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