First Israeli invasion of Lebanon, for the purpose of attacking the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1982 CE
Hama massacre.
1982 CE
On December 7, 1982, Texas became the first U.S. state and territory in the world to use lethal injection to carry out capital punishment.
1982 CE
Sony CDP-101 was released in 1982, the world's first commercially released compact disc player.
1982 CE
Princess Grace of Monaco (formerly known as Hollywood star Grace Kelly) died on September 14, 1982, the day after her car plunged off a mountain road.
1983 CE
End of dictatorship in Argentina. Second Sudanese Civil War begins. Invasion of Grenada by the United States. Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
1984 CE
In 1984, researchers identify the cause of AIDS, as the HIV virus.
1984 CE
The miners' strike of 1984–85 was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), to try to prevent colliery closures.
1984 CE
Assassination of Indira Gandhi.
1983–85 famine in Ethiopia.
1983–85 famine in Ethiopia.
1985 CE
Live Aid music-based fundraising initiative for the Ethiopian famine.
1986 CE
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on Tuesday, January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.
1986 CE
In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian, exploded.
1987 CE
The antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) was introduced.
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| This photo was taken from a helicopter on the day following the explosion. The destroyed Chernobyl reactor, one of four units operating at the site in Ukraine in 1986. IAEA Imagebank - 02790015 |
1986 CE
Return of Halley's Comet.
1986 CE
End of dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.
1987 CE
World population reaches 5 billion.1987 CE
The antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) was introduced.
1987 CE
MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector on December 20, 1987. An estimated death toll of 4,386 people and only 25 survivors.
1988 CE
Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social reform, Perestroika, begins.
1988 CE
End of dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
1988 CE
In 1988, a bomb downed a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Bombing Suspects, Libyans.1988 CE
Burma became independent in 1948. Elected government overthrown 1962. Burma Armed Forces military coup 1988. Name change to Myanmar in the following year.
1988 CE
Eurotunnel began construction in 1988 and opened in 1994.
1989 CE
Fall of the Berlin Wall. And collapse of the Soviet Bloc in Europe.
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| People atop the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate on 9 November 1989 |
1989 CE
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 led to in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
1989 CE
First direct Presidential election in Brazil since 1960.
1989 CE
Fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie, after the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.
1989 CE
First close up pictures of Neptune.
1989 CE
Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu.
1989 CE
The United States invades Panama, by sea, air and land, in an attempt to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega.
1989 CE
British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990.
1990 CE
The reunification of Germany.
1990 CE
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Gulf War begins. Contra War ends.
1990 CE
Although scientists first identified carbon dioxide’s importance for climate in the 1850s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) First Assessment Report (FAR) was completed in 1990, stating with confidence that CO2 has been responsible for over half the enhanced greenhouse effect.
1991 CE
Boris Yeltsin becomes the first President of the Russia.
1991 CE
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence and insurgencies fought in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001, which led to the breakup of the Yugoslav state.
1991 CE
Beginning of the Somali, Sierra Leonian and Algerian Civil Wars.
1992 CE
Maastricht Treaty creates the European Union.
1992 CE
End of dictatorship in Albania and South Korea.
1992 CE
The Bosnian War was characterised by bitter fighting, indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns, ethnic cleansing and systematic mass rape, mainly perpetrated by Serb, and to a lesser extent, Croat and Bosniak forces.
1992 CE
Discovery of the Kuiper belt and the first extrasolar planets.
1993 CE
Independence of Eritrea.
1993 CE
World Trade Center bombing terrorist attack, carried out on February 26, 1993. The Islamic terrorists received financing from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, "the principal architect of the later 9/11 attacks".
1993 CE
The 1993 Waco siege between the government federal agents and cult leader David Koresh. Texas, US.
1994 CE
End of apartheid in South Africa and election of Nelson Mandela.  |
| 6th April 2000 Visit of Nelson Mandela to give a lecture at LSE on 'Africa and Its Position in the World.' Held at the Peacock Theatre. |
1994 CE
Yemeni Civil War (1994). Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira triggers the Rwandan genocide.
1994 CE
MS Estonia, carrying 989 passengers between Tallinn and Stockholm, sank in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995 CE
Establishment of the World Trade Organization.1995 CE
The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 people and injured over 680 others.
1995 CE
Srebrenica massacre. NATO bombing raids in Bosnia, end the Bosnian War.
1995 CE
The Tokyo subway sarin attack, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo.
1996 CE
First Congo War begins. Zaire becomes the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997.
1996 CE
End of dictatorship in Taiwan.
1996 CE
The Taliban takes control of Afghanistan.
1996 CE
The Port Arthur massacre of 28–29 April 1996 was a mass shooting in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Leads to gun regulations in Australia.
1997 CE
Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from UK to China.
1997 CE
Diana, Princess of Wales, died in hospital after being injured in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.
1997 CE
March 1997, all 39 members of the religious cult Heaven's Gate commit suicide.
1998 CE
Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa against the West.
1998 CE
Political sex scandal that involved 49-year-old, President Bill Clinton, and 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, consumed the news cycle.
1998 CE
Google founded.
1998 CE
Good Friday Agreement brings an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
1998 CE
Fall of Suharto, Indonesia.
1990 CE
Euro currency introduced.
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1990 CE
End of the Yugoslav Wars. Second Chechen War and Second Liberian Civil War begin. Fourth Indo-Pakistani War. Crisis in East Timor leads to 1400 deaths.
1990 CE
Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, United States.
World population reaches 6 billion.
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2000 CE
Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia. 2000 CE
British Army launch Operation Palliser which ends the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2000 CE
ASG a radical Islamic separatist group, attack a Malaysian dive resort on the island of Sipadan, seizing 21 hostages.
2000 CE
Multiple terrorist bombings in Metro Manila occurs on Rizal Day, killing 22 people and injuring more than 120 others. Various Islamic groups were implicated in the bombings.
2001 CE
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Afghanistan War begins. |
| Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, after a Boeing 767 hits each tower during the September 11 attacks. Michael Foran |
2001 CE
Steve Jobs introduces the first iPod. Wikipedia is launched.
2001 CE
The Nepalese royal massacre. Twelve members of the royal family were killed in a mass shooting during a party. Crown Prince Dipendra named as perpetrator of the massacre.
2002 CE
Islamic terrorist bomb detonated inside Paddy's Nightclub in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities).
2002 CE
Construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier begins.
2002 CE
Establishment of the International Criminal Court.
2002 CE
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is established and America demands Iraq allow unfettered access to weapons inspectors.
2003 CE
The United States invades Iraq and topples Saddam Hussein.
2003 CE
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2003 CE
Second Congo War ends with more than 5 million dead. Second Liberian Civil War ends.
2004 CE
Facebook, a social networking service, launched as TheFacebook.
2004 CE
Madrid train bombings killed 193 people and injured around 2,000.
2004 CE
The Beslan school siege, by Islamic militants, ended with the deaths of at least 334 people.
2004 CE
The Boxing Day Tsunami killed an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.
2004 CE
The 2004 SuperFerry 14 bombing by Islamic extremists, led to the death of 116 people.
2005 CE
London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated Islamic terrorist suicide attacks in London, England, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds.
London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated Islamic terrorist suicide attacks in London, England, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds.
2005 CE
Hurricane Katrina hit the United States, particularly in the city of New Orleans, and an estimated 1,833 people died.
2005 CE
80,000 are killed in an earthquake in Kashmir.
2006 CE
The 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War.2006 CE
Execution of Saddam Hussein.
2006 CE
Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian agent, dies from poisoning in the UK.
2006 CE
A coup d'état in Thailand.
2007 CE
Virginia Tech student shot 49 people on campus, killing 32 and wounding 17.
2007 CE
The global financial crisis (GFC), was an economic disaster in markets and banking systems between mid 2007 and early 2009.
2008 CE
Cyclone Nargis kills 133,000 in Myanmar.
2008 CE
Gaza War, 2008 South Ossetia war.
2008 CE
The Mumbai Islamic terror attacks of 26 November 2008 left 166 people dead.
2008 CE
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, first started up on 10 September 2008.
2009 CE
The Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, when the jihadist group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria.
2010 CE
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills 230,000.
2010 CE
European Debt Crisis: Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
2010 CE
Burmese political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
2010 CE
Moscow Metro bombings were suicide bombings carried out by two Islamic female terrorists during the morning rush hour of March 29, 2010, at two stations of the Moscow Metro (Lubyanka and Park Kultury), with roughly 40 minutes in between. At least 40 people were killed, and over 100 injured.
2010 CE
A series of anti-government protests and uprisings, called the Arab Spring. |
| Demonstrations in Al Bayda for support of Tripoli and Az Zawiyah. User:ليبي_صح |
The Kyrgyz Revolution. Nigerian coup d'état. Manila hostage crisis.
2011 CE
Independence of South Sudan.
2011 CE
Christchurch earthquake kills 185 and injures 2,000.
2011 CE
A peaceful uprising against the president of Syria, President Bashar al-Assad, turned into a civil war.
2011 CE
Occupy Wall Street, a protest movement, began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, against economic inequality. It gave rise to the wider Occupy movement.
2011 CE
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake struck northeastern Japan, resulting in a massive tsunami. An estimated 20,000 people were dead or missing.
2011 CE
The London Riots, were a series of riots, between 6 and 11 August 2011, when thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across England, which saw looting, arson, and mass deployment of police, and resulted in the deaths of five people.
2011 CE
Osama bin Laden is shot dead by United States Navy SEALs in Pakistan.
2011 CE
22 July, right-wing Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik set off a bomb in Regjeringskvartalet and less than two hours later, at a summer camp, for the youth division of the ruling Norwegian Labour Party, opened fire at the participants, killing 69.
2011 CE
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
World population reaches 7 Billion.
2012 CE
The Higgs boson was discovered as a new particle.
2012 CE
Hurricane Sandy kills 209 people in North America, while Typhoon Bopha kills over 1,600 in the Philippines.
2012 CE
Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip.
2012 CE
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. 26 people lost their lives, including 20 children between six and seven years old, and six adult staff members.
2012 CE
A mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight.
2012 CE
On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground and overturned after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, resulting in 32 deaths.
2012 CE
A Pakistani Taliban gunman shot Malala Yousafzai, a 20-year-old girl, for promoting education for girls.
2013 CE
The Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, which housed five garment factories and killed at least 1,132 people and injured more than 2,500.
2013 CE
Edward Snowden copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and subcontractor.
2013 CE
More Than 300 Chemical Attacks Launched by Syrian officials during Syrian Civil War.
2014 CE
The Ebola epidemic of West Africa was of unprecedented scale and duration.
2014 CE
Russia's annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass.
2014 CE
Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappearance.
2014 CE
Coup d'état in Thailand.
2014 CE
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Java Sea, while Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Ukraine and Air Algérie Flight 5017 is downed in Mali.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Java Sea, while Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Ukraine and Air Algérie Flight 5017 is downed in Mali.
2014 CE
Taliban kill more than 130 students in Pakistan.
2014 CE
Israel launches an assault on the Gaza Strip, leading to the deaths of 71 Israelis and 2,100 Palestinians.2014 CE
ISIS controlled more than 34,000 square miles in Syria and Iraq.
2014 CE
The police shooting of African-American teenager, Michael Brown, leads to violent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
2015 CE
Islamic Terror attacks in Paris killed 130 people and wounded 494.
Islamic State in West Africa massacre over 2000 people.
Multiple atrocities perpetrated by Islamic State.
2015 CE
Earthquakes in the Himalayas kills over 10,000 people.
2015 CE
American white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015 in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
2016 CE
In November 2016, WHO announced the end of the Zika epidemic.
2016 CE
Multiple atrocities by Islamic State.
2016 CE
The people of the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union.
2016 CE
United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan after 15 years.
2016 CE
Failed coup d'état in Turkey and government purges.
2016 CE
Dhaka attack kills 29 people by Islamic terrorist operation.
2017 CE
UN sanctions on North Korea after the country tests a hydrogen bomb.
2017 CE
Islamic terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 500.
UN sanctions on North Korea after the country tests a hydrogen bomb.
2017 CE
Islamic terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 500.
2017 CE
Myanmar's army accused of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
2017 CE
Islamist group, Al-Shabaab, likely responsible for two truck bombings which took place in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, killing at least 587 people and injuring 316 others.
2017 CE
Hurricane Harvey kills 107 and becomes the costliest hurricane in US history, while Hurricane Irma kills 134, and Hurricane Maria kills 3,059.
2017 CE
Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. He killed 58 people and wounded 413. Motive undetermined.
2017 CE
Allegations of sexual crimes against film producer, Harvey Weinstein. Later sentenced to 23 years in prison.
2017 CE
Grenfell Tower fire in London kills 72 and injures 70.
2017 CE
Islamic State inspired gunman kills 36 people at Resorts World Manila.
2018 CE
Turkey invades northern Syria, while 70 die in a chemical attack, triggering a missile strike against Bashar al-Assad.
2018 CE
Four people poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury and Amesbury, UK. Russians suspected.
2018 CE
The yellow vests movement for economic justice began in France in October 2018. |
| A gilets jaunes demonstration in Paris on 8 December 2018, Olivier Ortelpa - https://www.flickr.com/photos/copivolta/46193754882/ |
2018 CE
Sunda strait tsunami kills 426 and injures 14,000. Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami kills 4,340 and injures 10,700.
2018 CE
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
2018 CE
China's National People's Congress votes to abolish presidential term limits, allowing Xi Jinping to rule for life.
2018 CE
12 boys exploring a cave in Thailand's Chiang Rai province with their football coach, who became trapped after the cave flooded, were successfully rescued.
2019 CE
Christchurch mosque shootings, by right-wing extremist, kill 51 people. While a suicide bombing in Iran kills 41, and a series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka kills 250.
2019 CE
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant loses the last of its territory.
2019 CE
Sudanese coup d'état.
2019 CE
First ever image of a black hole, at the core of galaxy Messier 87.
2019 CE
The extradition bill that ignited the Hong Kong protests declared "dead" but protesters still resisting China.
2019 CE
Fires in Brazil and Australia. Six million hectares destroyed in Australia and three million hectares burnt in Brazil.
2019 CE
Bone fragments found, Callao Cave in the Philippines, reveal a short-statured and distinct hominin species —which researchers named Homo luzonensis.
2019 CE
The United States Justice Department charged Huawei with a series of federal crimes.
2019 CE
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested in London.
2019 CE
A young Iranian woman set herself on fire to protest the threat of six months of jail time for watching a men's soccer game.
2019 CE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
2019 CE
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the Senate.
2019 CE
Coronavirus pandemic begins in Wuhan, China.
2020 CE
The government of New South Wales, Australia, declares a state of emergency. Whilst the government of Victoria, Australia declares a state of disaster amid large bushfires that have killed as many as 500 million animals.
2020 CE
U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
2020 CE
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iran's armed forces, killing all 176 people on board.
2020 CE
The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the coronavirus pandemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
2020 CE
The United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union.
2020 CE
Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war.