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2014 CE2014 Hiroshima landslidesOn 20 August 2014, Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan was struck by a series of landslides following heavy rain.…
2014 CE2014 Hrushevskoho Street riotsIn response to anti-protest laws in Ukraine (announced on 16 January 2014 and enacted on 21 January 2014), a…
2014 CE2014 Iguala mass kidnappingOn September 26, 2014, forty-three male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared…
2014 CE2014 Iquique earthquakeThe 2014 Iquique earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on 1 April, with a moment magnitude of 8.1–8.2, at…
2014 CE2014 Isla Vista killingsOn the evening of May 23, 2014, multiple misogynistic terrorist attacks occurred in Isla Vista, California…
2014 CE2014 Israeli oil spillIn December 2014, a major oil spill occurred in the vicinity of Be'er Ora Israel, with an estimated 3-5…
2014 CE2014 Jerusalem Light Rail vehicular attackOn 22 October 2014, a Palestinian rammed his car into a crowd of people waiting at the Ammunition Hill light…
2014 CE2014 Jerusalem synagogue attackOn the morning of 18 November 2014, two Palestinian men from Jerusalem entered Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue…
2014 CE2014 Jerusalem tractor attackA terrorist ramming attack occurred on 4 August 2014 in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian drove an excavator out…
2014 CE2014 Jinnah International Airport attackOn 8 June 2014, 10 militants armed with automatic weapons, a rocket launcher, suicide vests, and grenades…
2014 CE2014 Kangding earthquakeThe 2014 Kangding earthquake struck Kangding County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China…
2014 CE2014 Kaohsiung gas explosionOn 31 July 2014, a series of gas explosions occurred in the Cianjhen and Lingya districts of Kaohsiung…
2014 CE2014 Kunming attackOn 1 March 2014, a group of five knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers in the Kunming Railway Station…
2014 CE2014 Latakia offensiveThe 2014 Latakia offensive was a rebel offensive in the Latakia Governorate of Syria launched on 21 March…
2014 CE2014 Lithuanian presidential electionPresidential elections were held in Lithuania on 11 May 2014, with a second round held on 25 May between the…
2014 CE2014 Ludian earthquakeThe 2014 Ludian earthquake struck Ludian County, Yunnan, China, with a moment magnitude of 6.2 on 3 August.…
2014 CE2014 Mae Lao earthquakeThe 2014 Mae Lao earthquake occurred at 18:08:43 Indochina Time on May 5. The epicenter was located at a…
2014 CE2014 Meerut riotsOn 10 May 2014, a scuffle between two communities over construction of fence around well escalated into riots…
2014 CE2014 Midwest FurFest gas attackOn December 7th, 2014, Midwest FurFest was targeted by a chlorine gas attack, hospitalizing 19 attendees. At…
2014 CE2014 Moscow school shootingOn 3 February 2014, a school shooting occurred at School No. 263 in the Otradnoye District of Moscow, Russia.…
2014 CE2014 Mount Dhaulagiri avalanchesThe 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster occurred in central Nepal on 14 October 2014 and resulted in the deaths of…
2014 CE2014 Mount Everest avalancheOn 18 April 2014, seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that…
2014 CE2014 NYPD officer killingsOn December 20, 2014, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu – two on-duty New York City Police Department (NYPD)…
2014 CE2014 Nagano earthquakeOn November 22, 2014, at 22:08 local time (UTC +9), an earthquake struck southeast of Hakuba, Nagano…
2014 CE2014 Nuclear Security SummitThe 2014 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held in The Hague, the Netherlands, on March 24 and 25, 2014.…
2014 CE2014 Peshawar school attackOn 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist…
2014 CE2014 Saharanpur riotsThe 2014 Saharanpur Riots occurred on 25 July 2014 in the city of Saharanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh in…
2014 CE2014 Shanghai stampedeOn 31 December 2014, a deadly crush occurred in Shanghai, near Chen Yi Square on the Bund, where around…
2014 CE2014 Simferopol incidentOn 18 March 2014, a Ukrainian soldier and a Russian Cossack paramilitary were killed in the first case of…
2014 CE2014 South Napa earthquakeThe 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the northern San Francisco Bay Area on August 24 at 03:20:44…
2014 CE2014 Sydney hostage crisisThe Lindt Café siege (also known as the Sydney siege) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 15–16 December…
2014 CE2014 Thai coup d'étatOn 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the…
2014 CE2014 Tours police station stabbingOn 20 December 2014, a man in Joué-lès-Tours near the city of Tours in central France entered a police…
2014 CE2014 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceThe United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP20 or CMP10 was held in Lima, Peru, from December 1 to 12…
2014 CE2014 Vnukovo Airport Falcon 50 crashOn 20 October 2014, Unijet Flight 074, a Dassault Falcon 50 business jet taking off from Vnukovo…
2014 CE2014 Västmanland wildfireThe 2014 Västmanland wildfire was a wildfire that broke out on the afternoon of 31 July 2014 on the border…
2014 CE2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics took place at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, on…
2014 CE2014 Yarkant attacksViolence erupted on 28 July 2014 in Yarkand County (officially spelled Yarkant) of Kashgar Prefecture…
2014 CE2014 Yunnan earthquakeThe 2014 Yingjiang earthquake occurred on 24 May at 4:49 a.m. local time in Yingjiang County, Yunnan…
2014 CE2014 Yutian earthquakeThe 2014 Yutian earthquake struck Xinjiang on 12 February at 17:19 Beijing Time. The epicenter was located in…
2014 CE2014 eruption of Mount OntakeA volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake (御嶽山, Ontake-san) took place on September 27, 2014, killing 63 people.…
2014 CE2014 kidnapping of Israeli teensThe 2014 Gush Etzion kidnapping and murder refers to the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in…
2014 CE2014 Ürümqi attackOn 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The terrorist…
2015 CE2015 Accra explosionOn June 3, 2015, an explosion and a fire occurred at a petrol station in Ghana's capital city Accra, killing…
2015 CE2015 Ankara bombingsOn 10 October 2015 at 10:04 local time (EEST) in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, two bombs were detonated…
2015 CE2015 Attock Suicide AttackOn 16 August 2015, two suspected suicide bombers detonated explosives at the political office of Punjab…
2015 CE2015 Baga massacreThe 2015 Baga massacre was a series of mass killings carried out by the Boko Haram group in the north-eastern…
2015 CE2015 Baghdad truck bombingOn 13 August 2015, a truck bombing attack was launched targeting a Baghdad food market in Sadr City, a…
2015 CE2015 Baltimore protestsOn April 12, 2015, Baltimore Police Department officers arrested Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American…
2015 CE2015 Bamako hotel attackOn 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the…
2015 CE2015 Bangkok bombingOn 17 August 2015, a bombing took place inside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection in Pathum…
2015 CE2015 Barcelona City Council electionA municipal election was held in Barcelona on 24 May 2015 to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality.…
2015 CE2015 Beirut bombingsOn 12 November 2015, two suicide bombers attacked Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon…
2015 CE2015 Burundian coup d'état attemptOn 13 May 2015, army general Godefroid Niyombare said that he was "dismissing President Pierre Nkurunziza"…
2015 CE2015 Castilian-Manchegan regional electionA regional election was held in Castilla–La Mancha on 24 May 2015 to elect the 9th Cortes of the autonomous…
2015 CE2015 Chad suicide bombingsThe 2015 Chad suicide bombings were a suicide attack which occurred the afternoon of Saturday 10, October…
2015 CE2015 Charleston, South Carolina shootingOn June 17, 2015, a terrorist mass shooting and anti-black hate crime occurred in Charleston, South Carolina.…
2015 CE2015 Chattanooga shootingsOn July 16, 2015, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga…
2015 CE2015 Colombian landslideThe 2015 Salgar landslide was a landslide that struck the municipality of Salgar in Colombia on May 18, 2015.…
2015 CE2015 Colorado Springs shootingOn November 27, 2015, a mass shooting occurred in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado…
2015 CE2015 Copenhagen shootingsOn 14–15 February 2015, three shootings occurred in Copenhagen, Denmark. The first shooting took place on 14…
2015 CE2015 Corinthia Hotel attackOn 27 January 2015, the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli was attacked by men affiliated with the Islamic State…
2015 CE2015 Corsican protestsThe 2015 Corsican protests were a series of marches by several hundred Corsican nationalists that began on 25…
2015 CE2015 Diyarbakır rally bombingsThe 2015 Diyarbakır rally bombings occurred on 5 June 2015 in Diyarbakır, Turkey, during an electoral rally…
2015 CE2015 El Cambray Dos landslideOn October 1, 2015, heavy rains triggered a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos within Santa…
2015 CE2015 European Games Opening CeremonyThe Opening Ceremony of the 2015 European Games was the official opening ceremony held at 9:00PM Azerbaijan…
2015 CE2015 Extremaduran regional electionA regional election was held in Extremadura on 24 May 2015 to elect the 9th Assembly of the autonomous…
2015 CE2015 FIFA corruption caseIn 2015, United States federal prosecutors disclosed cases of corruption by officials and associates…
2015 CE2015 Fotokol attackBetween February 4 and 5, 2015, Boko Haram militants attacked the town of Fotokol, Cameroon, killing up to…
2015 CE2015 Gold King Mine waste water spillThe 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near…
2015 CE2015 Hindu Kush earthquakeThe October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck South Asia on 26 October…
2015 CE2015 Illapel earthquakeThe 2015 Illapel earthquake occurred 46 km (29 mi) offshore from Illapel (Coquimbo region, Chile) on 16…
2015 CE2015 Karachi bus shootingOn 13 May 2015, eight gunmen attacked a bus travelling in Safoora Goth, Karachi, Sindh in Pakistan. The…
2015 CE2015 Kazan Shopping Center fireThe 2015 Kazan shopping center fire occurred on 11 March 2015 when a fire and partial collapse of the Admiral…
2015 CE2015 Khan Bani Saad bombingA suicide car bombing occurred on 17 July 2015 in the Iraqi city of Khan Bani Saad, targeting a local…
2015 CE2015 Kuweires offensiveOn 14 September 2015, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) – in cooperation with the National Defence Forces (NDF) and…
2015 CE2015 Lafayette shootingOn July 23, 2015, a mass shooting occurred at the Grand 16 movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, United…
2015 CE2015 Maiduguri suicide bombingOn March 7, 2015, a suicide bomber blew himself up on a cycle rickshaw near a fish market in Maiduguri in…
2015 CE2015 Mina stampedeOn 24 September 2015, a fatal crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom…
2015 CE2015 Mount Everest avalanchesIn the afternoon of 25 April 2015, a 7.8 moment magnitude earthquake struck Nepal and surrounding countries.…
2015 CE2015 New Taipei water park explosionOn 27 June 2015, a dust fire occurred at Formosa Fun Coast, a water park in Bali, New Taipei City, Taiwan.…
2015 CE2015 Sabah earthquakeThe 2015 Sabah earthquake (Malay: Gempa Bumi Sabah 2015) struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia with a moment…
2015 CE2015 San Bernardino shootingOn December 2, 2015, an Islamic terrorist attack, consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing…
2015 CE2015 Sana'a bombingOn 7 January 2015, a car bomb was detonated in front of a police academy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, killing…
2015 CE2015 Sana'a mosque bombingsThe 2015 Sanaa mosque bombings were four suicide attacks targeting two mosques on 20 March 2015 in Sanaa…
2015 CE2015 Shenzhen landslideA landslide of construction waste occurred at Shenzhen, on 20 December 2015. It destroyed and buried…
2015 CE2015 Shikarpur bombingThe Shikarpur bombing occurred on 30 January 2015 during the Friday prayer when Sunni militants linked to the…
2015 CE2015 Sousse attackOn 26 June 2015, a mass shooting occurred at the tourist resort at Port El Kantaoui, about 10 kilometres…
2015 CE2015 Suruç bombingOn 20 July 2015, the Dokumacılar, the Turkish sect of the Islamic State (ISIL), executed a suicide attack in…
2015 CE2015 Tajikistan earthquakeOn 7 December 2015, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale struck Tajikistan 105 km (65…
2015 CE2015 Thalys train attackOn 21 August 2015, a shooting and knife attack took place on a Thalys train on its way from Amsterdam to…
2015 CE2015 Tianjin explosionsOn 12 August 2015, a series of explosions at the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, Northern China, killed 173…
2015 CE2015 Tokyo Drone IncidentIn the 2015 Tokyo drone incident (首相官邸無人機落下事件, Sushōkantei mujinki rakka jiken), a Phantom 2 drone carrying…
2015 CE2015 Tunis bombingOn 24 November 2015, a bus carrying Tunisian presidential guards exploded, killing 12, on a principal road in…
2015 CE2015 United Nations Climate Change ConferenceThe 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21 or CMP 11 was held in Paris, France, from 30…
2015 CE2015 Waco shootoutOn May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas, United States, a shootout erupted at a Twin Peaks restaurant where more than…
2015 CE2015 Washington, D.C., quadruple murder incidentOn May 14, 2015, three members of the Savopoulos family—Savvas, Amy, and their son Philip—as well as their…
2015 CE2015 Zaria MassacreThe Zaria massacre, also known as the Buhari massacre, was a massacre carried out by the Nigerian Army in…
2015 CE2015 Zasyadko mine disasterOn 4 March 2015, at around 05:20 local time, there was a mining accident at the Zasyadko coal mine in…
2015 CE2015 Zvornik police station shootingThe 2015 Zvornik police station shooting happened on April 27, 2015, when a gunman attacked a police station…
2015 CE2015–16 Zika virus epidemicAn epidemic of Zika fever, caused by Zika virus, began in Brazil and affected other countries in the Americas…
2016 CE2016 Aceh earthquakeThe 2016 Aceh earthquake (Indonesian: Gempa Aceh 2016) struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a Mw of…
2016 CE2016 Afghanistan earthquakeThe 2016 Afghanistan earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake which struck 39 km (24 mi) west-southwest of…
2016 CE2016 Aktobe shootingsThe 2016 Aktobe shootings were a series of shootings on civilian and military targets in Aktobe, Kazakhstan…
2016 CE2016 Ansbach bombingOn 24 July 2016, fifteen people were injured, four seriously, in a suicide bombing outside a wine bar in…
2016 CE2016 Berlin attackOn 19 December 2016, a truck was deliberately driven into the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm…
2016 CE2016 Brussels bombingsOn 22 March 2016, two coordinated terrorist attacks in and close to Brussels, Belgium, were carried out by…
2016 CE2016 Budapest explosionThe 2016 Budapest bombing occurred on 24 September when a young man detonated a nail bomb in an attempt to…
2016 CE2016 Bursa bombingOn 27 April 2016, a suicide bombing took place in the Turkish city of Bursa. The bombing took place at 17:26…
2016 CE2016 Cape Verde army mutinyThe Monte Tchota massacre was a mass shooting that occurred at the Monte Tchota army barracks in Cape Verde…
2016 CE2016 Charleroi attackOn 6 August 2016, a man attacked two police officers with a machete in Charleroi, Belgium, before being shot…
2016 CE2016 Chauk earthquakeA magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Myanmar 25 km (16 mi) west of Chauk on 24 August 2016 with a maximum…
2016 CE2016 Chicago protestOn March 11, 2016, the Donald Trump presidential campaign canceled a planned rally at the University of…
2016 CE2016 Christchurch earthquakeAn earthquake occurred in Christchurch on 14 February 2016 at 1:13 p.m. local time (00:13 UTC) and initially…
2016 CE2016 Cizre bombingThe 2016 Cizre bombing was a suicide bombing by PKK member Mustafa Aslan in Cizre, Turkey. The assailant used…
2016 CE2016 Dalori attackOn 30 January 2016, Boko Haram militants entered the suburban town of Dalori, Borno state, Nigeria, located…
2016 CE2016 Davao City bombingA bombing at the Roxas Night Market occurred in Davao City, Philippines, on September 2, 2016, causing at…
2016 CE2016 Democratic National ConventionThe 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention, held at the Wells Fargo…
2016 CE2016 Diyarbakır bombingThe February 2016 Lice bombing occurred on 18 February 2016 in Lice, a city in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.…
2016 CE2016 Ecuador earthquakeThe 2016 Ecuador earthquake occurred on April 16 at 18:58:37 ECT with a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum…
2016 CE2016 Egypt migrant shipwreckOn September 21, 2016, a boat designed to carry a maximum of 40 people capsized and sank in the Mediterranean…
2016 CE2016 Fort McMurray WildfireOn May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. On May 3, it swept through the…
2016 CE2016 Fukushima earthquakeThe 2016 Fukushima earthquake struck Japan east-southeast of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture at 05:59 JST on…
2016 CE2016 Gaziantep bombingOn 1 May 2016, a car bombing took place in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. The bombing took place at 09:17…
2016 CE2016 Grand-Bassam shootingsOn 13 March 2016, three Islamist gunmen opened fire at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, killing…
2016 CE2016 Gulshan, Dhaka attackThe July 2016 Dhaka attack or Holey Artisan terrorist attack took place on the night of 1 July 2016, at 21:20…
2016 CE2016 Gyeongju earthquakeThe 2016 Gyeongju earthquake occurred on September 12 near Gyeongju, South Korea. Measuring 5.8 on the local…
2016 CE2016 Icelandic anti-government protestsThe 2016 Icelandic anti-government protests were a series of protests against the Icelandic government…
2016 CE2016 Istanbul airport attackThe Atatürk Airport attack, consisting of shootings and suicide bombings, occurred on 28 June 2016 at Atatürk…
2016 CE2016 Istanbul bombingOn 12 January 2016, a suicide attack in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district killed 13 people, all…
2016 CE2016 Jakarta attacksOn 14 January 2016, multiple explosions and gunfire were reported near the Sarinah shopping mall in central…
2016 CE2016 Jerusalem bus bombingA Palestinian bomb attack was carried out on a bus in the Talpiot neighborhood in Jerusalem on 18 April 2016…
2016 CE2016 Kaliachak riotsRiots broke out in Kaliachak, Malda district in West Bengal, India on 3 January 2016. Muslims were protesting…
2016 CE2016 Kaohsiung earthquakeAt 03:57 local time on 6 February 2016, an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.4 struck 28 km (17 mi)…
2016 CE2016 Kayseri bombingOn December 17, 2016, a suspected car bombing in Kayseri, Turkey killed 15 soldiers aboard a bus and wounded…
2016 CE2016 Khanasir offensiveThe 2016 Khanasir offensive was a military operation conducted by ISIL and Jund al-Aqsa, during the Syrian…
2016 CE2016 Kirkuk raidThe Battle of Kirkuk took place in the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq between Kurdistan and allies and the…
2016 CE2016 Kumamoto earthquakesThe 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (Japanese: 平成28年熊本地震, Hepburn: Heisei 28-nen Kumamoto jishin) were a series of…
2016 CE2016 Lahore suicide bombingOn 27 March 2016, on Easter Sunday, at least 75 people were killed (29 fatalities being children), and over…
2016 CE2016 Libertarian National ConventionThe 2016 Libertarian National Convention was the gathering at which delegates of the Libertarian Party chose…
2016 CE2016 Magnanville stabbingOn 13 June 2016, a police officer and his partner, a police secretary, were stabbed to death in their home in…
2016 CE2016 March Istanbul bombingOn 19 March 2016, a suicide bombing took place in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district in front of the district…
2016 CE2016 Munich shootingOn 22 July 2016, a mass shooting classified as a right-wing extremist attack occurred in the vicinity of the…
2016 CE2016 Myanmar earthquakeA magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Myanmar 135 km (84 mi) north-west of Mandalay on April 13 with a maximum…
2016 CE2016 Nampala attackThe 2016 Nampala attack was an armed assault against a Malian Army base in the Niono Cercle subdivision of…
2016 CE2016 Nassoumbou attackOn 16 December 2016, jihadists from Ansarul Islam and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara attacked a…
2016 CE2016 Nice attackOn the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people…
2016 CE2016 North Canterbury earthquakeThe 2016 Kaikōura earthquake was a Mw 7.8 earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand that occurred two…
2016 CE2016 Northeast India earthquakeThe 2016 Imphal earthquake occurred on 4 January 2016 at 4:35 a.m. local time (23:05 UTC, 3 January) in…
2016 CE2016 Oakland warehouse fireOn December 2, 2016, at about 11:20 p.m. PST, a fire started in a former warehouse that had been unlawfully…
2016 CE2016 Oklahoma earthquakeThe 2016 Oklahoma earthquake occurred on September 3, 2016, near Pawnee, Oklahoma. Measuring 5.8 on the…
2016 CE2016 Old Iliamna earthquakeThe 2016 Old Iliamna earthquake struck in the Cook Inlet region of Alaska near Iliamna at 1:30 AM AKST on…
2016 CE2016 Ouagadougou attacksOn 15 January 2016, gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel…
2016 CE2016 Pathankot attackOn 2 January 2016, four militants belonging to the United Jihad Council attacked the Indian Air Force's…
2016 CE2016 Quetta police station attackOn 24 October 2016, three heavily armed terrorists carried out an attack on the Balochistan police training…
2016 CE2016 Republican National ConventionThe 2016 Republican National Convention, in which delegates of the United States Republican Party chose the…
2016 CE2016 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray church attackOn 26 July 2016, two Islamist terrorists attacked participants in a Mass at a Catholic church in…
2016 CE2016 Sana'a funeral air raidThe Sanaa funeral airstrike took place on the afternoon of 8 October 2016 when 155 people were killed and at…
2016 CE2016 Sayyidah Zaynab bombingsIn early 2016 there was a series of bombings in the mainly Shi'ite town of Sayyidah Zaynab in Syria that were…
2016 CE2016 Shchelkovo Highway police station attackOn 17 August 2016, two armed men with axes and firearms attacked the traffic police station on Shchelkovskoye…
2016 CE2016 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough by-electionA by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough was…
2016 CE2016 Siachen Glacier avalancheOn 3 February 2016, an avalanche hit an Indian military base in northern Siachen Glacier region, trapping 10…
2016 CE2016 Sirte offensiveThe Battle of Sirte during the Second Libyan Civil War started in the spring of 2016, in the Sirte District…
2016 CE2016 Southern Chile earthquakeThe 2016 Chiloé earthquake with a magnitude of Mww 7.6 struck 225 kilometres (140 mi) south-west of Puerto…
2016 CE2016 St. Cloud, Minnesota knife attackOn September 17, 2016, Dahir Ahmed Adan, a 22-year-old, Kenyan-born American man, stabbed ten people while…
2016 CE2016 Strait of Gibraltar earthquakeThe 2016 Alboran Sea earthquake struck offshore, north northeast of Al Hoceïma, Morocco in the Strait of…
2016 CE2016 Sumatra earthquakeThe 2016 Sumatra earthquake was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck on 2 March 2016 in the Indian Ocean…
2016 CE2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Friday 5 August 2016 in the…
2016 CE2016 Summer Paralympics opening ceremonyThe opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics took place on the evening of 7 September 2016 at the…
2016 CE2016 Tanzanian earthquakeA magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Tanzania 27 km (17 mi) east northeast of Nsunga, Kagera Region on 10…
2016 CE2016 Tel Aviv stabbingsOn 8 March 2016, a 21-year-old Palestinian man from Qalqilya killed an American tourist and wounded ten…
2016 CE2016 Tottori earthquakeThe 2016 Tottori earthquake (鳥取県中部地震, Tottori-ken Chūbu Jishin) is an earthquake that occurred in central…
2016 CE2016 Uri attackThe 2016 Uri attack was carried out on 18 September 2016 by four terrorists from Jaish-e-Mohammed against an…
2016 CE2016 Würzburg train attackOn 18 July 2016, Riaz Khan Ahmadzai, a 17-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, stabbed and injured five people…
2016 CE2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officersOn July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, in an…
2016 CE2016 shooting of Dallas police officersOn July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five…
2016 CE2016 Şemdinli bombingThe 2016 Şemdinli bombing was a car bomb attack on Turkish military base carried out by the Kurdish PKK's…
2017 CE2017 Aleppo suicide car bombingOn 15 April 2017, a car bomb detonated near a convoy of buses in the al-Rashideen neighbourhood of western…
2017 CE2017 Baduria riotsBaduria riot refers to incidents of communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in the Baduria town in…
2017 CE2017 Benue State floodingThe 2017 Benue State flooding took place in September 2017 in Benue State, Nigeria. It displaced at least…
2017 CE2017 Bronx apartment fireOn the night of December 28, 2017, a fire tore through an apartment building in the Belmont neighborhood of…
2017 CE2017 Brussels attackOn 20 June 2017, a terrorist bomb caused a small explosion at Brussels-Central railway station in Brussels…
2017 CE2017 Camp Shaheen attackOn 21 April 2017, at least ten Taliban fighters attacked Camp Shaheen, headquarters of the 209th Corps of the…
2017 CE2017 Central Mexico earthquakeThe 2017 Puebla earthquake, also known as 19S, struck at 13:14 CDT (18:14 UTC) on 19 September 2017 with an…
2017 CE2017 Costa Rica earthquakeOn 12 November 2017 an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.5 occurred near Jacó, Costa Rica. It was also…
2017 CE2017 Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah madrasa fireThe 2017 Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah madrasa fire occurred around 5:10 a.m. on September 14, 2017, when a fire…
2017 CE2017 Farindola avalancheOn the afternoon of 18 January 2017, an avalanche occurred on Gran Sasso d'Italia massif, one of the…
2017 CE2017 Fort Lauderdale Airport shootingOn January 6, 2017, a mass shooting occurred at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward…
2017 CE2017 Gao bombingOn 18 January 2017, a suicide bomber drove a vehicle filled with explosives into a military camp near Gao…
2017 CE2017 Halamish stabbing attackThe Halamish attack, or the Halamish massacre was a lone-wolf attack on a Jewish family in the West Bank…
2017 CE2017 Hama offensiveThe Hama offensive (March–April 2017) was a military offensive launched by Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at…
2017 CE2017 Hamburg attackThis is a list of mass stabbings that took place in the 2010s. It includes incidents in which there were at…
2017 CE2017 Har Adar shootingOn the morning of 26 September 2017, a Palestinian gunman opened fire at Israeli security guards at the…
2017 CE2017 Hawija offensiveThe Battle of Hawija was an offensive launched in September 2017 by the Iraqi Army, in order to recapture the…
2017 CE2017 Herat mosque attackOn August 1, 2017, two suicide bombers entered a Shi'ite mosque named "Jadwadia" in Bekrabad, Herat…
2017 CE2017 Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción tragedyThe 2017 Guatemala orphanage fire occurred on 8 March 2017, at the Virgen de la Asunción Safe Home (Hogar…
2017 CE2017 Iran–Iraq earthquakeOn 12 November 2017 at 18:18 UTC (21:48 Iran Standard Time, 21:18 Arabia Standard Time), an earthquake with a…
2017 CE2017 Ischia earthquakeThe 2017 Ischia earthquake occurred in the island of Ischia, Campania, in southern Italy. The main shock…
2017 CE2017 Istanbul nightclub attackThe Istanbul nightclub shooting (also known as Reina massacre in Turkey) was a mass shooting that occurred on…
2017 CE2017 Java EarthquakeThe 2017 Java earthquake occurred on 15 December 2017 when a moment magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the…