Timeline of the 21st century

This is a timeline of the 21st century.

## Contents

* 1 2000s
* 1.1 2001
* 1.2 2002
* 1.3 2003
* 1.4 2004
* 1.5 2005
* 1.6 2006
* 1.7 2007
* 1.8 2008
* 1.9 2009
* 2 2010s
* 2.1 2010
* 2.2 2011
* 2.3 2012
* 2.4 2013
* 2.5 2014
* 2.6 2015
* 2.7 2016
* 2.8 2017
* 3 See also

## 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

* Independence of Montenegro.
* 2006 Lebanon War.
* Mumbai bombings.
* Comprehensive Peace Accord ends the Nepalese Civil War.
* Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes President of Liberia, and thus Africa's first elected female head of state.
* The International Astronomical Union creates the first formal definition of a planet, and excludes Pluto from the list.
* Execution of Saddam Hussein.
* The Baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, becomes functionally extinct.

### 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.

## See also

* Deaths of the 21st century
* Timeline of the 20th century
* 21st century in fiction
* Timeline of the near future

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