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1993 CE1993 Lal Chowk fireThe 1993 Lal Chowk fire (literally Red Square) refers to the arson attack on the main commercial centre of…
1993 CE1993 Latur earthquakeThe 1993 Latur earthquake struck India at 3:56 am local time (UTC+05:30) on 30 September. The main area…
1993 CE1993 Okushiri earthquakeThe 1993 southwest-off Hokkaido earthquake (北海道南西沖地震, Hokkaidō Nansei Oki Jishin) or Okushiri earthquake…
1993 CE1993 Pakaunė mutinyThe 1993 Pakaunė mutiny (Lithuanian: Pakaunės savanorių maištas) was a stand-off that occurred in summer 1993…
1993 CE1993 World Horticultural ExpositionThe Internationale Gartenbauausstellung 93 (short: IGA 93) was held in Stuttgart, Germany. Recognised by the…
1993 CE1993 World Trade Center bombingOn February 26, 1993, Ramzi Yousef and associates carried out a van bomb terrorist attack below the North…
1993 CE1993 shootings at CIA HeadquartersOn January 25, 1993, outside of CIA Headquarters campus (now known as the George Bush Center for…
1993 CE1993–1995 Salvadoran legislature attacksFrom 1993 to 1995, former soldiers of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES) stormed the Legislative Assembly…
1994 CE1994 Ain Allah attackThe Ain Allah attack took place in a heavily guarded neighborhood in the southwest of Algiers on 3 August…
1994 CE1994 Bolivia earthquakeThe 1994 Bolivia earthquake occurred on June 8, 1994, at 20:33 local time. The epicenter was located in a…
1994 CE1994 East Java earthquakeAn earthquake occurred on June 3, 1994, at 01:17:37 local time (June 2, at 18:17:37 GMT) off the coast of…
1994 CE1994 Karamay fireThe Karamay fire (Chinese: 克拉玛依大火) of 8 December 1994 at the Friendship Theatre in Karamay, Xinjiang, China…
1994 CE1994 Kuril Islands earthquakeThe 1994 Kuril Islands earthquake – also known as the Hokkaido Toho-oki earthquake – occurred on October 5 at…
1994 CE1994 Liwa earthquakeThe 1994 Liwa earthquake occurred on 16 February 1994 at 00:07 local time. It was located in southern…
1994 CE1994 London Israeli Embassy attackThe 1994 London Israeli Embassy bombing was a car bomb attack on the Israeli embassy in Kensington, London…
1994 CE1994 Mindoro earthquakeThe 1994 Mindoro earthquake occurred at 03:15:30 PST on November 15 near Mindoro, Philippines. It had a…
1994 CE1994 Northridge earthquakeThe 1994 Northridge earthquake affected Greater Los Angeles, California, United States, on January 17, 1994…
1994 CE1994 Paez river earthquakeThe 1994 Páez River earthquake occurred on June 6 with a moment magnitude of 6.8 at a depth of 12 km (7.5…
1994 CE1994 Winter Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February 1994 at Lysgårdsbakken in…
1994 CE1994 offshore Sanriku earthquakeThe 1994 offshore Sanriku earthquake (Japanese: 三陸はるか沖地震 Sanriku Haruka Okijishin) occurred on December 28…
1995 CE1995 Antofagasta EarthquakeThe 1995 Antofagasta earthquake occurred on July 30 at 05:11 UTC (01:11 local time) with a moment magnitude…
1995 CE1995 Baku Metro fireOn 28 October 1995, a fire broke out in the subway system of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, between the…
1995 CE1995 Castilian-Manchegan regional electionA regional election was held in Castilla–La Mancha on 28 May 1995 to elect the 4th Cortes of the autonomous…
1995 CE1995 Colima-Jalisco earthquakeThe 1995 Colima–Jalisco earthquake occurred on October 9 at 15:35 UTC with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a…
1995 CE1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquakeThe 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake (also known as Nuweiba earthquake) occurred on November 22 at 06:15 local…
1995 CE1995 Neftegorsk earthquakeThe 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake occurred on 28 May at 01:03 local time in northern Sakhalin Island in the…
1995 CE1995 Paris Metro bombingsA series of attacks targeted public transport systems in Paris and Lyon, as well as a school in Villeurbanne…
1995 CE1995 Paris RER bombingThe Paris RER bombing took place on 25 July 1995, when an improvised explosive device was detonated inside of…
1995 CE1995 Rijeka bombingThe 1995 Rijeka bombing was a suicide attack perpetrated by the Islamic terrorist organization al-Gama'a…
1995 CE1995 Spanish local electionsLocal elections were held in Spain on 28 May 1995 to elect all 65,869 councillors in the 8,067 Spanish…
1996 CE1996 Biak earthquakeThe 1996 Biak earthquake, or the Irian Jaya earthquake, occurred on 17 February at 14:59:30 local time near…
1996 CE1996 Docklands bombingOn 9 February 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a powerful truck bomb in South…
1996 CE1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incidentThe 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident began on 18 September 1996 near the South Korean city of…
1996 CE1996 Kaspiysk bombingThe 1996 Kaspiysk bombing occurred on 16 November 1996 when Chechen terrorists bombed an apartment building…
1996 CE1996 Lijiang earthquakeThe 1996 Lijiang earthquake occurred at 19:14 on 3 February near Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China.…
1996 CE1996 Manchester bombingOn 15 June 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a 1,500-kilogram (3,300 lb) lorry bomb…
1996 CE1996 Paris Métro bombingOn 3 December 1996 an IED detonated on the southbound tracks of the Port-Royal Réseau Express Régional (RER)…
1996 CE1996 Pat Sin Leng wildfireThe 1996 Pat Sin Leng wildfire took place in Pat Sin Leng, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong on 10 February…
1996 CE1996 Qana massacreThe Qana massacre took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern…
1996 CE1996 Sarajevo tram attackThe siege of Sarajevo (Serbo-Croatian: Опсада Сарајева, Opsada Sarajeva) was a prolonged military blockade of…
1996 CE1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the evening on Friday, July 19 at the…
1997 CE1997 Ardabil earthquakeThe 1997 Ardabil earthquake occurred on 28 February with a moment magnitude of 6.1 and a maximum Mercalli…
1997 CE1997 Cariaco earthquakeThe 1997 Cariaco earthquake occurred on July 9 at 15:24:14 local time with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a…
1997 CE1997 Chittagong earthquakeThe 1997 Chittagong earthquake (also known as the Bandarban earthquake) occurred on 21 November at 11:23 UTC…
1997 CE1997 Harnai earthquakeThe 1997 Harnai earthquake occurred on February 27 at 21:08 UTC near Harnai, Pakistan, and felt throughout…
1997 CE1997 Jabalpur earthquakeThe 1997 Jabalpur earthquake occurred on May 22, at 04:21:31 AM in Jabalpur District in the Indian state of…
1997 CE1997 Jarrell tornadoIn the afternoon hours of May 27, 1997, a large, slow-moving and violent F5 tornado caused extreme damage…
1997 CE1997 Mahane Yehuda Market BombingsTwo consecutive suicide bombings were carried out by Hamas militants on 30 July 1997 at the Mahane Yehuda…
1997 CE1997 Melavalavu massacreThe 1997 Melavalavu massacre refers to the murder of a Panchayat President of the village and six other men…
1997 CE1997 Punitaqui earthquakeThe 1997 Punitaqui earthquake occurred at 01:03 UTC on October 15. It had an estimated magnitude of 7.1 Mwc.…
1997 CE1997 Qayen earthquakeAn earthquake struck northern Iran's Khorasan Province in the vicinity of Qaen on May 10, 1997, at 07:57 UTC…
1997 CE1997 Umbria and Marche earthquakeThe 1997 Umbria and Marche earthquakes occurred in the regions of Umbria and Marche, central Italy over a…
1997 CE1997 flood in WrocławThe 1997 Central European flood in Wrocław, often referred to as the "Flood of the Millennium", devastated…
1997 CE1997 Ürümqi bus bombingsOn February 25, 1997, 3 bombs exploded on 3 buses (lines 2, 10, and 44) in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China. 9 people…
1999 CE1998 AcatlanThe 1999 Tehuacán earthquake, or the 1999 Central Mexico earthquake, occurred on June 15 at 15:42 local time…
1998 CE1998 Aiquile earthquakeThe 1998 Aiquile earthquake occurred on May 22 at 00:48:53 local time in Bolivia. This strike-slip earthquake…
1998 CE1998 Battle of KilinochchiThe Battle of Kilinochchi (codenamed Operation Unceasing Waves II by the Tamil Tigers) occurred in September…
1998 CE1998 Iranian diplomats murder in AfghanistanOn 8 August 1998, amidst the Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif was attacked…
1998 CE1998 Mionica earthquakeIn the late evening of 29 September 1998, a 5.5 magnitude earthquake occurred near the town of Mionica in…
1998 CE1998 Papua New Guinea earthquakeThe 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake occurred on July 17 with a moment magnitude of 7.0 and a maximum…
1998 CE1998 Temple of the Tooth attackThe 1998 Temple of the Tooth attack was an attack on the Temple of the Tooth Relic, located in Kandy, Sri…
1998 CE1998 United States embassy bombingsThe 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of terrorist attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998.…
1998 CE1998 Wandhama massacreThe 1998 Wandhama massacre refers to the killings of 23 Kashmiri Hindus in their homes in the town of…
1998 CE1998 War in AbkhaziaThe 1998 Gali clashes took place in the Gali district of Abkhazia, after ethnic Georgians launched an…
1998 CE1998 Winter Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 1998 Winter Olympics took place at Nagano Olympic Stadium, Nagano, Japan, on 7…
1999 CE1999 Air Botswana incidentOn 11 October 1999, an Air Botswana ATR 42 piloted by Chris Phatswe, an Air Botswana pilot, intentionally…
1999 CE1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquakeThe 1999 Colombia earthquake occurred on 25 January 1999 at 13:19 with an epicenter 40 kilometers (25 mi)…
1999 CE1999 Armenian parliament shootingThe 1999 Armenian parliament shooting, commonly known in Armenia as October 27 (Armenian: Հոկտեմբերի 27…
1999 CE1999 Athens earthquakeThe 1999 Athens earthquake occurred on September 7 at 14:56:51 local time near Mount Parnitha in Greece with…
1999 CE1999 Aïn Témouchent earthquakeThe 1999 Aïn Témouchent earthquake occurred on December 22 at 18:36:56 local time in northern Algeria. The…
1999 CE1999 Bovenkarspel legionellosis outbreakThe Bovenkarspel legionellosis outbreak (Dutch: Legionellaramp; Legionella disaster) began on 25 February…
1999 CE1999 Bridge Creek – Moore tornadoThe 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was a large, long-lived, and exceptionally violent F5 tornado that…
1999 CE1999 Burmese Embassy SiegeThe 1999 Myanmar Embassy siege of 2 October 1999 was the seizure of the Burmese embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.…
1999 CE1999 Chamoli earthquakeThe 1999 Chamoli earthquake occurred on 29 March in the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh…
1999 CE1999 Grozny refugee convoy shootingThe Grozny refugee convoy shooting occurred on 3 December 1999, when at least 40 people fleeing the besieged…
1999 CE1999 Hector Mine earthquakeThe 1999 Hector Mine earthquake occurred in Southern California, United States, on October 16 at 02:46:50…
1999 CE1999 Istanbul bombingsThe 1999 Istanbul bombings were a pair of bombings that took place in Istanbul, Turkey on March 13, killing…
1999 CE1999 Jiji earthquakeThe Chi-Chi earthquake (later also known as the Jiji earthquake, 921 Earthquake, or the great earthquake of…
1999 CE1999 Madrid City Council electionA municipal election was held in Madrid on 13 June 1999 to elect the 6th City Council of the municipality.…
1999 CE1999 Mauritian riotsThe 1999 Mauritian riots were national-scale rioting and protests in Mauritius following the death of the…
1999 CE1999 Oaxaca earthquakeThe 1999 Oaxaca earthquake occurred on September 30 at 11:31 local time (16:31 UTC) in Oaxaca, Mexico, 60 km…
1999 CE1999 Spanish local electionsLocal elections were held in Spain on 13 June 1999 to elect all 65,201 councillors in the 8,104 Spanish…
1999 CE1999 Surinamese protestsThe 1999 Surinamese protests were a series of demonstrations calling for the fall of the government of Jules…
1999 CE1999 Sydney hailstormOn the afternoon 14 April 1999, a powerful hailstorm formed north of Nowra and moved north toward the city of…
1999 CE1999 Vladikavkaz bombingThe 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing took place in a crowded market in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania, Russia on…
1999 CE1999 World Horticultural ExpositionThe Expo '99 was an A1 category international horticultural exposition recognised by the Bureau International…
1999 CE1999 İzmit earthquakeAn earthquake of moment magnitude 7.6 struck Kocaeli Province, Turkey on 17 August 1999. According to…
2017 CE19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist PartyThe 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing…
1874 CE1st impressionist exhibitionThe First Impressionist Exhibition was an art exhibition held by the Société anonyme des artistes peintres…

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1944 CE20 July plotThe 20 July plot, sometimes referred to as Operation Valkyrie (German: Unternehmen Walküre), was a failed…
2000 CE2000 Baia Mare cyanide spillThe 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill was a leak of cyanide near Baia Mare, Romania, into the Someș River by the…
2000 CE2000 Baku earthquakeOn 25 November 2000, at 22:09 (18:09 AZT), a Mw 6.8 earthquake struck with an epicenter just offshore Baku…
2000 CE2000 Dover incidentOn 18 June 2000, just before midnight, 58 dead bodies were found in a lorry in the port town of Dover, United…
2000 CE2000 Hezbollah cross-border raidThe 2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid occurred at the boundary between Lebanon and the Golan Heights (see Blue…
2000 CE2000 Iceland earthquakesTwo earthquakes, both measuring Mw 6.5, struck southern Iceland near the town of Selfoss on 17 and 21 June…
2000 CE2000 Jarafa mosque massacreOn 8 December 2000, a mass shooting took place at Al-Sunna Al-Mohammediyya Mosque in the al-Jarafa…
2000 CE2000 Ramallah lynchingThe 2000 Ramallah lynching was an attack that took place early during the Second Intifada on 12 October 2000…
2000 CE2000 Sipadan kidnappingsThe 2000 Sipadan kidnappings was a hostage crisis in Sabah, Malaysia, and the southern Philippines that began…
2000 CE2000 Sumatra earthquakeOn 4 June 2000, at 23:28 WIB, southern Sumatra in Indonesia was struck by an earthquake of Mw 7.9 with a…
2000 CE2000 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Friday, 15 September 2000 in…
2000 CE2000 Tottori earthquakeThe 2000 Tottori earthquake (Japanese: 鳥取県西部地震) occurred on 6 October 2000, at 13:30:20 local time with a…
2000 CE2000 Turkmenistan earthquakeA Mw 7.0 earthquake struck Balkan Region, Turkmenistan on 6 December 2000, at 17:11:08 UTC (22:11 TMT). The…
2000 CE2000 UEFA Cup final riotsThe 2000 UEFA Cup final Riots, also known as the Battle of Copenhagen, were a series of riots in City Hall…
2000 CE2000 Walisongo school massacreThe Walisongo school massacre is the name given to a series of terrorist attacks by Christian sectarian…
2000 CE2000 Yunnan earthquakeOn 15 January 2000, at 07:37 CST, a Ms 6.5 or Mw 5.9 earthquake struck Yao'an County in Chuxiong Yi…
2001 CE2001 Azor attackOn 14 February 2001, a vehicular attack took place near Azor, Israel. A Palestinian man from Gaza drove a bus…
2001 CE2001 BBC bombingThe 2001 BBC bombing was a bomb attack on the BBC's main news centre within BBC Television Centre, on Wood…
2001 CE2001 Bradford riotsThe Bradford riots were a brief period of violent rioting which began on 7 July 2001, in Bradford, West…
2001 CE2001 El Salvador earthquakeOn 13 January 2001, at 11:33 CTZ (17:33 UTC), a Mw 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Usulután…
2001 CE2001 Gujarat earthquakeAn earthquake struck India and Pakistan on 26 January 2001 at 08:46 am IST. The epicentre was about 9 km…
2001 CE2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombingThe 2001 HaSharon Mall bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing which occurred on May 18, 2001, in the…
2001 CE2001 Immanuel bus attackThe 2001 Immanuel bus attack was an ambush attack by Palestinian militants targeting Israeli civilians in the…
2001 CE2001 Indian Parliament attackThe 2001 Indian Parliament attack was a terrorist attack on the Parliament of India in New Delhi, India, on…
2001 CE2001 Misuari rebellionThe 2001 rebellion of the Moro National Liberation Front Misuari faction against the Philippine government…
2001 CE2001 Netanya bombingThe 2001 Netanya bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred on March 4, 2001, at the center of the business…
2001 CE2001 Nisqually earthquakeThe 2001 Nisqually earthquake occurred at 10:54:32 local time on February 28, 2001, and lasted nearly a…
2001 CE2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreakThe outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture…
2001 CE2001 failed shoe bomb attemptOn December 22, 2001, a failed shoe bombing attempt occurred aboard American Airlines Flight 63. The…
2001 CE2001 flood in GdańskThe 2001 flood in Gdańsk, also known as the flood of the century (Polish: powódź stulecia), was a flood which…
2001 CE2001 southern Peru earthquakeThe 2001 southern Peru earthquake occurred at 20:33:15 UTC (15:33:15 local time) on June 23 with a moment…
2002 CE2002 Adora terrorist attackThe 2002 Adora terrorist attack was an attack on residents of the Israeli settlement of Adora. The attack was…
2002 CE2002 Al Ayyat train fireThe El Ayyat train disaster occurred at 2 a.m. on 20 February 2002 in an eleven-carriage passenger train…
2002 CE2002 Bali bombingsOn 12 October 2002, three terrorist attacks took place in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian…
2002 CE2002 Barrow-in-Furness legionellosis outbreakThe 2002 Barrow-in-Furness Legionnaires' disease outbreak was a fatal outbreak of Legionellosis which…
2002 CE2002 Beit She'an attackThe 2002 Beit She'an attack, which took place during November 28, 2002, was a terrorist attack carried out by…
2002 CE2002 Buin Zahra earthquakeAn earthquake occurred on 22 June 2002 with the epicenter near the city of Bou'in-Zahra in Iran's Qazvin…
2002 CE2002 Denali earthquakeThe 2002 Denali earthquake occurred at 22:12:41 UTC (1:12 PM Local Time) November 3 with an epicenter 66 km…
2002 CE2002 French Hill suicide bombingA suicide bombing occurred on 19 June 2002, in a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill…
2002 CE2002 Grozny truck bombingThe Grozny truck bombing occurred on 27 December 2002, when three Chechen suicide bombers ran vehicles into…
2002 CE2002 Hebron ambushThe 2002 Hebron ambush took place in the Wadi an-Nasara neighborhood in Hebron in the West Bank on 15…
2002 CE2002 Hindu Kush earthquakesThe 2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, with the two most destructive events occurring…
2002 CE2002 Jaffa Street bombingThe 2002 Jaffa Street bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred on January 27, 2002, in the center of…
2002 CE2002 Kaluchak massacreThe Kaluchak massacre was a terrorist attack on 14 May 2002 near the town of Kaluchak in the Indian state…
2002 CE2002 Karachi bus bombingThe 2002 Karachi bus bombing was a suicide car bomb attack that occurred in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan in 2002.…
2002 CE2002 Kaspiysk bombingThe 2002 Kaspiysk bombing occurred on 9 May 2002, an attack which ripped through the military parade to…
2002 CE2002 Lyon car attackOn 30 March 2002, a group of masked men rammed two cars through the courtyard gates of a synagogue in the La…
2002 CE2002 Mahane Yehuda Market bombingA suicide bombing occurred on 12 April 2002 at a bus stop located at the entrance to the Mahane Yehuda…
2002 CE2002 Mecca girls' school fireA fire on 11 March 2002 at a girls' school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, killed fifteen people, all young girls.…
2002 CE2002 Metzer attackThe 2002 Metzer attack was a terrorist attack on Israeli civilians in Kibbutz Metzer, Israel that took place…
2002 CE2002 Molise earthquakeTwo earthquakes hit the Italian regions of Molise and Apulia on 31 October at 10:32:58 (UTC) and 1 November…
2002 CE2002 Mombasa attacksThe 2002 Mombasa attacks were two coordinated terrorist attacks on 28 November 2002 in Mombasa, Kenya…
2002 CE2002 Pirelli Tower plane crashOn 18 April 2002, a privately operated single-engine Rockwell Commander 112TC flying from Locarno Airport…
2002 CE2002 Rishon LeZion bombingOn 7 May 2002, a suicide bombing occurred at the Sheffield Club, a crowded game club located in the new…
2002 CE2002 Sumatra earthquakeThe 2002 Sumatra earthquake occurred at 08:26:10 WIB (01:26 UTC) on 2 November. It had a magnitude of Mw…
2002 CE2002 Taiwan earthquakeAt 14:52 local time on 31 March 2002, an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the moment magnitude scale hit…
2002 CE2002 Tampa Plane CrashOn January 5, 2002, Charles J. Bishop, a high-school student of East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs…
2002 CE2002 Tbilisi earthquakeThe 2002 Tbilisi earthquake occurred on April 25 in the Caucasus country of Georgia. The United States'…
2002 CE2002 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceThe 2002 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place from 23 October – 1 November 2002, in New Delhi…
2002 CE2002 Winter Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics took place at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium in Salt Lake…
2003 CE2003 Altai earthquakeThe 2003 Altai earthquake, or 2003 Chuya earthquake, occurred on September 27 at 18:33:26 local time with a…
2003 CE2003 Bachu earthquakeThe 2003 Bachu earthquake occurred on 24 February at 10:03 local time in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in…
2003 CE2003 Bam earthquakeAn earthquake struck the Kerman province of southeastern Iran at 01:56 UTC (5:26 am Iran Standard Time) on…
2003 CE2003 Boumerdès earthquakeThe 2003 Boumerdès earthquake occurred on May 21 at 19:44:21 local time in northern Algeria. The shock had a…
2003 CE2003 Casablanca bombingThe 2003 Casablanca bombings, commonly known as May 16 (Arabic: 16 ماي, French: 16 mai), were a series of…
2003 CE2003 Colima earthquakeAn earthquake struck the Pacific Coast of Mexico on 21 January 2003 with a moment magnitude of 7.5. It had a…
2003 CE2003 Dehradun Municipal Corporation electionThe 2003 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election was a municipal election to the Dehradun Municipal…
2003 CE2003 El Nogal Club bombingThe 2003 El Nogal Club bombing (Spanish: Atentado al Club El Nogal de 2003) was a terrorist attack that…
2003 CE2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'étatThe 2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état was the bloodless military coup that took place in Guinea-Bissau on 14…
2003 CE2003 Istanbul bombingsThe 2003 Istanbul bombings were a series of suicide attacks carried out with trucks fitted with bombs…
2003 CE2003 La Paz riotsThe 2003 La Paz riots, commonly referred to as Black February (Spanish: Febrero Negro), was a period of civil…
2003 CE2003 Latifiya ambushIn late November 2003, Iraqi insurgents ambushed a two-car convoy carrying eight Spanish intelligence…
2003 CE2003 Madrid City Council electionA municipal election was held in Madrid on 25 May 2003 to elect the 7th City Council of the municipality. All…
2003 CE2003 Marriott Hotel bombingA suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Jakarta hotel on 5 August 2003…
2003 CE2003 Miyagi earthquakeTwo major earthquakes struck Miyagi Prefecture in Japan in 2003. The first event measured MJMA 7.1, had a…
2003 CE2003 Nadimarg Massacre2003 Nadimarg massacre was the killing of 24 Kashmiri Pandits in the village of Nadimarg in Pulwama District…
2003 CE2003 Puerto Armuelles earthquakeThe 2003 Puerto Armuelles earthquake occurred on December 25 at 02:11 local time (07:11 UTC). The epicenter…
2003 CE2003 Red Square bombingThe 2003 Mokhovaya Street bombing was the 9 December 2003 suicide bombing on Mokhovaya Street in Moscow.…
2003 CE2003 San Simeon earthquakeThe 2003 San Simeon earthquake struck at 11:15 PST (19:15 UTC) on December 22 on the Central Coast of…
2003 CE2003 Spanish local electionsLocal elections were held in Spain on 25 May 2003 to elect all 65,510 councillors in the 8,108 Spanish…
2003 CE2003 Tokachi earthquakeThe 2003 Tokachi earthquake, known in Japanese as the 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake (平成15年十勝沖地震, Heisei…
2003 CE2003 Tushino bombingOn July 5, 2003, a terrorist attack occurred just outside of the gates of the Krylya (Russian: Крылья, lit.…
2003 CE2003 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceThe 2003 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place between 1–12 December 2003 in Milan, Italy. The…
2003 CE2003 Znamenskoye suicide bombingThe Znamenskoye Grozny suicide bombing happened on May 12, 2003, in Znamenskoye in Chechnya, when three rebel…
2004 CE2004 Alor earthquakeOn 12 November 2004, at 05:26:41 WITA (21:26:41 UTC, 11 November), a moment magnitude (Mw) 7.5 earthquake…
2004 CE2004 Ashdod Port bombingsThe 2004 Ashdod Port bombings were two suicide bombings carried out nearly simultaneously on March 14, 2004…
2004 CE2004 Australian Embassy bombing in JakartaA one-tonne car bomb, which was packed into a small Daihatsu delivery van, exploded outside the Australian…
2004 CE2004 Baladeh earthquakeOn 28 May 2004, at 17:08:44 IRDT (12:38 UTC), an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 on the moment magnitude…
2004 CE2004 Cologne bombingOn 9 June 2004, a nail bomb detonated in Cologne, Germany, in a business area popular with immigrants from…
2004 CE2004 Erez Crossing bombingThe Erez Crossing bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing which occurred on January 14, 2004, at the Erez…
2004 CE2004 Indian Ocean earthquakeOn 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a Mw 9.2–9.3 earthquake struck with its epicenter off…
2004 CE2004 Khobar massacreOn 29 May 2004, a Saturday, four men armed with guns and bombs attacked two oil industry installations and a…
2004 CE2004 Lahsuna massacreOn 18 May 2004, four people were massacred at Lahsuna village in Bihar state of India. Members of the…
2004 CE2004 Les Saintes earthquakeThe 2004 Les Saintes earthquake occurred at 07:41:07 local time on November 21, 2004, with a moment magnitude…
2004 CE2004 Madrid train bombingsThe 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11M for 11 de marzo) (or 3/11) were a series of…
2004 CE2004 Morocco earthquakeOn 24 February 2004 at 03:27 CET (02:27 UTC), an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.3 and maximum…
2004 CE2004 Sinai bombingsThe 2004 Sinai bombings were three bomb attacks targeting tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on 7…
2004 CE2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 13, 2004 starting at 20:45 EEST (UTC+3)…
2004 CE2004 SuperFerry 14 bombingMV SuperFerry 14 was a Philippine registered roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ferry that was attacked on February 26…
2005 CE2005 Alexandria riotThe 2005 Alexandria riot was an anti-Christian riot in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, resulting in…
2005 CE2005 Amman bombingsThe 2005 Amman bombings were a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks on three hotel lobbies in Amman…
2005 CE2005 Baghdad bridge stampedeThe Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster (Arabic: كارثة جسر الائمة, lit. 'Bridge of the Imams disaster') occurred on…
2005 CE2005 Bali bombingsTerrorist attacks occurred on 1 October 2005 in Bali, Indonesia. Bombs were detonated at two sites in…
2005 CE2005 Cronulla riotsThe Cronulla riots were a series of race riots in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They began in the…
2005 CE2005 French riotsThe 2005 French riots was a three-week long period of civil disturbances that took place in the suburbs of…
2005 CE2005 Fukuoka earthquakeOn 20 March 2005, at 10:53:41 JST (01:53:41 UTC), a MJMA 7.0 earthquake struck in the Genkai Sea off the…
2005 CE2005 Hindu Kush earthquakeThe 2005 Hindu Kush earthquake hit northeastern Afghanistan with a magnitude of 6.5 on December 12 at 21:47…
2005 CE2005 Kashmir earthquakeOn 8 October 2005, at 08:50:39 PKT, a Mw 7.6 earthquake struck the Azad Kashmir region in northern Pakistan.…
2005 CE2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquakeOn 5 December 2005, at 15:19:56 EAT, a Mw 6.8 earthquake struck Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. It killed…
2005 CE2005 Miyagi earthquakeOn 16 August 2005, at 11:46:28 JST, a MJMA 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of the Oshika Peninsula in…
2005 CE2005 Qeshm earthquakeAn earthquake occurred on November 27, 2005, at 13:52 IRST (10:22 UTC) on the sparsely populated Qeshm Island…