History:Timeline of the 21st century

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This is a timeline of the 21st century.

2000s

2001

  • September 11 attacks: Al-Qaeda terrorists crash planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City , and The Pentagon in Washington, DC. A third plane is downed in the outskirts of Stonycreek Township, PA. Nearly 3,000 people die in the attacks.
  • Massive earthquakes hit the western state of Gujarat, India, leaving at least 30,000 dead.
  • The War on Terror is declared by President Bush, in response to 9/11.
  • The United States invades Afghanistan and topples the Taliban regime.Armed insurgents continue to fight.
  • Wikipedia founded.
  • African Union founded.
  • During economic crisis in Argentina government effectively froze all bank accounts for twelve months which led to riots and President de la Rúa's resignation from office.
  • President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines impeached.
  • Steve Jobs introduces the first iPod

2002

  • 2002 Bali bombings.
  • Riots and mass killings in the India n state of Gujarat leave 1044 dead.
  • Israel starts Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank in response to a wave of Palestinian suicide attacks.
  • Construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier begins.
  • Chechen rebels seize theatre in Moscow.
  • America demands Iraq allow unfettered access to weapons inspectors.
  • Guantanamo Bay detention camp is established. Algerian Civil War ends.
  • Beltway sniper attacks.
  • Independence of East Timor.
  • First Ivorian Civil War begins.
  • Brazil win the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea & Japan

2003

  • The United States leads a coalition invasion of Iraq and topples Saddam Hussein, triggering worldwide protests. Armed insurgency continues throughout the country.
  • War in Darfur begins.
  • The Human Genome Project is completed.
  • Second Congo War ends with more than 5 million dead.
  • Second Liberian Civil War ends.
  • Space Shuttle Columbia is destroyed on re-entry.
  • Rose Revolution in Georgia

2004

  • Enlargement of NATO and the European Union incorporates most of former Eastern Bloc.
  • Facebook formed by Mark Zuckerberg.
  • Union of South American Nations formed.
  • Madrid train bombings.
  • Orange Revolution in Ukraine .
  • Beslan school hostage crisis.
  • Boxing Day Tsunami occurs in Indian Ocean, leading to the deaths of 230,000.
  • 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

2005

  • IRA end military campaign in Northern Ireland.
  • 7/7 attacks on London Underground.
  • Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first woman Chancellor.
  • Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan.
  • Second Intifada ends.
  • Israel withdraws from Gaza.
  • Cedar Revolution in Lebanon triggered by the assassination of Rafic Hariri.
  • Second Sudanese Civil War ends.
  • Hurricane Katrina kills 1,836 people in the Gulf of Mexico (particularly in New Orleans, Louisiana).
  • 80,000 are killed in an earthquake in Kashmir.
  • The Kyoto Protocol comes into effect.
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
  • Benedict XVI becomes Pope.
  • Michael E. Brown discovers Eris.
  • YouTube formed by Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

2006

2007

  • Anti-government protests in Myanmar crushed by ruling junta.
  • Spike in food prices and subprime crisis help trigger global recession.
  • Assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • First Ivorian Civil War ends.
  • Introduction of iPhone.
  • Virginia Tech shooting.

2008

  • Stock markets plunge around the world.
  • End of Monarchy in Nepal.
  • Barack Obama is elected as President of the United States.
  • Cyclone Nargis kills 133,000 in Myanmar. Gaza War begins.
  • 2008 South Ossetia war.
  • Kosovo declares independence, to mixed reaction.
  • Battle of Basra - Iraqi forces crack down on Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi forces in Basra and Sadr City.
  • 2008 Mumbai attacks.
  • The Large Hadron Collider is completed as the world's largest and most powerful particle collider.

2009

  • Gaza War ends; Gaza blockade continues.
  • Sri Lankan Civil War ends.
  • Election protests begin in Iran.
  • Second Chechen War ends.
  • Boko Haram rebellion begins in Nigeria.
  • Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest skyscraper, is completed.
  • Great Recession officially ends.
  • Formation of BRICS economic bloc.
  • Treaty of Lisbon ratified.

2010s

2010

  • David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • Benigno Aquino III is elected as the 15th President of the Philippines.
  • A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills 230,000.
  • The threat of Greece defaulting on its debts triggers the European sovereign debt crisis and Republic of Ireland's financial crisis.
  • The largest oil spill in US history occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • North Korea shells the island of Yeonpyeong.
  • Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
  • 2010 Moscow Metro bombings.
  • Arab Spring triggered by self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on December 17, 2010 in Tunisia.
  • 2010 Kyrgyzstani revolution.
  • 2010 Nigerien coup d'état.
  • The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes in Smolensk on April 10.
  • The Burj Khalifa located in Dubai opened to the public and stood as the tallest structure in the world, standing at 829.8 m (2,722 ft).

2011

  • Independence of South Sudan.
  • Arab Spring: revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya follow, as well as uprisings in Yemen and Bahrain, and protests in several other Arab countries.
  • Syrian civil war begins.
  • Second Ivorian Civil War.
  • Occupy movement inspires worldwide protests.
  • News International phone hacking scandal.
  • A 9.0 earthquake in Japan triggers a tsunami and the meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
  • Second Ivorian Civil War ends with the arrest of former president Laurent Gbagbo.
  • Iraq War ends.
  • Riots flare across England.
  • Bombings occur In Russia and Somalia.
  • World population reaches 7 billion.
  • Floods in Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines kill roughly 2500 people.

2012

  • Northern Mali conflict, the MNLA declares Azawad an independent state.
  • Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh steps down.
  • 2012 Benghazi attack leads to the death of US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
  • Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, departs; Tawadros II succeeds him.
  • The Higgs boson is discovered.
  • Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia for the third time.
  • Hurricane Sandy kills 209 people in North America, while Typhoon Bopha kills over 1,600 in the Philippines .
  • Skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without a vehicle.
  • Conflict begins in the Central African Republic.
  • UN Climate Change Conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020.
  • Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip.
  • 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état.
  • The US rover, Curiosity, takes a selfie on Mars
  • Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
  • 2012 Aurora shooting.
  • Costa Concordia disaster.

2013

  • The French military intervenes in the Northern Mali conflict.
  • Chelyabinsk meteor.
  • Pope Benedict XVI resigns and Pope Francis becomes Pope.
  • Terrorist attacks occur in Boston and Nairobi.
  • The Rana Plaza collapses in Bangladesh.
  • Edward Snowden releases classified documents concerning mass surveillance by the NSA.
  • President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is deposed by the military in a coup d'état.
  • Croatia becomes a member of the European Union.
  • The Euromaidan protest begins in Ukraine .
  • A chemical attack in Ghouta, Syria is blamed on President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Typhoon Haiyan kills nearly 6,150 people in the Philippines and Vietnam.
  • Conflict begins in South Sudan. Uruguay becomes the first country to fully legalize cannabis.
  • End of 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis.
  • Boston Marathon bombings.

2014

  • The worst Ebola epidemic in recorded history occurs in West Africa, infecting nearly 30,000 people and resulting in the deaths of 11,000+.
  • Euromaidan protest in Ukraine sparks a revolution and the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych, leading to Russia's annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass.
  • Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears from radar while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8. There were 239 people on board.
  • A coup d'état in Thailand overthrows the caretaker government.
  • King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates; his son becomes King Felipe VI.
  • 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.
  • Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan kill over 130 students in Pakistan .
  • Israel launches an assault on the Gaza Strip in response to tit-for-tat murder-kidnappings, leading to the deaths of 71 Israelis and 2100 Palestinians.
  • ISIS begins its offensive in northern Iraq, leading to intervention in Iraq and Syria by a US-led coalition.
  • Second Libyan Civil War begins.
  • The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe becomes the first to successfully land on a comet.

2015

  • Five former Soviet Union countries form the Eurasian Economic Union.
  • Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris.
  • Boko Haram perpetrates a massacre of over 2000 people in Baga, Nigeria, and allies itself with ISIL.
  • Al-Shabaab perpetrates a a mass shooting in Kenya, killing 148.
  • Houthis overthrow the government in Yemen, triggering a military response by Saudi Arabia.
  • A series of earthquakes in the Himalayas kills over 10,000 people.
  • ISIL claims responsibility for the Kobanî massacre in Syria, the Sousse attacks in Tunisia, a mosque bombing in Kuwait, the Suruç bombing in Turkey, multiple bombings in Beirut and a massacre in Paris, as well as the bombing of a Russian Airliner over Egypt. They also inspire a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
  • Turkey and Russia intervene in the Syrian Civil War.
  • The heads of China and Taiwan meet for the first time, while the United States and Cuba resume diplomatic relations.
  • 195 nations agree to lower carbon emissions.
  • Liquid water is found on Mars.
  • First close-up images of Ceres and Pluto.
  • November 2015 Paris attacks.
  • Charleston church shooting.
  • 2015 San Bernardino attack.

2016

  • An outbreak of the Zika virus is linked to a cluster of cases of microcephaly.
  • The United Nations lifts sanctions on Iran in recognition of its dismantling of its nuclear program.
  • ISIL claims responsibility for a series of bombings in Brussels, a massacre at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport and car ramming attacks in Nice and Berlin, in addition to inspiring a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida.
  • The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest railway tunnel, is completed.
  • The people of the United Kingdom vote narrowly to leave the European Union; Theresa May becomes Prime Minister.
  • Donald Trump is elected President of the United States.
  • The Colombian government signs a peace deal with FARC despite losing a referendum.
  • The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, is impeached.
  • The government of Turkey begins a series of purges in reaction to a failed coup d'état attempt.
  • Rodrigo Duterte becomes President of the Philippines. He soon initiates a controversial crack down on drug users in the country.
  • Detection of gravitational waves by LIGO confirmed.
  • Dhaka attack kills 29 people.
  • A shooter kills 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
  • 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers.
  • 2016 Southern Taiwan earthquake.

2017

  • Tensions between North Korea and the UN escalate as the country tests a hydrogen bomb and conducts a series of ballistic missile tests, including two launches over Japan and one said to pose a threat to Washington, DC. The UN responds with a wave of export sanctions.
  • A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 500.
  • Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launch simultaneous attacks in Tehran, destroy the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul Iraq, and kill 311 in Egypt, but are declared defeated in Iraq by the end of the year.
  • A military operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is declared ethnic cleansing by the UNHCR.
  • A bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia on October 14 kills 500+ people and injures 316. It is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history.
  • Hurricane Harvey kills 90 and becomes the costliest hurricane in US history, while Hurricane Irma kills 134, and Hurricane Maria kills 94.
  • Two earthquakes strike Mexico on 7 September and 19 September, killing more than 350.
  • Kurdistan and Catalonia declare independence from Iraq and Spain , respectively. Catalonia is not recognised, and Iraq engages the Kurds in conflict.
  • Robert Mugabe is ousted in a coup d'état, while Ratko Mladić is declared guilty of genocide.
  • The city of Charlottesville is the site of a far-right rally protesting the removal of Confederate statues throughout the US. During the event, a white supremacist rams his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, injuring 19 and killing one.
  • 58 people are killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas
  • Allegations of sexual abuse against film producer Harvey Weinstein lead to a wave of similar accusations from within Hollywood and other areas of primarily the English-speaking world.
  • Grenfell Tower fire in London kills 72 and injures 70.
  • 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object, is identified.

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