21st Century
2000 CE to Present · 84 events
Politics (39)War (19)Law (19)Technology (18)Entertainment & Media (16)Art (14)Medicine (9)Biology (7)
All 21st Century Events
Counter-Strike Released
November 9, 2000 · 21st Century
ArtEntertainment & Media
9/11 Attacks
September 11, 2001 · 21st Century
PoliticsWarCulture
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Released
May 16, 2002 · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaArt
United States Withdraws from ABM Treaty
June 13, 2002 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
SARS Coronavirus Outbreak Emerges in China
November 2002 - July 2003 · 21st Century
Medicine
World of Warcraft (Video Game)
November 23, 2004 · 21st Century
ArtEntertainment & Media
The Office (TV Series Premiered)
2005 AD · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaArt
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Published
2005 · 21st Century
ArtEntertainment & Media
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Released
2005 · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaArt
Kariko and Weissman Publish mRNA Nucleoside Modification Research
2005 · 21st Century
MedicineBiology
Netflix Launches Watch Now Streaming Service
January 16, 2007 · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaTechnology
iPhone Released
June 29, 2007 · 21st Century
Technology
Breaking Bad TV Series Premiere
2008 AD · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaArt
Spotify Launches in Sweden
October 7, 2008 · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaTechnologyEconomics
Barack Obama Elected
November 4, 2008 · 21st Century
Politics
Bitcoin Genesis Block Created
January 3, 2009 · 21st Century
TechnologyEconomics
Discovery of Denisovans: A New Human Species
2010 CE · 21st Century
BiologyEvolutionHuman Evolution
Game of Thrones (TV)
2011 AD · 21st Century
ArtEntertainment & Media
Launch of Namecoin
April 18, 2011 · 21st Century
TechnologyEconomics
FAO Declares Global Eradication of Rinderpest
June 28, 2011 · 21st Century
AgricultureMedicineBiology
Shooting of Trayvon Martin
February 26, 2012 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
Military Coup in Mali Amid Tuareg Rebellion
March 22, 2012 · 21st Century
PoliticsWar
Doudna and Charpentier Publish CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Method
June 28, 2012 · 21st Century
BiologyMedicineChemistry
Voyager 1 Crosses into Interstellar Space
August 25, 2012 · 21st Century
AstronomyTechnologyExploration
AlexNet Wins ImageNet Challenge
September 30, 2012 · 21st Century
TechnologyMathematics
Black Lives Matter Founded
July 13, 2013 · 21st Century
PoliticsCulture
Russia Annexes Crimea
February 27 – March 18, 2014 · 21st Century
WarPoliticsLaw
Modern Uyghur Genocide
2014 · 21st Century
CulturePoliticsLaw
Killing of Eric Garner
July 17, 2014 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
Shooting of Michael Brown
August 9, 2014 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Released
2015 · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaArt
JCPOA Iran Nuclear Deal Finalized
July 14, 2015 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
GN-z11: Discovery of the Most Distant Galaxy
2016 (galaxy from 13.4 billion years ago) · 21st Century
AstronomyPhysics/Cosmology
AlphaGo Defeats Lee Sedol
March 9–15, 2016 · 21st Century
TechnologyPhilosophy
Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' Released
April 23 2016 AD · 21st Century
ArtCultureEntertainment & Media
Stranger Things (TV)
July 15, 2016 · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaArt
Donald Trump Elected President
November 8, 2016 · 21st Century
Politics
JNIM Founded — al-Qaeda Unifies Sahel Affiliates
March 2017 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
Transformer Architecture Published
June 12, 2017 · 21st Century
TechnologyMathematics
Fortnite Battle Royale Released
September 26, 2017 · 21st Century
ArtEntertainment & Media
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Release
December 15, 2017 · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaArt
United States Withdraws from JCPOA
May 8, 2018 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Film Released
2019 · 21st Century
Entertainment & MediaArt
INF Treaty Collapses — Both Parties Withdraw
August 2, 2019 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak
2020 AD · 21st Century
Medicine
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
January 3, 2020 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
Killing of Breonna Taylor
March 13, 2020 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
Murder of George Floyd
May 25, 2020 · 21st Century
PoliticsLawCulture
SpaceX Crew-1
November 16, 2020 · 21st Century
Engineering
Introduction of the First COVID-19 Vaccines
2020 · 21st Century
Medicine
Israel–UAE Peace Agreement
August 13, 2020 · 21st Century
Politics
President Biden inaugurated
January 20, 2021 · 21st Century
Politics
NASA Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
February 18, 2021 · 21st Century
EngineeringExploration
SpaceX Crew-2
April 24, 2021 · 21st Century
EngineeringTechnologyExploration
Military Coup in Burkina Faso Ousts Elected President
January 24, 2022 · 21st Century
PoliticsWar
Russia Launches Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
February 24, 2022 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
Bucha Massacre Revealed
April 1–4, 2022 · 21st Century
WarLaw
Sinking of the Moskva
April 13–14, 2022 · 21st Century
WarTechnology
First Image of Sagittarius A*
May 12, 2022 · 21st Century
Physics/CosmologyAstronomyTechnology
Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court Decision
June 24, 2022 · 21st Century
LawPolitics
Russia Illegally Annexes Four Ukrainian Oblasts
September 30, 2022 · 21st Century
WarPoliticsLaw
Second Military Coup in Burkina Faso — Russia-Aligned Junta Takes Power
September 30, 2022 · 21st Century
PoliticsWar
ChatGPT Launched
November 30, 2022 · 21st Century
TechnologyPhilosophyEconomics
Claude Publicly Launched by Anthropic
March 14, 2023 · 21st Century
TechnologyPhilosophy
GPT-4 Released — Frontier AI Race Begins
March 14, 2023 · 21st Century
TechnologyEconomicsPhilosophy
Scientists Release First Human Genome Map
May 10, 2023 · 21st Century
BiologyMedicine
Fall of Bakhmut
May 20, 2023 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
Military Coup in Niger — West's Last Sahel Partner Falls
July 26, 2023 · 21st Century
PoliticsWar
EU AI Act Passed into Law
March 13, 2024 · 21st Century
LawPoliticsTechnology
Surgeons Perform Living Patient Pig Kidney Transplant
March 16, 2024 · 21st Century
MedicineBiology
USDA Confirms Bird Flu in US Dairy Cattle
March 25, 2024 · 21st Century
BiologyMedicineAgriculture
Chang'e 6 Returns Far Side Lunar Samples to Earth
June 25, 2024 · 21st Century
ExplorationEngineering
Supreme Court Strips Agencies' Power to Interpret Laws
June 28, 2024 · 21st Century
LawPolitics
Ukraine Launches Kursk Incursion into Russia
August 6, 2024 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
SpaceX Catches Returning Rocket Booster on Tower
October 13, 2024 · 21st Century
EngineeringExploration
North Korea Deploys Troops to Fight in Russia
October–November 2024 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
Operation Midnight Hammer — US Strikes Iranian Nuclear Sites
June 22, 2025 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
JNIM Blockades Bamako — Jihadists Besiege a Capital City
September 3, 2025 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
Burkina Faso Dissolves All Political Parties
January 29, 2026 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
New START Treaty Expires — No Replacement in Force
February 5, 2026 · 21st Century
PoliticsLaw
Pentagon Designates Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk
February 27, 2026 · 21st Century
PoliticsLawTechnology
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Killed in US-Israeli Strike
February 28, 2026 · 21st Century
WarPolitics
Macron Orders French Nuclear Warhead Increase and Announces Forward Deterrence Doctrine
March 2, 2026 · 21st Century
PoliticsWar
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The Present · 21st Century
TechnologyCulturePolitics