The Contemporary World

• "Liberation Day" Tariffs
• 2006 Lebanon War
• 2014 Thai Military Coup
• 2024 Israel-Hezbollah War
• 2026 Israel-US-Iran War
• 2026 Lebanon War
• Abraham Accords — Israel Normalises with UAE and Bahrain
• Adoption of Sharia Law in Northern Nigeria
• Afghanistan War Begins
• Ai Weiwei
• Al Gore
• Arab Spring: Egypt
• Arab Spring: Tunisia
• Armenia's Velvet Revolution
• Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
• B. R. Ambedkar
• Barack Obama Elected US President
• Barbados Becomes a Republic
• Battle of Mogadishu
• Benin's National Conference — the African Transition Template
• Bhutan Becomes a Constitutional Monarchy
• Bob Dole
• Boko Haram Insurgency Begins
• Bosnian War Begins
• Brexit: UK Votes to Leave EU
• CERN Announces Discovery of the Higgs Boson
• COVID-19 Global Pandemic
• CRISPR-Cas9 — Precision Gene Editing Becomes Possible
• Capaci and Via D'Amelio Bombings
• Catalan Independence Movement
• Charles III
• China Joins the WTO
• Completion of the Human Genome Project
• Dan Quayle
• Daniel Ortega
• Darfur Genocide
• David Trimble
• Dayton Accords End Bosnian War
• Dick Cheney
• Dissolution of Yugoslavia
• Donald Trump Elected US President
• Donald Trump Re-elected US President
• ECOWAS Removes Yahya Jammeh from The Gambia
• 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
• Fall of the Assad Regime
• 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
• Geraldine Ferraro
• German Federal Election: Merz Becomes Chancellor
• Gerry Adams
• Global Financial Crisis
• Good Friday Agreement
• Great-Power Basing in Djibouti
• Gulf War: Liberation of Kuwait
• Hillary Clinton
• 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 Revokes Article 370 in Kashmir
• India-Pakistan Nuclear Tests
• Indira Gandhi
• Iran Attacks Israel Directly
• Iran Mahsa Amini Protests
• Iran Nuclear Crisis Escalates
• Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) Signed
• Iraq War Begins
• Israel-Gaza War
• Israel-Iran Twelve-Day War (Operation Rising Lion)
• JD Vance
• Jack Kemp
• January 6 Capitol Insurrection
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Jennifer Doudna
• Joe Lieberman
• John Edwards
• John Hume
• John Kerry
• John McCain
• Kamala Harris
• Kim Dae-jung
• Kim Jong-un
• Kyoto Protocol Adopted
• Kyrgyzstan's Tulip Revolution and the Habit of Revolt
• Lee Kuan Yew
• Libya Renounces WMDs — Gaddafi's Rehabilitation
• Libyan Civil War and NATO Intervention
• Maastricht Treaty Signed
• Mahathir Mohamad
• Maldives Democratic Transition and Reversal
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi
• Mauritania Abolishes Slavery — Twice
• Mexican Drug War
• Michael Dukakis
• Mike Pence
• Mitt Romney
• Modi's India — Hindu Nationalism in Power
• Mojtaba Khamenei
• Mongolia's Democratic Revolution
• Myanmar Military Coup
• NATO Kosovo Intervention
• Nauru's Phosphate Collapse
• Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa
• Nepal Abolishes the Monarchy
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Nicolás Maduro Captured 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
• Paul Ryan
• Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
• Peter Higgs
• Pope Benedict XVI Elected
• Pope Francis Dies; Leo XIV Elected First American Pope
• Pope Francis Elected
• Pope Leo XIV
• Portuguese Drug Decriminalisation
• Putin Rises to Power in Russia
• RAMSI Intervention in the Solomon Islands
• Russia Annexes Crimea
• Russia Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
• Russia-Georgia War
• Rwandan Genocide
• Sarah Palin
• September 11 Attacks
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks
• Sheikh Hasina Ousted in Bangladesh
• Snowden Disclosures — NSA Mass Surveillance Revealed
• Somali Civil War Begins
• South Korea Martial Law Crisis
• South Sudan Independence
• Srebrenica Massacre
• State Collapse in the Central African Republic
• Stephen Hawking
• Steve Jobs
• Sudanese Civil War
• Suharto
• Syrian Civil War Begins
• TSMC Founded, Inventing the Semiconductor Foundry Model
• Taliban Retakes Afghanistan
• Thabo Mbeki
• The AI Revolution — Large Language Models Transform Computing
• The Algerian Hirak
• The Blockade of Qatar
• The End of Apartheid
• The End of the Bongo Dynasty in Gabon
• The Essequibo Dispute Between Guyana and Venezuela
• The Ethiopia-Eritrea Peace and Its Unravelling
• The Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests
• The Killing of Jamal Khashoggi
• The Korean Summits — Panmunjom and Singapore
• The Polish Round Table and the Fall of Communism
• The Prespa Agreement Renames North Macedonia
• The Removal of Manuel Zelaya
• The Sudanese Revolution and the Fall of Bashir
• The Tajik Civil War
• The Transnistria War
• Tiananmen Square Massacre
• Tigray War — Ethiopia's Civil Conflict
• Tim Kaine
• Tim Walz
• Timor-Leste Independence
• Trudeau Resigns; Carney Becomes Canadian PM
• Turkmenistan's Permanent Neutrality
• UK General Election: Labour Landslide
• US–China Trade War
• Vallabhbhai Patel
• Venezuela Humanitarian Crisis
• WTO Founded — Globalisation Institutionalised
• Walter Mondale
• Wangari Maathai
• Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
• World Wide Web Goes Public — Birth of the Digital Age
• Xi Jinping Consolidates Power
• Yamaguchi-gumi Split and Yakuza Gang War
• Yemen Civil War and Saudi-led Intervention
• Zapatista Uprising in Chiapas