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James Webb Space Telescope The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope which conducts infrared astronomy. As the largest optical telescope in space, its high resolution and sensitivity allow it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Spa ...

was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the

coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...

; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after the

January 6 United States Capitol attack On January 6, 2021, following the defeat of then-U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The mob was seeking to keep Trump in pow ...

; The

container ship A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal ...

Ever Given ''Ever Given'' () is one of the largest container ships in the world. The ship is owned by Shoei Kisen Kaisha (a ship-owning and leasing subsidiary of the large Japanese shipbuilding company Imabari Shipbuilding), and is time chartered and ope ...

gets stuck in the

Suez Canal The Suez Canal ( arz, قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. The long canal is a popular ...

, blocking international shipping for six days; A scene from; the opening ceremony of the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo, Japan; The

Ingenuity helicopter ''Ingenuity,'' nicknamed ''Ginny,'' is a small robotic helicopter operating on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission along with the Perseverance (rover), ''Perseverance'' rover, which landed with ''Ingenuity'' attached to its underside on ...

after deployment on the Martian surface by the Mars 2020

Perseverance rover ''Perseverance'', nicknamed ''Percy'', is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched on July 30, 2020, at 11:50 ...

;

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...

fighters in

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

on a captured Humvee following the

2021 fall of Kabul On 15 August 2021, Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul was captured by the Taliban after a major insurgent offensive that began in May 2021. This led to the overthrowing of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan under President Ashraf Ghani and ...

at the end of the

War in Afghanistan War in Afghanistan, Afghan war, or Afghan civil war may refer to: *Conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great (330 BC – 327 BC) *Muslim conquests of Afghanistan (637–709) *Conquest of Afghanistan by the Mongol Empire (13th century), see als ...

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October–November 2021 Sudanese coup d'état On 25 October 2021, the Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, took control of the government in a military coup. At least five senior government figures were initially detained. Civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok refused ...

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Ingenuity (helicopter) ''Ingenuity,'' nicknamed ''Ginny,'' is a small robotic helicopter operating on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission along with the ''Perseverance'' rover, which landed with ''Ingenuity'' attached to its underside on February 18, 2021. T ...

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2021 Suez Canal obstruction In March 2021, the Suez Canal was blocked for six days after the grounding of , a container ship. The vessel was buffeted by strong winds on the morning of 23 March, and ended up wedged across the waterway with its bow and stern stuck in the ...

The

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

declared 2021 as the International Year of Peace and Trust, the International Year of Creative Economy for

Sustainable Development Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The des ...

, the International Year of

Fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...

s and

Vegetable Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, ...

s, and the International Year for the Elimination of

Child Labour Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such e ...

. Like the year

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

, 2021 was also heavily defined by the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

, due to the emergence of multiple COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of

COVID-19 vaccine A COVID19 vaccine is a vaccine intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID19). Prior to the COVID19 pandemic, an e ...

s, which began at the end of 2020, continued in 2021. Most major events scheduled for 2020 that were postponed due to the pandemic were hosted in 2021, including the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference,

Expo 2020 Expo 2020 ( ar, إكسبو 2020) was a World Expo hosted by Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022. Originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 to 10 April 2021, it was postponed due to the COVID-19 ...

, and sporting events such as

UEFA Euro 2020 The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2020) or simply Euro 2020, was the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe ...

, the

and

Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...

, as well as the

2021 Copa América The 2021 Copa América was the 47th edition of the Copa América, the international men's football championship organised by South America's football ruling body CONMEBOL. The tournament took place in Brazil from 13 June to 10 July 2021. The tour ...

Events

January

January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...

– The

African Continental Free Trade Area The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a free trade area encompassing most of Africa. It was established in 2018 by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, which has 43 parties and another 11 signatories, making it the larg ...

comes into effect. *

January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...

– The border between

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...

and

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

reopens. *

January 6 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eve ...

– Supporters of

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

attack Attack may refer to: Warfare and combat * Offensive (military) * Charge (warfare) * Attack (fencing) * Strike (attack) * Attack (computing) * Attack aircraft Books and publishing * ''The Attack'' (novel), a book * '' Attack No. 1'', comic an ...

the

United States Capitol The United States Capitol, often called The Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, which is formally known as the United States Congress. It is located on Capitol Hill ...

, disrupting

certification Certification is the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements. It is the formal attestation or confirmation of certain characteristics of a ...

of the

2020 presidential election This national electoral calendar for 2020 lists the national/federal elections held in 2020 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. January *5 January: **C ...

, and forcing

Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of a ...

to evacuate. Five people died during the ensuing riot. The event is classified as a

domestic terrorist Domestic terrorism or homegrown terrorism is a form of terrorism in which victims "within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship" as the victims.Gary M. Jackson, ''Predicting Malicious Behavior: Tools and Techniques ...

attack, and draws international condemnation. *

January 10 Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. * 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...

–

Kim Jong-un Kim Jong-un (; , ; born 8 January 1982) is a North Korean politician who has been Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is a son of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea's sec ...

is elected as the

General Secretary Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...

of the ruling

Workers' Party of Korea The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea. Founded in 1949 from the merger of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of ...

, inheriting the title from his father

Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim ...

, who

died Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

. *

January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...

– In

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, France, the first

transplant Transplant or Transplantation may refer to: Sciences *Transplanting a plant from one location to another *Organ transplantation, moving an organ from one body to another *Transplant thought experiment, an experiment similar to Trolley problem *Tra ...

of both arms and shoulders is performed on an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital. *

January 14 Events Pre-1600 *1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 *1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...

– The

2021 Ugandan general election General elections were held in Uganda on 14 January 2021 to elect the President and the Parliament. The Electoral Commission announced Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country since 1986, as the winner with 58.64% of the v ...

is held. Incumbent President

Yoweri Museveni Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and retired senior military officer who has been the 9th and current President of Uganda since 26 January 1986. Museveni spearheaded rebellions with aid of then ...

, who has ruled since 1986, wins reelection. *

January 15 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. * 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...

** The

Lao People's Revolutionary Party The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The party's monopoly on state power is guaranteed by Article 3 of the Constitution of Laos, and it maintains a unitary ...

elects

Thongloun Sisoulith Thongloun Sisoulith ( lo, ທອງລຸນ ສີສຸລິດ; born 10 November 1945) is a Lao historian and politician serving as General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party since 15 January 2021 and President of Laos since 2 ...

as its new

, replacing retiring chief

Bounnhang Vorachith Bounnhang Vorachit ( lo, ບຸນຍັງ ວໍລະຈິດ; born 15 August 1938) is a Laotian politician. He was previously General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of Laos from 2016 to 2021. Early life Bou ...

. Sisoulith is elected for a five-year term as top leader in

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

. **

: The global death toll from

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...

passes 2 million. *

January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...

– Joe Biden is

inaugurated In government and politics, inauguration is the process of swearing a person into office and thus making that person the incumbent. Such an inauguration commonly occurs through a formal ceremony or special event, which may also include an inaugu ...

as the 46th

. *

January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. * 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...

– The

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination. It ...

, the first legally binding international agreement comprehensively to prohibit nuclear weapons, comes into effect. *

January 24 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula. * 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt. *1438 – The Cou ...

–

2021 Portuguese presidential election The 2021 presidential election was held in Portugal on 24 January. The incumbent President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, was reelected for a second term. The election was held during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Portugal was under a lockdown as of elec ...

: Incumbent president

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa (; born 12 December 1948) is a Portuguese politician and academic. He is the List of presidents of Portugal, 20th and current president of Portugal, since 9 March 2016. He is a member of the Social Democrati ...

is reelected. *

January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. *1564 – ...

– COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeds 100 million worldwide. *

January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...

– A near-total ban on abortion comes into effect in Poland. *

January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler o ...

– COVID-19 pandemic: The European Union invokes

Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol Article often refers to: * Article (grammar), a grammatical element used to indicate definiteness or indefiniteness * Article (publishing), a piece of nonfictional prose that is an independent part of a publication Article may also refer to: G ...

following a row over

supplies before reversing the decision. *

January 31 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the t ...

–

Nguyễn Phú Trọng Nguyễn Phú Trọng (born 14 April 1944) is a Vietnamese politician who has served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam — the highest political position in Vietnam — since 2011. In addition, Nguyễn Phú Trọng serv ...

is re-elected for a third five-year term as the

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( vi, Tổng Bí thư Ban Chấp hành Trung ương Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam), known as First Secretary ( vi, Bí thư Thứ nhất) from 1960 to 1976, is t ...

February

February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...

** A

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

removes

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from ...

from power and restores

military A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

rule leading to widespread demonstrations across the country. **

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

officially establishes diplomatic ties with Israel and announces plans to open an embassy in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. ** COVID-19 pandemic: The number of

vaccinations Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to help the immune system develop immunity from a disease. Vaccines contain a microorganism or virus in a weakened, live or killed state, or proteins or toxins from the organism. In stimulating ...

administered worldwide exceeds 100 million. *

February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...

– US President Joe Biden announces that the United States will cease providing weapons to

and the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

(UAE) for

use Use may refer to: * Use (law), an obligation on a person to whom property has been conveyed * Use (liturgy), a special form of Roman Catholic ritual adopted for use in a particular diocese * Use–mention distinction, the distinction between using ...

in the

Yemeni Civil War Yemeni Civil War may refer to several historical events which have taken place in Yemen: *Alwaziri coup, February – March 1948 *Yemeni–Adenese clan violence, 1956–60 *North Yemen Civil War, 1962–70 *Aden Emergency, 1963–67 *South Yemen#Di ...

. *

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. * 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...

** COVID-19 pandemic: A joint

WHO Who or WHO may refer to: * Who (pronoun), an interrogative or relative pronoun * Who?, one of the Five Ws in journalism * World Health Organization Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Who, a creature in the Dr. Seuss book ''Horton Hear ...

–

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

investigation into the source of the outbreak concludes. Investigators deem a

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province in the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the List of cities in China ...

laboratory leak to be "extremely unlikely", with a "natural reservoir" in

bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most bi ...

s being a more likely origin. ** The UAE's uncrewed ''

Hope Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large. As a verb, its definitions include: "expect with confidence" and "to cherish ...

'' spacecraft becomes the first

Arabian The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. ...

mission successfully to enter orbit around

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...

. *

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th. *1462 – The ...

– 17 – A major winter storm kills at least 136 people and causes over 9.9 million power outages in the

U.S The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...

. *

February 18 Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. * 1268 &ndas ...

**Malaysian court orders

Rosmah Mansor Rosmah binti Mansor ( Jawi: روسمه بنت منصور; born 10 December 1951) is the second wife of former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak. Like her husband, she became implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal. On 1 S ...

, the wife of former Prime Minister

Najib Razak Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( ms, محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malaysi ...

to enter defence on all three graft charges. **

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

Mars 2020 Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission forming part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the rover ''Perseverance'', the small robotic, coaxial helicopter '' Ingenuity'', and associated delivery vehicles. Mars 2020 was launched from Ear ...

mission (containing the ''

Perseverance Perseverance may refer to: Behaviour * Psychological resilience * Perseverance of the saints, a Protestant Christian teaching * Assurance (theology) Geography * Perseverance, Queensland, a locality in Australia * Perseverance Island, Seychelles * ...

'' rover and '' Ingenuity'' helicopter drone) lands on

Jezero Crater Jezero is a crater on Mars in the Syrtis Major quadrangle, about in diameter. Thought to have once been flooded with water, the crater contains a fan- delta deposit rich in clays. The lake in the crater was present when valley networks were for ...

, after seven months of travel. *

February 19 Events Pre-1600 * 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. * 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...

– The United States officially rejoins the

Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement (french: Accord de Paris), often referred to as the Paris Accords or the Paris Climate Accords, is an international treaty on climate change. Adopted in 2015, the agreement covers climate change mitigation, Climate change a ...

, 107 days after leaving. *

February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...

– 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak: 7 people test positive for

H5N8 H5 N8 is a subtype of the influenza A virus (sometimes called bird flu) and is highly lethal to wild birds and poultry. H5N8 is typically not associated with humans. However, seven people in Russia were found to be infected in 2021, becoming ...

bird flu at a poultry farm in southern Russia, becoming the first known human cases. *

February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdina ...

–

Luca Attanasio Luca Attanasio (23 May 1977 – 22 February 2021) was an Italian diplomat who served as the ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2017 until his murder there in 2021. Early life Attanasio was born on 23 May 1977 in Saronno, ...

, the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is

murdered Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the c ...

near

Goma Goma is the capital of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, next to the Rwandan city of Gisenyi. The lake and the two cities are in the Albertine Rift, the weste ...

. *

February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 13 ...

– COVID-19 pandemic: the

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vaccine-sharing initiative delivers its first vaccines, delivering 600,000 doses for healthcare workers in

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. *

February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...

– The

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calls for

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Nikol Pashinyan Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan ( hy, Նիկոլ Վովայի Փաշինյան, ; born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician serving as the prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in 1 ...

to resign. Pashinyan accuses the military of attempting a coup d'état. *

February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. *1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...

–

2021 Salvadoran legislative election Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 28 February 2021 to elect the 84 members of the Legislative Assembly, 20 members of the Central American Parliament and 262 mayors. The result was a landslide victory for Nuevas Ideas with pro- ...

: The

Nuevas Ideas Nuevas Ideas (Spanish for ''New Ideas'') is a Salvadoran populist political party founded on 25 October 2017 and based in San Salvador. It was founded by the current President of the Republic of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. It was legalized by the ...

party wins 56 out of 84 seats in the

Legislative Assembly of El Salvador The Legislative Assembly ( es, Asamblea Legislativa) is the legislative branch of the government of El Salvador. Structure The Salvadoran legislature is a unicameral body. It is made up of 84 deputies, all of whom are elected by direct popul ...

March

March 6 Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. * 845 & ...

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

meets with

Grand Ayatollah Marji ( ar, مرجع, transliteration: ''marjiʿ''; plural: ''marājiʿ''), literally meaning "source to follow" or "religious reference", is a title given to the highest level of Twelver Shia authority, a Grand Ayatollah with the authority giv ...

Ali al-Sistani Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani ( ar, علي الحسيني السيستاني; fa, , Ali-ye Hoseyni-ye Sistāni; born 4 August 1930), commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani, is an Iranian–Iraqi Twelver Shia Ayatollah and marja'. He has been described ...

Najaf Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. It is the first-ever meeting between a

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and a grand ayatollah. ** 2021 Ivorian parliamentary election: The

Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace The Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace (french: Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix, RHDP) is a political party in Ivory Coast. History The RHDP was established as a political alliance on 18 May 2005, se ...

coalition wins 137 out of 255 seats in the

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. *

March 15 Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. *44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 – Odoa ...

– 17 – The Dutch general elections for the

House of Representatives of the Netherlands The House of Representatives (, pronounced ; commonly referred to as the ', literally "Second Chamber of the States General") is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate. ...

take place. *

March 19 Events Pre-1600 * 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire. *1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends ...

–

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

severs diplomatic ties with

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

due to a Malaysian court's ruling that a North Korean citizen could be extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges. Malaysian authorities order North Korean officials to leave the country in 48 hours. *

March 20 Events Pre-1600 * 673 – Emperor Emperor Tenmu, Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Asuka, Yamato#Imperial Palaces, Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka, Yamato, Asuka. *1206 – Michael IV of Constantinople, Michael IV Au ...

–

Turkish President The president of Turkey, officially the president of the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı), is the head of state and head of government of Turkey. The president directs the executive branch of the national govern ...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the List of presidents of Turkey, 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Lis ...

announces his country's withdrawal from the

Istanbul Convention The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe against violence against women and domestic v ...

, the first country to do so. *

March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...

– Clashes in

Apure Apure State ( es, Estado Apure, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Its territory formed part of the provinces of Mérida, Maracaibo, and Barinas, in accordance with successive territorial ordinations pronounced by the colonial author ...

between Colombian

FARC dissidents FARC dissidents (Spanish: ''Disidencias de las Farc''), also known as Carlos Patino Front, refers to a group, formerly part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who have refused to lay down their arms after the Colombian peace pro ...

and the

Venezuelan Armed Forces The National Bolivarian Armed Forces ( es, Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana - FANB) of Venezuela are controlled by the Commander-in-Chief (the President) and a civilian Minister of Defense. In addition to the army, navy, and air force there ...

cause at least six casualties, as well as displacing 4,000 Venezuelans. *

March 23 Events Pre-1600 *1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. *1540 – Waltham Abbey Church, Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of ...

** The Israeli general elections take place, the fourth Knesset election in two years. ** ''

'', one of the largest container ships in the world, runs aground and obstructs the

, disrupting global trade. The ship is freed on March 29. *

March 25 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. * 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...

– COVID-19 pandemic: The number of

administered worldwide exceeds 500 million.

April

April 2 Events Pre-1600 *1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Jo ...

– Russia warns

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

against sending any troops to aid Ukraine, amid reports of a large

Russian military The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (, ), commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military forces of Russia. In terms of active-duty personnel, they are the world's fifth-largest military force, with at least two m ...

build-up on its

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. *

April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...

** The

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is held. ** More than 270 people are killed in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

and

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...

after

Cyclone Seroja Severe Tropical Cyclone Seroja was a deadly tropical cyclone that brought historic flooding and landslides to portions of southern Indonesia and East Timor and later went on to make landfall in Western Australia's Mid West region, becoming the fi ...

strikes

East Nusa Tenggara East Nusa Tenggara ( id, Nusa Tenggara Timur – NTT; pt, Sonda Oriental) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the nor ...

and the island of

Timor Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is East Timor–Indonesia border, divided between the sovereign states of East Timor on the eastern part and Indonesia on the western p ...

. *

April 9 Events Pre-1600 * 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum. * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, s ...

–

Roscosmos The State Space Corporation "Roscosmos" (russian: Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known simply as Roscosmos (russian: Роскосмос) ...

launches the

Soyuz MS-18 Soyuz MS-18 (spacecraft named "Y. A. Gagarin") was a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 9 April 2021 at 07:42:41 UTC. It transported three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station (ISS). Soyuz MS-18 was the 146t ...

mission, carrying three

Expedition 65 Expedition 65 was the 65th long duration expedition to the International Space Station. The mission began on 17 April 2021, with the departure of Soyuz MS-17, and was initially commanded by NASA astronaut Shannon Walker serving as the third fe ...

crewmembers to the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ...

. *

April 11 Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. * 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. * 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferra ...

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holds a

general election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

, with

Pedro Castillo José Pedro Castillo Terrones (; born 19 October 1969) is a Peruvian politician, former elementary school teacher, and union leader who served as the president of Peru, President of Peru from 28 July 2021 to 7 December 2022. On 7 December 2022, ...

and the

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

Free Peru Free Peru ( es, Perú Libre), officially the Free Peru National Political Party ( es, Partido Político Nacional Perú Libre), is a Marxist political party in Peru. Founded in 2008 as the Free Peru Political Regional Movement, the party was off ...

party winning. ** Iran accuses Israel of "nuclear terrorism" and vows revenge after a large explosion destroys the internal power system of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant. **

Hideki Matsuyama is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is the first-ever Japanese professional golfer to win a men's major golf championship the 2021 Masters Tournament. As of January 2022, Matsuyama has 17 worldwide wins, eight car ...

wins the

2021 Masters Tournament The 2021 Masters Tournament was the 85th edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of the men's four major golf championships held in 2021. It was held from April 8–11, 2021, at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. After ...

, becoming the first man from Japan to win a major golf championship. *

April 13 Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...

– Japan's government approves the

dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Radioactive waste water has been discharged into the Pacific Ocean since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, triggered by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011 in Japan. Most of the radioactive materials came from immediat ...

into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years, with full support of the

International Atomic Energy Agency The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. It was established in 1957 ...

. The decision is opposed by China, South Korea, and Taiwan. *

April 15 Events Pre-1600 * 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings. * 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...

– Scientists announce they successfully injected

human Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...

stem cells into the embryos of monkeys, creating

chimera Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for " she-goat") originally referred to: * Chimera (mythology), a fire-breathing monster of Ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals * Mount Chimaera, a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilicia ...

-embryos. *

April 17 Events Pre-1600 *1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. *1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...

** COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 3 million. ** The

Czech government The Government of the Czech Republic ( cz, Vláda České republiky) exercises executive power in the Czech Republic. The members of the government are the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (Chairman of the Government), the deputy prime min ...

concludes that the Russian

GRU The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, rus, Гла́вное управле́ние Генера́льного шта́ба Вооружённых сил Росси́йской Федера́ци ...

was responsible for the blast of two ammo warehouses in

Vrbětice Vrbětice is a village and administrative part of Vlachovice (Zlín District), Vlachovice in Zlín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It is located in the valley of the river Vlára. History The first written mention of Vrbětic ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

. 18 Russian diplomats and alleged spies are subsequently expelled. ** The

Soyuz MS-17 Soyuz MS-17 was a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 14 October 2020. It transported three crew members of the Expedition 63/ 64 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-17 was the 145th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The cre ...

mission concludes, returning three crewmembers of

Expedition 64 Expedition 64 was the 64th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), that began on 21 October 2020 with the undocking and departure of Soyuz MS-16. The Expedition started with the three crew members launched onboard So ...

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...

from the

. *

April 18 Events Pre-1600 * 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. * 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...

** Twelve football clubs, including three from

La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men's ...

and leading clubs from the

Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...

and

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

, agree to join a new breakaway

European Super League The European Super League (ESL), officially The Super League, was a proposed seasonal club football competition that initially would have been contested by twenty European football clubs, twelve of them being the competition's founding members. ...

, prompting international condemnation. Two days later, following major protests from supporters, other clubs and politicians,

Manchester City Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The tw ...

withdraw from the league; this prompts all the remaining Premier League clubs and three others to do the same. ** The

2021 Cape Verdean parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Cape Verde on 18 April 2021. Background The incumbent prime minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva of the Christian democratic Movement for Democracy (MpD) party, sought reelection after five years of governmen ...

is held. *

April 19 Events Pre-1600 *AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at ...

** NASA's '' Ingenuity'' helicopter, part of the

mission, performs the first powered flight on another planet in history. **

Raúl Castro Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (; ; born 3 June 1931) is a retired Cuban politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, succeedi ...

resigns as

First Secretary First Secretary may refer to: * First minister, a leader of a government * Secretary (title), a leader of a political party (especially Communist parties), trade union, or other organization * First Secretary (diplomatic rank), a role within an emba ...

of the

Cuban Communist Party The Communist Party of Cuba ( es, Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba. It was founded on 3 October 1965 as the successor to the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution, which was in turn made up of the 26t ...

, ending more than 62 years of rule by the Castro brothers in Cuba. *

April 20 Events Pre-1600 * 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII. 1601–1900 * 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament. * 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...

–

Idriss Déby Idriss Déby Itno ' (18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the president of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021. Déby was a member of the Bidayat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. A high-ranki ...

, President of

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...

, is killed in clashes with rebel forces after 30 years in office. The

constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of Legal entity, entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When ...

is suspended and a Transitional Military Council is established to govern the country for 18 months. *

April 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. * 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. * 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...

– World leaders mark

Earth Day Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 b ...

by hosting a virtual summit on

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

, during which more ambitious targets for

greenhouse gas emission Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities strengthen the greenhouse effect, contributing to climate change. Most is carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. The largest emitters include coal in China and la ...

reductions are proposed, including a 40% cut by 2030 for the United States. *

April 23 Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. * 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...

SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and a satellite communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the stated goal of ...

launches the

Crew-2 SpaceX Crew-2 was the second operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight of the Commercial Crew Program. The mission was launched on 23 April 2021 at 09:49:02 UTC, and docked to the Internationa ...

mission, carrying four crew members of

and 66 to the

aboard

Crew Dragon Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed and manufactured by American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, primarily for flights to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX has also launched private missions such as Insp ...

'' Endeavour''. **

UEFA Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...

announces that due to a lack of guarantees regarding spectators caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,

Aviva Stadium Aviva Stadium (also known as Lansdowne Road) is a sports stadium located in Dublin, Ireland, with a capacity for 51,700 spectators (all seated). It is built on the site of the former Lansdowne Road Stadium, which was demolished in 2007, and r ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

, Ireland would be removed as a tournament host for the

. *

April 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). * 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy m ...

** Following an international search and rescue effort, the

n navy reports the sinking of KRI ''Nanggala'' with 53 crew members, the largest loss of life aboard a submarine since

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

. ** COVID-19 pandemic: The number of

administered worldwide exceeds 1 billion. Half of these doses have been administered in just three countries (the United States, China and India). *

April 25 Events Pre-1600 * 404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion. * 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...

–

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

holds

parliamentary elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

. *

April 28 Events Pre-1600 * 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire. * 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...

** At least 55 people are killed and nearly 50,000 more are displaced in one of the most serious clashes in

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...

following border disputes between

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. ...

and

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

. ** The European Union approves the

EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement The EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) is a free trade agreement signed on 30 December 2020, between the European Union (EU), the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), and the United Kingdom (UK). It provisionally applied from ...

, governing the relationship between the EU and UK after

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. *

April 29 Events Pre-1600 *1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. * 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and beco ...

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launches the first module of its '' Tiangong''

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, named '' Tianhe'', beginning a two-year effort to build the station in orbit.

May

May 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. * 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and impris ...

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mission ends, returning four crew members of

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aboard Crew Dragon '' Resilience''. *

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: Israel hits the

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with

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increases rocket fire. This follows tensions over the possible eviction of several

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due to a long-standing property dispute in the

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neighbourhood of

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May 12 Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...

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: The country's death toll exceeds 250,000.

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cremation grounds were running out of places while hundreds of bodies were reported washed up on the banks of the

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May 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks. *1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade. * 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...

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'' rover at

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on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet and only the second to land a rover. *

May 15 Events Pre-1600 * 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty. * 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...

– Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants continues to escalate, as the death toll exceeds 150. An Israeli airstrike destroys a high-rise office building in Gaza occupied by

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, and other media outlets. *

May 17 Events Pre-1600 *1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army. * 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. * 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Flo ...

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agrees to buy

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and all of its subsidiaries from

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for US$43 billion. The merger is set to be complete the following year. *

May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...

– 22 – The

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is held in

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, after the cancellation of the 2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The contest is won by

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entrants

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with the song "

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May 20 Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. * 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...

– Following international pressure, and nearly 250 deaths, Israel agrees to a ceasefire deal to end the conflict with Gaza militants, effective the next day at 2:00 am

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May 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. * 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. *1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...

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is forced to land by

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ian authorities to detain dissident journalist

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May 24 Events Pre-1600 * 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom. * 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. * 1276 – Magnus La ...

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removes interim President

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and the acting Prime Minister,

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, from power and restores

rule leading to the country being suspended from the

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and the

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, as well as France suspending its military operations in the country. *

– The Government of Guillermo Lasso is formed in

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. * May 26 ** Royal Dutch Shell, Shell becomes the first company to be legally mandated to align its carbon emissions with the Paris climate accord, following a landmark court ruling in the Netherlands. ** The 2021 Syrian presidential election is held. * May 29 – 2021 UEFA Champions League Final; Chelsea Football Club, Chelsea become champions, defeating fellow English club Manchester City Football Club, Manchester City 1–0 to win the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League for the second time. * May 30 – The 2021 Cypriot legislative election is held.

June

* June 2 – The 2021 Israeli presidential election is held, and won by Isaac Herzog. In order to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power, Naftali Bennett agrees to form a coalition with the Israeli opposition as a rotation government that will come to take effect after eleven days. * June 5 – The G7 agrees on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% intended to prevent tax avoidance by some of the world's biggest multinationals. * June 7 – The ''Juno (spacecraft), Juno'' spacecraft performs its only flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede (moon), Ganymede, the first flyby of the moon by any spacecraft in over 20 years. * June 9 ** The 2021 Mongolian presidential election is held. ** The

passes legislation to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in the country, becoming the first country to adopt the cryptocurrency alongside the United States dollar, U.S. dollar. * June 10 – An Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021, annular solar eclipse is visible from Canada, Greenland, the North Pole, and the Russian Far East. * June 11 – July 11 – The

, hosted by 11 different countries, is held, and UEFA Euro 2020 Final, is won by Italy national football team, Italy after beating England national football team, England on penalties. * June 11 – June 13 – World leaders meet at the 47th G7 summit, hosted by the United Kingdom, with topics of discussion including the

, and the corporate taxation of multinationals. * June 12 – The 2021 Algerian legislative election is held to elect all 407 seats in the People's National Assembly. * June 13 – July 10 – The

, hosted behind closed doors by Brazil, is held, and 2021 Copa América Final, is won by Argentina national football team, Argentina. * June 13 – Benjamin Netanyahu, List of prime ministers of Israel#Term of office in years, the longest-serving prime minister of Israel, is voted out of office; Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid are sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel and as Alternate Prime Minister of Israel, respectively. * June 17 – The

sends its first three astronauts to occupy the Tiangong Space Station, the country's first space station. * June 18 – The 2021 Iranian presidential election is held. * June 20 – 2021 Armenian parliamentary election: Acting PM

wins the country's snap election, with his Civil Contract (Armenia), Civil Contract party gaining 54% of the vote. * June 23 – 2021 ICC World Test Championship Final: New Zealand wins the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. * June 24 – Surfside condominium collapse: A portion of the Champlain South Towers condominium building collapses in Surfside, Florida, United States, leaving 98 people dead. One survivor was pulled from the wreckage while 35 others were evacuated from the uncollapsed section of the building. * June 24 – 2021 South Moravia tornado, A rare, violent, and deadly long-tracked tornado struck several villages in the Hodonín District, Hodonín and Břeclav District, Břeclav districts of the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic in the evening, killing six people and injuring at least 200 others. The tornado struck seven municipalities, with the worst damage in the villages of Hrušky (Břeclav District), Hrušky, Moravská Nová Ves, Mikulčice and Lužice (Hodonín District), Lužice. * June 28 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Forces, Tigray Defense Force seizes the Tigrayan capital Mekelle shortly after the Ethiopian government declares a ceasefire. * June 29 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of

administered worldwide exceeds 3 billion.

July

* July 3 – Over 130 wildfires, fuelled by lightning strikes, burn through Western Canada following a record-breaking 2021 Western North America heat wave, heatwave in North America that results in over 600 deaths. * July 5 – More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers flee to neighbouring

after 2021 Taliban offensive, clashing with Taliban militants. * July 7 – Assassination of Jovenel Moïse: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is shot to death at 1:00 am local time in his home. First Lady Martine Moïse is injured and hospitalized. * July 8 –

: The number of deaths from COVID-19 surpasses 4 million. * July 10–August 1 – The 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup is held in, and 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final, is won by, the United States. * July 11 ** Thousands of Cubans, most of them young, attend a rare 2021 Cuban protests, anti-government protest in San Antonio de los Baños to protest the increased food and medicine shortages brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba, COVID-19 pandemic. ** Moldova holds 2021 Moldovan parliamentary election, a parliamentary election, with the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) obtaining a majority of seats. ** Bulgaria holds July 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election, a parliamentary election, with the party There Is Such a People (ITN) leading. * July 12 – 2021 European floods: Heavy rain causes flooding in the border region of Germany and Belgium, resulting in 229 deaths, including 184 in Germany, 42 in Belgium with 1 person still missing there, and 2 in Romania. The event is attributed to a slowed jetstream caused by

. * July 13 – After the Supreme Court of Nepal, Supreme Court declares his incumbency unconstitutional, KP Sharma Oli, KP Oli is succeeded by Sher Bahadur Deuba as List of prime ministers of Nepal, 43rd Prime Minister of Nepal. * July 18 – Pegasus Project (investigation), An international investigation reveals that spyware sold by Israel's NSO Group to different governments is being used to target heads of state, along with thousands of activists, journalists and dissidents around the world. * July 19 ** Blue Origin successfully conducts Blue Origin NS-16, its first human test flight, with a reusable New Shepard rocket delivering four crew members into space including its founder Jeff Bezos. ** Leftist schoolteacher

is confirmed as President of Peru over a month after the 2021 Peruvian general election. ** Day of Hajj: Women are permitted to attend without a male guardian (''mehrem'') provided they go in a trustworthy group. * July 23–August 8 – The

were held in Tokyo, Japan. They were originally scheduled for 24 July–9 August 2020, but were postponed due to the

. * July 23 – The Court of Appeal of Samoa deemed the swearing-in of Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa and her government as constitutional, ending 2021 Samoan constitutional crisis, a three-month constitutional crisis. * July 25 – Tunisian president Kais Saied formally 2021 Tunisian political crisis, takes power in the country, suspending the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, parliament and sacking the Hichem Mechichi, prime minister. * July 28 – The first direct observation of light from behind a black hole is reported, confirming Einstein's theory of general relativity. * July 29 **

' ''Nauka (ISS module), Nauka'' laboratory docks with the

following a protracted seventeen-year development and launch on 21 July. Hours after docking, a malfunction of its thrusters causes a temporary loss of control of the station, spinning it up to 45 degrees from its normal Attitude control, orbital attitude. ** The oil tanker ''July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident, Mercer Street'' is attacked off the coast of Oman.

August

* August 3 ** The oil tanker ''Asphalt Princess'' is August 2021 Gulf of Oman incident, hijacked off the coast of the

. ** 2021 Greece wildfires, Wildfires in Greece begin. * August 4 **

: Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is given political asylum in Poland through a humanitarian visa after attempts by the Belarus Olympic Committee to Belarus 2020 Summer Olympics scandal, repatriate her against her will. ** COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases surpasses 200 million worldwide. * August 5 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Forces seize the World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lalibela. * August 9 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the first part of its IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Sixth Assessment Report, which concludes that the effects of human-caused

are now "widespread, rapid, and intensifying". * August 12 – The 2021 Zambian general election is held. * August 14 – 2021 Haiti earthquake, A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti, killing more than 2,100 people. * August 15 – 2021 Taliban offensive: The Taliban Fall of Kabul (2021), capture Kabul; the Afghan government surrenders to the Taliban. * August 24–September 5 – The 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in Tokyo, Japan. They were originally scheduled for 25 August–6 September 2020, but were postponed due to the

. * August 26 – 2021 Kabul airport attack: At least 182 people are killed, including 13 U.S. service members, in a suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport. * August 27 – The United States launches an airstrike that it claims killed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province, Islamic State member who was believed to have planned the 2021 Kabul airport attack, Kabul airport bombings. However, the U.S. Defense Department later acknowledged that the strike instead killed ten civilians, including seven children, and that no terrorists were killed. * August 29 – Hurricane Ida strikes New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, after having caused devastation in Venezuela. * August 30 ** The UN Environment Programme announces that leaded petrol in road vehicles has been phased out globally, a hundred years after its introduction. ** The United States withdraws its last remaining troops from Kabul International Airport, Hamid Karzai International Airport,

, ending 20 years of War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), operations in Afghanistan.

September

* September 5 – 2021 Guinean coup d'état: Guinea's President Alpha Condé is detained by an elite military unit led by a former French legionnaire, Mamady Doumbouya, Lt. Col. Mamady Doumbouya, claiming to have seized power. * September 7 – El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as an official currency. * September 13 ** Prime Minister of Malaysia, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the main Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan, sign a confidence and supply agreement ending the 2020–21 Malaysian political crisis, 18-month political crisis that has led to the fall of two successive governments in Malaysia. ** The 2021 Norwegian parliamentary election is held. * September 14 **

demonstrates two short-range ballistic missiles that land just outside Japan's territorial waters; and then only hours later South Korea demonstrates its first submarine-launched ballistic missile. ** The 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League, inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, the third tier of UEFA competitions, European club football, kicks off with Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv winning 4–1 against Armenian club FC Alashkert. * September 15 ** AUKUS: A trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States is formed, to counter the influence of China. This includes enabling Australia to build its first Nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine fleet. ** Several ministers of the Argentine president Alberto Fernández's cabinet resign after the government's defeat in the primary elections, triggering a political crisis in the country. * September 16 – Inspiration4, launched by

, becomes the first all-civilian spaceflight, carrying a four-person crew on a three-day orbit of the Earth. * September 19 – The 2021 Russian legislative election is held, with the United Russia party winning nearly 50% of the vote. * September 20 – The 2021 Canadian federal election is held, with Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party retaining a minority government. * September 25 – The 2021 Icelandic parliamentary election is held. * September 26 – The 2021 German federal election is held, with Olaf Scholz and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party beating out the CDU/CSU coalition.

October

* October 1 – The Expo 2020, 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the

. * October 3 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and assorted media partners publish a set of 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 financial services companies known as the Pandora Papers, revealing offshore financial activities that involve multiple current and former world leaders. * October 4 – Fumio Kishida becomes the 100th Prime Minister of Japan, succeeding Yoshihide Suga. * October 5 –

launches the Soyuz MS-19 mission, which carries an Expedition 66 crewmember and two Channel One Russia personnel to the

. The two Channel One crew will perform principal photography on the film ''The Challenge (2022 film), Vyzov'' aboard the station. * October 6–October 10, 10 – The 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals is held in Italy, and is won by France national football team, France. They were originally scheduled for 2–6 June 2021, but were moved following the rescheduling of

to June and July 2021 due to the

. * October 6 – The World Health Organization endorses the first RTS,S, malaria vaccine. * October 8–October 9, 9 – The 2021 Czech legislative election is held, with the main opposition coalition alliance of Spolu (Czech Republic), SPOLU and Pirates and Mayors gaining a legislative majority. * October 9 – Sebastian Kurz announces his resignation as Chancellor of Austria as a result of a Kurz corruption probe, corruption probe launched against him. * October 16 – The Lucy (spacecraft), Lucy spacecraft is launched by NASA, the first mission to explore the Jupiter trojan, Trojan asteroids. * October 17 – November 14 – The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is held in the

and Oman, and 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Final, is won by Australia national cricket team, Australia. * October 23 – Colombia's most wanted drug lord, Dario Antonio Úsuga, whose Clan del Golfo, Gulf Clan controls many smuggling routes into the US and other countries, is captured by Colombia's armed forces. * October 24 – The 2021 Uzbek presidential election is held. * October 25 – The Sudanese Sudanese Armed Forces, military launches a October 2021 Sudanese coup d'état, coup against the Government of Sudan, government. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is placed under house arrest. President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declares a state of emergency and announces the dissolution of the government. * October 31 ** The 2021 Japanese general election is held, with Fumio Kishida and the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party along with its coalition partner Komeito retaining a majority government. ** October 31 – November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.

November

* November 1 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 surpasses 5 million. * November 11 –

launches the SpaceX Crew-3, Crew-3 mission, carrying four Expedition 66 crew members to the

. * November 14 ** The 2021 Argentine legislative election is held. ** The 2021 Bulgarian general election is held. * November 16 – Russia draws international condemnation following an anti-satellite weapon test that creates a cloud of space debris, threatening the

. * November 21 – The 2021 Chilean general election is held. * November 23 – 2021 Bulgaria bus crash, A bus crashes in Pernik Province, Bulgaria, killing 46 North Macedonia, Macedonian tourism in Turkey, tourists returning from Istanbul. * November 24 ** NASA launches the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first attempt to deflect an asteroid for the purpose of learning how to protect Earth. ** Magdalena Andersson 2021 Swedish government formation, resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister-elect of Sweden hours after the Riksdag voted her in as Sweden's first female Prime Minister. She was due to take office on 26 November. Instead, she takes office on 30 November. * November 26 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization convenes an emergency meeting in Geneva amid concerns over SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron, a highly mutated Variants of SARS-CoV-2#Variants under monitoring (WHO), variant of COVID-19 first identified in COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, South Africa that appears more infectious than SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, Delta. * November 30 ** Barbados becomes a Republicanism in Barbados, republic on its 55th anniversary of independence while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. ** November 30 – December 18 – The 2021 FIFA Arab Cup is held in

, and 2021 FIFA Arab Cup Final, is won by Algeria national football team, Algeria.

December

* December 4 – The 2021 Gambian presidential election is held and incumbent President of the Gambia, president Adama Barrow is reelected. * December 6 – The United States announces a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China's human rights record. Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia join shortly after. * December 9 ** Chiapas truck crash, A truck crash in Chiapas, Mexico, kills 55 migrants who were being people smuggling, smuggled in it from Guatemala through Mexico to Mexico–United States border, its border with the United States. ** December 9–December 10, 10 – The Summit for Democracy, a virtual summit, is hosted by the United States "to renew democracy at home and confront autocracies abroad". * December 10–December 11, 11 – A late season Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021, tornado outbreak occurs in the Southern United States, Southern and Midwestern United States, causing major damage and killing at least 94 people. One of the 2021 Western Kentucky tornado, longest-tracked tornadoes in history occurred, which impacted western Kentucky, particularly Mayfield, Kentucky. * December 11 – The New York City FC defeats the Portland Timbers at Providence Park in Portland, Oregon 5-3 on penalties and wins MLS Cup title for the first time in its history. * December 12 – The 2021 New Caledonian independence referendum is held. *December 16 – Typhoon Rai, also known as Typhoon Odette, hits the Philippines and caused destruction to agriculture, establishments, and houses, and caused many injured and deaths. * December 19 ** The 2021 Hong Kong legislative election, originally scheduled for 6 September 2020 but postponed due to the

, is held. ** The second round of the 2021 Chilean general election, 2021 Chilean presidential election is held; leftist candidate Gabriel Boric is elected President of Chile, President. * December 25 –

, European Space Agency, ESA, the Canadian Space Agency and the Space Telescope Science Institute launch the

, the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Births

* June 4 – Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor, second child of the Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Duke and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Duchess of Sussex and eighth in the line of succession to the British throne

Deaths

January

– Dame Elmira Minita Gordon, 1st Governor-General of Belize (b. 1930) * January 2 ** Modibo Keita (born 1942), Modibo Keita, 8th List of prime ministers of Mali, Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1942) ** Michael McKevitt, Irish republican paramilitary leader (b. 1949) * January 3 – Gerry Marsden, English musician (b. 1942) *

** Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1931) ** Albert Roux, French chef and restaurateur (b. 1935) * January 5 – Colin Bell (footballer, born 1946), Colin Bell, English footballer (b. 1946) * January 7 – Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941) * January 11 ** Sheldon Adelson, American businessman and casino magnate (b. 1933) ** Kathleen Heddle, Canadian Olympic rower (b. 1965) *

– Siegfried Fischbacher, German-born American magician (b. 1939) * January 16 – Phil Spector, American record producer and convicted murderer (b. 1939) * January 18 – Jean-Pierre Bacri, Algerian-born French actor (b. 1951) *

- Justin Lekhanya, List of prime ministers of Lesotho, Chairman of the Military Council of Lesotho (b. 1938) * January 23 – Hal Holbrook, American actor (b. 1925) * January 27 ** Cloris Leachman, American actress (b. 1926) ** Mehrdad Minavand, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1975) * January 28 ** Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch Nobel atmospheric chemist (b. 1933) ** Vasily Lanovoy, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1934) ** Cicely Tyson, American actress (b. 1924) *

- Hilton Valentine, English guitarist (b. 1943)

February

– Edward Babiuch, 5th Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish People's Republic (b. 1927) * February 2 – Fausta Morganti, Captains Regent, Captain Regent of San Marino (b. 1944) * February 3 – Tony Trabert, American tennis player and commentator (b. 1930) *

– Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut and molecular biologist (b. 1945) * February 5 ** Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (b. 1929) ** Leon Spinks, American professional boxer (b. 1953) * February 6 – George Shultz, American politician, diplomat and economist (b. 1920) * February 7 – Giuseppe Rotunno, Italian cinematographer (b. 1923) * February 8 ** Jean-Claude Carrière, French novelist and screenwriter (b. 1931) ** Mary Wilson (singer), Mary Wilson, American singer (b. 1944) *

– Chick Corea, American jazz keyboardist (b. 1941) * February 11 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician (b. 1924) * February 12 – Milford Graves, American jazz drummer, percussionist, and free jazz pioneer (b. 1941) *

– Yury Vlasov, Soviet and Russian weightlifter and writer (b. 1935) * February 14 – Carlos Menem, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1930) * February 15 – Leopoldo Luque, Argentine footballer (b. 1949) * February 16 ** Bernard Lown, Lithuanian-American Nobel cardiologist and inventor (b. 1921) ** Joan Margarit, Spanish poet (b. 1938) ** Gustavo Noboa, 42nd President of Ecuador (b. 1937) * February 17 – Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality (b. 1951) *

– Andrey Myagkov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1938) *

– Đorđe Balašević, Serbian recording artist and singer-songwriter (b. 1953) * February 21 – Zlatko Saračević, Croatian handball player and coach (b. 1961) *

– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher (b. 1919) * February 23 – Fausto Gresini, Italian motorcycle racer and team manager (b. 1961) *

** Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator (b. 1925) ** N'Singa Udjuu, First State Commissioner of Zaire (b. 1934) *

** Hannu Mikkola, Finnish rally driver (b. 1942) ** Michael Somare, Sir Michael Somare, 1st Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1936)

March

* March 1 ** Zlatko Kranjčar, Croatian football player and manager (b. 1956) ** Ian St John, Scottish footballer (b. 1938) * March 2 ** Chris Barber, English jazz musician (b. 1930) ** Bunny Wailer, Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter (b. 1947) *

– Lou Ottens, Dutch inventor (b. 1926) * March 9 ** James Levine, American conductor and pianist (b. 1943) ** John Polkinghorne, English theoretical physicist and Anglican priest (b. 1930) * March 10 ** Hamed Bakayoko, 11th Prime Minister of Ivory Coast (b. 1965) ** Ali Mahdi Muhammad, 4th President of Somalia (b. 1939) ** Manuel Saturnino da Costa, 6th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1942) * March 12 – Goodwill Zwelithini, king of the Zulu people, Zulu nation (b. 1948) * March 13 ** Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer (b. 1954) ** Murray Walker, British motor racing commentator (b. 1923) * March 16 ** Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1940) ** Sabine Schmitz, German motor racer and television presenter (b. 1969) * March 17 – John Magufuli, 5th President of Tanzania (b. 1959) *

– Peter Lorimer, Scottish international footballer (b. 1946) *

** Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer (b. 1931) ** Adam Zagajewski, Polish poet, essayist and translator (b. 1945) * March 22 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Johnny Dumfries, Scottish peer and racing driver (b. 1958) *

– George Segal, American actor (b. 1934) * March 24 – Jessica Walter, American actress (b. 1941) *

** Beverly Cleary, American author (b. 1916) ** Larry McMurtry, American author (b. 1936) ** Bertrand Tavernier, French film director and actor (b. 1941) * March 28 – Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (b. 1936) * March 29 – Bashkim Fino, 29th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1962) * March 31 – Kamal Ganzouri, 46th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1933)

April

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* April 1 – Isamu Akasaki, Japanese Nobel physicist (b. 1929) *

– Christian Tumi, Cameroonian cardinal (b. 1930) *

– Robert Mundell, Canadian Nobel economist (b. 1932) * April 5 – Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist (b. 1930) * April 6 – Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author (b. 1928) *

** DMX, American rapper, songwriter and actor (b. 1970) ** Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921) * April 14 ** Yıldırım Akbulut, 20th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1935) ** Bernie Madoff, American investment advisor, financier and convicted fraudster (b. 1938) * April 16 ** Charles Geschke, American businessman and computer scientist (b. 1939) ** Andrew Peacock, Australian politician (b. 1939) *

** Walter Mondale, 42nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1928) ** Jim Steinman, American rock lyricist and composer (b. 1947) ** Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer (b. 1946) *

–

, 6th President of Chad (b. 1952) *

– Milva, Italian singer and actress (b. 1939) *

– Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano (b. 1928) * April 26 – Tamara Press, Soviet Olympic shot put and discus thrower (b. 1937) *

** Michael Collins (astronaut), Michael Collins, American astronaut (b. 1930) ** Federico Salas, 136th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1950)

May

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* May 1 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress (b. 1931) * May 3 – Lloyd Price, American singer-songwriter and businessman (b. 1933) * May 4 – Simon Achidi Achu, 6th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1934) * May 6 ** Humberto Maturana, Chilean philosopher and biologist (b. 1928) ** Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist (b. 1966) * May 7 – Martín Pando, Argentine footballer (b. 1934) * May 8 ** Lee Han-dong, 33rd Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1934) ** Helmut Jahn, German-born American architect (b. 1940) ** Spencer Silver, American chemist and inventor (b. 1941) * May 9 – José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Spanish poet and novelist (b. 1926) * May 10 – Svante Thuresson, Swedish jazz musician (b. 1937) *

– Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (b. 1914) *

** Đorđe Marjanović, Serbian pop rock singer (b. 1931) ** Eva Wilma, Brazilian actress (b. 1933) * May 16 – Rildo da Costa Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1942) *

** Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter, composer and filmmaker (b. 1946) ** Charles Grodin, American actor and comedian (b. 1935) * May 19 – Lee Evans (sprinter), Lee Evans, American Olympic athlete (b. 1947) *

** Francisco Brines, Spanish poet (b. 1932) ** Abubakar Shekau, Nigerian Islamic leader and militant (b. 1965, 1969 or 1975) * May 21 ** Tahir Salahov, Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian painter and draughtsman (b. 1928) ** Sunderlal Bahuguna, Indian environmentalist (b. 1927) * May 22 ** Francesc Arnau, Spanish footballer (b. 1975) ** Robert Marchand (cyclist), Robert Marchand, French racing cyclist (b. 1911) ** Yuan Longping, Chinese agronomist (b. 1930) ** André Ribeiro (racing driver), André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1966) *

** Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator (b. 1929) ** Cristóbal Halffter, Spanish classical composer and conductor (b. 1930) ** Ron Hill, English marathon runner (b. 1938) ** Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (b. 1928) ** Max Mosley, British racing driver and lawyer (b. 1940) * May 26 – Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1939) * May 27 ** Carla Fracci, Italian ballet dancer and actress (b. 1936) ** Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921) ** Poul Schlüter, 22nd Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929) * May 30 – Rick Mitchell, Australian sprinter (b. 1955)

June

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* June 1 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (born 1943), Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (b. 1943) * June 3 – Sir Anerood Jugnauth, 2nd Prime Minister of Mauritius, Prime Minister and 4th President of Mauritius (b. 1930) * June 4 ** Richard R. Ernst, Swiss Nobel chemist (b. 1933) ** Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet (b. 1924) * June 5 – T. B. Joshua, Nigerian televangelist (b. 1963) * June 6 ** Revaz Gabriadze, Georgian filmmaker, painter and playwright (b. 1936) ** Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese Nobel chemist (b. 1935) ** Mansour Ojjeh, French Saudi Arabian entrepreneur (b. 1952) * June 7 ** Yoo Sang-chul, South Korean footballer (b. 1971) ** Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Iranian Shia cleric and terrorist (b. 1947) * June 9 ** Gottfried Böhm, German architect and sculptor (b. 1920) ** Edward de Bono, Maltese physician, psychologist and philosopher (b. 1933) * June 10 – Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Indian director and poet (b. 1944) * June 11 – Paola Pigni, Italian middle-distance runner (b. 1945) * June 13 – Ned Beatty, American actor (b. 1937) * June 14 ** Enrique Bolaños, 29th President of Nicaragua (b. 1928) ** Markis Kido, Indonesian badminton player (b. 1984) * June 15 – Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1927) * June 17 – Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (b. 1924) * June 18 ** Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer (b. 1928) ** Milkha Singh, Indian athlete (b. 1929) * June 20 – Luis del Sol, Spanish footballer (b. 1935) * June 23 – John McAfee, English-born American computer programmer and businessman (b. 1945) * June 24 ** Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (b. 1960) ** Trần Thiện Khiêm, 7th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of South Vietnam and army officer (b. 1925) * June 26 – Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Acting Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1929) * June 29 – Donald Rumsfeld, American politician and government official (b. 1932) * June 30 – Bonfoh Abass, Acting President of Togo (b. 1948)

July

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* July 1 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (b. 1939) * July 2 – Nikolai Slichenko, Soviet and Russian singer and actor (b. 1934) * July 4 – Richard Lewontin, American evolutionary biologist (b. 1929) * July 5 ** Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, TV presenter and actress (b. 1943) ** Richard Donner, American film director (b. 1930) ** Vladimir Menshov, Soviet and Russian actor and film director (b. 1939) * July 6 ** Djivan Gasparyan, Armenian musician and composer (b. 1928) ** Patrick John, 1st Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1938) * July 7 ** Ahmed Jibril, Palestinian militant (b. 1938) ** Dilip Kumar, Indian actor, film producer and philanthropist (b. 1922) ** Jovenel Moïse, 42nd President of Haiti (b. 1968) ** Carlos Reutemann, Argentine Formula One driver and politician (b. 1942) * July 9 ** Frank Lui, 3rd Premier of Niue (b. 1935) ** Paul Mariner, English football player and manager (b. 1953) * July 10 – Esther Béjarano, German singer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1924) * July 13 – Shirley Fry, American tennis player (b. 1927) * July 14 ** Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (b. 1940) ** Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist (b. 1935) * July 16 – Surekha Sikri, Indian actress (b. 1945) * July 17 – Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress and activist (b. 1939) * July 19 – Arturo Armando Molina, 36th President of El Salvador (b. 1927) * July 22 – Boris Chochiev, Acting Prime Minister of South Ossetia (b. 1957) * July 23 ** Toshihide Maskawa, Japanese Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1940) ** Steven Weinberg, American Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1933) * July 25 – Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Portuguese military official and politician (b. 1936) * July 26 ** Albert Bandura, Canadian-American psychologist (b. 1925) ** Joey Jordison, American drummer (b. 1975) ** Ivan Toplak, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1931) * July 28 ** Roberto Calasso, Italian writer and publisher (b. 1941) ** Dusty Hill, American musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1949) ** Shahrum Kashani, Iranian-American singer (b. 1974)

August

* August 1 – Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Scottish Islamic scholar and writer (b. 1930) * August 3 – Arthur Dion Hanna, 7th Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1928) * August 5 – Yevhen Marchuk, 4th Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1941) * August 8 – Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian poet and philosopher (b. 1941) * August 9 ** Lester Bird, Sir Lester Bird, 2nd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1938) ** Sergei Kovalev, Russian human rights activist (b. 1930) * August 10 – Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Spanish cardinal (b. 1927) * August 13 ** Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1929) ** Gino Strada, Italian surgeon and human rights activist (b. 1948) * August 14 – Carlos Correia, 5th List of prime ministers of Guinea-Bissau, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933) * August 15 ** Abdelhamid Brahimi, 3rd Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1936) ** Gerd Müller, German footballer (b. 1945) * August 16 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet and Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion (b. 1936) * August 17 – Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (b. 1973) * August 18 – Jill Murphy, British author and illustrator (b. 1949) * August 19 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist (b. 1939) * August 21 ** Don Everly, American musician (b. 1937) ** Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (b. 1940) * August 23 ** Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher (b. 1940) ** Rosita Quintana, Argentine-Mexican actress, singer, and songwriter (b. 1925) * August 24 ** Hissène Habré, 1st Prime Minister of Chad, Prime Minister and 5th President of Chad (b. 1942) ** Wilfried Van Moer, Belgian footballer (b. 1945) ** Charlie Watts, English drummer (b. 1941) * August 25 – Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini, 7th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1932) * August 27 – Edmond H. Fischer, American-Swiss Nobel biochemist (b. 1920) * August 29 ** Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929) ** Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican record producer and singer (b. 1936) ** Jacques Rogge, Belgian Olympic sailor and 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942) * August 31 – Francesco Morini, Italian footballer (b. 1944)

September

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* September 1 – Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Kashmiri separatist leader (b. 1929) * September 2 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer and politician (b. 1925) * September 5 ** Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian Olympic canoeist (b. 1949) ** Živko Radišić, 2nd Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1937) * September 6 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (b. 1933) * September 8 – Dietmar Lorenz, German Olympic judoka (b. 1950) * September 9 – Danilo Popivoda, Slovenian footballer and manager (b. 1947) * September 10 ** Charles Konan Banny, 6th List of heads of government of Ivory Coast, Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast (b. 1942) ** Jorge Sampaio, 18th President of Portugal (b. 1939) ** Saadi Yacef, Algerian independence fighter, politician and actor (b. 1928) * September 11 – Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian Terrorist Maoism, Maoist leader and militant (b. 1934) * September 13 ** Antony Hewish, English Nobel radio astronomer (b. 1924) ** Borisav Jović, 12th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (b. 1928) * September 14 ** Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1959) ** Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet and Russian track and field athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1955) * September 16 ** Silas Atopare, 7th Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1951) ** Casimir Oyé-Mba, 3rd Prime Minister of Gabon (b. 1942) ** Clive Sinclair, Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1940) * September 17 ** Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 7th President of Algeria (b. 1937) ** Mario Camus, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1935) * September 19 ** Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer, poet and theatre director (b. 1931) ** Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (b. 1940) * September 21 – Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Egyptian field marshal, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (b. 1935) * September 22 ** Abdelkader Bensalah, Acting List of heads of state of Algeria, Head of State of Algeria (b. 1941) ** Orlando Martínez, Cuban boxer and Olympic champion (b. 1944) * September 25 – Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan military officer and convicted war criminal (b. 1941) * September 27 – Roger Hunt, English footballer (b. 1938) * September 30 – Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator (b. 1931)

October

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* October 2 – Umer Shareef, Pakistani director, producer and artist (b. 1960) * October 3 ** Jorge Medina (cardinal), Jorge Medina, Chilean cardinal (b. 1926) ** Budge Patty, American tennis player (b. 1924) ** Lars Vilks, Swedish visual artist (b. 1946) * October 9 – Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran (b. 1933) * October 10 – Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist and engineer (b. 1936) * October 14 – Lee Wan-koo, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1950) * October 17 – Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1944) * October 18 ** Edita Gruberová, Slovak soprano (b. 1946) ** János Kornai, Hungarian economist (b. 1928) ** Colin Powell, American politician, diplomat and general (b. 1937) * October 19 – Leslie Bricusse, British composer, lyricist and playwright (b. 1931) * October 20 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1934) * October 21 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist (b. 1929) * October 22 – Vyacheslav Vedenin, Soviet and Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1941) * October 26 ** Walter Smith, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948) ** Roh Tae-woo, 6th President of South Korea (b. 1932) * October 29 ** Clément Mouamba, 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo (b. 1943) ** Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor, playback singer and producer (b. 1975) * October 30 – Igor Kirillov, Soviet and Russian news presenter, announcer and actor (b. 1932) * October 31 – Dame Catherine Tizard, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1931)

November

* November 1 ** Aaron Beck, Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist (b. 1921) ** Nelson Freire, Brazilian pianist (b. 1944) * November 6 ** Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, 12th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1948) ** Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1933) * November 7 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (b. 1936) * November 11 ** F. W. de Klerk, 7th and last State President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1936) ** Graeme Edge, English drummer, songwriter and poet (b. 1941) * November 12 ** Bob Bondurant, American racing driver (b. 1933) ** Matthew Festing, 79th Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (b. 1949) ** Ron Flowers, English footballer (b. 1934) * November 13 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-born South African novelist (b. 1933) * November 14 – Bertie Auld, Scottish footballer (b. 1938) * November 15 – László Z. Bitó, Hungarian physiologist and writer (b. 1934) * November 23 ** Chun Doo-hwan, 5th President of South Korea (b. 1931) ** Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1931) * November 26 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (b. 1930) * November 27 – Apetor, Norwegian YouTuber (b. 1964) * November 28 ** Virgil Abloh, American fashion designer and entrepreneur (b. 1980) ** Alexander Gradsky, Soviet and Russian singer, songwriter and rock musician (b. 1949) ** Norodom Ranariddh, 31st List of prime ministers of Cambodia, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1944) ** Sir Frank Williams (Formula One), Frank Williams, English businessman, Formula One team owner and mechanic (b. 1942) * November 29 – Kinza Clodumar, 7th President of Nauru (b. 1945) * November 30 – Ray Kennedy, English footballer (b. 1951)

December

* December 3 ** Lamine Diack, Senegalese businessman, sports administrator and athlete (b. 1933) ** Horst Eckel, German footballer (b. 1932) * December 5 – Jacques Tits, Belgian-born French mathematician (b. 1930) * December 6 – Kåre Willoch, 30th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1928) * December 7 – Mustafa Ben Halim, 3rd List of heads of government of Libya, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1921) * December 8 – Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican musician (b. 1953) * December 9 ** Otar Patsatsia, 3rd Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1929) ** Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress and politician (b. 1939) ** Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1928) * December 10 – Michael Nesmith, American musician and television personality (b. 1942) * December 11 ** Anne Rice, American author (b. 1941) ** Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player (b. 1938) * December 12 ** Sir Paulias Matane, 8th Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1931) ** Vicente Fernández, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1940) * December 13 – Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress (b. 1955) * December 15 – Fayez Tarawneh, 31st List of prime ministers of Jordan, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1949) * December 18 – Richard Rogers (architect), Lord Richard Rogers, Italian–born British architect (b. 1933) * December 19 – Robert H. Grubbs, American Nobel chemist (b. 1942) * December 21 – Carlyle Glean, Sir Carlyle Glean, 5th Governor-General of Grenada (b. 1932) * December 23 – Joan Didion, American writer (b. 1934) * December 25 ** Wayne Thiebaud, American painter (b. 1920) ** Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter (b. 1963) * December 26 ** Karolos Papoulias, 6th President of Greece (b. 1929) ** Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop, activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1931) ** E. O. Wilson, American biologist and writer (b. 1929) * December 31 – Betty White, American actress (b. 1922)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Benjamin List and David MacMillan * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Abdulrazak Gurnah * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov * Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian

References

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