href="/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse" class="mw-redirect" title="2013 Savar building collapse">Rana Plaza collapses</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_22" title="May 22">May 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> soldier <a href="/wiki/Fusilier#United_Kingdom" title="Fusilier">Fusilier</a> <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby" title="Murder of Lee Rigby">Lee Rigby</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Regiment_of_Fusiliers" title="Royal Regiment of Fusiliers">Royal Regiment of Fusiliers</a> is murdered in <a href="/wiki/Woolwich" title="Woolwich">Woolwich</a>, southeast <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_1" title="July 1">July 1</a>: <a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatia</a> becomes a member of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_3" title="July 3">July 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/President_of_Egypt" title="President of Egypt">President of Egypt</a> <a href="/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi" title="Mohamed Morsi">Mohamed Morsi</a> <a href="/wiki/2013_Egyptian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2013 Egyptian coup d'état">is deposed by the military in a coup d'état</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_22" title="July 22">July 22</a>: Birth of <a href="/wiki/Prince_George_of_Wales" title="Prince George of Wales">Prince George of Wales</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_21" title="August 21">August 21</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack" title="Ghouta chemical attack">A chemical attack in Ghouta, Syria</a> is blamed on President <a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_9" title="September 9">September 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/September_28" title="September 28">28</a>: <a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_City_crisis" title="Zamboanga City crisis">Zamboanga City crisis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_17" title="September 17">September 17</a>: <a href="/wiki/Rockstar_Games" title="Rockstar Games">Rockstar Games</a> release <i><a href="/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V" title="Grand Theft Auto V">Grand Theft Auto V</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">October 15</a>: A <a href="/wiki/2013_Bohol_earthquake" title="2013 Bohol earthquake">7.2 magnitude earthquake</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bohol" title="Bohol">Bohol</a>, kills 222.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_8" title="November 8">November 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan" title="Typhoon Haiyan">Typhoon Haiyan</a> kills nearly 6,150 people in <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_21" title="November 21">November 21</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Euromaidan" title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a> uprising begins in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_5" title="December 5">December 5</a>: <a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Nelson_Mandela" title="Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela">Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela</a>.</li> <li>The French military intervenes in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mali_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Mali conflict">Northern Mali conflict</a>.</li> <li>Terrorist attacks occur in <a href="/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing" title="Boston Marathon bombing">Boston</a> <a href="/wiki/Westgate_shopping_mall_attack" title="Westgate shopping mall attack">and Nairobi</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a> releases classified documents concerning <a href="/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure" class="mw-redirect" title="Global surveillance disclosure">mass surveillance by the NSA</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Sudanese_conflict_(2013%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="South Sudanese conflict (2013–present)">Conflict begins in South Sudan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Legality of cannabis by country">the first country to fully legalize cannabis</a>.</li> <li>End of <a href="/wiki/2012%E2%80%932013_Cypriot_financial_crisis" title="2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis">2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiss_nightclub_fire" title="Kiss nightclub fire">Kiss nightclub fire</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Alberta_floods" title="2013 Alberta floods">2013 Alberta floods</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Lahad_Datu_standoff" title="2013 Lahad Datu standoff">2013 Lahad Datu standoff</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Margaret_Thatcher" title="Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher">Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2013#Deaths" title="2013">2013 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014"><a href="/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 2014"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February" title="February">February</a>: <a href="/wiki/Euromaidan" title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a> protest in Ukraine sparks a <a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">revolution</a> and the overthrow of <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a>, leading to Russia's <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">annexation of Crimea</a> and the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Donbas (2014–2022)">war in Donbas</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_8" title="March 8">March 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370" title="Malaysia Airlines Flight 370">Malaysia Airlines Flight 370</a> disappears from radar while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. There were 239 people on board.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_16" title="April 16">April 16</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol" title="Sinking of MV Sewol">MV Sewol</a> sinks, killing 304 of 476 passengers, 250 of which were students at <a href="/wiki/Danwon_High_School" title="Danwon High School">Danwon High School</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_22" title="May 22">May 22</a>: A <a href="/wiki/2014_Thai_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2014 Thai coup d'état">coup d'état</a> in <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> overthrows the caretaker government.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_19" title="June 19">June 19</a>: King <a href="/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I" title="Juan Carlos I">Juan Carlos I</a> of Spain abdicates; his son becomes <a href="/wiki/King_Felipe_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="King Felipe VI">King Felipe VI</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_8" title="August 8">August 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Scott_Cawthon" title="Scott Cawthon">Scott Cawthon</a> releases <i><a href="/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy%27s" title="Five Nights at Freddy's">Five Nights at Freddy's</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_9" title="August 9">August 9</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Shooting of Michael Brown">shooting</a> of African-American teenager Michael Brown by police leads to <a href="/wiki/Ferguson_unrest" title="Ferguson unrest">violent unrest</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ferguson,_Missouri" title="Ferguson, Missouri">Ferguson, Missouri</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_18" title="September 18">September 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> votes to remain <a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">part</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> during the <a href="/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum" title="2014 Scottish independence referendum">2014 Scottish independence referendum</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_12" title="November 12">November 12</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Rosetta (spacecraft)"><i>Rosetta</i> spacecraft</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)" title="Philae (spacecraft)">Philae</a></i> probe becomes the first to successfully land on <a href="/wiki/67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko" class="mw-redirect" title="67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko">a comet</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_16" title="December 16">December 16</a>: <a href="/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan">Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan</a> <a href="/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_massacre" title="2014 Peshawar school massacre">kill</a> over 130 students in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Western African Ebola virus epidemic">The worst Ebola epidemic in recorded history</a> occurs in West Africa, infecting nearly 30,000 people and resulting in the deaths of 11,000+.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)">Yemeni Civil War</a> begins after the <a href="/wiki/Houthi_takeover" class="mw-redirect" title="Houthi takeover">Houthi takeover in Yemen</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China" title="Persecution of Uyghurs in China">Persecution of Uyghurs in China</a> in <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a> increases.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501" title="Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501">Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501</a> crashes into the <a href="/wiki/Java_Sea" title="Java Sea">Java Sea</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17" title="Malaysia Airlines Flight 17">Malaysia Airlines Flight 17</a> is shot down over Ukraine and <a href="/wiki/Air_Alg%C3%A9rie_Flight_5017" title="Air Algérie Flight 5017">Air Algérie Flight 5017</a> is downed in <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Gaza_War" title="2014 Gaza War">2014 Gaza War</a>: <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> launches <a href="/wiki/Operation_Protective_Edge" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Protective Edge">an assault</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> in response to <a href="/wiki/2014_kidnapping_and_murder_of_Israeli_teenagers" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers">tit-for-tat</a> <a href="/wiki/Kidnapping_and_murder_of_Mohammed_Abu_Khdeir" title="Kidnapping and murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir">murder-kidnappings</a>, leading to the deaths of 71 Israelis and 2,100 Palestinians.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_in_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant">ISIL</a> begins <a href="/wiki/Northern_Iraq_offensive_(June_2014)" title="Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)">its offensive in northern Iraq</a>, leading to <a href="/wiki/2014_American-led_intervention_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 American-led intervention in Iraq">intervention in Iraq</a> <a href="/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="American-led intervention in Syria">and Syria</a> by a US-led coalition.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Libyan Civil War">Second Libyan Civil War</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> is <a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">elected</a> as the Prime Minister of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joko_Widodo" title="Joko Widodo">Joko Widodo</a> is <a href="/wiki/2014_Indonesian_presidential_election" title="2014 Indonesian presidential election">elected</a> <a href="/wiki/President_of_Indonesia" title="President of Indonesia">President of Indonesia</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2014#Deaths" title="2014">2014 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2015"><a href="/wiki/2015" title="2015">2015</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 2015"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a>: Five <a href="/wiki/Former_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Former Soviet Union">former Soviet Union</a> countries form the <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union" title="Eurasian Economic Union">Eurasian Economic Union</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/January_7" title="January 7">7</a>: <a href="/wiki/Boko_Haram" title="Boko Haram">Boko Haram</a> perpetrates <a href="/wiki/2015_Baga_massacre" title="2015 Baga massacre">a massacre of over 2,000 people</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baga,_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Baga, Nigeria">Baga, Nigeria</a>, and allies itself with <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_in_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant">ISIL</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2" title="April 2">April 2</a>: <a href="/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)" title="Al-Shabaab (militant group)">Al-Shabaab</a> perpetrates a <a href="/wiki/Garissa_University_College_attack" title="Garissa University College attack">mass shooting</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>, killing 148.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_25" title="April 25">April 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/May_3" title="May 3">May 3</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Freddie_Gray" class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Freddie Gray">death</a> of an African-American man, Freddie Gray by police leads to <a href="/wiki/2015_Baltimore_protests" title="2015 Baltimore protests">violent unrest</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kentex_slipper_factory_fire" title="Kentex slipper factory fire">Kentex slipper factory fire</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_14" title="July 14">July 14</a>: <a href="/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal" class="mw-redirect" title="Iran nuclear deal">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action</a> agreement reached, setting limits to Iran's <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran" title="Nuclear program of Iran">nuclear program</a> in exchange for sanctions relief.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_30" title="September 30">September 30</a>: Russia begins <a href="/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian military intervention in Syria">air strikes</a> against <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">ISIL</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syrian_opposition" title="Syrian opposition">anti-government forces</a> in Syria</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_30" title="November 30">November 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a>: <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference">195 nations agree</a> to lower <a href="/wiki/Carbon_emissions" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon emissions">carbon emissions</a> by negotiating the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris agreement</a>.</li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks" title="November 2015 Paris attacks">series of terrorist attacks</a> <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting" title="Charlie Hebdo shooting">occur in Paris</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2015_Nepal_earthquake" title="April 2015 Nepal earthquake">A series</a> <a href="/wiki/May_2015_Nepal_earthquake" title="May 2015 Nepal earthquake">of earthquakes</a> <a href="/wiki/October_2015_Hindu_Kush_earthquake" title="October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake">in the Himalayas</a> kills over 10,000 people.</li> <li>The heads of China and <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> <a href="/wiki/2015_Ma%E2%80%93Xi_meeting" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Ma–Xi meeting">meet for the first time</a>, while the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> <a href="/wiki/Cuban_thaw" title="Cuban thaw">reestablish full diplomatic relations</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_on_Mars" title="Water on Mars">Liquid water</a> is found on <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>.</li> <li>First <a href="/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" title="Dawn (spacecraft)">close</a><a href="/wiki/New_Horizons" title="New Horizons">-up</a> images of <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> announces the end of <a href="/wiki/One-child_policy" title="One-child policy">One-child policy</a> after 35 years.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_migrant_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="European migrant crisis">European migrant crisis</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> <a href="/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges" title="Obergefell v. Hodges">determines</a> that <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage in the United States">same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homo_naledi" title="Homo naledi">Homo naledi</a>, a species of early human, is discovered in Africa.</li> <li>Crash of <a href="/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525" title="Germanwings Flight 9525">Germanwings Flight 9525</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal" title="Volkswagen emissions scandal">Volkswagen emissions scandal</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting" title="Charleston church shooting">Charleston church shooting</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Boris_Nemtsov" title="Assassination of Boris Nemtsov">Assassination of Boris Nemtsov</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case" title="2015 FIFA corruption case">2015 FIFA corruption case</a>.</li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2016"><a href="/wiki/2016" title="2016">2016</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 2016"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_11" title="February 11">February 11</a>: Detection of <a href="/wiki/Gravitational_wave" title="Gravitational wave">gravitational waves</a> by <a href="/wiki/LIGO" title="LIGO">LIGO</a> confirmed.</li> <li>March 9-15: Artificial intelligence program <a href="/wiki/AlphaGo" title="AlphaGo">AlphaGo</a> <a href="/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol" title="AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol">defeats</a> top <a href="/wiki/Go_(game)" title="Go (game)">Go</a> player <a href="/wiki/Lee_Sedol" title="Lee Sedol">Lee Sedol</a> in a series of 5 games, winning 4 out of 5 games.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a>: Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> since <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a> in 1928.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_3" title="April 3">April 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/Panama_Papers" title="Panama Papers">Panama Papers</a>, a <a href="/wiki/News_leak" title="News leak">leak</a> of legal documents, reveals information of 214,888 <a href="/wiki/Offshore_companies" class="mw-redirect" title="Offshore companies">offshore companies</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_9" title="May 9">May 9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte" title="Rodrigo Duterte">Rodrigo Duterte</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Philippines" title="President of the Philippines">President of the Philippines</a>, and initiates <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Drug_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine Drug War">a controversial drug war</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel" title="Gotthard Base Tunnel">Gotthard Base Tunnel</a>, the world's longest and deepest <a href="/wiki/Railway_tunnel" class="mw-redirect" title="Railway tunnel">railway tunnel</a>, is completed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a>: A shooter <a href="/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando nightclub shooting">kills 49 people</a> at a gay nightclub in <a href="/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando, Florida</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/July_13" title="July 13">July 13</a>: The people of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> vote to <a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">leave the European Union</a>; <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> <a href="/wiki/Resignation_of_David_Cameron" class="mw-redirect" title="Resignation of David Cameron">resigns</a> as a result, and <a href="/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a> succeeds him as the second female <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> of the UK.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_4" title="July 4">July 4</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)">Juno</a></i> enters orbit around <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_4" title="September 4">September 4</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa">Mother Teresa</a> is officially <a href="/wiki/Canonized" class="mw-redirect" title="Canonized">canonized</a> by <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_4" title="November 4">November 4</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a>, signed by 195 nations to fight <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a>, formally goes into effect.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_8" title="November 8">November 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/2016_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 presidential election">2016 presidential election</a>, in an upset against <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, the first woman to be nominated by a major party.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> lifts sanctions from <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> in recognition of the dismantling of its <a href="/wiki/Iran_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Iran and weapons of mass destruction">nuclear program</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Patriarch_Kirill" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriarch Kirill">Patriarch Kirill</a> sign the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Declaration_of_Pope_Francis_and_Patriarch_Kirill" title="Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill">Ecumenical Declaration</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">ISIL</a> claims responsibility for <a href="/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings" title="2016 Brussels bombings">a series of bombings in Brussels</a>, <a href="/wiki/2016_Atat%C3%BCrk_Airport_attack" title="2016 Atatürk Airport attack">a massacre</a> at <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk_Airport" title="Atatürk Airport">Atatürk Airport</a> and car ramming attacks in <a href="/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack" title="2016 Nice truck attack">Nice</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augmented-reality" class="mw-redirect" title="Augmented-reality">Augmented-reality</a> game, <i><a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go" title="Pokémon Go">Pokémon Go</a></i>, is released, breaking records in revenue, and becoming the best-selling mobile game.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombian</a> government signs a <a href="/wiki/Colombian_peace_process" title="Colombian peace process">peace deal</a> with <a href="/wiki/FARC" class="mw-redirect" title="FARC">FARC</a> to end the <a href="/wiki/Colombian_conflict" title="Colombian conflict">Colombian conflict</a>, despite narrowly losing <a href="/wiki/2016_Colombian_peace_agreement_referendum" title="2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum">a referendum</a>.</li> <li>The government of <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> begins a <a href="/wiki/2016_Turkish_purges" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Turkish purges">series of purges</a> in reaction to a <a href="/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt">failed coup d'état attempt</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S._troops_from_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan">US troops withdraw from Afghanistan</a> after 15 years.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/President_of_Brazil" title="President of Brazil">President of Brazil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dilma_Rousseff" title="Dilma Rousseff">Dilma Rousseff</a>, is impeached.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_of_Thailand" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Thailand">King</a> <a href="/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej" title="Bhumibol Adulyadej">Bhumibol Adulyadej</a> of Thailand dies after 70 years on the throne and is succeeded by his son <a href="/wiki/Vajiralongkorn" title="Vajiralongkorn">Vajiralongkorn</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Karlov" title="Andrei Karlov">Andrei Karlov</a>, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Andrei_Karlov" title="Assassination of Andrei Karlov">is assassinated</a> at an art exhibition in <a href="/wiki/Ankara" title="Ankara">Ankara</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsai_Ing-wen" title="Tsai Ing-wen">Tsai Ing-wen</a> is <a href="/wiki/2016_Taiwanese_presidential_election" title="2016 Taiwanese presidential election">elected</a> as the first female <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Republic_of_China" title="President of the Republic of China">President of Taiwan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_attack_on_the_Saudi_diplomatic_missions_in_Iran" title="2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran">2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trial_of_Radovan_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87" title="Trial of Radovan Karadžić">Radovan Karadžić</a> is found guilty of 10 of 11 counts of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity during the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a> and is sentenced to 40 years in prison.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2016_Dhaka_attack" title="July 2016 Dhaka attack">Dhaka attack</a> kills 29 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_project" title="Panama Canal expansion project">A third set of locks in the Panama Canal opens for commercial traffic</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Southern_Taiwan_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Southern Taiwan earthquake">2016 Southern Taiwan earthquake</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_Zika_virus_epidemic" class="mw-redirect" title="2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic">An outbreak of the Zika virus</a> is linked to a cluster of cases of <a href="/wiki/Microcephaly" title="Microcephaly">microcephaly</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Fidel_Castro" title="Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro">Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/TikTok" title="TikTok">TikTok</a> is launched.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2016#Deaths" title="2016">2016 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2017"><a href="/wiki/2017" title="2017">2017</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 2017"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_20" title="January 20">January 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> is inaugurated as President of the United States.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_21" title="January 21">January 21</a>: Millions of people participate in the <a href="/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March" title="2017 Women's March">Women's March</a> in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-nam" title="Kim Jong-nam">Kim Jong-nam</a>, the half-brother of <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-Un" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Jong-Un">Kim Jong-Un</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam" title="Assassination of Kim Jong-nam">is assassinated in Kuala Lumpur</a>, Malaysia.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> canonizes <a href="/wiki/Jacinta_and_Francisco_Marto" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacinta and Francisco Marto">Jacinta and Francisco Marto</a>, two of the three <a href="/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima#Later_years_of_the_children" title="Our Lady of Fátima">Fátima children</a> who reported seeing the Virgin Mary in the spring and summer of 1917.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_22" title="May 22">May 22</a>: A <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing" title="Manchester Arena bombing">terrorist bombing attack</a> at an <a href="/wiki/Ariana_Grande" title="Ariana Grande">Ariana Grande</a> concert in <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester, England">Manchester, England</a> kills 22 people and injures over 140.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a>: <a href="/wiki/2017_Resorts_World_Manila_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Resorts World Manila attack">36 people are killed in an attack in Resorts World Manila</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_11" title="August 11">August 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/August_12" title="August 12">12</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville, Virginia</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally" title="Unite the Right rally">the site of a far-right rally</a> protesting the removal of <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> statues throughout the US. During the event, a white supremacist rams his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, injuring 19 and <a href="/wiki/Heather_Heyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Heather Heyer">killing one</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September" title="September">September</a>: Two earthquakes strike Mexico on <a href="/wiki/2017_Chiapas_earthquake" title="2017 Chiapas earthquake">September 8</a> and <a href="/wiki/2017_Central_Mexico_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 Central Mexico earthquake">September 19</a>, killing over 400 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">October 1</a>: <a href="/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting" title="2017 Las Vegas shooting">60 people are killed in a mass shooting</a> at a music festival in <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">October 14</a>: A <a href="/wiki/14_October_2017_Mogadishu_bombings" title="14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings">bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia</a> kills 587 people and injures 316. It is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">October 28</a>: <a href="/wiki/%27Oumuamua" class="mw-redirect" title="'Oumuamua">'Oumuamua</a>, the first known <a href="/wiki/Interstellar_object" title="Interstellar object">interstellar object</a>, is identified.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_5" title="November 5">November 5</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sutherland_Springs_church_shooting" title="Sutherland Springs church shooting">26 people are killed in a church shooting</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sutherland_Springs,_Texas" title="Sutherland Springs, Texas">Sutherland Springs, Texas</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> <a href="/wiki/2017_North_Korean_nuclear_test" title="2017 North Korean nuclear test">tests a hydrogen bomb</a> and conducts <a href="/wiki/2017_North_Korean_missile_tests" title="2017 North Korean missile tests">a series of ballistic missile tests</a>. The United States responds with a wave of export sanctions.</li> <li>ISIL launches <a href="/wiki/2017_Tehran_attacks" title="2017 Tehran attacks">simultaneous attacks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a>, destroy the <a href="/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_al-Nuri_(Mosul)" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Mosque of al-Nuri (Mosul)">Great Mosque of al-Nuri</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2017_Sinai_mosque_attack" title="2017 Sinai mosque attack">kill 311 in Egypt</a>, but is declared defeated in Iraq by the end of the year.</li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Rohingya_persecution_in_Myanmar_(2016%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rohingya persecution in Myanmar (2016–present)">military operation</a> targeting <a href="/wiki/Rohingya_people" title="Rohingya people">Rohingya Muslims</a> in <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> is declared <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing" title="Ethnic cleansing">ethnic cleansing</a> by the <a href="/wiki/UNHCR" class="mw-redirect" title="UNHCR">UNHCR</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Atlantic_hurricane_season" title="2017 Atlantic hurricane season">This year's Atlantic Hurricane season</a> features <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey" title="Hurricane Harvey">Hurricane Harvey</a>, which kills 107 and becomes the costliest hurricane in US history, as well as <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma">Hurricane Irma</a>, killing 134, and <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Maria" title="Hurricane Maria">Hurricane Maria</a>, killing 3,059.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mugabe" title="Robert Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a> is ousted in a <a href="/wiki/2017_Zimbabwean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état">coup d'état</a>.</li> <li>Serb military commander <a href="/wiki/Ratko_Mladi%C4%87" title="Ratko Mladić">Ratko Mladić</a> is declared guilty of genocide in the <a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosnian Genocide">Bosnian Genocide</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_cases" title="Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases">Allegations of sexual abuse</a> against <a href="/wiki/Film_producer" title="Film producer">film producer</a> <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein" title="Harvey Weinstein">Harvey Weinstein</a> lead to a <a href="/wiki/Weinstein_effect" title="Weinstein effect">wave of similar accusations</a> from within <a href="/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles" title="Hollywood, Los Angeles">Hollywood</a> and other areas of primarily the English-speaking world.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire" title="Grenfell Tower fire">Grenfell Tower fire</a> in London kills 72 and injures 70.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/President_of_South_Korea" title="President of South Korea">President of South Korea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Park_Geun-hye" title="Park Geun-hye">Park Geun-hye</a>, is impeached, while <a href="/wiki/Moon_Jae-in" title="Moon Jae-in">Moon Jae-in</a> <a href="/wiki/2017_South_Korean_presidential_election" title="2017 South Korean presidential election">is elected</a> <a href="/wiki/President_of_South_Korea" title="President of South Korea">president</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron" title="Emmanuel Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a> becomes President of France after defeating <a href="/wiki/Far-right" class="mw-redirect" title="Far-right">far-right</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen" title="Marine Le Pen">Marine Le Pen</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2017#Deaths" title="2017">2017 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2018"><a href="/wiki/2018" title="2018">2018</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 2018"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a>: <a href="/wiki/March_for_Our_Lives" title="March for Our Lives">March for Our Lives</a> occurs in 900 locations worldwide in response to the 14 February <a href="/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="Stoneman Douglas High School shooting">Parkland shooting</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a>: The first summit between <a href="/wiki/2018_North_Korea%E2%80%93United_States_summit" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 North Korea–United States summit">the US and North Korea</a> and the first ever crossing of the <a href="/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone" title="Korean Demilitarized Zone">Korean Demilitarized Zone</a> by a North Korean leader occur.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a>: Twelve boys and their football coach are successfully <a href="/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue" title="Tham Luang cave rescue">rescued</a> from the flooded <a href="/wiki/Tham_Luang_Nang_Non" title="Tham Luang Nang Non">Tham Luang Nang Non</a> cave in <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_24" title="June 24">June 24</a>: Saudi Arabia <a href="/wiki/Women_to_drive_movement" title="Women to drive movement">allows women to drive</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2" title="October 2">October 2</a>: Exiled <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a></i> journalist <a href="/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi" title="Jamal Khashoggi">Jamal Khashoggi</a> is <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi" title="Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi">assassinated</a> inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, triggering a <a href="/wiki/Reactions_to_the_assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi" title="Reactions to the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi">diplomatic crisis</a> for Saudi Arabia.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> <a href="/wiki/Operation_Olive_Branch" title="Operation Olive Branch">invades northern Syria</a>, while 70 die in <a href="/wiki/Douma_chemical_attack" title="Douma chemical attack">a chemical attack</a>, triggering a <a href="/wiki/2018_missile_strikes_against_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 missile strikes against Syria">missile strike</a> against President <a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a>’s regime.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakatan_Harapan" title="Pakatan Harapan">Pakatan Harapan</a> becomes the first opposition party to assume power in <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> since independence.</li> <li>Twenty-year <a href="/wiki/Eritrean%E2%80%93Ethiopian_border_conflict" title="Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict">Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict</a> formally ends.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow vests movement">Yellow vests movement</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>'s largest sustained period of civil unrest since 1968.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/2018_Sunda_Strait_tsunami" title="2018 Sunda Strait tsunami">Sunda strait tsunami</a> kills 426 and injures 14,000 and the <a href="/wiki/2018_Sulawesi_earthquake_and_tsunami" title="2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami">2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami</a> kills 4,340 and injures 10,700.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Macedonia">Macedonia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> reach a historic agreement in the <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute" title="Macedonia naming dispute">Macedonia naming dispute</a>, in which the former is renamed in 2019 to the 'Republic of North Macedonia'.</li> <li>China's <a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress" title="National People's Congress">National People's Congress</a> votes to abolish presidential <a href="/wiki/Term_limits" class="mw-redirect" title="Term limits">term limits</a>, allowing <a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a> to <a href="/wiki/President_for_life" title="President for life">rule for life</a>. Xi is also the <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" title="General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party">General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Paramount_leader" title="Paramount leader">highest position</a> without term limits.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_trade_war" title="China–United States trade war">China–United States trade war</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Armenian_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 Armenian revolution">2018 Armenian revolution</a> occurs.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Iraqi_parliamentary_election" title="2018 Iraqi parliamentary election">First post-ISIL election in Iraq</a>.</li> <li>The Trump administration reimposes <a href="/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctions against Iran">sanctions against Iran</a>.</li> <li>The first monkeys are <a href="/wiki/Cloning" title="Cloning">cloned</a>, and first genetically modified humans reported, in China.</li> <li>Four people are poisoned with a nerve agent, one fatally, in <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal" title="Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal">Salisbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/2018_Amesbury_poisonings" title="2018 Amesbury poisonings">Amesbury</a>, England in a suspected Russian assassination attempt.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros" title="Northern white rhinoceros">northern white rhinoceros</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/Functionally_extinct" class="mw-redirect" title="Functionally extinct">functionally extinct</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2018#Deaths" title="2018">2018 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2019"><a href="/wiki/2019" title="2019">2019</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 2019"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_4" title="Chang'e 4">Chang'e 4</a> becomes the first object to land on the <a href="/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon" title="Far side of the Moon">far side of the Moon</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_25" title="January 25">January 25</a>: Establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Bangsamoro_Autonomous_Region_in_Muslim_Mindanao" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao">Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January" title="January">January</a> – <a href="/wiki/June" title="June">June</a>: A <a href="/wiki/2019_Jolo_Cathedral_bombings" title="2019 Jolo Cathedral bombings">series of suicide bombings</a> <a href="/wiki/2019_Indanan_bombings" title="2019 Indanan bombings">occur in Sulu</a>, Philippines.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_10" title="April 10">April 10</a>: <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope" title="Event Horizon Telescope">Event Horizon Telescope</a> takes the first ever image of a <a href="/wiki/Black_hole" title="Black hole">black hole</a>, at the core of galaxy <a href="/wiki/Messier_87" title="Messier 87">Messier 87</a>.</li> <li>Fossil fragments found in the <a href="/wiki/Callao_Cave" title="Callao Cave">Callao Cave</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> reveal the existence of the <i><a href="/wiki/Homo_luzonensis" title="Homo luzonensis">Homo luzonensis</a></i> species of humans.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a>: A major <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris_fire" class="mw-redirect" title="Notre-Dame de Paris fire">fire</a> engulfs <a href="/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris" title="Notre-Dame de Paris">Notre-Dame Cathedral</a> in Paris, resulting in the roof and main spire collapsing.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_30" title="April 30">April 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan" title="Emperor of Japan">Emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/Akihito" title="Akihito">Akihito</a> of <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> <a href="/wiki/2019_Japanese_imperial_transition" title="2019 Japanese imperial transition">abdicates</a> from his <a href="/wiki/Chrysanthemum_Throne" title="Chrysanthemum Throne">throne</a>, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in almost two centuries. The abdication ends the <a href="/wiki/Heisei" class="mw-redirect" title="Heisei">Heisei</a> <a href="/wiki/Japanese_era_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese era names">era of Japan</a> and ushers in the <a href="/wiki/Reiwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Reiwa">Reiwa era</a> with new emperor <a href="/wiki/Naruhito" title="Naruhito">Naruhito</a> ascending the throne on May 1.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_5" title="August 5">August 5</a>: India <a href="/wiki/Revocation_of_the_special_status_of_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir">revokes the special status of Jammu and Kashmir</a>.</li> <li>September 19: 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All Of Us' Facebook event results in 1500 people turning up to the festival, and approximately 150 people appearing at the main event.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_18" title="October 18">October 18</a>: <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> astronauts <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Meir" title="Jessica Meir">Jessica Meir</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christina_Koch" title="Christina Koch">Christina Koch</a> conduct the first all-female spacewalk outside of the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">ISS</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a>: US President Donald Trump is <a href="/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" title="First impeachment of Donald Trump">impeached</a> by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_20" title="December 20">December 20</a>: The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Space_Force" title="United States Space Force">United States Space Force</a> is announced by <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a> <a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Mike Pence</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Horizons" title="New Horizons">New Horizons</a></i> takes the first close up image of a <a href="/wiki/486958_Arrokoth" title="486958 Arrokoth">classical kuiper belt object</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings" title="Christchurch mosque shootings">Christchurch mosque shootings</a> kill 51 people, while a <a href="/wiki/2019_Khash%E2%80%93Zahedan_suicide_bombing" title="2019 Khash–Zahedan suicide bombing">suicide bombing in Iran</a> kills 41, and a <a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings" title="2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings">series of bomb attacks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> kills 250.</li> <li>ISIL loses the last of its territory.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdelaziz_Bouteflika" title="Abdelaziz Bouteflika">Abdelaziz Bouteflika</a> resigns as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Algeria" title="President of Algeria">President of Algeria</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir" title="Omar al-Bashir">Omar al-Bashir</a> <a href="/wiki/2019_Sudanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2019 Sudanese coup d'état">is deposed</a> as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Sudan" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Sudan">President of Sudan</a> in <a href="/wiki/2019_Sudanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2019 Sudanese coup d'état">a coup d'état</a> amid <a href="/wiki/2019_Algerian_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Algerian protests">widespread protests</a> <a href="/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Sudanese_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2018–19 Sudanese protests">in both countries</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Vescovo" title="Victor Vescovo">Victor Vescovo</a> breaks the human depth record, reaching 10,928 m in the <a href="/wiki/Challenger_Deep" title="Challenger Deep">Challenger Deep</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">Protests begin</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> over an extradition bill.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Amazon_rainforest_wildfires" title="2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires">Wildfires spike</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> endures the <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bushfire_season" title="2019–20 Australian bushfire season">most widespread bush fires in its history</a>.</li> <li>Isabelle Holdaway is the first patient to receive a genetically modified <a href="/wiki/Phage_therapy" title="Phage therapy">phage therapy</a> to treat a <a href="/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance" title="Antimicrobial resistance">drug-resistant infection</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> abolishes <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_secret" title="Pontifical secret">pontifical secrecy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases" title="Catholic Church sexual abuse cases">sex abuse cases</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_dengue_fever_epidemic" title="2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic">2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic</a> begins in <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%9420_Bolivian_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2019—20 Bolivian protests">Protests erupt in Bolivia</a> <a href="/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis">and Venezuela</a> over <a href="/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_election" title="2018 Venezuelan presidential election">disputed</a> <a href="/wiki/2019_Bolivian_general_election" title="2019 Bolivian general election">elections</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev" title="Nursultan Nazarbayev">Nursultan Nazarbayev</a> resigns as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Kazakhstan" title="President of Kazakhstan">President of Kazakhstan</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kassym-Jomart_Tokayev" title="Kassym-Jomart Tokayev">Kassym-Jomart Tokayev</a> assumes power. <a href="/wiki/Astana" title="Astana">Astana</a> is renamed <a href="/wiki/Nur-Sultan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nur-Sultan">Nur-Sultan</a> in his honor.</li> <li>The EU <a href="/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market" title="Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market">Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market</a> is passed over intense opposition.</li> <li>Bashar al Assad launches <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_Syria_offensive_(April%E2%80%93August_2019)" title="Northwestern Syria offensive (April–August 2019)">multiple offensives</a> <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_Syria_offensive_(November_2019%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwestern Syria offensive (November 2019–present)">in Northwestern Syria</a>; <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> launches <a href="/wiki/2019_Turkish_offensive_into_north-eastern_Syria" title="2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria">an offensive into northeastern Syria</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khartoum_massacre" title="Khartoum massacre">More than a hundred people are killed</a> after police and <a href="/wiki/Janjaweed" title="Janjaweed">Janjaweed</a> attack protesters in Sudan.</li> <li>The United States blames <a href="/wiki/June_2019_Gulf_of_Oman_incident" title="June 2019 Gulf of Oman incident">attacks on ships in the Gulf of Oman</a> on Iran, escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barisha_raid" class="mw-redirect" title="Barisha raid">Barisha raid</a> ends in the <a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Albania_earthquake" title="2019 Albania earthquake">A 6.4 magnitude earthquake</a> in <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a>, kills 51 people.</li> <li>More than 50 prisoners are <a href="/wiki/Amazonas_prison_massacres" title="Amazonas prison massacres">killed in a series of riots</a> in <a href="/wiki/Amazonas_(Brazilian_state)" title="Amazonas (Brazilian state)">Amazonas</a>, Brazil.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Koreas%E2%80%93United_States_DMZ_Summit" title="2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit">A trilateral gathering is held at the Panmunjom Truce Village between South Korean President Moon Jae-in, North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Japan%E2%80%93South_Korea_trade_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute">Japan and South Korea trade dispute</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_Sahar_Khodayari" title="Death of Sahar Khodayari">Sahar Khodayari</a> dies after setting herself on fire after being arrested for attending a soccer game in <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trial_of_Catalonia_independence_leaders" title="Trial of Catalonia independence leaders">Twelve Catalan independence movement leaders found guilty of sedition and misuse of public funds and they were sentenced to 9 to 13 years in prison</a>.</li> <li>Israeli Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2019#Deaths" title="2019">2019 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2020s"><a href="/wiki/2020s" title="2020s">2020s</a></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 2020s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020"><a href="/wiki/2020" title="2020">2020</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: 2020"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_2" title="January 2">January 2</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Air_Force" title="Royal Australian Air Force">Royal Australian Air Force</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Navy" title="Royal Australian Navy">Navy</a> are deployed to <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a> to assist mass evacuation efforts amidst the <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bushfire_season" title="2019–20 Australian bushfire season">2019–20 Australian bushfire season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani" title="Assassination of Qasem Soleimani">Qasem Soleimani is targeted and killed</a> at <a href="/wiki/Baghdad_International_Airport" title="Baghdad International Airport">Baghdad International Airport</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_8" title="January 8">January 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752" title="Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752">Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752</a> is shot down by Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) shortly after taking off from Tehran, killing all 176 on board.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a>: Donald Trump is acquitted by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> in his first impeachment trial.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_31" title="January 31">January 31</a>: The <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">formally withdraws</a> from the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_9" title="February 9">February 9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bong_Joon-ho" title="Bong Joon-ho">Bong Joon-ho</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Parasite_(2019_film)" title="Parasite (2019 film)">Parasite</a></i> becomes the first <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> film to receive Academy Award recognitions at the <a href="/wiki/92nd_Academy_Awards" title="92nd Academy Awards">92nd Academy Awards</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May" title="May">May</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyclone_Amphan" title="Cyclone Amphan">Cyclone Amphan</a> becomes the costliest cyclone ever recorded in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Indian_Ocean" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Indian Ocean">Northern Indian Ocean</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Belarusian_protests" title="2020–2021 Belarusian protests">Protests in Belarus</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko" title="Alexander Lukashenko">Alexander Lukashenko</a> regime begin.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_25" title="May 25">May 25</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd" title="Murder of George Floyd">murder of George Floyd</a> sparks <a href="/wiki/George_Floyd_protests" title="George Floyd protests">protests across the United States and the world</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_30" title="May 30">May 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Human_spaceflight" title="Human spaceflight">Crewed spaceflight</a> <a href="/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-2" title="Crew Dragon Demo-2">resumes in the United States</a> for the first time since 2011.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_16" title="June 16">June 16</a>: <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> demolishes the <a href="/wiki/Inter-Korean_Liaison_Office" title="Inter-Korean Liaison Office">Inter-Korean Liaison Office</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kaesong" title="Kaesong">Kaesong</a>, established in 2018 to improve relations.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_30" title="June 30">June 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>'s <a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress" title="National People's Congress">National People's Congress</a> <a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress_decision_on_Hong_Kong_national_security_legislation" title="National People's Congress decision on Hong Kong national security legislation">grants itself sweeping powers</a> to <a href="/wiki/2020_Hong_Kong_national_security_law" title="2020 Hong Kong national security law">curtail civil liberties</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_9" title="July 9">July 9</a>: <a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Bulgarian_protests" title="2020–2021 Bulgarian protests">Protests begin in Bulgaria</a> against the government of prime minister <a href="/wiki/Boyko_Borisov" title="Boyko Borisov">Boyko Borisov</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a>: Turkish President <a href="/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan" title="Recep Tayyip Erdoğan">Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</a> orders the <a href="/wiki/Hagia_Sophia" title="Hagia Sophia">Hagia Sophia</a> in <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a> to be <a href="/wiki/Conversion_of_non-Islamic_places_of_worship_into_mosques" title="Conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques">reverted to a mosque</a> following the annulment of a 1934 presidential decree that made it into a museum.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_28" title="July 28">July 28</a>: Former Prime Minister of Malaysia <a href="/wiki/Najib_Razak" title="Najib Razak">Najib Razak</a> is found guilty of all seven charges in the first of five trials on the <a href="/wiki/1MDB_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="1MDB scandal">1MDB scandal</a>, being jailed 12 years and fined <a href="/wiki/Malaysian_ringgit" title="Malaysian ringgit">RM</a>210 million as a result.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_30" title="July 30">July 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> successfully launches its <a href="/wiki/Mars_2020" title="Mars 2020">Mars 2020</a> rover mission to search for signs of <a href="/wiki/Life_on_Mars" title="Life on Mars">ancient life</a> and collect samples for return to Earth.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a>: <a href="/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion" title="2020 Beirut explosion">An explosion</a> caused by unsafely stored <a href="/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate" title="Ammonium nitrate">ammonium nitrate</a> kills at least 218 people, injures thousands, and severely damages <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Beirut" title="Port of Beirut">the port</a> of <a href="/wiki/Beirut" title="Beirut">Beirut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_19" title="August 19">August 19</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Special_Tribunal_for_Lebanon" title="Special Tribunal for Lebanon">Special Tribunal for Lebanon</a> convicts <i><a href="/wiki/Trial_in_absentia" title="Trial in absentia">in absentia</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Salim_Ayyash" title="Salim Ayyash">Salim Ayyash</a>, a senior member of <a href="/wiki/Hezbollah" title="Hezbollah">Hezbollah</a>, for the 2005 assassination of former prime Minister Rafic Hariri.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_25" title="August 25">August 25</a>: <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a> is declared free of wild <a href="/wiki/Polio" title="Polio">polio</a>, the second virus to be eradicated from the continent since <a href="/wiki/Eradication_of_smallpox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eradication of smallpox">smallpox 40 years previously</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_26" title="August 26">August 26</a>: <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a> CEO <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bezos" title="Jeff Bezos">Jeff Bezos</a> becomes the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding US$200 billion, according to <i><a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_14" title="September 14">September 14</a>: <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Astronomical_Society" title="Royal Astronomical Society">Royal Astronomical Society</a> announces the detection of <a href="/wiki/Phosphine" title="Phosphine">phosphine</a> in <a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>' atmosphere, which is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life.</li> <li>The first discovery of the perfectly preserved remains of a <a href="/wiki/Cave_bear" title="Cave bear">cave bear</a>, believed to be 22,000 to 39,500 years old (<a href="/wiki/Late_Pleistocene" title="Late Pleistocene">Late Pleistocene</a>), is made in <a href="/wiki/Lyakhovsky_Islands" title="Lyakhovsky Islands">Lyakhovsky Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a> in the thawing <a href="/wiki/Permafrost" title="Permafrost">permafrost</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_16" title="September 16">September 16</a>: A <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council" title="United Nations Human Rights Council">United Nations Human Rights Council</a> fact-finding mission formally accuses the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Venezuela" title="Government of Venezuela">Venezuelan government</a> of <a href="/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity">crimes against humanity</a>, including cases of killings, torture, violence against political opposition and disappearances since 2014.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_27" title="September 27">September 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/November_10" title="November 10">November 10</a>: <a href="/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war">2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war</a> between <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">October 15</a>: President of Kyrgyzstan <a href="/wiki/Sooronbay_Jeenbekov" title="Sooronbay Jeenbekov">Sooronbay Jeenbekov</a> resigns from office after weeks of <a href="/wiki/2020_Kyrgyzstan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Kyrgyzstan protests">massive protests</a> in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/October_2020_Kyrgyz_parliamentary_election" class="mw-redirect" title="October 2020 Kyrgyz parliamentary election">October 2020 parliamentary election</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_20" title="October 20">October 20</a>: NASA's <a href="/wiki/OSIRIS-REx" title="OSIRIS-REx">OSIRIS-REx</a> spacecraft briefly touches down on <a href="/wiki/101955_Bennu" title="101955 Bennu">101955 Bennu</a>, becoming the agency's first probe to retrieve samples from an asteroid, with its cargo <a href="/wiki/Sample-return_mission" title="Sample-return mission">returning to Earth</a> in 2023.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">October 22</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Consensus_Declaration" title="Geneva Consensus Declaration">Geneva Consensus Declaration</a> on Promoting Women's Health and Strengthening the Family is signed by government representatives from 34 countries.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_23" title="October 23">October 23</a>: At the end of an 11-year <a href="/wiki/Demining" title="Demining">demining</a> process, the <a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands" title="Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a> are declared <a href="/wiki/Land_mines_in_the_Falkland_Islands" title="Land mines in the Falkland Islands">free of land mines</a>, 38 years after the end of the <a href="/wiki/Falklands_War" title="Falklands War">Falklands War</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a>: The <a href="/wiki/International_Organization_for_Migration" title="International Organization for Migration">International Organization for Migration</a> (IOM) confirms the death of least 140 migrants who drowned off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a> on a vessel bound for the Spanish <a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_3" title="November 3">November 3</a>: The <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 United States presidential election</a> occurs. Despite the pandemic, early voting and other factors result in the highest voter turnout since 1900, and a record of over 155 million votes cast. Although Joe Biden is declared the winner on November 7, Donald Trump leads an <a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">unprecedented effort</a> to prevent official recognition of his defeat, culminating on January 6 the next year.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_3" title="November 3">November 3</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Tigray_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Tigray War">Tigray War</a> begins in <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_15" title="November 15">November 15</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership" title="Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership">Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)</a> is signed by 15 <a href="/wiki/Asia-Pacific" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia-Pacific">Asia-Pacific</a> countries to form the world's largest free-trade bloc, covering a third of the world's population.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_19" title="November 19">November 19</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Brereton_Report" title="Brereton Report">Brereton Report</a> into <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> war crimes during the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">War in Afghanistan</a> is released.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_27" title="November 27">November 27</a>: Iran's top nuclear scientist, <a href="/wiki/Mohsen_Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi">Mohsen Fakhrizadeh</a>, is assassinated near <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_30" title="November 30">November 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Protein_folding" title="Protein folding">Protein folding</a>, one of the biggest mysteries in biology, is solved by <a href="/wiki/AlphaFold" title="AlphaFold">AlphaFold</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> algorithm developed by <a href="/wiki/DeepMind" class="mw-redirect" title="DeepMind">DeepMind</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope" title="Arecibo Telescope">Arecibo Telescope</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory" title="Arecibo Observatory">Arecibo Observatory</a> collapses, just weeks after the announcement of its planned demolition.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2" title="December 2">December 2</a>: The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/UN_Commission_on_Narcotic_Drugs" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs">Commission on Narcotic Drugs</a> votes to remove <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a> from a list of dangerous drugs in recognition of its medical value, although some controls will remain.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_8" title="December 8">December 8</a>: Nepal and China officially agree on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Everest" title="Mount Everest">Mount Everest</a>'s actual height, which is 8,848.86m.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a>: Media outlets report that astronomers have detected a radio signal, <a href="/wiki/BLC1" title="BLC1">BLC1</a>, apparently from the direction of <a href="/wiki/Proxima_Centauri" title="Proxima Centauri">Proxima Centauri</a>, the closest star to the Sun.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a>: A <a href="/wiki/Great_conjunction" title="Great conjunction">great conjunction</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a> occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since <a href="/wiki/1623" title="1623">1623</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, which began spreading late in the prior year, spreads from China to the vast majority of the world's inhabited areas, infecting at least 81 million and killing at least 1.8 million people in its first year.</li> <li>Fears of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> cause the <a href="/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> to fall ten percent in one week, its largest drop in history, triggering the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_recession" title="COVID-19 recession">COVID-19 Recession</a>, the worst economic crisis since the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>.</li> <li>The United States signs a tentative <a href="/wiki/Afghan_peace_process" title="Afghan peace process">peace agreement</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silurian" title="Silurian">Silurian</a> <a href="/wiki/Millipede" title="Millipede">millipede</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Kampecaris_obanensis" class="mw-redirect" title="Kampecaris obanensis">Kampecaris obanensis</a></i>, the oldest known land animal, is discovered in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>.</li> <li>China and India engage in <a href="/wiki/2020_China%E2%80%93India_skirmishes" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 China–India skirmishes">border skirmishes</a>, the largest escalation between the two powers in 50 years.</li> <li>China launches <a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_5" title="Chang'e 5">Chang'e 5</a> and becomes the third country after the US and the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> to return samples of the moon.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div 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Capitol</a>, leading to five deaths.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_10" title="January 10">January 10</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Jong-un">Kim Jong-un</a> is elected as the <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Workers%27_Party_of_Korea" title="General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea">General Secretary</a> of the ruling <a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Korea" title="Workers' Party of Korea">Workers' Party of Korea</a>, inheriting the title from his father <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-il" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Jong-il">Kim Jong-il</a>, who <a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Kim_Jong-il" class="mw-redirect" title="Death and state funeral of Kim Jong-il">died</a> in 2011.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_13" title="January 13">January 13</a>: In <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a>, France, the first <a href="/wiki/Organ_transplantation" title="Organ transplantation">transplant</a> of both arms and shoulders is performed on an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_13" title="January 13">January 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a>: Donald Trump is <a href="/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" title="Second impeachment of Donald Trump">impeached</a> for a second time following the events of January 6, but is acquitted again after his <a href="/wiki/Second_impeachment_trial_of_Donald_Trump" title="Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump">trial</a> from February 9–13.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_20" title="January 20">January 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> is inaugurated as President of the United States. <a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a>, sworn in as vice president, becomes the first woman, first African American and first Asian American to be vice president.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_22" title="January 22">January 22</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons" title="Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons">Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons</a>, the first legally binding international agreement comprehensively to prohibit nuclear weapons, comes into effect.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/February_17" title="February 17">17</a>: <a href="/wiki/Winter_Storm_Uri" class="mw-redirect" title="Winter Storm Uri">Winter Storm Uri</a> becomes the costliest winter storm in North American history, costing $200 billion and 237 lives, and triggering the <a href="/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis" title="2021 Texas power crisis">2021 Texas power crisis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_18" title="February 18">February 18</a>: <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mars_2020" title="Mars 2020">Mars 2020</a> mission (containing the <i><a href="/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)" title="Perseverance (rover)">Perseverance</a></i> rover and <i><a href="/wiki/Mars_Helicopter_Ingenuity" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars Helicopter Ingenuity">Ingenuity</a></i> helicopter drone) lands on <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> at <a href="/wiki/Jezero_(crater)" title="Jezero (crater)">Jezero Crater</a>, after seven months of travel.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_22" title="February 22">February 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/Luca_Attanasio" title="Luca Attanasio">Luca Attanasio</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Italian_ambassador_to_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo">Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Luca_Attanasio" class="mw-redirect" title="Killing of Luca Attanasio">murdered</a> near <a href="/wiki/Goma" title="Goma">Goma</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis%27s_visit_to_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Pope Francis's visit to Iraq">meets</a> with <a href="/wiki/Marja%27" title="Marja'">Grand Ayatollah</a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_al-Sistani" title="Ali al-Sistani">Ali al-Sistani</a> in <a href="/wiki/Najaf" title="Najaf">Najaf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>. It is the first-ever meeting between a <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">pope</a> and a grand ayatollah.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_18" title="March 18">March 18</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Congress_of_Deputies" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Congress of Deputies">Spanish Congress of Deputies</a> passes the euthanasia law.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a>: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces his country's withdrawal from the <a href="/wiki/Istanbul_Convention" title="Istanbul Convention">Istanbul Convention</a>, the first country to do so.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a>: <a href="/wiki/2021_Apure_clashes" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Apure clashes">Clashes</a> in <a href="/wiki/Apure" title="Apure">Apure</a> between Colombian <a href="/wiki/FARC_dissidents" title="FARC dissidents">FARC dissidents</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Armed_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Venezuelan Armed Forces">Venezuelan Armed Forces</a> cause at least six casualties and displace 4,000 Venezuelans.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_23" title="March 23">March 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">29</a>: The container ship <i><a href="/wiki/Ever_Given" title="Ever Given">Ever Given</a></i> <a href="/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction" title="2021 Suez Canal obstruction">obstructs the Suez Canal</a> for six days, costing an estimated $3.6 billion in global trade.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_9" title="April 9">April 9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Buckingham_Palace" title="Buckingham Palace">Buckingham Palace</a> announces the <a href="/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh" title="Death and funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh">death</a> of <a href="/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh" title="Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh">Prince Philip</a>, Duke of Edinburgh and husband of the <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Queen</a>, at the age of 99.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_11" title="April 11">April 11</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hideki_Matsuyama" title="Hideki Matsuyama">Hideki Matsuyama</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/2021_Masters_Tournament" title="2021 Masters Tournament">2021 Masters Tournament</a>, becoming the first man from Japan to win a major golf championship.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_13" title="April 13">April 13</a>: <a href="/wiki/Japan%27s_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan's government">Japan's government</a> approves the <a href="/wiki/Dumping_of_radioactive_water_of_the_Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant">dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant</a> into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years, with full support of the <a href="/wiki/International_Atomic_Energy_Agency" title="International Atomic Energy Agency">International Atomic Energy Agency</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a>: Scientists announce they successfully injected <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> stem cells into the embryos of monkeys, creating <a href="/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)" title="Chimera (genetics)">chimera</a>-embryos.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_19" title="April 19">April 19</a>: <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)" title="Ingenuity (helicopter)">Ingenuity</a></i> becomes the first vehicle to fly in the atmosphere of another planet.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_D%C3%ADaz-Canel" title="Miguel Díaz-Canel">Miguel Díaz-Canel</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/First_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Cuba" title="First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba">First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba</a>, replacing the Castro brothers, <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Castro" title="Raúl Castro">Raúl</a>, after 62 years.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_20" title="April 20">April 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/Idriss_D%C3%A9by" title="Idriss Déby">Idriss Déby</a>, President of <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a>, is killed in <a href="/wiki/2021_Northern_Chad_offensive" title="2021 Northern Chad offensive">clashes with rebel forces</a> after 30 years in office.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_24" title="April 24">April 24</a>: Following an international search and rescue effort, the <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesian</a> navy reports the sinking of <a href="/wiki/KRI_Nanggala_(402)" title="KRI Nanggala (402)">KRI <i>Nanggala</i></a> with 53 crew members, the largest loss of life aboard a submarine since <a href="/wiki/Chinese_submarine_Changcheng_361" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese submarine Changcheng 361">2003</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_28" title="April 28">April 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/May_1" title="May 1">May 1</a>: A <a href="/wiki/2021_Kyrgyzstan%E2%80%93Tajikistan_clashes" title="2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes">border clash</a> between <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a> leads to 55 deaths.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">May 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/May_21" title="May 21">21</a>: Hundreds <a href="/wiki/2021_Israel%E2%80%93Palestine_crisis" title="2021 Israel–Palestine crisis">die in conflicts</a> after <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> <a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Jarrah_controversy" title="Sheikh Jarrah controversy">evicts six Palestinian families</a> from <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_23" title="May 23">May 23</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978" title="Ryanair Flight 4978">Ryanair Flight 4978</a> is forced to land by <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarusian</a> authorities to detain dissident journalist <a href="/wiki/Roman_Protasevich" title="Roman Protasevich">Roman Protasevich</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a>: The <i><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)">Juno</a></i> spacecraft performs its only flyby of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>'s moon <a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)" title="Ganymede (moon)">Ganymede</a>, the first flyby of the moon by any spacecraft in over 20 years.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">June 13</a>: Benjamin Netanyahu, <a href="/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Israel#Term_of_office_in_years" title="List of prime ministers of Israel">the longest-serving prime minister of Israel</a>, is voted out of office; <a href="/wiki/Naftali_Bennett" title="Naftali Bennett">Naftali Bennett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yair_Lapid" title="Yair Lapid">Yair Lapid</a> are sworn in as <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel" title="Prime Minister of Israel">Prime Minister of Israel</a> and as <a href="/wiki/Alternate_Prime_Minister_of_Israel" title="Alternate Prime Minister of Israel">Alternate Prime Minister of Israel</a>, respectively.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_19" title="June 19">June 19</a>: Joe Biden signs <b>Juneteenth National Independence Day</b> Act into law, making <a href="/wiki/Juneteenth" title="Juneteenth">Juneteenth</a> a federal holiday. It is the first new federal holiday since <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day" title="Martin Luther King Jr. Day">Martin Luther King Jr. Day</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_24" title="June 24">June 24</a>: The Champlain Towers South <a href="/wiki/Condominium" title="Condominium">condominium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Surfside,_Florida" title="Surfside, Florida">Surfside, Florida</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse" title="Surfside condominium collapse">collapses</a>, killing 98 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_4" title="July 4">July 4</a>: 50 people are killed and 46 others are injured when a <a href="/wiki/C-130" class="mw-redirect" title="C-130">C-130</a> <a href="/wiki/Transport_plane" class="mw-redirect" title="Transport plane">transport plane</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Air_Force" title="Philippine Air Force">Philippine Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/2021_Philippine_Air_Force_C-130_crash" title="2021 Philippine Air Force C-130 crash">crashes</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jolo,_Sulu" title="Jolo, Sulu">Jolo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sulu_(province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulu (province)">Sulu</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_7" title="July 7">July 7</a>: Haitian President <a href="/wiki/Jovenel_Mo%C3%AFse" title="Jovenel Moïse">Jovenel Moïse</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Jovenel_Mo%C3%AFse" title="Assassination of Jovenel Moïse">assassinated</a> in a midnight attack by unknown mercenaries.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_18" title="July 18">July 18</a>: <a href="/wiki/Pegasus_Project_(investigation)" title="Pegasus Project (investigation)">An international investigation</a> reveals that <a href="/wiki/Spyware" title="Spyware">spyware</a> sold by Israel's <a href="/wiki/NSO_Group" title="NSO Group">NSO Group</a> to different governments is being used to target heads of state, along with thousands of activists, journalists and dissidents around the world.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_19" title="July 19">July 19</a>: <a href="/wiki/Blue_Origin" title="Blue Origin">Blue Origin</a> successfully conducts <a href="/wiki/Blue_Origin_NS-16" title="Blue Origin NS-16">its first human test flight</a>, with a reusable <a href="/wiki/New_Shepard" title="New Shepard">New Shepard</a> rocket delivering four crew members into space including its founder Jeff Bezos.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_28" title="July 28">July 28</a>: The first direct observation of <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a> from behind a <a href="/wiki/Black_hole" title="Black hole">black hole</a> is reported, confirming Einstein's theory of <a href="/wiki/General_relativity" title="General relativity">general relativity</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_9" title="August 9">August 9</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a> releases the first part of its <a href="/wiki/IPCC_Sixth_Assessment_Report" title="IPCC Sixth Assessment Report">Sixth Assessment Report</a>, which concludes that the effects of human-caused <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> are now "widespread, rapid, and intensifying".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_14" title="August 14">August 14</a>: <a href="/wiki/2021_Haiti_earthquake" title="2021 Haiti earthquake">An earthquake in Haiti</a> kills over 2,000 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a>: <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Kabul falls</a> following the <a href="/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive" title="2021 Taliban offensive">2021 Taliban offensive</a>, as the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Islamic Republic of Afghanistan</a> collapses, and the country is governed thereafter by the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> as the reinstated <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a>. The <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001-2021)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)">War in Afghanistan</a> thus ends after 20 years following the <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2020-2021)" class="mw-redirect" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020-2021)">withdrawal</a> of U.S. and coalition troops.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_30" title="August 30">August 30</a>: The <a href="/wiki/UN_Environment_Programme" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Environment Programme">UN Environment Programme</a> announces that <a href="/wiki/Leaded_petrol" class="mw-redirect" title="Leaded petrol">leaded petrol</a> in road vehicles has been phased out globally, a hundred years after its introduction.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_7" title="September 7">September 7</a>: <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a> becomes the first country in the world to accept <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a> as an official <a href="/wiki/Currency" title="Currency">currency</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_14" title="September 14">September 14</a>: North Korea demonstrates two short-range ballistic missiles that land just outside Japan's territorial waters; hours later South Korea demonstrates its first submarine-launched ballistic missile.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_15" title="September 15">September 15</a>: <a href="/wiki/AUKUS" title="AUKUS">A trilateral security pact</a> between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States is formed to counter Chinese influence. This includes enabling Australia to build its first <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_submarine" title="Nuclear submarine">nuclear-powered submarine</a> fleet.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_16" title="September 16">September 16</a>: <a href="/wiki/Inspiration4" title="Inspiration4">Inspiration4</a>, launched by <a href="/wiki/SpaceX" title="SpaceX">SpaceX</a>, becomes the first all-civilian spaceflight, carrying a four-person crew on a three-day orbit of the Earth.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a>: The <a href="/wiki/International_Consortium_of_Investigative_Journalists" title="International Consortium of Investigative Journalists">International Consortium of Investigative Journalists</a> and assorted media partners publish a set of 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 financial services companies known as the <a href="/wiki/Pandora_Papers" title="Pandora Papers">Pandora Papers</a>, revealing offshore financial activities that involve multiple current and former world leaders.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">October 6</a>: The <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> endorses the first <a href="/wiki/RTS,S" title="RTS,S">malaria vaccine</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_16" title="November 16">November 16</a>: Russia draws international condemnation following an <a href="/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon" title="Anti-satellite weapon">anti-satellite weapon</a> test that creates a cloud of <a href="/wiki/Space_debris" title="Space debris">space debris</a>, threatening the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_30" title="November 30">November 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a> becomes a <a href="/wiki/Republicanism_in_Barbados" title="Republicanism in Barbados">republic</a> on its 55th anniversary of independence while remaining a member of the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_9" title="December 9">December 9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Chiapas_truck_crash" title="Chiapas truck crash">A truck crash</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chiapas" title="Chiapas">Chiapas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>, kills 55 migrants who were being <a href="/wiki/People_smuggling" title="People smuggling">smuggled</a> in it from <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> through Mexico to <a href="/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border" title="Mexico–United States border">its border with the United States</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_16" title="December 16">December 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">18</a>: <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Rai" title="Typhoon Rai">Typhoon Rai</a> lashes into <a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mindanao" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a>, killing 409 people.</li> <li>The COVID-19 pandemic continues, infecting more than 220 million and killing at least 3.6 million people in its second year. The true totals of infected and dead are estimated to be much higher.</li> <li>Coups d'état occur <a href="/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2021 Myanmar coup d'état">in Myanmar</a>, <a href="/wiki/2021_Malian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2021 Malian coup d'état">Mali</a> and <a href="/wiki/2021_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2021 Guinean coup d'état">Guinea</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> begins a <a href="/wiki/2021_Russo-Ukrainian_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Russo-Ukrainian crisis">military buildup on the Ukrainian border</a>, warning <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> not to intervene.</li> <li>197 nations sign the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Climate_Pact" title="Glasgow Climate Pact">Glasgow Climate Pact</a>, agreeing to limit the use of coal, and the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> legally mandates <a href="/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Dutch Shell">Royal Dutch Shell</a> to comply with the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a>.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2021#Deaths" title="2021">2021 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2022"><a href="/wiki/2022" title="2022">2022</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 2022"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January" title="January">January</a> – <a href="/wiki/September" title="September">September</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_Burkina_Faso_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état (disambiguation)">Coups d'état in Burkina Faso</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2" title="January 2">January 2</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_Kazakh_unrest" title="2022 Kazakh unrest">2022 Kazakh unrest</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_4" title="January 4">January 4</a>: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US—all <a href="/wiki/Permanent_members_of_the_United_Nations_Security_Council" title="Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council">five permanent members</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a>—issue a rare joint statement affirming that "a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear war">nuclear war</a> cannot be won and must never be fought."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a>: The <a href="/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hunga_Ha%CA%BBapai_eruption_and_tsunami" title="2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami">Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami</a> is the largest and most powerful volcanic eruption in decades, and the largest explosion ever recorded by modern instruments.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_4" title="February 4">February 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/February_20" title="February 20">20</a>: The <a href="/wiki/2022_Winter_Olympics" title="2022 Winter Olympics">2022 Winter Olympics</a> are held in <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>, China, making it the first city ever to host both the <a href="/wiki/Summer_Olympic_Games" title="Summer Olympic Games">Summer Olympics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Winter_Olympic_Games" title="Winter Olympic Games">Winter Olympics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_24" title="February 24">February 24</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russia invades Ukraine</a>, escalating the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russo-Ukrainian War</a>, causing a <a href="/wiki/2022-2023_Ukrainian_refugee_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2022-2023 Ukrainian refugee crisis">refugee crisis</a> and tens of thousands of deaths on both sides.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/WHL0137-LS" title="WHL0137-LS">WHL0137-LS "Earendel"</a> imaged by <a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a>, the earliest and most distant known star.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/November_14" title="November 14">November 14</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Sri Lankan protests</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April" title="April">April</a> – <a href="/wiki/November" title="November">November</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_Pakistani_constitutional_crisis" title="2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis">Pakistani constitutional crisis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Imran_Khan" title="Attempted assassination of Imran Khan">attempted assassination of Imran Khan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_14" title="April 14">April 14</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a> <a href="/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk" title="Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk">purchases</a> <a href="/wiki/Twitter,_Inc." title="Twitter, Inc.">Twitter</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_19" title="April 19">April 19</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kane_Tanaka" title="Kane Tanaka">Kane Tanaka</a>, the second oldest verified person to have ever lived, dies at the age of 119.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">May 6</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 monkeypox outbreak">Monkeypox outbreak</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sagittarius_A*" title="Sagittarius A*">Sagittarius A*</a>, supermassive black hole at Galactic Center, imaged by <a href="/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope" title="Event Horizon Telescope">Event Horizon Telescope</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/September_12" title="September 12">September 12</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_European_heat_waves" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 European heat waves">Heat waves in Europe</a> kill tens of thousands.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/June_2022_Afghanistan_earthquake" title="June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake">Earthquake in Afghanistan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_30" title="June 30">June 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson" title="Ketanji Brown Jackson">Ketanji Brown Jackson</a> becomes the first black woman on the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July" title="July">July</a> – <a href="/wiki/October" title="October">October</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_United_Kingdom_government_crisis_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="2022 United Kingdom government crisis (disambiguation)">United Kingdom government crises</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July" title="July">July</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_Oder_environmental_disaster" title="2022 Oder environmental disaster">Oder environmental disaster</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_8" title="July 8">July 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe" title="Assassination of Shinzo Abe">Assassination of Shinzo Abe</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_11" title="July 11">July 11</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope" title="James Webb Space Telescope">James Webb Space Telescope</a> takes <i><a href="/wiki/Webb%27s_First_Deep_Field" title="Webb's First Deep Field">Webb's First Deep Field</a></i>, oldest and highest resolution image of the universe to date.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_22" title="July 22">July 22</a>: <a href="/wiki/Chinese_paddlefish" title="Chinese paddlefish">Chinese paddlefish</a> declared extinct.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a>: China conducts its largest ever <a href="/wiki/2022_Chinese_military_exercises_around_Taiwan" title="2022 Chinese military exercises around Taiwan">military exercise</a> around Taiwan in response to <a href="/wiki/2022_visit_by_Nancy_Pelosi_to_Taiwan" title="2022 visit by Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan">a controversial visit</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_24" title="August 24">August 24</a>: "<a href="/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole" title="Man of the Hole">Man of the Hole</a>", reclusive indigenous Brazilian and last of his ethnicity, dies.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_28" title="August 28">August 28</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_Pakistan_floods" title="2022 Pakistan floods">Floods in Pakistan</a> trigger an <a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Pakistani_economic_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2022–2023 Pakistani economic crisis">economic crisis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_31" title="August 31">August 31</a>: <a href="/wiki/UN_Human_Rights_Office_report_on_Xinjiang" title="UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang">UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang</a> is released.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_31" title="August 31">August 31</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>, the last Leader of the Soviet Union, died in age 91.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_8" title="September 8">September 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> <a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Elizabeth_II" title="Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II">dies at the age of 96</a>, and is succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_16" title="September 16">September 16</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests" title="Mahsa Amini protests">Mahsa Amini protests</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_25" title="September 25">September 25</a>: <a href="/wiki/Eliud_Kipchoge" title="Eliud Kipchoge">Eliud Kipchoge</a> sets marathon world record at the <a href="/wiki/2022_Berlin_Marathon" title="2022 Berlin Marathon">2022 Berlin Marathon</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_26" title="September 26">September 26</a>: <a href="/wiki/Double_Asteroid_Redirection_Test" title="Double Asteroid Redirection Test">Double Asteroid Redirection Test</a> demonstrates capabilities on asteroid <a href="/wiki/Dimorphos" title="Dimorphos">(65803) Didymos I Dimorphos</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_27" title="September 27">September 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/September_30" title="September 30">30</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Ian" title="Hurricane Ian">Hurricane Ian</a> impacts <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> and the US, causing catastrophic damage to both nations, killing at least 157 people, 16 missing, and leaving millions without power, including the entirety of Cuba.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">October 1</a>: A fatal <a href="/wiki/Kanjuruhan_Stadium_disaster" title="Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster">human crush</a> occurs during an association football match at <a href="/wiki/Kanjuruhan_Stadium" title="Kanjuruhan Stadium">Kanjuruhan Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Malang_Regency" title="Malang Regency">Malang Regency</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Java" title="East Java">East Java</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, killing 131 people and injuring more than 500.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">October 6</a>: 36 people are killed in a <a href="/wiki/2022_Nong_Bua_Lamphu_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Nong Bua Lamphu attack">shooting, stabbing, and vehicle-ramming</a> at <a href="/wiki/Nong_Bua_Lamphu_province" title="Nong Bua Lamphu province">Nong Bua Lamphu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Nalgae" title="Tropical Storm Nalgae">Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae</a> lashes throughout the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, leaving 160 people dead.</li> <li>At least 158 people are killed and another 197 injured in a <a href="/wiki/Seoul_Halloween_crowd_crush" title="Seoul Halloween crowd crush">crowd crush</a> during Halloween festivities in Seoul, South Korea.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2" title="November 2">November 2</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia%E2%80%93Tigray_peace_agreement" title="Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement">Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_11" title="November 11">November 11</a>: The <a href="/wiki/FTX" title="FTX">FTX</a> <a href="/wiki/Cryptocurrency_exchange" title="Cryptocurrency exchange">cryptocurrency exchange</a> files for <a href="/wiki/Chapter_11,_Title_11,_United_States_Code" title="Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code">Chapter 11 bankruptcy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_15" title="November 15">November 15</a>: The world population is estimated to have <a href="/wiki/Day_of_Eight_Billion" title="Day of Eight Billion">reached 8 billion</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_16" title="November 16">November 16</a>: NASA launches <a href="/wiki/Artemis_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemis 1">Artemis 1</a>, the first uncrewed mission of its <a href="/wiki/Space_Launch_System" title="Space Launch System">Space Launch System</a>, the most powerful rocket ever to reach orbit.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_26" title="November 26">November 26</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China" title="2022 COVID-19 protests in China">COVID-19 protests in China</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_30" title="November 30">November 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/OpenAI" title="OpenAI">OpenAI</a> launches <a href="/wiki/ChatGPT" title="ChatGPT">ChatGPT</a>, an AI chatbot.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_7" title="December 7">December 7</a>: <a href="/wiki/2022_Peruvian_self-coup_attempt" title="2022 Peruvian self-coup attempt">Self-coup attempt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Third_impeachment_of_Pedro_Castillo" class="mw-redirect" title="Third impeachment of Pedro Castillo">impeachment</a> and arrest of President <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Castillo" title="Pedro Castillo">Pedro Castillo</a> sparks <a href="/wiki/2022_Peruvian_political_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Peruvian political protests">protests in Peru</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_9" title="December 9">December 9</a>: <a href="/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_the_European_Parliament" title="Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament">Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_13" title="December 13">December 13</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility" title="National Ignition Facility">National Ignition Facility</a> achieves first <a href="/wiki/Fusion_ignition" title="Fusion ignition">fusion ignition</a>.</li> <li>President Biden signs the <a href="/wiki/Respect_for_Marriage_Act" title="Respect for Marriage Act">Respect for Marriage Act</a>, which federally protects same-sex and interracial marriages by requiring states to recognize each others' marriage standards.</li></ul></li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2022#Deaths" title="2022">2022 § Deaths</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2023"><a href="/wiki/2023" title="2023">2023</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_the_21st_century&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January" title="January">January</a> – <a href="/wiki/October" title="October">October</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform_protests" title="2023 Israeli judicial reform protests">2023 Israeli judicial reform protests</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatia</a> adopts the <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">Euro</a> and joins the <a href="/wiki/Schengen_Area" title="Schengen Area">Schengen Area</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_8" title="January 8">January 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_attack" title="2023 Brazilian Congress attack">2023 Brazilian Congress attack</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_19" title="January 19">January 19</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_French_pension_reform_strikes" title="2023 French pension reform strikes">2023 French pension reform strikes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_6" title="February 6">February 6</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Turkey-Syria_earthquakes" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes">2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes</a> kill nearly 60,000 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_21" title="February 21">February 21</a>: <a href="/wiki/Cyclone_Freddy" title="Cyclone Freddy">Cyclone Freddy</a> kills 1,400 in <a href="/wiki/Malawi" title="Malawi">Malawi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a>: <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> restore diplomatic relations.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_4" title="April 4">April 4</a>: <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a> joins <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_13" title="April 13">April 13</a>: <a href="/wiki/Malaria_vaccine#R21/Matrix-M" title="Malaria vaccine">R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine</a> approved for use.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80%93present)" title="Sudanese civil war (2023–present)">Third Sudanese civil war</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_20" title="April 20">April 20</a>: <a href="/wiki/SpaceX" title="SpaceX">SpaceX</a> conducts the first full stack test launch of the world's most powerful rocket, <a href="/wiki/SpaceX_Starship" title="SpaceX Starship">Starship</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_5" title="May 5">May 5</a>: <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> ends the designation of COVID-19 as a <a href="/wiki/Public_health_emergency_of_international_concern" title="Public health emergency of international concern">public health emergency of international concern</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">May 6</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a> is crowned king of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_realm" title="Commonwealth realm">Commonwealth realms</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_17" title="May 17">May 17</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Ecuadorian_political_crisis" title="2023 Ecuadorian political crisis">2023 Ecuadorian political crisis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Odisha_train_collision" title="2023 Odisha train collision">2023 Odisha train collision</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kwara_boat_disaster" title="Kwara boat disaster">Kwara boat disaster</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_14" title="July 14">July 14</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_SAG-AFTRA_strike" title="2023 SAG-AFTRA strike">2023 SAG-AFTRA strike</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_26" title="July 26">July 26</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Nigerien_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2023 Nigerien coup d'état">2023 Nigerien coup d'état</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_23" title="August 23">August 23</a>: <a href="/wiki/ISRO" title="ISRO">ISRO</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-3" title="Chandrayaan-3">Chandrayaan 3</a> lands on the lunar south pole making India the 4th nation to successfully soft land on the Moon.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_30" title="August 30">August 30</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Gabonese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2023 Gabonese coup d'état">2023 Gabonese coup d'état</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_8" title="September 8">September 8</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Marrakesh-Safi_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake">2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake</a> kills nearly 6000 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_10" title="September 10">September 10</a>: <a href="/wiki/Storm_Daniel" title="Storm Daniel">Storm Daniel</a> becomes the deadliest Mediterranean storm in history, with over 4000 deaths in <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_19" title="September 19">September 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/September_20" title="September 20">20</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Azerbaijani_offensive_in_Nagorno-Karabakh" title="2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh">2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a>'s expulsion via a motion introduced by <a href="/wiki/Matt_Gaetz" title="Matt Gaetz">Matt Gaetz</a> is the first <a href="/wiki/Removal_of_Kevin_McCarthy_as_Speaker_of_the_House" title="Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House">ousting</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the United States House of Representatives</a> in history.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">October 7</a>: Hamas <a href="/wiki/7_October_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="7 October attacks">attacks</a> Israel; start of the <a href="/wiki/Israel-Hamas_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel-Hamas war">Israel-Hamas war</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">October 7</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Herat_earthquakes" title="2023 Herat earthquakes">2023 Herat earthquakes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_23" title="October 23">October 23</a>: <a href="/wiki/2023_Guayana_Esequiba_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis">2023 Guayana Esequiba crisis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_27" title="October 27">October 27</a>: <a href="/wiki/Operation_1027" title="Operation 1027">Operation 1027</a>, a coordinated assault by anti-Junta forces in the <a href="/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021-present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Myanmar civil war (2021-present)">Myanmar civil war</a>, begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_24" title="November 24">November 24</a>: <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> admitted to <a href="/wiki/East_African_Community" title="East African Community">East African Community</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a>: <a href="/wiki/COP28" class="mw-redirect" title="COP28">COP28</a> ends with world leaders pledging transition away from fossil fuels.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a>: <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> releases <i><a href="/wiki/Fiducia_supplicans" title="Fiducia supplicans">Fiducia supplicans</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_31" title="December 31">December 31</a>: Queen <a href="/wiki/Margrethe_II" title="Margrethe II">Margrethe II</a> of <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> announces her abdication on January 14 after 52 years on the throne.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wagner_Group_mutiny" class="mw-redirect" title="Wagner Group mutiny">Wagner Group mutiny</a>; <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a> issues arrest warrant for <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Canadian_wildfires" title="2023 Canadian wildfires">2023 Canadian</a> and <a href="/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires" title="2023 Hawaii wildfires">Hawaiian wildfires</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_North_India_floods" title="2023 North India floods">2023 North India floods</a>.</li> <li>2023 is the hottest year on record.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span 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<li><a href="/wiki/2022_in_science" title="2022 in science">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_in_science" title="2023 in science">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_in_science" title="2024 in science">2024</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2025_in_science" title="2025 in science">2025</a></i></li> <li><i>Arts:</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_in_art" title="2020 in art">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_in_art" title="2021 in art">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_in_art" title="2022 in art">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_in_art" title="2023 in art">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_in_art" title="2024 in art">2024</a></li> <li><i>Sports:</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_in_sports" title="2020 in sports">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_in_sports" title="2021 in sports">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_in_sports" title="2022 in sports">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_in_sports" title="2023 in sports">2023</a></li> <li><a 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protests in the 21st century">List of protests in the 21st century</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts" title="List of ongoing armed conflicts">List of ongoing armed conflicts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">World</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic" title="Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic">economic 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title="Ninth European Parliament">EU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Aboul_Gheit" title="Ahmed Aboul Gheit">Arab League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Administration_of_Luis_Almagro" class="mw-redirect" title="Administration of Luis Almagro">OAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BRICS" title="BRICS">BRICS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_intergovernmental_organizations" title="List of intergovernmental organizations">List of all groups</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regional_organizations_by_population" title="List of regional organizations by population"> Major groups, by size</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_North_America" title="COVID-19 pandemic in North America">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Floyd_protests" title="George Floyd protests">George Floyd protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_racial_unrest_(2020%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="United States racial unrest (2020–present)">United States racial unrest</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Govts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>United States <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="First presidency of Donald Trump">Trump presidency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden" title="Presidency of Joe Biden">Biden presidency</a></li> <li>timeline <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_in_United_States_politics_and_government" title="2020 in United States politics and government">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_in_United_States_politics_and_government" title="2021 in United States politics and government">2021</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Justin_Trudeau" title="Premiership of Justin Trudeau">Canada</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela" title="Crisis in Venezuela">Crisis in Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forum_for_the_Progress_and_Integration_of_South_America" title="Forum for the Progress and Integration of South America">Forum for the Progress and Integration of South America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_South_America" title="COVID-19 pandemic in South America">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Govts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Chile <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Pi%C3%B1era" title="Sebastián Piñera">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Boric" title="Gabriel Boric">2</a></li></ul></li> <li>Brazil <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Jair_Bolsonaro" title="Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_presidency_of_Lula_da_Silva" title="Second presidency of Lula da Silva">2</a></li></ul></li> <li>Peru <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Vizcarra" title="Martín Vizcarra">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Francisco_Sagasti" title="Presidency of Francisco Sagasti">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Pedro_Castillo" title="Presidency of Pedro Castillo">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Dina_Boluarte" title="Presidency of Dina Boluarte">4</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Europe" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Europe">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russo-Ukrainian War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War">outline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarus%E2%80%93European_Union_border_crisis" title="Belarus–European Union border crisis">Belarus–European Union border crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Govts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>United Kingdom <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Boris_Johnson" title="Premiership of Boris Johnson">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Liz_Truss" title="Premiership of Liz Truss">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Rishi_Sunak" title="Premiership of Rishi Sunak">3</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Emmanuel_Macron" title="Presidency of Emmanuel Macron">France</a></li> <li>Germany <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chancellorship_of_Angela_Merkel" class="mw-redirect" title="Chancellorship of Angela Merkel">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chancellorship_of_Olaf_Scholz" class="mw-redirect" title="Chancellorship of Olaf Scholz">2</a></li></ul></li> <li>Italy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Conte#Prime_Minister_of_Italy_(2018–2021)" title="Giuseppe Conte">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Draghi_government" title="Draghi government">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meloni_government" title="Meloni government">3</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Vladimir_Putin" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidency of Vladimir Putin">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_33rd_D%C3%A1il" title="Government of the 33rd Dáil">Republic of Ireland</a></li> <li>Belgium <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilm%C3%A8s_II_Government" title="Wilmès II Government">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/De_Croo_Government" title="De Croo Government">2</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Kyrgyz_Revolution" title="2020 Kyrgyz Revolution">2020 Kyrgyz Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">2022 Sri Lankan protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Noto_earthquake" title="2024 Noto earthquake">2024 Noto earthquake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Asia" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Asia">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Myanmar civil war">Myanmar civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_drug_war" title="Philippine drug war">Philippine drug war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership" title="Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership">Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">Second Nagorno-Karabakh War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Govts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Xi Jinping Administration">China</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Li_Keqiang_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Keqiang Government">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Qiang_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Qiang Government">2</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong_Un" title="Kim Jong Un">North Korea</a></li> <li>Japan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Abe_Cabinet" title="Fourth Abe Cabinet">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suga_Cabinet" title="Suga Cabinet">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Kishida_Cabinet" title="First Kishida Cabinet">3a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Kishida_Cabinet" title="Second Kishida Cabinet">3b</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Kishida_Cabinet_(First_Reshuffle)" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Kishida Cabinet (First Reshuffle)">3c</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Kishida_Cabinet_(Second_Reshuffle)" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Kishida Cabinet (Second Reshuffle)">3d</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Narendra_Modi" title="Premiership of Narendra Modi">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Joko_Widodo" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidency of Joko Widodo">Indonesia</a></li> <li>Malaysia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahathir_Mohamad" title="Mahathir Mohamad">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhyiddin_Yassin" title="Muhyiddin Yassin">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismail_Sabri_Yaakob" title="Ismail Sabri Yaakob">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim" title="Anwar Ibrahim">4</a></li></ul></li> <li>Pakistan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Ministership_of_Imran_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Ministership of Imran Khan">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premiership_of_Shehbaz_Sharif" title="Premiership of Shehbaz Sharif">2</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Middle East and <br /> North Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Middle_East_economic_integration" title="Middle East economic integration">Middle East economic integration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%932020)" title="Libyan civil war (2014–2020)">Libyan civil war (2014–2020)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Yemeni civil war (2014–present)">Yemeni civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018%E2%80%932022_Israeli_political_crisis" title="2018–2022 Israeli political crisis">Israeli political crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932021_Iraqi_protests" title="2019–2021 Iraqi protests">Iraqi protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Accords" title="Abraham Accords">Abraham Accords</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests" title="Mahsa Amini protests">Mahsa Amini protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Israel–Hamas war">Israel–Hamas war</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Outline of the Israel–Hamas war">outline</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Govts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salman_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Salman of Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li>Israel <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thirty-fourth_government_of_Israel" title="Thirty-fourth government of Israel">1a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirty-fifth_government_of_Israel" title="Thirty-fifth government of Israel">1b</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirty-sixth_government_of_Israel" title="Thirty-sixth government of Israel">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirty-seventh_government_of_Israel" title="Thirty-seventh government of Israel">3a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_war_cabinet" title="Israeli war cabinet">3b</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sub-Saharan<br />Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks 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