The Contemporary World

• 2014 Thai Military Coup
• Abraham Accords — Israel Normalises with UAE and Bahrain
• Adoption of Sharia Law in Northern Nigeria
• Afghanistan War Begins
• Ai Weiwei
• Arab Spring: Egypt
• Arab Spring: Tunisia
• Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
• Barack Obama Elected US President
• Battle of Mogadishu
• Boko Haram Insurgency Begins
• Bosnian War Begins
• Brexit: UK Votes to Leave EU
• COVID-19 Global Pandemic
• CRISPR-Cas9 — Precision Gene Editing Becomes Possible
• Catalan Independence Movement
• Charles III
• China Joins the WTO
• Daniel Ortega
• David Trimble
• Dayton Accords End Bosnian War
• Dissolution of Yugoslavia
• Donald Trump Elected US President
• EU Enlargement: 10 New Members
• East Timor Independence
• Euro Currency Launched
• Euromaidan Protests in Ukraine
• Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis
• Fall of Suharto and the Reformasi
• Felipe VI of Spain
• Finland and Sweden Join NATO
• First BRICS Summit — Yekaterinburg
• François Hollande
• Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
• Gabriel García Márquez
• George Floyd Killing and BLM Protests
• Gerry Adams
• Global Financial Crisis
• Good Friday Agreement
• Gulf War: Liberation of Kuwait
• Hong Kong Handover to China
• Houthi Red Sea Attacks and US-UK Strikes on Yemen
• Hugo Chávez
• Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution (1999–2013)
• ISIS Proclaims Caliphate
• India-Pakistan Nuclear Tests
• Iran Attacks Israel Directly
• Iran Mahsa Amini Protests
• Iran Nuclear Crisis Escalates
• Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) Signed
• Iraq War Begins
• Israel-Gaza War
• January 6 Capitol Insurrection
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Jennifer Doudna
• John Hume
• Kim Jong-un
• Kyoto Protocol Adopted
• Lech Walesa
• Lee Kuan Yew
• Libya Renounces WMDs — Gaddafi's Rehabilitation
• Libyan Civil War and NATO Intervention
• Maastricht Treaty Signed
• Modi's India — Hindu Nationalism in Power
• Myanmar Military Coup
• NATO Kosovo Intervention
• Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Nicolás Maduro Arrested by US Forces
• North Korea First Nuclear Test
• North Korea Tests ICBM
• Northern Ireland Devolution
• Orange Revolution in Ukraine
• Osama bin Laden Killed
• Oslo Accords Signed
• Paris Climate Agreement
• Paris Terrorist Attacks
• Pope Benedict XVI Elected
• Pope Francis Elected
• Pope Leo XIV
• Portuguese Drug Decriminalisation
• Putin Rises to Power in Russia
• Russia Annexes Crimea
• Russia Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
• Russia-Georgia War
• Rwandan Genocide
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks
• Snowden Disclosures — NSA Mass Surveillance Revealed
• South Sudan Independence
• Srebrenica Massacre
• Stephen Hawking
• Steve Jobs
• Suharto
• Syrian Civil War Begins
• Taliban Retakes Afghanistan
• The AI Revolution — Large Language Models Transform Computing
• The End of Apartheid
• The Polish Round Table and the Fall of Communism
• Tiananmen Square Massacre
• Tigray War — Ethiopia's Civil Conflict
• Venezuela Humanitarian Crisis
• WTO Founded — Globalisation Institutionalised
• Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
• World Wide Web Goes Public — Birth of the Digital Age
• Xi Jinping Consolidates Power
• Yemen Civil War and Saudi-led Intervention
• Zapatista Uprising in Chiapas