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• 2005 CE2005 Ruichang earthquakeOn 26 November 2005, a Mw 5.2 earthquake struck the province of Jiangxi in eastern China, killing 21 people…
• 2005 CE2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacksThe 2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings were committed by Islamist group Abdullah Azzam Brigades on 23 July 2005 in…
• 2005 CE2005 Sumatra earthquakeOn 28 March 2005, at 23:09:37 WIB, a Mw 8.6–8.7 earthquake struck the Banyak Islands, located off the coast…
• 2005 CE2005 Tarapacá earthquakeOn June 13, 2005, at 22:44:33 CLT, a Mw 7.8 earthquake struck near Mamiña, in northern Chile about 125 km…
• 2005 CE2005 Zarand earthquakeA moment magnitude (Mw) 6.4 earthquake struck northern Kerman province, Iran on 22 February 2005, at 05:55:22…
• 2005 CE2005 conclaveA conclave was held on 18 and 19 April 2005 to elect a new pope to succeed John Paul II, who had died on 2…
• 2006 CE2006 Borujerd earthquakeThe 2006 Borujerd earthquake occurred in the early morning of 31 March in the South of Borujerd with…
• 2006 CE2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremonyThe Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games was held on 15 March 2006 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground…
• 2006 CE2006 Gaza cross-border raidThe 2006 Gaza cross-border raid, known by Palestinian militants as Operation Dispersive Illusion (Arabic…
• 2006 CE2006 Greece earthquakeThe 2006 Greece earthquake – also known as the Kythira earthquake – occurred on January 8 at 13:34:53 local…
• 2006 CE2006 Hajj stampedeThe 2006 Hajj stampede or crush resulted in the deaths of 363 pilgrims on 12 January 2006 during the Hajj in…
• 2006 CE2006 Hawaii earthquakeThe 2006 Kīholo Bay earthquake occurred on October 15 at 07:07:49 local time with a magnitude of 6.7 and a…
• 2006 CE2006 Hengchun earthquakeThe 2006 Hengchun earthquakes occurred on December 26 at 20:26 and 20:34 local time off the southwest coast…
• 2006 CE2006 Kamchatka earthquakeThe 2006 Kamchatka earthquake occurred on April 21, 2006 at 12:25 PM local time. This shock had a moment…
• 2006 CE2006 Kuril Islands earthquakeThe 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred on November 15 at 8:14:16 pm JST with a moment magnitude (Mw) of…
• 2006 CE2006 Madrid–Barajas Airport bombingOn 30 December 2006, a van bomb exploded in the Terminal 4 parking area at the Madrid–Barajas Airport in…
• 2006 CE2006 Moscow market bombingOn 21 August 2006, a bombing took place at Cherkizovsky Market in Moscow, Russia. Thirteen people were killed…
• 2006 CE2006 Mozambique earthquakeThe 2006 Mozambique earthquake occurred at 22:19 UTC on 22 February. It had a magnitude of 7.0 on the moment…
• 2006 CE2006 North Korean missile testTwo rounds of North Korean missile tests were conducted on July 5, 2006. The Democratic People's Republic of…
• 2006 CE2006 North Korean nuclear testOn 9 October 2006, North Korea performed its first nuclear test, detonating a plutonium-based device…
• 2006 CE2006 Nuku‘alofa riotsThe 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots, also known as the 2006 Tongan riots, started on 16 November, in the Tongan capital…
• 2006 CE2006 Southern Leyte mudslideOn February 17, 2006, a massive rock slide-debris avalanche occurred in the Philippine province of Southern…
• 2006 CE2006 Tajikistan earthquakeOn July 29, the 2006 Tajikistan earthquake hit the Khatlon region of Tajikistan. The earthquake doublet…
• 2006 CE2006 Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant bombingThe 2nd Rosh Ha'ir restaurant bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing on 17 April 2006 at Rosh Ha'ir…
• 2006 CE2006 Tonga earthquakeThe 2006 Tonga earthquake occurred on 4 May at 04:26:35 local time with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a…
• 2006 CE2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workersThe Muttur Massacre was an incident that occurred on 4 August 2006 in Muttur, Sri Lanka, in the district of…
• 2006 CE2006 Trincomalee massacre of students2006 Trincomalee massacre of students or "Trinco 5" was the murder of five Tamil schoolboys by the Special…
• 2006 CE2006 Vadodara riotsThe 2006 Vadodara riots also known as the 2006 Dargah riots were religious riots that occurred on 1 May 2006…
• 2006 CE2006 Westchester County tornadoThis page documents notable tornadoes and tornado outbreaks worldwide in 2006. Strong and destructive…
• 2006 CE2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics (Torino 2006) was held on 10 February 2006 beginning at…
• 2006 CE2006 Yanjin earthquakeThe 2006 Yanjin earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 4.9 on July 22 at 01:10 UTC (09:10 local…
• 2006 CE2006 al-Askari mosque bombingOn 22 February 2006, approximately 6:44 a.m. Arabia Standard Time, al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, was…
• 2006 CE2006 civil unrest in San Salvador AtencoThe 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco began on Wednesday, May 3, when police prevented a group of 60…
• 2007 CE2007 Aisén Fjord earthquakeThe 2007 Aysén Fjord earthquakes occurred in Aisén Fjord, Chile from January 22 – April 22. The biggest…
• 2007 CE2007 Al Hillah bombingsThe 2007 Al Hillah bombings killed 200 people, mostly Shia Muslims on a pilgrimage, on 6 March 2007 in Al…
• 2007 CE2007 Alum Rock earthquakeThe 2007 Alum Rock earthquake occurred on October 30 at 8:04 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time in Alum Rock Park in…
• 2007 CE2007 Ankara bombingThe 2007 Ankara bombing was a suicide attack that occurred in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, on 22 May 2007.…
• 2007 CE2007 Bagram Airfield bombingThe attempted assassination of Dick Cheney was a 2007 suicide attack that killed up to 23 people and injured…
• 2007 CE2007 Batna bombingThe 2007 Batna bombing took place on 6 September 2007 in Batna, a town in Batna Province, eastern Algeria.…
• 2007 CE2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquakeA magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred 10:13 local time (01:13 UTC) on July 16, 2007, at a previously unknown…
• 2007 CE2007 Eilat bombingThe 2007 Eilat bombing occurred on 29 January 2007 when a Palestinian suicide bomber from the Gaza Strip…
• 2007 CE2007 Elie, Manitoba tornadoThe 2007 Elie tornado was a small, but extremely powerful and erratic tornado that occurred in Manitoba…
• 2007 CE2007 Gisborne earthquakeThe 2007 Gisborne earthquake occurred under the Pacific Ocean about 50 kilometres (31 mi) off the eastern…
• 2007 CE2007 Greensburg tornadoIn the evening hours of Friday, May 4, 2007, amid a severe weather outbreak across the central United States…
• 2007 CE2007 Iraqi Parliament bombingOn 12 April 2007, the canteen of the Council of Representatives of Iraq building was attacked by a suicide…
• 2007 CE2007 Karachi bombingA bombing attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto occurred on 18 October 2007 in…
• 2007 CE2007 Kent earthquakeThe 2007 Kent earthquake registered 4.3 on the Richter scale and struck south east Kent, South East England…
• 2007 CE2007 Kuril Islands earthquakeThe 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred east of the Kuril Islands on 13 January at 1:23 p.m. (JST). The…
• 2007 CE2007 Madrid City Council electionA municipal election was held in Madrid on 27 May 2007 to elect the 8th City Council of the municipality. All…
• 2007 CE2007 Madrilenian regional electionA regional election was held in the Community of Madrid on 27 May 2007 to elect the 8th Assembly of the…
• 2007 CE2007 Marib bombingOn 2 July 2007, a suicide attack involving a car bomb took place at the Temple of Awwam, a popular tourist…
• 2007 CE2007 Martinique earthquakeThe 2007 Martinique earthquake took place on November 29, 2007, at 15:00:19 local time in the Windward…
• 2007 CE2007 Nahal Telem attackThe 2007 Nahal Telem shooting was a Palestinian militant attack which was carried out on December 28, 2007 in…
• 2007 CE2007 Noto earthquakeThe 2007 Noto Peninsula earthquake (能登半島地震) occurred on March 25, 2007, in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
• 2007 CE2007 Peru earthquakeThe 2007 Peru earthquake, which measured 8.0 on the moment magnitude scale, hit the central coast of Peru on…
• 2007 CE2007 Samjhauta Express bombingsThe 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings was a terrorist attack that occurred around midnight on 18 February 2007…
• 2007 CE2007 Shinwar shootingThe Shinwar Shooting or Shinwar Massacre was the alleged killing of a number of Afghan civilians on 4 March…
• 2007 CE2007 Solomon Islands earthquakeThe 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake took place on 2 April 2007, near the provincial capital of Gizo on Ghizo…
• 2007 CE2007 South Korean hostage crisis in AfghanistanOn July 19, 2007, a group of 23 South Korean missionaries were captured and held hostage by members of the…
• 2007 CE2007 Spanish local electionsLocal elections were held in Spain on 27 May 2007 to elect all 66,131 councillors in the 8,111 Spanish…
• 2007 CE2007 Tabasco floodThe 2007 Tabasco flood occurred in late October and early November 2007 in the Mexican states of Tabasco and…
• 2007 CE2007 Tocopilla earthquakeThe 2007 Tocopilla earthquake occurred on November 14 at 12:40:50 local time. Its epicenter was located…
• 2007 CE2007 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceThe 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place at the Bali International Conference Centre…
• 2007 CE2007 Yazidi communities bombingsThe Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on 14 August 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated…
• 2007 CE2007 Zasyadko mine disasterThe 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster was a mining accident that happened on November 18, 2007 at the Zasyadko coal…
• 2007 CE2007–08 Kenyan crisisThe 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis was a violent political, economic, and humanitarian crisis in Kenya. The crisis…
• 2007 CE2007–2008 Nazko earthquakesA series of small volcanic earthquakes measuring less than 4.0 on the Richter magnitude scale took place in…
• 2008 CE2008 Beijing Drum Tower stabbingsThis is a list of mass stabbings that took place before 2010. It includes incidents in which there were at…
• 2008 CE2008 Bin Salman Mosque bombingIn its war on terrorism in Yemen, the US government describes Yemen as "an important partner in the global…
• 2008 CE2008 Bukit Antarabangsa landslideThe 2008 Bukit Antarabangsa landslide was a landslide that occurred on the early morning of 6 December 2008…
• 2008 CE2008 Charsadda bombingIn the Charsadda bombing of 9 February 2008, a suicide bomber killed at least 27 people and another 50 were…
• 2008 CE2008 Chechnya earthquakeThe 2008 Chechnya earthquake occurred October 11 at 09:06:10 UTC in Chechnya, Russia, with a Mwc magnitude of…
• 2008 CE2008 Chino Hills earthquakeThe 2008 Chino Hills earthquake occurred at 11:42:15 am PDT (18:42:15 UTC) on July 29 in Southern California…
• 2008 CE2008 Congo football riotsOn Sunday 14 September 2008, a riot broke out in connection with a football game in Butembo, in the province…
• 2008 CE2008 Damxung earthquakeThe 2008 Damxung earthquake hit Damxung County, Tibet Autonomous Region, west of Lhasa, in the People's…
• 2008 CE2008 Danish embassy bombing in IslamabadThe 2008 Danish embassy bombing was an attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan on 2 June 2008.…
• 2008 CE2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation electionThe 2008 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election was a municipal election to the Dehradun Municipal…
• 2008 CE2008 Dimona suicide bombingThe 2008 Dimona suicide bombing was a Palestinian suicide attack carried out in Dimona, Israel on February 4…
• 2008 CE2008 Dodecanese earthquakeThe 2008 Dodecanese earthquake occurred near Kattavia on the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean…
• 2008 CE2008 Dujail bombingThe 12 September 2008 Dujail bombing occurred around 18:00 pm local time (15:00 UTC), on 12 September 2008 in…
• 2008 CE2008 Earthquake in SimeulueOn February 20, 2008, an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.4 struck off the coast of Sumatra at a…
• 2008 CE2008 El Calvario earthquakeThe 2008 El Calvario earthquake occurred in central Colombia on 24 May and measured 5.9 on the moment…
• 2008 CE2008 Exeter attempted bombingThe Exeter bombing was a failed bombing attempt that took place on 22 May 2008, at the Giraffe cafe and…
• 2008 CE2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosionOn 7 February 2008, fourteen people were killed and thirty-six injured during a dust explosion at a refinery…
• 2008 CE2008 Getxo bombingA van bomb went off on 19 May 2008 outside a boat club in the town of Getxo, Biscay in the Basque Country…
• 2008 CE2008 Iceland earthquakeThe 2008 Iceland earthquake was a doublet earthquake that struck on 29 May at 15:46 UTC in southwestern…
• 2008 CE2008 Illinois earthquakeThe 2008 Illinois earthquake was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the Midwest state of…
• 2008 CE2008 Imphal bombingIn the 2008 Imphal bombings, at least 17 people were killed and more than 30 were injured on 21 October 2008.…
• 2008 CE2008 Istanbul bombingsThe 2008 Istanbul bombings occurred on July 27, 2008 when two explosions hit a busy shopping street in the…
• 2008 CE2008 Iwate earthquakeThe July 2008 Iwate earthquake (岩手県沿岸北部地震, Iwate-ken Engan Hokubu Jishin) was an earthquake that occurred in…
• 2008 CE2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquakeOn 14 June, the 2008 Iwate earthquake struck the Tōhoku region of northeastern Honshū in Japan. Japan…
• 2008 CE2008 Jerusalem bulldozer attackOn July 2, 2008, an Arab resident of East Jerusalem identified as Hussam Taysir Duwait (also referred to as…
• 2008 CE2008 K2 disasterThe 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on…
• 2008 CE2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attackThe 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack was a terrorist attack carried out by the Taliban on the gym of the Kabul…
• 2008 CE2008 Kandahar bombingThe 2008 Kandahar bombing of February 17, 2008 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was an attack targeting a crowd of…
• 2008 CE2008 Kyrgyzstan earthquakeThe 2008 Kyrgyzstan earthquake struck on October 5 at 21:52 local time (15:52 UTC) with a moment magnitude of…
• 2008 CE2008 Lake Kivu earthquakeThe 2008 Lake Kivu earthquake shook several countries in Africa's Great Lakes region at 07:34:12 (GMT) on 3…
• 2008 CE2008 Lincolnshire earthquakeOn 27 February 2008 at 00:56:47.8s GMT an earthquake occurred at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England.…
• 2008 CE2008 Mardakert skirmishesThe 2008 Mardakert clashes began on March 4 after the 2008 Armenian election protests. It involved the…
• 2008 CE2008 Minsk bombingThe 2008 Minsk bombing took place just after midnight on 4 July 2008, in Minsk, Belarus and wounded 54…
• 2008 CE2008 Morelia grenade attacksThe Morelia grenade attacks took place on 15 September 2008 on the occasion of the Mexican Independence Day…
• 2008 CE2008 Naina Devi temple stampedeThe 2008 Naina Devi temple stampede occurred on 3 August 2008 in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. 146…
• 2008 CE2008 Namdaemun fireOn February 10, 2008, an arsonist set fire to the historic Namdaemun gate (officially "Sungnyemun") in Seoul…
• 2008 CE2008 Pakistan earthquakeThe 2008 Ziarat earthquakes hit the Pakistani province of Balochistan on October 29 with a moment magnitude…
• 2008 CE2008 Peloponnese earthquakeThe 2008 Peloponnese earthquake killed two people, injured more than 220 and left at least 2,000 people…
• 2008 CE2008 Qeshm earthquakeThe 2008 Qeshm earthquake occurred on 10 September in the Hormozgān Province of southern Iran, 850 kilometres…
• 2008 CE2008 Santa Catarina floodsThe 2008 Santa Catarina floods were floods in Santa Catarina, Brazil in November 2008. They occurred after a…
• 2008 CE2008 Shiraz explosionAn explosion occurred during prayers at the Hosseynieh Seyed al-Shohada Mosque in the southern Iranian city…
• 2008 CE2008 Sichuan earthquakeAn earthquake occurred in the province of Sichuan, China at 14:28:01 China Standard Time on May 12, 2008.…
• 2008 CE2008 Skåne County earthquakeThe 2008 Scania earthquake occurred at 06.20am CET (05.20 UTC) on 16 December and affected the southern part…
• 2008 CE2008 Sulawesi earthquakeThe 2008 Sulawesi earthquake struck Sulawesi, Indonesia, on 16 November at 17:02:31 UTC. A 7.4 Mw earthquake…
• 2008 CE2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the…
• 2008 CE2008 Tibetan unrestThe 2008 Tibetan unrest, also referred to as the 2008 Tibetan uprising in Tibetan media, was a series of…
• 2008 CE2008 UEFA Cup Final riotsRiots took place in Manchester, England, on the day of the 2008 UEFA Cup final between FC Zenit Saint…
• 2008 CE2008 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceThe 2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place at PIF Congress Centre, Poznań International…
• 2008 CE2008 Universal Studios fireOn June 1, 2008, a fire broke out on the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood, an American film studio and…
• 2008 CE2008 Vladikavkaz bombingThe 2008 Vladikavkaz bombing took place on a routed taxicab, which was unloading passengers at a market in…
• 2008 CE2008 Wah bombingThe 2008 Wah bombing was a double suicide attack on the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) in Wah, Pakistan…
• 2008 CE2008 Weliveriya bombingOn 6 April 2008, 15 people were killed by an alleged suicide bomber, who exploded himself at the start of a…
• 2008 CE2008 Yevpatoria gas explosionThe 2008 Yevpatoria gas explosion took place on December 24, 2008, with an explosion in an apartment block in…
• 2008 CE2008 attack on the Israeli embassy in MauritaniaOn 1 February 2008, at least three gunmen who allegedly belonged to the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda in…
• 2008 CE2008–2009 Battle of KilinochchiThe Battle of Kilinochchi was a land battle fought between the Sri Lankan Military and the Liberation Tigers…
• 2008 CE2008–2009 serial killings of Roma in HungaryThe 2008–2009 neo-Nazi murders of Roma in Hungary were a series of murders perpetrated by four Neo-Nazis…
• 2011 CE2008–2011 Cambodian–Thai border crisisThe 2008–2011 Cambodian–Thai border crisis began in June 2008 until December 2011 as part of long-standing…
• 2009 CE2009 Afghan avalanchesThe 2009 Afghan avalanches occurred near Kabul, Afghanistan on 16 January 2009. At least ten people were…
• 2009 CE2009 African Union base bombings in MogadishuTwo large-scale attacks against AMISOM soldiers carried out by al-Shabaab suicide bombers in Mogadishu…
• 2009 CE2009 Albina, Suriname riotsThe 2009 Albina, Suriname riots took place on December 24–25, 2009, when local maroon inhabitants attacked…
• 2009 CE2009 Andaman Islands earthquakeThe 2009 Andaman Islands earthquake occurred on August 11 at 19:55 UTC in the Andaman Islands of India. The…
• 2009 CE2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floodsThe 2009 Angola, Namibia and Zambia floods was a natural disaster which began in early March 2009 and…
• 2009 CE2009 Beledweyne bombingThe Beledweyne bombing was a bombing targeting Medina Hotel in Beledweyne, Somalia killing 57 and injuring…
• 2009 CE2009 Bhutan earthquakeThe 2009 Bhutan earthquake occurred on 21 September at 14:53 BTT (08:53 UTC) in the eastern region of Bhutan…
• 2009 CE2009 Burgos bombingA van bomb carrying more than 300 kg of explosive went off on 29 July 2009 outside a Civil Guard barracks in…
• 2009 CE2009 Costa Rica earthquakeThe 2009 Cinchona earthquake occurred at 1:21:35 pm local time on January 8 with an Mwc magnitude of 6.1 and…
• 2009 CE2009 Espoo shopping mall shootingThe Sello mall shooting occurred on the morning of 31 December 2009 shortly after 10:08 local time at the…
• 2009 CE2009 Fiordland earthquakeA Mw 7.8 earthquake struck a remote region of Fiordland, New Zealand, on 15 July 2009 at 21:22 local time…
• 2009 CE2009 Fort Hood shootingOn November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas, United States. Nidal Hasan…
• 2009 CE2009 G-20 London summit protestsThe 2009 G20 London summit protests occurred in the days around the 2 April 2009 G20 London summit. The…
• 2009 CE2009 Georgian mutinyThe 2009 Georgian mutiny was a mutiny by a Georgian Army tank battalion based in Mukhrovani, 30 kilometres…
• 2009 CE2009 Guinean protestsThe 2009 Guinean protests were an opposition rally in Conakry, Guinea on 28 September 2009, with about 50,000…
• 2009 CE2009 Handlová mine blastThe 2009 Handlová mine blast occurred on 10 August 2009 roughly 330 metres (1,080 ft) underground in Trenčín…
• 2009 CE2009 Heilongjiang mine explosionThe 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion (Chinese: 鹤岗新兴煤矿爆炸事故; pinyin: Hègǎng Xīnxīng méikuàng bàozhà shìgù) was…
• 2009 CE2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire in the holeThe ABC Day Care Center Fire in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, took place on Friday, June 5, 2009 and resulted…
• 2009 CE2009 Honduras earthquakeThe 2009 Swan Islands earthquake occurred on May 28 at 02:24:45 AM local time with a moment magnitude of 7.3…
• 2009 CE2009 Hotel Shamo bombingThe 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing occurred at the Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 3 December 2009. The…
• 2009 CE2009 Hualien earthquakeThe 2009 Hualien earthquake occurred on December 19 at 21:02:14 (local time) with a moment magnitude of 6.4…
• 2009 CE2009 Jakarta bombingsA series of bombings took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 17 July 2009. At around 07:47 until 07:57 WIB…
• 2009 CE2009 Jeddah floodsThe 2009 Saudi Arabian floods affected Jeddah, on the Red Sea (western) coast of Saudi Arabia, and other…
• 2009 CE2009 Kabul Indian embassy attackThe 2009 bombing of the Indian embassy was a suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan…
• 2009 CE2009 Karachi floodsThe 2009 Karachi floods (Urdu: سيلاب کراچی ) in Pakistan's financial centre, Karachi, have killed at least 26…
• 2009 CE2009 Khan el-Khalili bombingThe 2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing was a terrorist attack that took place at 6:30 p.m. local time on 22…
• 2009 CE2009 Kirkuk bombingThe 2009 Kirkuk bombing was a suicide car bomb attack that occurred on June 30, 2009, in the northern Iraqi…
• 2009 CE2009 Kuwait wedding fireThe 2009 Kuwait wedding fire was an arson attack that occurred during a wedding ceremony in Oyoun, Jahra…
• 2009 CE2009 L'Aquila earthquakeAn earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in southern Italy, at 03:32 CEST (01:32 UTC) on 6 April…
• 2009 CE2009 Lahore police academy attacksAt 07:31 on 30 March 2009, the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked by an estimated 12…
• 2009 CE2009 Lüderitz oil spillThe 2009 Lüderitz oil spill began in April 2009 off the coast of Lüderitz, Namibia. The oil spill directly…
• 2009 CE2009 Massereene Barracks shootingOn 7 March 2009, two off-duty British soldiers of the 38 Engineer Regiment were shot dead outside the…
• 2009 CE2009 NK Široki Brijeg–FK Sarajevo football riotsThe NK Široki Brijeg–FK Sarajevo football riot was a riot involving the football clubs NK Široki Brijeg…
• 2009 CE2009 Nazran bombingThe 2009 Nazran bombing occurred on 17 August 2009, in Nazran, the largest city of the Republic of Ingushetia…
• 2009 CE2009 Nevsky Express bombingThe 2009 Nevsky Express bombing occurred on 27 November 2009 when a bomb exploded under a high speed train…
• 2009 CE2009 North Korean nuclear testThe 2009 North Korean nuclear test was the underground detonation of a nuclear device conducted on Monday, 25…
• 2009 CE2009 Palma Nova bombingThe 2009 Palma Nova bombing occurred on 30 July 2009, when a limpet bomb went off outside a Civil Guard…
• 2009 CE2009 Papua earthquakeThe 2009 West Papua earthquakes occurred on January 4 local time in Indonesia's Tambrauw Regency in Southwest…
• 2009 CE2009 Pishin bombingThe 2009 Pishin bombing occurred on October 18, 2009, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a meeting…
• 2009 CE2009 Pittsburgh police shootingsOn April 4, 2009, a shootout occurred at 1016 Fairfield Street in the Stanton Heights neighborhood of…
• 2009 CE2009 Riga riotThe 2009 Riga riot was an outbreak of civil unrest in Riga, Latvia, on January 13, 2009, lasting for three…
• 2009 CE2009 Samoa earthquakeThe 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami took place on 29 September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent…
• 2009 CE2009 Sayano-Shushenskaya power station accidentOn 17 August 2009, a turbine in the hydroelectric power station of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam near…
• 2009 CE2009 Shizuoka earthquakeThe 2009 Shizuoka earthquake occurred with a magnitude of 6.4, hitting Shizuoka Prefecture in the south of…
• 2009 CE2009 Sobat River ambushThe 2009 Sobat River ambush was a battle between Jikany Nuer tribesmen and the Sudanese People's Liberation…
• 2009 CE2009 Sumatra earthquakesThe first of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes (Indonesian: Gempa bumi Sumatra 2009) occurred on 30 September off…
• 2009 CE2009 Tal Afar bombingThe 9 July 2009 Tal Afar bombing was a double suicide bombing which occurred in Tal Afar, Iraq in July 2009.…
• 2009 CE2009 Taldykorgan fireThe 2009 Taldykorgan fire occurred on 13 September 2009, when at least 38 people were killed in a fire at a…
• 2009 CE2009 Taza bombingThe 20 June 2009 Taza bombing was an attack which took place in Taza near Kirkuk, Iraq on 20 June 2009 in a…
• 2009 CE2009 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceThe 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the…
• 2009 CE2009 West Africa floodsThe 2009 West Africa floods are a natural disaster that began in June 2009 as a consequence of exceptionally…
• 2009 CE2009 West Java earthquakeAn earthquake occurred on September 2, 2009, at 14:55:01 local time in West Java, Indonesia. The magnitude…
• 2009 CE2009 Wujek-Śląsk mine blastThe 2009 Wujek-Śląsk mine blast occurred at the Wujek bituminous coal mine in Ruda Śląska, Poland on 18…
• 2009 CE2009 Xinjiang earthquakeThe 2009 Xinjiang earthquake occurred in the Xinjiang of the People's Republic of China. It occurred at 9:47…
• 2009 CE2009 Yunnan earthquakeThe 2009 Yunnan earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 5.7 in Yao'an County, Yunnan province…
• 2009 CE2009 Zahedan bombingThe 2009 Zahedan bombing was an explosion on 28 May 2009, that occurred during Maghrib prayers in Zahedan…
• 2009 CE2009 attack on the Dutch royal familyOn 30 April 2009 in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, a man drove his car at high speed into a parade which…
• 2009 CE2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket teamOn 3 March 2009, a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy, was fired upon by 12 gunmen…
• 2010 CE2010 Afghanistan earthquakeThe 2010 Afghanistan earthquake occurred on April 18 with a moment magnitude of 5.6. The earthquake could be…
• 2010 CE2010 Aksu bombingThe 2010 Aksu bombing was a bombing in Aksu, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China that resulted in at least…
• 2010 CE2010 Algeria earthquakeThe 2010 Beni-Ilmane earthquakes began 14 May at 12:29:22 UTC, when a Mw 5.3 strike-slip earthquake occurred…
• 2010 CE2010 Arkansas floodsThe 2010 Arkansas floods were flash floods that killed at least 20 people near Langley, Arkansas, United…
• 2010 CE2010 Austin suicide attackThe 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately…
• 2010 CE2010 Baghdad church attackOn 31 October 2010, six suicide bombers of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) militant group stormed into the…
• 2010 CE2010 Baja California earthquakeThe 2010 Baja California earthquake (also known as 2010 Easter earthquake, 2010 Sierra El Mayor earthquake…
• 2010 CE2010 Bratislava shootingThe 2010 Bratislava shooting, or the Devínska Nová Ves shooting, occurred on 30 August 2010, when seven…
• 2010 CE2010 Canterbury earthquakeThe 2010 Canterbury earthquake (also known as the Darfield earthquake) struck the South Island of New Zealand…
• 2010 CE2010 Central Canada earthquakeThe 2010 Central Canada earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 5.0 in Central Canada on 23 June at…
• 2010 CE2010 Chabahar suicide bombingA suicide bombing incident occurred on December 14, 2010, by two suicide bombers, who blew themselves up in a…
• 2010 CE2010 Chechen Parliament attackThe 2010 Chechen Parliament attack took place on the morning of 19 October 2010, when three Chechen militants…
• 2010 CE2010 Chile earthquakeOn 27 February 2010 at 03:34 UTC−03:00, a Mww 8.8 megathrust earthquake struck off the coast of the Maule…
• 2010 CE2010 China floodsFloods in China in 2010 resulted in over 3,000 deaths. Three hundred and ninety-two people died, and a…
• 2010 CE2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main…
• 2010 CE2010 Connecticut power plant explosionThe 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion occurred at the Kleen Energy Systems power station in Middletown…
• 2010 CE2010 Copiapó mining accidentA mining accident began on 5 August 2010 with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine in the Atacama…
• 2010 CE2010 Damghan earthquakeThe 2010 Damghan earthquake (also known as the Kuh-Zar earthquake) occurred in northern Iran at 11:53:49…