عقد 2010

The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand (and) tens") was a decade in the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 2010 and ended on 31 December 2019.

الألفية:	الألفية 3
القرون:	القرن 20 – القرن 21 – القرن 22
العقود:	عقد 1980 عقد 1990 عقد 2000 – عقد 2010 – عقد 2020 عقد 2030 عقد 2040
Years:	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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استعراض

متظاهرون يسيرون في جادة الحبيب بورقيبة في وسط مدينة تونس، 12 يناير 2011.

The 2010s began amid a global financial crisis dating from the late 2000s. The European sovereign-debt crisis, which stemmed from these economic problems, became more pronounced and continued to affect the possibility of a global economic recovery. Austerity policies particularly affected Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Such policies were among factors that led to the 15-M and Occupy movements. Other economic issues, such as inflation and an increase in commodity prices, led to unrest in many lower-income countries. Unrest in some countries—particularly in the Arab world—evolved into socio-economic crises triggering revolutions in Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen, as well as civil war in Libya and Syria, in a widespread phenomenon—commonly referred to in the Western world as the Arab Spring—with the repercussions from the revolutions continuing as of مايو 2023.

Sitting world leaders Hugo Chávez, معمر القذافي و كيم جونگ-إيل all died, as did former leaders Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and George H. W. Bush. Major natural disasters include the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Nepal earthquake of 2015, and the devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Haiyan (Yolanda) and Sandy. Other major international events this decade include the Northern Iraq offensive and the Paris attacks of November 2015.

The 2010s brought the continuation of US military involvement, both in direct combat and through foreign bases, in many parts of the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, the Philippines, the Caribbean and Central America. In 2011, the U.S. Navy SEALS assassinated Osama bin Laden in a raid on his Abbottabad compound. Online nonprofit organization WikiLeaks gained international attention for publishing classified information on topics including Guantánamo Bay, Syria, the Afghan and Iraq wars, and United States diplomacy. The website's editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, was granted political asylum by Ecuador, while the United States accused Chelsea Manning of leaking classified information and conducted a court-martial. Elsewhere, Edward Snowden blew the whistle on NSA global surveillance.

Widespread use and interconnectedness of mobile networked devices and mobile telephony, internet websites and resources, and social networking became a de facto standard in digital communication during the 2010s.

Beginning in 2016, much of the Western world began to experience a political backlash against globalization, especially immigration policy and free-trade agreements. This trend grew more evident after the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. The increase in economic inequality in developed countries was also an important discussion topic along the decade. Elsewhere, populist sentiment rose in Asian countries in the late 2010s, particularly in Southeast Asia and India.

السياسة والحروب

الحروب

المقالة الرئيسية: List of wars 2003–2010 and List of wars 2011–present

The prominent wars of the decade include:

الحروب الدولية

Name	Start date	End date	Description
Israeli–Palestinian conflict	14 May 1948	Ongoing	Since 1948, conflict between Jewish and Palestinian communities in Israel and the West Bank has continued to this day. After Israel occupied the West Bank, it began making settlements there, which has been an obstacle to the peace process. Tensions also remained high as Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has been launching rockets and cross-border raids into Israeli territory, which Israel has responded with force.
War on Terror War in Afghanistan Iraq conflict	11 September 2001 7 October 2001 20 March 2003		Motivated by the September 11 attacks, the الولايات المتحدة and other governments started a large scale effort to eliminate terrorism. With support from NATO, the United States invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and overthrew the government. Three years later, on the pretext that the government of Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, the United States and a coalition of partners invaded Iraq and overthrew Hussein, after which the U.S. occupied the country. However, insurgencies remained active in both countries, long after the invasions.
Russian military intervention in Ukraine	20 February 2014		After Euromaidan protests and the fall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Russian soldiers took control of strategic positions and infrastructure in the Ukrainian territory of Crimea. Russia then annexed the region after a controversial referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation. In the months that followed, demonstrations by pro-Russian groups in the Donbass area of Ukraine escalated into an armed conflict between the government of Ukraine and Russia-backed separatist forces.
Military intervention against ISIL	13 June 2014		In late 2013, a terrorist organization called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant began making rapid advances and territorial gains in Iraq and Syria. It captured Mosul in June and made Raqqa its capital. Various international coalitions were formed to help fight the militants. By December 2017, ISIS had lost much of its former territory and russian troops were withdrawn from Syria.

In red: the area controlled by ISIS as of December 31, 2014.

Devastation in Mosul's old city after recapture from ISIL.

Civil wars

Name	Start date	End date	Description
Colombian Armed Conflict	27 May 1964	Ongoing	Fighting between the Colombian government, left-wing guerrillas, and various paramilitary factions had been ongoing since 1964. However, the violence has sharply decreased as rebel groups gradually became more weakened with only two major groups remaining, FARC and ELN. The violence has killed over 222,000 people, mostly civilians since the conflict began. Since 2012, both groups have been in peace talks with the government, with FARC and the government signing a ceasefire in 2016.
War in North-West Pakistan	16 March 2004		Since 2004, Pakistan has been fighting an insurgency by various armed militant groups in the country. The violence has killed almost 57,000 people since, with over 3 million more affected. By 2014, however, casualties from terrorist and militant attacks had dropped by around 40%.
Mexican Drug War	11 December 2006		Following a rise in criminal violence as a result of drug trafficking in the country, Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared a war on drugs in December 2006. Since the start of the war, the death toll from drug violence had sharply increased. Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, led to increasing violence as cartels fought for control of trafficking routes into the United States.
War in Somalia	31 January 2009		Following years of lawlessness, the new Transitional Federal Government attempted to restore order in Somalia. However, Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group, started waging an insurgency against the new government. In 2011, the federal government captured Mogadishu, the capital, and subsequently retook several towns across the country. Since then, the government has attempted to clean out the remaining Al-Shabaab strongholds with help from AMISOM soldiers.
Boko Haram insurgency	26 July 2009		The Boko Haram insurgency began when the jihadist rebel group started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. In 2015, the group pledged alliance to ISIL. It has since been called the world's deadliest terrorist group.
Northern Mali conflict	16 January 2012		In January 2012, a rebellion by Tuaregs in Northern Mali began. After Malian president Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted in a coup d'état, Tuaregs captured Northern Mali, and declared it to be the independent state of Azawad. However, shortly afterward, various Islamists groups took over Northern Mali from the Tuaregs and imposed sharia law on the region.
Iraqi Civil War	1 January 2014	9 December 2017	The Iraqi insurgency escalated into a civil war with the conquest of Fallujah, Mosul, Tikrit and major areas of northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. International aid was provided in the form of airstrikes, troops and logistical aid. On 9 December 2017, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced victory over ISIL, though others warned to expect ISIL to fight on via an insurgency and other means.
Yemeni civil war	19 March 2015	Ongoing	Preceded by a decade-long Houthi insurgency, the Yemeni Civil War began between two factions: the then-incumbent Yemeni government, led by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and the Houthi militia, along with their supporters and allies. Both claim to constitute the Yemeni government.
Philippine Drug War	30 June 2016		Following a rise in criminal violence as a result of drug trafficking in the country, since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was inaugurated on 30 June 2016. It has caused 3,000 deaths.

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Arab Spring

انظر أيضاً: Arab Spring and Impact of the Arab Spring

Name	Start date	End date	Description
Libyan Civil War	15 February 2011	13 October 2011	Inspired by neighbouring revolutions, Libyans began to protest against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule. However, Gaddafi refused to step down and sent in the military to brutally quell protests. As a result, many army units defected to the opposition and protests soon turned into an armed rebellion. With international help, the rebels captured Tripoli, and eventually Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown and last outpost, where he was killed. The war resulted in the death of at least fifty thousand people.
Syrian Civil War	15 March 2011	Ongoing	Protests erupted in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad's rule and called for democratic reforms, with police and the army sent in to crack down on protesters. They later morphed into war after army officers defected to the opposition, forming the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The war allowed for Islamic extremist groups like Al-Nusra Front and ISIL to take control of vast amounts of territory. Many countries intervened in the war, in support of various factions.

Government overthrown multiple times   Government overthrown   Civil war   Protests and governmental changes   Major protests   Minor protests   Other protests and militant action outside the Arab world

Protesters in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution of 2011

Coups

المقالة الرئيسية: List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010

Coups d'état against ruling governments during the decade include:

Event	Date	Country	Ref.
Nigerien coup d'état	18 February 2010
Malian coup d'état	21 March 2012
Guinea-Bissau coup d'état	12 April 2012
Egyptian coup d'état	3 July 2013
Thai coup d'état	22 May 2014
Yemeni coup d'état	21 September 2014
Turkish coup d'état attempt	15 July 2016
Zimbabwean coup d'état	14 November 2017

Nuclear weapons

P5+1 and Iranian negotiators meeting in Geneva for the interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme (2013)

• In 2005, Iran's nuclear program became a source of tension due to fears that Iran could possibly divert civilian nuclear technology into a nuclear weapons program. This led the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran on select companies linked to Iran's nuclear program, causing further economic isolation of Iran. In 2015, Iran and other world powers agreed to trade sanctions relief for explicit constraints on Iran's nuclear program, including permanently closing their plutonium reactor, reducing the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges by two-thirds and allowing the inspections of nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). On 16 January 2016 the IAEA confirmed that Iran had complied with the agreement, allowing the United Nations to lift sanctions immediately. However, on May 8, 2018, United States President Donald Trump announced the United States was withdrawing from the deal.
• On 8 April 2010, the United States and Russia signed a treaty in Prague, Czech Republic to reduce the stockpiles of their nuclear weapons by half. It is meant to replace the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), which was set to expire. The treaty went into force on 5 February 2011 after it was ratified by both nations.
• On 7 July 2017, the United Nations passed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. It has been signed by 58 nations.
• Throughout the decade, North Korea expanded its nuclear capabilities, performing alleged nuclear tests in 2013 and 2016, which governments responded by placing international sanctions on the country. In response North Korea has threatened the United States, South Korea and Japan with pre-emptive nuclear strikes. However, in 2018, North Korea suggested that they may disarm their nuclear arsenal after negotiations with the United States.

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Terrorist attacks

المقالة الرئيسية: List of terrorist incidents § 1970–present

The most prominent terrorist attacks committed against civilian populations during the decade include:

Event	Date	Country	Deaths	Injuries	Ref.
2010 Pune bombing	13 February 2010		17	54
2010 Moscow Metro bombings	29 March 2010		40	102
2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre	28 May 2010		87	120+
Domodedovo International Airport bombing	24 January 2011		37	173
2011 Mumbai bombings	13 July 2011		26	130+
2011 Norway attacks	22 July 2011		77	319+
2011 Monterrey casino attack	25 August 2011		52	10
Boston Marathon bombing	15 April 2013		5	264
Zamboanga City siege	9 September 2013		220	70
Westgate shopping mall attack	21 September 2013		67	175
December 2013 Volgograd bombings	29–30 December 2013		32	85
2014 Sydney hostage crisis	15 December 2014		3	18
2014 Peshawar school massacre	16 December 2014		148	114
Charlie Hebdo shooting	7 January 2015		17	22
2015 Baga massacre	3–7 January 2015		150+
Mamasapano clash	25 January 2015		67	17+
Bardo National Museum attack	18 March 2015		24	50+
2015 Sana'a mosque bombings	20 March 2015		142	351
Garissa University College attack	2 April 2015		152	79
2015 Ramadan attacks	26 June 2015	Various	403	336+
2015 Bangkok bombing	17 August 2015		20	125
2015 Beirut bombings	12 November 2015		43	240
2015 Ankara bombings	10 October 2015		109	400+
November 2015 Paris attacks	13 November 2015		130	368
2015 Bamako hotel attack	20 November 2015		20	9
2015 San Bernardino attack	2 December 2015		14	22
2016 Jakarta attacks	14 January 2016		8	24
2016 Brussels bombings	22 March 2016		35	300+
2016 Lahore suicide bombing	27 March 2016		69	300+
Tipo-Tipo clash	9 April 2016		18+	70
2016 Orlando nightclub shooting	12 June 2016		49	53
2016 Istanbul airport attack	28 June 2016		45	236
2016 Gulshan attack	1 July 2016		20
July 2016 Baghdad bombings	3 July 2016		281	200
2016 Nice attack	14 July 2016		87	434
2016 Gaziantep bombing	20 August 2016		54	66
2016 Davao City bombing	2 September 2016		15	70
2016 Berlin attack	19 December 2016		12	56
2017 Istanbul nightclub shooting	1 January 2017		39	70
2017 Westminster attack	22 March 2017		6	49
2017 Aleppo suicide car bombing	15 April 2017		126+	60+
2017 Camp Shaheen attack	21 April 2017		140+	160+
2017 Manchester Arena bombing	22 May 2017		22	59
2017 London Bridge attack	3 June 2017		11	48
2017 Barcelona attacks	17–18 August 2017		16	152
14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings	14 October 2017		512	316
2017 New York City truck attack	31 October 2017		8	12
2017 Sinai mosque attack	24 November 2017		311	122
Surabaya bombings	13 May 2018		14	57
Ahvaz military parade attack	22 September 2018		30	70

مناحي سياسية

خريطة أمريكا اللاتينية تبين البلدان ذات الحكومات من الوسط-اليسار، واليسار والاشتراكية (أحمر) وحكومات الوسط-اليمين، واليمين والمحافظين (أزرق) في 2011 (يسار) و 2018 (يمين).

China was increasingly called a superpower in the early 2010s, including at the 2011 meeting between President Hu Jintao and United States President Barack Obama. China overtook the US as the world's largest trading nation, filing the most patents, expanding its military, landing its lunar rover Yutu on the moon (ending a four-decade lack of lunar exploration) and creating China's Oriental Movie Metropolis as a major film and cultural center. China was projected to have the world's largest economy by 2018 with an estimated GDP per capita equal to the US by the late 2050s.

Political polarization increased as conservatives and social liberals clashed over the role of government and other social, economic and environmental issues in the West. In the الولايات المتحدة, polls showed a divided electorate regarding healthcare reform, immigration, gun rights, taxation, job creation, and debt reduction. In Europe, movements protesting increasing numbers of refugees from Islamic countries developed, such as the English Defence League and Pegida. There have also been increasing calls for egalitarianism, including between the sexes, and some scholars assert that a fourth wave of feminism began around 2012.

Populism in politics saw a widespread surge throughout the decade, with many politicians and various political movements expressing populist sentiments and utilizing populist rhetoric. This included conservative wave phenomenon in Latin America and neo-nationalism in Europe and North America. Notable examples of populist movements included The Tea Party movement, Occupy Wall Street, Brexit, Black Lives Matter, and the alt-right. Examples of populist country leaders were just as extensive, with Donald Trump, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Hugo Chávez, Matteo Salvini, Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte, and others, left and right-wing, described as such.

Prominent political events

This table of events is listed by the region and by chronological order. The prominent political events include:

Africa

Event	Country	Date	Description	References
Tunisian Revolution		14 January 2011	Amidst anti-government protests, Tunisia's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali dissolved the government, declared a state of emergency and resigned from office.
Egyptian revolution of 2011		25 January 2011	Inspired by the Tunisian demonstrations, protests erupted in Egypt, calling for the departure of long-time President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak resigned on 11 February 2011.
2011 Libyan Civil War		15 February 2011	A popular revolt against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule over Libya led to thousands of deaths and UN sanctions against the nation's government following a brutal crackdown against protesters.
South Sudanese independence referendum, 2011		9 July 2011	A referendum was held in Southern Sudan on whether the region should remain part of Sudan. An overwhelming majority voted in favour of separation and formed the new country of South Sudan.
Northern Mali conflict		16 January 2012	An Islamist revolt in northern Mali threatened to gain control of the country. A coalition, led by France, intervened to assist the Malian government in fighting the militants.
Ousting of François Bozizé		25 March 2013	Séléka rebels conquered the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, and forced President François Bozizé to flee the country, resulting in widespread sectarian violence.
Political violence in Egypt (2013)		3 July 2013	Political violence broke out in Egypt after Abdul Fattah al-Sisi led the military overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in a coup.
Death of Nelson Mandela		5 December 2013	Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist and President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, died.
2014 Burkinabé uprising		31 October 2014	President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré resigned and fled to the Ivory Coast in the face of widespread protests, ending 27 years of authoritarian rule.
Egyptian Revolution trials and hearings		29 November 2014	Former Egypt President Hosni Mubarak was found not guilty of charges of killing protesters in the 2011 Egyptian protests and was also cleared of corruption charges.
Nigerian general election, 2015		29 March 2015	Muhammadu Buhari was elected President of Nigeria, the first time the opposition ever won an election against an incumbent and the first ever peaceful transfer of power in the country.
Burundian unrest (2015–present)		26 April 2015	Burundi faces unrest as President Pierre Nkurunziza sought a third term in office, resulting in hundreds killed and thousands more fleeing the country.
Gambian presidential election, 2016		1 December 2016	Adama Barrow was elected President of The Gambia, defeating long-time President Yahya Jammeh and ending more than 22 years of authoritarian rule.
Resignation of Jacob Zuma		14 February 2018	Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa, after nine years in power.

Americas

Event	Country	Date	Description	References
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act		23 March 2010	President Barack Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, marking a major reform of the U.S. health insurance and health care systems.
Brazilian presidential election, 2010		31 October 2010	Dilma Rousseff was elected as the first female President of Brazil.
Peruvian general election, 2011		5 June 2011	Ollanta Humala was elected president of Peru.
Occupy Wall Street		17 September 2011	Hundreds of protesters marched into the financial district of Wall Street in New York City, beginning the Occupy Wall Street movement: which started a series of demonstrations and hundreds of encampments in cities across the nation, forming the Occupy movement.
Impeachment of Fernando Lugo		22 June 2012	On 21 June the Chamber of Deputies voted 76 to 1 to impeach Lugo, and the Senate removed him from office the following day, by 39 votes to 4, resulting in Vice President Federico Franco, who had broken with Lugo, becoming President.
Mexican general election, 2012		1 July 2012	Enrique Peña Nieto won the Mexican general election, bringing the Institutional Revolutionary Party back to prominence for the first time since 2000.
United States presidential election, 2012		6 November 2012	Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Death of Hugo Chávez		5 March 2013	Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died at the age of 58 after governing the country for 14 years.
Papal conclave, 2013		13 March 2013	Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected as the first pope from the Americas; he takes the papal name Francis.
June Journeys		April – July 2013	The demonstrations were initially organized to protest against increases in bus, train, and metro ticket prices in some Brazilian cities, but grew to include other issues such as the high corruption in the government and police brutality used against some demonstrators. By mid-June, the movement had grown to become Brazil's largest since the 1992 protests against former President Fernando Collor de Mello.
2014 Venezuela–Panama diplomatic crisis		5 March 2014	Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, severed diplomatic and political ties with Panama, accusing it of involvement in a conspiracy against the Venezuelan government.
Operation Car Wash		17 March 2014	Operation Car Wash is an ongoing criminal investigation being carried out by the Federal Police of Brazil, Curitiba Branch, and judicially commanded by Judge Sérgio Moro since March 17, 2014.
International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis		28 April 2014	U.S. President Barack Obama's new economic sanctions against Russia went into effect, targeting companies and individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Brazilian presidential election, 2014		26 October 2014	Dilma Rousseff was re-elected President of Brazil.
2015–16 protests in Brazil		15 March 2015 – 31 July 2016	In 2015 and 2016, a series of protests in Brazil denounced corruption and the government of President Dilma Rousseff, being the largest popular mobilizations in the country since the beginning of the "New Republic".
Obergefell v. Hodges		26 June 2015	Same-sex marriage was legalized in all 50 U.S. states due to a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Cuban Thaw		20 July 2015	A year after U.S. President Barack Obama announced efforts to end the United States embargo against Cuba, which had been in place since January 1961, the two countries restore full diplomatic ties, following decades of hostility.
Canadian federal election, 2015		19 October 2015	The Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, won Canada's federal election, defeating the Conservative Party in the country's longest election in a century.
Argentine general election, 2015		22 November 2015	Mauricio Macri was elected President of Argentina, ending over a decade of "Kirchnerism" in the country.
Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2015		6 December 2015	The PSUV lost its majority in the National Assembly of Venezuela to the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable, marking the first time since 1999 that the PSUV lost its majority.
Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff		12 May 2016	The Brazilian Senate votes (55–22) to open the impeachment process against the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff and suspend her from office while the trial takes place as the Vice President of Brazil, Michel Temer, assumes the presidential powers and duties as Acting President of Brazil.
Peruvian general election, 2016		5 June 2016	Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was elected President of Peru.
Colombian peace process		23 June 2016	The government of Colombia and FARC rebels signed a ceasefire, officially ending over 50 years of conflict between the two.
United States presidential election, 2016		8 November 2016	Republican nominee Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. He would become the first President without prior diplomatic or military experience.
Death of Fidel Castro		25 November 2016	Former President of Cuba and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro dies at the age of 90.
2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis		23 March 2017	The Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela took over legislative powers of the National Assembly and removed its members' immunity, most of whom belonged to the opposition. Constitutional Assembly elections were held on 30 July 2017 to elect the members of a new Constitutional Assembly.
Arrest of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva		7 April 2018	The arrest of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva occurred on April 7, 2018, after federal judge Sérgio Moro issued the warrant two days earlier. The arrest is due to the conviction for corruption and money laundering in second instance in the scope of Operation Car Wash. The ex-president was taken to Curitiba after the imprisonment, to the building of the Federal Police of Brazil, where he fulfills the sentence.
Inauguration of Miguel Díaz-Canel		19 April 2018	Miguel Díaz-Canel is sworn in as President of Cuba, marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba has had a president other than Fidel or Raúl Castro.
Mexican general election, 2018		1 July 2018	Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the historic Mexican general election, bringing the National Regeneration Movement for new prominence for the first time without any political rule like Institutional Revolutionary Party and National Action Party.
Brazilian presidential election, 2018		28 October 2018	Jair Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil, marking the first time that the country is ruled by the far-right since the start of the New Republic in 1985. The election also interrupted 4 victories of the Workers' Party in a row.
Death of George H. W. Bush		30 November 2018	The 41st and former President George H. W. Bush dies at the age of 94. Bush served as the 43rd U.S. Vice President during the Ronald Reagan administration from 1981 to 1989, and succeeded him as President from 1989 to 1993.

Asia

Event	Country	Date	Description	References
Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010		7 April 2010	Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev fled Bishkek amid fierce anti-government riots as the opposition seized control.
Philippine presidential election, 2010		10 May 2010	Benigno Aquino III was elected President of the Philippines.
Myanmar general election, 2010		7 November 2010	Thein Sein was elected President of Myanmar, the first civilian President of the country since 1962.
Release of Aung San Suu Kyi		13 November 2010	Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi was released from her house arrest after being incarcerated since 1989.
2011 Bahraini uprising		15 March 2011	Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, declared a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council were sent to quell the civil unrest.
Death of Kim Jong-il		17 December 2011	Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il of North Korea died after governing the country for 17 years. His son, Kim Jong-un, succeeded him.
18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China		8 November 2012	The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, with Xi Jinping being chosen as the new General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and as the Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
South Korean presidential election, 2012		19 December 2012	Park Geun-hye was elected President of South Korea, the first woman to hold the position.
Japanese general election, 2012		26 December 2012	The Liberal Democratic Party, led by Shinzō Abe, won a landslide victory in Japan's general election.
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction		11 March 2013	The Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of North Korea broke all peace pacts with South Korea and started a new nuclear weapons plan, inflaming tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Indian general election, 2014		12 May 2014	The Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Narendra Modi, won a landslide victory in India's general election, the first time BJP gained a majority since 1984.
2014 Thai coup d'état		23 May 2014	تايلند Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is home-arrested in the wake of a military coup.
Indonesian presidential election, 2014		9 July 2014	Joko Widodo won Indonesia's presidential election, becoming the first president to not be from the country's political elite or military.
2014 Hong Kong protests		26 September 2014	Protests erupted in Hong Kong after proposed new electoral reforms prompted concerns of growing mainland Chinese influence in the politics of the island.
2014 Yemen protests		22 January 2015	After Houthi forces seized the presidential palace, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi resigned after months of unrest.
Death of King Abdullah		23 January 2015	Abdullah, the King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015, died and is replaced by King Salman.
Death of Lee Kuan Yew		23 March 2015	Founding Prime Minister of Singapore who ruled from 1959 to 1990, highly regarded as the founding father of the nation, died from pneumonia at the age of 91.
India–Bangladesh enclaves		6 June 2015	India and Bangladesh officially ratified their 1974 agreement to exchange enclaves along their border.
2015 Ma–Xi meeting		7 November 2015	Chinese leader and Taiwanese president, Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou, formally meet, the first time any leader of their respective countries met since 1949.
Myanmar general election, 2015		8 November 2015	The NLD, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won a sweeping victory in Myanmar's first openly contested election since 1990.
2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran		3 January 2016	Following the fallout caused by the Execution of Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Saudi Shia cleric, Saudi Arabia and its allies severed their diplomatic relations with Iran.
Taiwanese general election, 2016		16 January 2016	Tsai Ing-wen was elected President of Taiwan, the first woman to hold the position.
2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes		2 April 2016	Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani military in Nagorno-Karabakh kill at least 193 people, which becomes the heaviest breach of the 1994 ceasefire.
Philippine presidential election, 2016		9 May 2016	Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines.
Philippines v. China		12 July 2016	The Philippines wins the arbitration case they filed at the Permanent Court of Arbitration regarding the legality of China's nine-dotted line claim over the South China Sea under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Death of Bhumibol Adulyadej		13 October 2016	Bhumibol Adulyadej, the King of تايلند from 1946 to 2016, died and replaced by his son, Vajiralongkorn.
Impeachment of Park Geun-hye		10 March 2017	South Korean President Park Geun-hye is impeached by the Constitutional Court of Korea in a unanimous decision, terminating Park's presidency. South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn assumes power following the ruling.
South Korean presidential election, 2017		9 May 2017	Moon Jae-in was elected the 12th President of South Korea, originally scheduled to take place later in the year, the election was moved to early May following the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.
2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis		5 June 2017	Seven Arab countries – Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region and supporting terrorism.
Kim–Xi meetings		28 March 2018	North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un meets Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping, leaving the country for the first time since assuming office in 2011.
2018 Armenian protests		12 April 2018	Various political and civil groups led by member of parliament Nikol Pashinyan staged anti-government protests in Armenia. Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned on April 23, 2018. Nikol Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister on 8 May 2018.
April 2018 inter-Korean summit		27 April 2018	Kim Jong-un crosses into South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in, becoming the first North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953.
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action		30 April 2018	Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran of not holding up its end of the Iran nuclear deal after presenting a cache of over 100,000 documents. Iran denounces Netanyahu's presentation as "propaganda".
Malaysian general election, 2018		9 May 2018	The opposition-led Pakatan Harapan coalition, led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, secures a parliamentary majority in the Malaysian Parliament, ending the 61-year rule of the Barisan Nasional coalition and leading to the pardon of Anwar Ibrahim.
2018 North Korea–United States summit		12 June 2018	الولايات المتحدة President and North Korea's Supreme Leader, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, formally meet, the first time any leader of their respective countries met.

The leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump during the North Korea–United States summit in June 2018.

Europe

Event	Country	Date	Description	References
United Kingdom general election, 2010		6 May 2010	The 2010 United Kingdom election resulted in the first "hung parliament" since 1974.
Resignation of Silvio Berlusconi		16 November 2011	The longest-serving Prime Minister of the Italian Republic Silvio Berlusconi resigned in November 2011, after a sexual allegation scandal, a financial crisis and public protests. The economist Mario Monti was appointed new Prime Minister, at the head of a technocratic cabinet and held the office until 2013.
French presidential election, 2012		22 April 2012	François Hollande was elected as the new President of France, becoming the first socialist president of the country in 17 years.
Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI		28 February 2013	Benedict XVI resigned as pope, the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.
Italian general election, 2013		25 February 2013	Neither of the two main coalitions, the centre-right led by Silvio Berlusconi and the centre-left led by Pier Luigi Bersani, won an outright majority in Parliament, partly due to the strong showing by the populist anti-establishment Five Star Movement.
Death of Margaret Thatcher		8 April 2013	Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, died.
Italian presidential election, 2013		20 April 2013	Amid growing financial tensions, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected, the first ever Italian president to be re-elected. Napolitano appointed Enrico Letta Prime Minister, at the head of a grand coalition.
Abdication of Beatrix of the Netherlands		30 April 2013	Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated in favour of her son, Willem-Alexander, who became the country's first king in over a century.
2014 Ukrainian revolution		21 February 2014	Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country following violent protests in the capital, Kiev. The opposition-controlled Verkhovna Rada voted to remove him as president.
Election of Matteo Renzi		22 February 2014	Matteo Renzi, after becoming the new leader of the Italian Democratic Party, forced Enrico Letta to resign and was elected Prime Minister, starting a program of radical constitutional reforms. Renzi is the youngest Prime Minister in the Italian history.
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation		18 March 2014	Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine following an internationally unrecognized referendum on the status of the region.
European Parliament election, 2014		22 – 25 May 2014	Victories in the European elections by UKIP in the United Kingdom and the National Front in France, seen by some as a sign of a growing right-wing and eurosceptical movement in mainland Europe.
Scottish independence referendum, 2014		18 September 2014	In a referendum called by the governing Scottish National Party, Scotland voted to remain in the United Kingdom, with 55.3% of votes against independence while 44.7% voted in favour.
Abdication of Juan Carlos I of Spain		19 June 2014	King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicated in favour of his son, Felipe VI.
Greek legislative election, January 2015		26 January 2015	Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the anti-austerity Syriza party, was elected as Prime Minister of Greece.
Minsk II		12 February 2015	Leaders from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France reached an agreement on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine that included a ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons. However, the truce has largely failed to stop the fighting, with skirmishes continuing unabated.
Irish constitutional referendums, 2015		23 May 2015	The Republic of Ireland voted to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote.
Greek government-debt crisis		1 July 2015	Greece became the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund in the fund's 71-year history.
Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill		12 February 2016	Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill signed an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016		23 June 2016	In a referendum held in the United Kingdom on whether or not to continue being a member of the European Union, 52% of voters chose to leave it. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation afterwards, being succeeded by Theresa May.
Austrian presidential election, 2016		4 December 2016	Independent green Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly beat the far-right Freedom Party of Austria candidate Norbert Hofer in a repeat of the Austrian presidential election, 2016 after the first election was annulled.
Italian constitutional referendum, 2016		4 December 2016	Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned after the result constitutional referendum, in which Italians rejected his reform to overhaul the Senate of the Republic. The Foreign Affairs Minister Paolo Gentiloni was appointed new Prime Minister.
French presidential election, 2017		7 May 2017	En Marche! candidate Emmanuel Macron was elected the President of France, replacing incumbent Hollande and defeating National Front candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of voting. Macron is the youngest president in the history of the French Fifth Republic.
Fine Gael leadership election, 2017		2 June 2017	A leadership election for Ireland's ruling party was held. Enda Kenny resigned as Taoiseach and was replaced by Leo Varadkar. He is the first openly gay Taoiseach and the son of an immigrant.
Death of Helmut Kohl		16 June 2017	Helmut Kohl Former Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany 1982–1990 and of the reunited Germany 1990–1998) dies at the age 87.
2017 Spanish constitutional crisis		6 September 2017	Political conflict sparks between the government of Spain and the Government of Catalonia over the 2017 Catalan independence referendum. Operation Anubis was launched in an attempt to thwart the referendum, though it still went ahead, with 91% supporting independence within Catalonia. On 27 October, Catalonia declares independence from Spain but it is not recognised by any sovereign nation.
German federal election, 2017		24 September 2017	Alternative for Germany entered parliament for the first time since their founding, while the Social Democratic Party of Germany suffered their worst election defeat since World War 2.
Italian general election, 2018		4 March 2018	The centre-right alliance, in which the right-wing populist League emerged as the main political force, won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement became the party with the largest number of votes. After months of negotiations, the two populist parties, M5S and League, formed a government.
Russian presidential election, 2018		18 March 2018	Presidential elections were held in Russia on 18 March 2018. Incumbent Vladimir Putin won reelection for his second consecutive (fourth overall) term in office with 77% of the vote.
Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland		25 May 2018	A constitutional referendum on whether to repeal the ban on abortion in Ireland takes place, with a landslide win of 66.4% to 33.6% for the repeal side.
Macedonia naming dispute		12 June 2018	Greece and the Republic of Macedonia reach a deal to end a 27-year naming dispute between both countries, which would result in Macedonia being officially renamed the Republic of North Macedonia.

February 28, 2014: following a political crisis in Ukraine and after the Ukrainian parliament votes to remove pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from office, Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.

European migrant crisis: Asylum applications in the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states between 1 January and 30 June 2015 according to Eurostat data

Oceania

Event	Country	Date	Description	References
Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 2010		24 June 2010	Julia Gillard succeeded Kevin Rudd as the Prime Minister of Australia, becoming Australia's first female prime minister after a leadership spill.
Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013		19 August 2013	Same-sex marriage was legalized in New Zealand, making it the first country in Oceania to allow same-sex couples to marry.
Fijian general election, 2014		17 September 2014	Former Fijian military commander Frank Bainimarama won Fiji's first democratic election since a coup in 2006, officially ending years of military rule.
Crowning of Tupou VI		4 July 2015	Tupou VI was crowned King of Tonga, succeeding his brother George Tupou V, who died in 2012.
Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, September 2015		15 September 2015	Malcolm Turnbull succeeded Tony Abbott as Prime Minister of Australia after a leadership spill.
Resignation of John Key		11 December 2016	Bill English becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand after the resignation of John Key.
New Zealand general election, 2017		23 September 2017	New Zealand holds a general election with no parties having a majority. On 19 October, New Zealand First announced the formation of a coalition government with the Labour Party, with support from the Green Party, making Jacinda Ardern the Prime Minister-elect and ending the Fifth National Government.
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017		9 December 2017	The Act came into effect from 9 December 2017, allowing same-sex couples previously married overseas to have their marriages recognised under Australian law. The first same-sex marriages took place in Australia on 9 January 2018.
Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, 2018		24 August 2018	Scott Morrison succeeds Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister of Australia following a Liberal Party leadership ballot. Morrison is sworn in as Prime Minister later that evening.

Notable world leaders

ملحوظة: Names of world leaders shown below in bold have remained in power continuously throughout the decade (as of مايو 2023).

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  Barack Obama

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  Donald Trump

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  Vladimir Putin

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  Hu Jintao

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  Xi Jinping

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  Angela Merkel

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  François Hollande

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  Emmanuel Macron

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  David Cameron

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  Theresa May

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  Donald Tusk

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  Pope Benedict XVI

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  Pope Francis

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  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

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  Mauricio Macri

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  Julia Gillard

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  Kevin Rudd

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  Tony Abbott

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  Malcolm Turnbull

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  Scott Morrison

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  Dilma Rousseff

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  Michel Temer

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  Jair Bolsonaro

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  Boyko Borisov

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  Stephen Harper

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  Justin Trudeau

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  Michelle Bachelet

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  Sebastián Piñera

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  Juan Manuel Santos

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  Miguel Díaz-Canel

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  Raúl Castro

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  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

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  Lars Løkke Rasmussen

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  Rafael Correa

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  Lenín Moreno

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  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

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  Alexis Tsipras

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  Viktor Orbán

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  Joko Widodo

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  Manmohan Singh

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  Narendra Modi

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  Yousaf Raza Gillani

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  Nawaz Sharif

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  Imran Khan

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  Ali Khamenei

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  Hassan Rouhani

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  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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  Benjamin Netanyahu

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  Mario Monti

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  Enrico Letta

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  Matteo Renzi

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  Paolo Gentiloni

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  Giuseppe Conte

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  Enda Kenny

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  Leo Varadkar

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  Shinzō Abe

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  Kim Jong-un

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  Lee Myung-bak

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  Moon Jae-in

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  Park Geun-hye

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  Muammar Gaddafi

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  Najib Razak

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  Mahathir Mohamad

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  Felipe Calderón

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  Enrique Peña Nieto

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  Andrés Manuel López Obrador

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  Aung San Suu Kyi

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  Thein Sein

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  Mark Rutte

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  Bill English

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  Jacinda Ardern

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  John Key

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  Erna Solberg

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  Jens Stoltenberg

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  Mahmoud Abbas

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  Benigno Aquino III

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  Rodrigo Duterte

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  Andrzej Duda

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  Bronisław Komorowski

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  Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

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  Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

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  Jacob Zuma

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  Cyril Ramaphosa

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  Mariano Rajoy

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  Pedro Sánchez

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  Fredrik Reinfeldt

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  Stefan Löfven

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  Doris Leuthard

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  Bashar al-Assad

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  Ma Ying-jeou

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  Tsai Ing-wen

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  Prayut Chan-o-cha

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  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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  Hugo Chávez

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  Nicolás Maduro

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  Nguyen Phu Trong

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  Petro Poroshenko

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  Viktor Yanukovych

اغتيالات ومحاولات

المقالة الرئيسية: قائمة الاغتيالات ومحاولات الاغتيال

Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include:

Osama bin Laden

Muammar Gaddafi

Date	Description
1 January 2011	Reynaldo Dagsa, Philippine Barangay official from Caloocan, was assassinated by two men during New Year's Eve.
8 January 2011	Federal judge John Roll and 5 others were killed and 13 more were injured in a shooting near Tucson. The shooting was reported to be an assassination attempt. The apparent target, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, was critically injured in the head.
2 May 2011	Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in a targeted killing in Abbottabad, Pakistan in an operation conducted by a team of United States Navy SEAL commandos.
15 August 2011	Esmael Mangudadatu, Governor of Maguindanao was a victim of a car bomb in Tacurong city, Sultan Kudarat. Two people were killed, including a Maguindanao board member, while six others were wounded.
30 September 2011	Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior talent recruiter, planner and spiritual leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in a targeted killing in the northern al-Jawf province of Yemen, using two US Predator drones fired Hellfire missiles.
20 October 2011	Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's ousted leader, was shot to death in Sirte.
4 September 2012	Pauline Marois, Premier-designate of Quebec, escaped death during her victory speech after Richard Henry Bain opened fire at the Metropolis in Montreal, killing one person and critically injuring another.
9 October 2012	Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Women's rights activist was the victim of an assassination attempt by the Taliban in Pakistan.
6 February 2013	Chokri Belaid, Tunisian opposition leader of the Democratic Patriots' Unified Party, was fatally shot.
22 May 2013	Lee Rigby, a British Army soldier who was killed by Islamic extremists with links to Al-Qaeda, the first such attack by the group in the United Kingdom since 2005.
25 January 2015	Zulkifli Abdhir, suspected member of Jemaah Islamiyah, was killed in a police operation in Mamasapano, Philippines.
27 February 2015	Boris Nemtsov, Russian physicist, statesman and opposition politician, was assassinated on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, Central Moscow, Russia, within sight of the Kremlin.
5 March 2015	Mark Lippert, United States Ambassador to South Korea, was rushed into hospital after he was attacked by a knife-wielding man identified as Kim Ki-jong at a restaurant attached to Sejong Center in downtown Seoul.
26 August 2015	Alison Parker and Adam Ward, news reporter and camera operator of CBS affiliate WDBJ of Roanoke, Virginia were shot and killed on live television during an interview in Moneta, Virginia.
1 March 2016	Aid al-Qarni, Islamic Muslim scholar, author and activist was shot injured in an assassination attempt in Zamboanga City in the Philippines.
16 June 2016	Jo Cox, British MP, was shot and stabbed to death by a Neo-Nazi white supremacist in Birstall, England. She was the first British MP assassinated in over a quarter of a century and the first female politician in Britain to be assassinated.
19 December 2016	Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to إيطاليا, was killed in a gun attack at an art gallery in Ankara.
1 January 2017	Emmanuel Niyonkuru, the Burundian environment minister, was shot dead in the nation's capital, Bujumbura.
13 February 2017	Kim Jong-nam, eldest son of the late Kim Jong-il, was assassinated by two women in Malaysia with a VX nerve agent.
14 June 2017	Republican congressmen were targeted by James T. Hodgkinson, a left-wing activist from Illinois, who fired upon them during practice ahead of the annual Congressional Baseball Game in Alexandria, Virginia, where only Hodgkinson died. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was left in critical condition, but he would eventually recover and return to the House on 28 September.
16 October 2017	Isnilon Hapilon, Emir of ISIS in Southeast Asia and leader of Abu Sayyaf was killed in a military operation in Marawi City, which rescued 17 hostages.
4 March 2018	Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, was poisoned alongside his daughter Yulia in the city of Salisbury with a Novichok agent.
2 July 2018	Antonio Halili, the former Mayor of Tanauan, Batangas was assassinated by an unidentified gunman while attending a flag raising ceremony together with around 300 government employees and newly elected barangay officials.
2 October 2018	Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian dissident and journalist for The Washington Post. He was assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

Disasters

Non-natural disasters

Aviation

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409	25 January 2010		Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash	10 April 2010		Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of Polish government and military officials were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed near Smolensk, Russia.
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771	12 May 2010		Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashed on a runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing all but one of the 104 passengers and crew.
Air India Express Flight 812	22 May 2010		Air India Express Flight 812 overshot the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 people, with eight surviving.
Airblue Flight 202	28 July 2010		Airblue Flight 202 en route from Karachi to Islamabad crashed in the Margalla Hills near Islamabad, killing all 152 aboard, becoming the deadliest air crash in Pakistan's history.
2011 Beechcraft 65-80 Queen Air crash	10 December 2011		Parañaque plane crash kills 14 people in a slum area.
Dana Air Flight 992	3 June 2012		Dana Air Flight 992 crashed in the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing all 153 people aboard. 10 people on the ground also perished.
2012 Philippine Piper Seneca crash	18 August 2012		A plane carrying four people – two pilots, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government Jesse Robredo and his aide, crashed off the shore of Masbate Island en route to Robredo's hometown of Naga City from Cebu City. His aide survived the crash, however the Secretary and the two pilots did not survive.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214	6 July 2013		Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed at San Francisco airport killing 3 and injuring 181 people.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370	8 March 2014		Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The bulk of the plane is still missing, with all 239 people on board presumed dead. The first remains of the aircraft were found on 29 July 2015, after they washed ashore on Réunion Island.
2014 Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force An-74 crash	14 May 2014		A Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force airplane crashed in northern Laos, killing 16 people, among them several prominent Laotian statesmen, including Defense Minister Douangchay Phichit.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17	17 July 2014		Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine and crashed near the Ukrainian-Russian border, killing all 298 people on board, making it the deadliest airliner shoot down in history.
Air Algérie Flight 5017	24 July 2014		Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashed in southern Mali, killing all 116 passengers and crew.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501	28 December 2014		Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed in the Java sea after an attempt to avoid heavy thunderstorms, leaving all 162 people dead.
Villa Castelli helicopter collision	9 March 2015		Two helicopters collided in mid-air in a remote area of northwestern Argentina leaving at least ten dead. Among the dead were a group of French sports stars participating in a reality-television show called Dropped.
Germanwings Flight 9525	24 March 2015		Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 on board.
2015 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash	8 May 2015		Ambassadors Leif Larsen of Norway, Domingo Lucenario of the Philippines, Burhan Muhammad of Indonesia and other diplomats and the two helicopter pilots were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan.
2015 Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash	30 June 2015		A Lockheed C-130 Hercules operated by the Indonesian Air Force crashed into a crowded residential neighborhood in Medan shortly after take-off from Soewondo Air Force Base, killing 143 people including 22 on the ground, making it the deadliest crash in Indonesian Air Force peacetime history.
Metrojet Flight 9268	31 October 2015		Metrojet Flight 9268, an Airbus A321 airliner en route to Saint Petersburg from Sharm el-Sheikh, crashes near Al-Hasana in Sinai, killing all 224 passengers and crew on board.
2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown	24 November 2015		إيطاليا shot down a Russian fighter jet in the first case of a NATO member destroying a Russian aircraft since the 1950s.
Flydubai Flight 981	19 March 2016		Flydubai Flight 981 crashed in the runway of Rostov-on-Don Airport in Russia, killing 62 passengers and crews.
EgyptAir Flight 804	19 May 2016		EgyptAir Flight 804 was an international passenger flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport, operated by EgyptAir, that went missing over the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Karpathos. There were 66 people on board who are still missing.
LaMia Flight 2933	29 November 2016		A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying 77 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia. Rescuers reported seven survivors had been found in the wreckage, however it was reduced to six, after one died on arrival at A&E. The 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals were suspended, and Atlético Nacional, who to be Chapecoence's opponents, gave them the trophy out of respect.
2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash	25 December 2016		A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes near Sochi, Russia, killing all 92 people on board, including 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble.
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704	18 February 2018		Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Zagros Mountains, en route from Tehran to Yasuj. All 65 passengers and crew members perish.
US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211	12 March 2018		Flight BS211 crashes in Nepal, killing 51 on board.
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972	18 May 2018		Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes shortly after take-off near José Martí International Airport in Havana, killing 112 and leaving only one survivor.

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  On April 10, 2010 a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed in Russia with the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other passengers including many senior officials

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  For over 15 months it wasn't clear what exactly happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 until at the end of July 2015 a few remnants of the plane swept to the shores of the island of Réunion

General

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
2010 Copiapó mining accident	13 October 2010		Thirty-three miners near Copiapó, Chile, were trapped 700 مترs (2,300 قدم) underground in a mining accident in San José Mine, before being rescued after surviving for a record 69 days.
2013 Savar building collapse	24 April 2013		An eight-story factory building collapsed in the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000 more, becoming the deadliest structural failure in history.
Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse	12 November 2013		The roof of a shopping centre in Zolitūde, Latvia collapsed, killing 54 people and resulting in the resignation of Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis.
2015 Tianjin explosions	12 August 2015		Two explosions occurred within 30 seconds of each other at a container storage station at the Port of Tianjin in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China, killing at least 173.
Mecca crane collapse	11 September 2015		A crane toppled over at Mecca, killing 111 people, weeks before the official Hajj pilgrimage.
2015 Mina stampede	24 September 2015		A stampede during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, killed at least 2,236 people, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history.
Bento Rodrigues dam disaster	5 November 2015		An iron ore tailings dam in Bento Rodrigues, a subdistrict of Mariana, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure, causing flooding and at least 17 deaths. At least 16 people have been injured. This incident has been described as the worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history.
Tham Luang cave rescue	23 June – 10 July 2018		Twelve boys and their football coach are successfully rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in تايلند, following a 17-day ordeal that gained worldwide attention.
Ponte Morandi Collapse	14 August 2018		Part of the Morandi Bridge collapses after a violent storm in Genoa, Italy, causing 43 fatalities. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and transport minister Danilo Toninelli blame private company Autostrade per l'Italia.

Fires

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
Kiss nightclub fire	27 January 2013		242 people were killed in a fire at a nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil.
Kentex slipper factory fire	13 May 2015		At least 72 were killed in a fire at a slipper manufacturing factory in Valenzuela City, Philippines.
Colectiv nightclub fire	30 October 2015		A fire broke out at a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, killing 63 people and resulting in widespread protests that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta.
Grenfell Tower fire	14 June 2017		A fire ignited by a faulty refrigerator in a London council estate tower block spread to almost the entirety of the building causing 72 deaths and over 70 injuries.
2018 Kemerovo fire	25 March 2018		At least 64 people die in a fire at a shopping and entertainment complex in the Russian city of Kemerovo.
2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire	28 March 2018		At least 78 people die in a fire in the police headquarters of Valencia, Venezuela.
National Museum of Brazil fire	2 September 2018		A fire destroys the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. Fortunately no one was hurt, but 90 percent of the collection has been destroyed.

Marine

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
Costa Concordia disaster	13 January 2012		The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia hit a reef and partially capsized off the coast of Isola del Giglio, Italy, killing 32 people.
Grounding of the USS Guardian (MCM-5)	17 January 2013		USS Guardian (MCM-5), an American mine countermeasures ship, ran ground at Tubbataha Reef, testing relations between the Philippines and the United States.
Sinking of the MV St. Thomas Aquinas	16 August 2013		MV St. Thomas Aquinas collided with MV Sulpicio Express Siete resulting in 55 deaths. 65 people remain missing.
Sinking of MV Sewol	16 April 2014		South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsized while en route to Jeju, killing 295 people, mostly secondary school students from Danwon High School.
Sinking of Dong Fang Zhi Xing	1 June 2015		The river cruise ship Dong Fang Zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze River after being hit by a waterspout, killing 442 people, making it the deadliest maritime disaster in China's peacetime history.
Sinking of the Kim Nirvana-B	2 July 2015		MB Kim Nirvana, a motorized jukung bound for Camotes Islands which carried 173 passengers, capsized off the coast of Ormoc, killing 62 passengers.
Sinking of the MV Nyerere	20 September 2018		The MV Nyerere capsizes on Lake Victoria, killing at least 227 passengers.

Pollution

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
Deepwater Horizon oil spill	20 April 2010		An explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, operating in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, left eleven crewmen dead and resulted in a fire that sank the rig and caused a massive oil spill, becoming the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster	11 March 2011		A magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Sendai caused a tsunami that severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear power plants. The damage resulted in the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster, contaminating the entire area.
Flint water crisis	25 April 2014		The U.S. city of Flint, Michigan's water source was changed from the treated Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the Flint River, where officials had failed to apply corrosion inhibitors. This decision led to the water being contaminated by lead and eventual nationwide outrage about an alleged coverup.

Natural disasters

Earthquakes and tsunamis

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
2010 Haiti earthquake	12 January 2010		A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, causing widespread destruction in Port-au-Prince. Haitian authorities believe that the disaster killed between 200,000 and 250,000 people and over three million more were affected by the quake. The earthquake is so far the deadliest disaster in the decade.
2010 Chile earthquake	27 February 2010		An 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in Chile, triggering a tsunami across the Pacific and killing 497. One of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, this rare megathrust earthquake likely shifted Earth's axis and slightly shortened its days.
2010 Baja California earthquake	4 April 2010		A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Mexicali and Baja, killing three and injuring more than two hundred. US border towns in Imperial Valley, California were affected.
2010 Yushu earthquake	13 April 2010		A 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurred in western الصين, killing at least 2,200 and injuring more than 12,000.
February 2011 Christchurch earthquake	22 February 2011		A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami	11 March 2011		A 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit near Sendai, Japan. It created a 30 قدم (9.1 م) high tsunami, leaving 15,893 dead, 2,565 missing and over 150,000 displaced. It was the largest earthquake to hit Japan in 140 years.
2011 Van earthquake	23 October 2011		A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Turkish city of Van, leaving over 604 dead and thousands more injured.
2013 Bohol earthquake	15 October 2013		A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing over 200 people.
April 2015 Nepal earthquake	25 April 2015		A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal killed at least 8,857 people and injured tens of thousands more.It is the worst disaster to hit Nepal in decades.
May 2015 Nepal earthquake	12 May 2015		A second major earthquake hit Nepal, measuring 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale, killing 218 more people.
2015 Illapel earthquake	16 September 2015		An 8.3 magnitude earthquake jolted Chile, killing over 14 people.
2015 Hindu Kush earthquake	26 October 2015		A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes the Hindu Kush region and causes 398 deaths, with 279 in Pakistan, 115 in Afghanistan and 4 in India.
2016 Kumamoto earthquakes	16 April 2016		A 7.0 earthquake struck near Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture, resulting in at least 44 deaths and about 3,000 injured. More than 44,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.
2016 Ecuador earthquake	16 April 2016		A 7.8 earthquake struck near Muisne, Ecuador, killing over 673 people and displacing at least 25,000 more.
August 2016 Central Italy earthquake	24 August 2016		A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Central Italy near Norcia, 75 kم (47 ميل) southeast of Perugia and 45 kم (28 ميل) north of L'Aquila, in an area near the tripoint of the Umbria, Lazio, and Marche regions. At least 298 people have been left dead.
2017 Central Mexico earthquake	19 September 2017		A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Puebla. Coincidentally, it was also the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which claimed about 10,000 lives. The earthquake was commemorated with a national earthquake seismic alert drill at 11 a.m. local time, just two hours before the Puebla earthquake struck, which left 360 dead and over 6,000 injured.
2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami	28 September 2018		A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 2,256 people and injures more than 540 others.

Tropical cyclones

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
Typhoon Megi	18 October 2010		Typhoon Megi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Juan, hit the Philippines, killing at least 69 and causing US$709 million in damage.
Tropical Storm Washi	16 December 2011		Tropical Storm Washi, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Sendong, caused catastrophic damage on the Philippine island of Mindanao. More than 1,000 died and thousands were injured or missing.
Hurricane Sandy	25 October 2012	Various	Hurricane Sandy caused immense destruction in Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the United States, leaving at least 233 dead. It became the largest Atlantic tropical storm ever.
Typhoon Bopha	2 December 2012		Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pablo, struck the Philippines, killing at least 650 people and leaving millions more homeless.
Typhoon Haiyan	7 November 2013		Typhoon Haiyan, known as Super Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, hits the Philippines, killing at least 6,000 people, with a thousand more still missing, making it the deadliest typhoon to ever hit the Philippines.
Typhoon Hagupit	6 December 2014		Typhoon Hagupit, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ruby, hit the Philippines killing at least 18 and causing $114 million in damage.
Cyclone Pam	13 March 2015		Cyclone Pam struck Vanuatu, killing a total of 16 people with around 166,000 people affected, more than half the population of the entire country. It is the worst tropical cyclone to ever strike the country.
Typhoon Koppu	17–19 October 2015		Typhoon Koppu, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Lando, hit the Philippines and killed at least 48 and caused $235.8 million in damages.
Hurricane Patricia	23 October 2015		Hurricane Patricia was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and second most intense globally, with winds of 215 ميل في الساعة (346 كم/سا) and a pressure of 872 ميليبار (872 hبا).
Typhoon Melor	13 December 2015		Typhoon Melor, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Nona, hits the Philippines, killing 42 and causing $136 million in damages.
Cyclone Winston	20 February 2016		Cyclone Winston struck Fiji, killing 44 people and causing $1.4 billion in damages, making it the costliest tropical cyclone in South Pacific history.
Typhoon Haima	19 October 2016		Typhoon Haima, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Lawin, hits northern Luzon, killing at least 14 people. Typhoon signal number 5 is raised for the first time before and after its landfall.
Hurricane Harvey	23 August 2017		Hurricane Harvey slams into southeastern Texas after reorganizing over the Gulf of Mexico, causing catastrophic flooding and billions in damages. It became the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Total damage from the hurricane was estimated at $198 billion, making it the costliest natural disaster ever in the United States. Additionally, with peak rainfall totals reaching 60.58 in (1538.7 mm), Harvey was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States.
Hurricane Irma	30 August 2017 – 16 September 2017		Hurricane Irma, an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde-type hurricane, the strongest observed in the Atlantic since Wilma in 2005 in terms of maximum sustained winds. It was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record. The storm caused catastrophic damage in Barbuda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Anguilla, and the Virgin Islands as a Category 5 hurricane.
Hurricane Maria	16 September 2017 – 3 October 2017		Hurricane Maria is regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica, and caused catastrophic damage and a major humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. The third costliest Atlantic hurricane to date, it caused catastrophic damage and thousands of fatalities across the northeastern Caribbean, compounding recovery efforts in areas still damaged from Hurricane Irma just two weeks prior.
Hurricane Florence	31 August 2018 – 19 September 2018		Hurricane Florence, a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane, strikes the Carolinas, causing widespread and catastrophic flooding that made it one of the costliest tropical cyclones on record. It produced more rainfall than any other tropical cyclone in North and South Carolina to date.
Typhoon Mangkhut	15 September 2018		Typhoon Mangkhut, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ompong, hits northern Luzon, triggering deadly landslides and killing at least 95 people.

Tornadoes

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
2011 Super Outbreak	25–28 April 2011		A tornado outbreak in the United States killed 342 people across seven states. It was the largest and one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in United States history.
21–26 May 2011 tornado outbreak sequence	21 May 2011		Another US tornado outbreak took place over six days. 178 people were killed, most of which occurred in Joplin, Missouri after an EF5 tornado swept through the city, killing 161 people.
2013 Moore tornado	20 May 2013		A tornado killed 24 and wounded over 300 in Moore, Oklahoma.

Floods, avalanches, and mudslides

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
2010 Pakistan floods	July 2010		Flooding occurred in Pakistan after record monsoon rains, killing at least 1,600 people, thousands were rendered homeless, and more than thirteen million people were affected. Estimates from rescue service officials suggest the death toll might have reached 3,000.
January 2011 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides	11 January 2011		Floods and mudslides killed 903 people across the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013 Alberta floods	19 June 2013		Massive flooding occurred in Alberta, becoming the province's worst flooding in decades.
2015 Afghanistan avalanches	24 February 2015		An avalanche killed 310 people and wounded over 129 in Panjshir Province, Afghanistan.
2016 Louisiana floods	12 August 2016		The 2016 Louisiana floods were a period of prolonged rainfall in southern parts of the U.S. state of Louisiana that resulted in catastrophic flooding that submerged thousands of houses and businesses, with 13 deaths reported as a result of the flooding.
2018 Naga, Cebu landslide	20 September 2018		A landslide occurred in Naga, Cebu, killing at least 29 people.

Winter storms

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
2011 Halloween nor'easter	29 October 2011		A rare October snow storm hit the northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic United States days before Halloween, leaving millions without power and killing 15.
February 2013 nor'easter	7 February 2013		A massive blizzard hit the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada, killing 18 and dropping a near-record amount of snow.

Volcanic eruptions

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull	20 March 2010		Eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland caused unprecedented disruption to international air travel, rendering transatlantic flight impossible and closing airways across much of Europe, affecting the travel plans of millions of passengers. The event was the largest air traffic shut-down since World War II.The International Air Transport Association estimated that the airline industry worldwide would lose قالب:€ or GB£130 million a day during the disruption.
2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi	Early November 2010		Mount Merapi erupted in Indonesia, killing 353 people and grounding flights across Southeast Asia, becoming the largest eruption from the mountain in a century.
2018 lower Puna eruption	3 May 2018		A lava flow erupted in Hawai'i from Kīlauea's east rift zone, causing lots of damage and resulting in evacuation orders.

Droughts, heat waves, and wildfires

Event	Date	Country	Description	References
2011–17 California drought	December 2011 – March 2017		The state of California suffered through a water drought for the most part of the decade, affecting the way how Californians showered, use their drinking water, and even some of their electricity.
2015 Indian heat wave	24 May 2015		A heatwave in Southern India resulted in over 2,500 deaths.
2015 Pakistani heat wave	20 June 2015		A related heatwave hit neighbouring Pakistan, killing over 2,000 people in Karachi alone.
2016 Fort McMurray wildfire	1 May 2016		A wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. On 3 May, it swept through the community, destroying more than 2,400 homes and buildings and forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history. The wildfire is the costliest disaster in Canadian history.
Blue Cut Fire	16 August 2016		The Blue Cut Fire was a wildfire in the Cajon Pass, northeastern San Gabriel Mountains, and Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California. اعتبارا من 20 أغسطس 2016 (2016-08-20) the fire has destroyed 105 homes and 213 other structures and continues to burn.
2018 Attica wildfires	23–26 July 2018		Heavy wildfires in Greece leave 87 dead and more than a hundred buildings destroyed.
2018 Camp Fire	8–25 November 2018		A wildfire began in Northern California that eventually became the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history to date. It was also the deadliest wildfire in the United States since the Cloquet fire in 1918, and among the list of deadliest wildfires, it was the sixth-deadliest U.S. wildfire overall, killing 85 people and injuring 17.

Economy

Greece and Eurozone's rise of debt in the early years of the decade

In 2010, China became the second largest global economy, surpassing Japan. Japan also saw a rating downgrade the following year due to debt burden. The 2010s began amidst a global financial crisis that started in the late 2000s. In particular, the Eurozone debt crisis, which began during 2009, continued into the 2010s. A sovereign-debt crisis in Europe began in early 2010, and the Greek government admitted that it was having difficulties servicing its large sovereign debt. In the summer and fall of 2011 bond yields for Italy and Spain spiked above 6 percent. In August 2011, the S&P downgraded the United States' credit rating from triple AAA to AA-plus. That same year, a Gallup poll in 2011 found that more than half of Americans believed the country was still in a recession.

Despite the Eurozone debt crisis, the American Dow Jones Industrial Average had its longest stretch of gains since the late 1990s tech boom. However, economic issues, including inflation and an increase in commodity prices, sparked unrest in many lower-income countries. In some countries, particularly those in the Arab world, political unrest evolved into socioeconomic crises. This set off numerous revolutions, including those in Kyrgyzstan and Tunisia in 2010, and Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt in 2011 and 2012. Global oil production in 2014 reached an historic peak, reaching 93 million barrels/day. By 2015 bond rates had returned to normal ranges across Europe, save for Greece, which accepted another, even more stringent bailout package. The size of the European Financial Stability Facility was increased from €440 billion to €2 trillion.

From 12 June 2015, the Shanghai Stock Exchange lost a third of the value of A-shares within one month, known as the 2015–16 Chinese stock market turbulence. India became the fastest growing major economy of the world in 2015, surpassing China. In 2018, fears of a yield curve inversion preceding a US recession as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates sends inflation higher in several Emerging Markets, including Argentina, where interest rates hit 40% and an IMF bail out was issued.

Cyber security and hacking

انظر أيضاً: Category:Hacking in the 2010s

Cyber security incidents, such as hacking, leaks or theft of sensitive information, gained increased attention of governments, corporations and individuals.

Edward Snowden, former NSA employee who revealed a large number of global surveillance programs.

Jürgen Mossack, co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, which shut down in light of revelations from the Panama Papers.

Event	Date	Description
Afghan War documents leak	25 July 2010	WikiLeaks published more than 90,000 internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan. The documents revealed how the coalition used special forces to hunt down, kill and capture Taliban leaders without trial, drones to attack alleged Taliban positions, covered up evidence of the Taliban acquiring surface-to-air missiles and deaths of civilians by coalition forces and Taliban suicide bombings.
Stuxnet	August 2010	A malicious computer worm, first identified in 2010, that targets industrial computer systems, was responsible for causing substantial damage to Iran's nuclear program. Although neither country has admitted responsibility, the worm is now generally acknowledged to be a jointly built American-Israeli cyberweapon.
Iraq War documents leak	22 October 2010	Wikileaks disclosed nearly 392,000 U.S. Army field reports of the Iraq War, the largest leak in the history of the U.S. military. It documented multiple cases of U.S. authorities failing to report abuses of detainees, purposely misleading the death toll of the war, soldiers killing hundreds of civilians for coming too close to checkpoints and other war crimes. The leaks also showed that Iran was involved in the war by supplying Shiite militias with deadly weapons.
The Offshore leaks	April 2013	A report disclosed details of 130,000 offshore accounts. Some observers called it one of the biggest hit against international tax fraud of all times, although normal businesses may use the offshore legislation to ease formalities in international trade. The report originated from the Washington D.C.-based investigative journalism nonprofit, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)	5 June 2013	Edward Snowden leaked files through the Guardian newspaper detailing National Security Agency (NSA) privacy policies, including PRISM, the NSA call database, and Boundless Informant. Leaks also revealed covert actions against German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and have damaged diplomatic relations in Europe and Brazil.
Swiss Leaks	February 2015	The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) website released information about bank accounts in Switzerland. The investigation was conducted by over 130 journalists in Paris, Washington, Geneva, and 46 other countries. The disclosed information has been called "the biggest leak in Swiss banking history".
Office of Personnel Management data breach	5 June 2015	The Office of Personnel Management of the U.S. government announced that it was hacked, resulting in a massive data breach, stealing information of around 21.5 million people. The attack was suspected to have originated from China but it remains unclear if it was or not.
2016 Bangladesh Bank heist	4 February 2016	The Bangladesh Bank became a victim of theft after hackers attempted to steal US$951 Million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The hackers failed to steal the attempted amount but still got away with $81 million, which was diverted to the Philippines, making it one of the largest bank heists in history.
Commission on Elections data breach	27 March 2016	Anonymous Philippines hacked the website of Commission on Elections to force them to place security features on Vote Counting Machine (VCM). Soon, the LulzSec Pilipinas leaked sensitive information of voters all over the Philippines from the COMELEC website, and the incident has been called the "biggest government data breach in history".
Panama Papers	3 April 2016	11.5 millions confidential documents were leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that detailed financial and attorney–client information of more than 214,488 offshore companies. The leaks revealed information of various world leaders, politicians, billionaires and celebrities being involved in hidden financial dealings within tax havens and companies doing business with terrorist organizations and governments under international sanctions.
Yahoo! data breach	22 September 2016	Yahoo Inc. reported that account information for up to 500 million users in 2014 had been hacked. Yahoo alleged in its statement that the act was "state-sponsored data breach." It was believed that the hack compromised personal data from the accounts including names, addresses, passwords, telephone numbers and possibly encrypted other information. Further, the statement claimed that the hacker was no longer in Yahoo's system and that the company was fully cooperating with law enforcement.
October 2016 Dyn cyberattack	21 October 2016	A currently unknown attacker launches multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attacks on networks operated by DNS provider Dyn, making numerous sites difficult or impossible to access for a period of time, including Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Spotify, The New York Times, BBC News, and PayPal. The Department of Homeland Security opens an investigation.
Vault 7	7 March 2017	WikiLeaks began to publish a series of files that detail the capabilities of the الولايات المتحدة Central Intelligence Agency to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare, such as the ability to compromise cars, smart TVs, web browsers, and the operating systems of most smartphones and computers, such as Microsoft Windows and macOS.
WannaCry ransomware attack	12 May 2017	A large cyberattack infected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries, demanding ransom payments in the cryptocurrency bitcoin in 28 languages. The attack spread by multiple methods, including phishing emails and on unpatched systems as a computer worm. The attack was described by Europol as unprecedented in scale, affecting large companies such as Telefónica and parts of Britain's National Health Service.
Paradise Papers	5 November 2017	A set of 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments. The documents originate from the offshore law firm Appleby, the corporate services providers Estera and Asiaciti Trust, and business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions. At 1.4 terabytes in size, this is second only to the Panama Papers, it is the second biggest data leak in history.

Health

AIDS, a pandemic responsible for killing over 30 million people since its discovery in the early 1980s, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, became a treatable condition, though only one case had been cured. With good treatment patients can generally expect normal lives and lifespans. However, اعتبارا من 2011 only some 5 million of the 12 million afflicted have access to such treatment.

Epidemics

Event	Date	Description
West African Ebola virus epidemic	December 2013 – June 2016	An outbreak of the ebola virus, the worst of its kind in history, killed more than 11,300 people in West Africa. In August 2014, the World Health Organization declared it a public health emergency of international concern. On 14 January 2016, the WHO has declared the epidemic to be over, despite continuing small flare-ups.
Zika virus epidemic	April 2015 – November 2016	A zika virus spreads rapidly throughout Latin America, with imported cases being reported worldwide.
Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea	May–July 2015	An outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea caused over thirty deaths. Thousands were quarantined.

Science and technology

المقالة الرئيسية: 2010s in science and technology

Science

These are the 10 most significant scientific developments of each year, based on the annual Breakthrough of the Year award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science journal Science. The top entry per year was named the Breakthrough of the Year (in bold); the remaining nine were named as runners-up.

• 2010:
  • The first quantum machine
  • Scientists create synthetic genome
  • Scientists sequence the genome of Neanderthals
  • Two successful trials of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
  • Exome sequencing of rare disease genes
  • Major advances in molecular dynamics simulations
  • Quantum simulator are developed
  • Genetic sequencing becomes quicker and less expensive, as illustrated in 1000 Genomes Project
  • Researchers discovery method to reprogram cells using RNA
  • Advances in development of knockout rat used in laboratory experiments

• 2011:
  • HIV treatment as prevention (HPTN 052)
  • Scientists publish findings of 25143 Itokawa samples collected by the Hayabusa space probe
  • Paleoanthropologists publish findings strongly indicating archaic human admixture with modern humans
  • Researchers capture full structure of photosystem II, with potential applications for clean energy
  • Astronomers see pristine clouds of hydrogen, giving new information about the chemical evolution of the universe
  • Further developments in microbiota/gut flora research
  • The first phase III clinical trial of the RTS,S malaria vaccine, sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, are published
  • Further discoveries about exoplanets, including six large planets orbiting Kepler-11; HAT-P-6b; planets orbiting two stars, and free-floating planets
  • Developments in designer zeolites
  • Developments in research of cellular senescence
• 2012:
  • Discovery of the Higgs boson
  • The Denisovan genome is sequenced
  • Zinc-finger nuclease genome engineering
  • Neutrino mixing angle
  • ENCODE research project
  • Curiosity rover lands on Mars
  • X-ray laser is used to image protein structure for the first time
  • Advances in brain–computer interfaces
  • Majorana fermions are discovered
  • For the first time, eggs from embryonic stem cells are used to give birth to live mice
• 2013:
  • Cancer immunotherapy
  • CRISPR gene-editing
  • CLARITY brain-imaging technique
  • Derivation of stem cells from cloned human embryos
  • Growth of pluripotent stem cells into organoids
  • Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope traces cosmic ray particles to their origin in supernovae debris clouds
  • Advances in perovskites solar cell materials
  • Rat experiments indicate that sleep helps to restore the brain
  • Research developments on gut flora and its importance to human health
  • Development of immunogen for respiratory syncytial virus
• 2014:
  • Rosetta comet mission
  • Evolutionary biologists publish landmark research on transition from dinosaurs to birds
  • Research published indicating that "blood or blood components" (specifically GDF11) "from a young mouse can rejuvenate an old mouse's muscles and brain"
  • Advances in robots that cooperate with one another
  • Development of TrueNorth chip, containing 5.4 billion transistors, by IBM
  • Radiocarbon dating shows that Maros cave art at Sulawesi, Indonesia, was about four times as old as previously thought, with the "oldest hand stencil is at least 39,900 years old and the animal paintings at least 35,400" years old
  • Two methods are developed for growing cells that resemble human beta cells, advancing research toward possible future type 1 diabetes treatments
  • Researches discover ways to "manipulate specific memories in mice using optogenetics" techniques
  • Launch of a record 75 CubeSat boxes, used in space research, in a single year
  • Researchers engineer E. coli bacteria in the lab "to incorporate two additional letters into their genetic alphabet"
• 2015:
  • CRISPR genome-editing method
  • Homo naledi
  • Ebola vaccine
  • Psychology replication
  • Pluto (New Horizons spacecraft)
  • Paleo-Indians DNA
  • Mantle plumes
  • Opiate pathway in yeast
  • Lymphatic system in the central nervous system
  • Bell's theorem experiment
• 2016:
  • The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory makes the first observation of gravitational waves, fulfilling Einstein's prediction
  • Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of its star, is discovered in the Alpha Centauri system
  • AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol: AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence system created by Google's DeepMind, defeats the world's top human Go champions
  • Researchers discover that removing senescent cells from mice increases the mice's longevity and health
  • Researchers publish work showing that three nonhuman great ape species (chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans) can tell when someone holds a false belief, an advancement in the theory of mind and study of animal cognition
  • Computational biologists make advances in the study of protein design, which has many potential applications
  • Researches develop method to produce mouse eggs developed entirely in lab cell cultures
  • Major genomic studies conclude that almost all living humans (Eurasians and Aboriginal Australians alike) originate from a single group of modern humans who left Africa about 50,000 to 60,000 years ago
  • Oxford Nanopore Technologies markets the world's first handheld nanopore sequencing device
  • Researchers create metamaterial lens
• 2017:
  • Cosmic convergence: Neutron star merger (GW170817)
  • A cancer drug's broad swipe: FDA's approval pembrolizumab for using in cancer immunotherapy
  • Gene therapy: Adeno-associated virus (AAV9)
  • Oldest ice core: The Antarctic ice cores that froze 2.7 million years ago
  • Biological preprints: bioRxiv
  • Human origins: The 300,000-year-old Homo sapiens fossils
  • Neutrino detector: COHERENT collaboration's 14.6 kg portable detector
  • A new great ape species: Pongo tapanuliensis
  • Life at the atomic level: Cryo-electron microscopy
  • Pinpoint gene editing: CRISPR tool for DNA and RNA base editing
• 2018:
  • Development cell by cell
  • Neutrinos from a far-off galaxy
  • Researchers have combined some 21 million images of a fruit fly brain into a data set that enables users to determine how each neuron connects with every other neuron
  • Ice age impact (Greenland ice sheet)
  • An archaic human ‘hybrid’: DNA from a bone fragment of a woman who lived more than 50,000 years ago indicates her mother was a Neanderthal and her father a Denisovan, a distinct group of archaic humans
  • Forensic genealogy comes of age as detectives across the U.S. cracked about 20 cold cases, including that of the infamous Golden State Killer
  • The first drug based on RNA interference was approved for use in the U.S. and Europe
  • Researchers identified traces of cholesterol, a signature of animal life, associated with fossils more than half a billion years old. The feat indicates the fossils, which belong to a mysterious class called Ediacaria, were some of Earth’s earliest animals.
  • How cells marshal their contents: Scientists find increasing evidence that cellular components condense into tiny droplets to perform critical functions

Medicine

• 2011: Life extension began to be considered.
• 2013: Google created Calico in order to research ways to combat aging.
• 2015: The Philippines became the first Asian country to approve the sale of the world's first dengue vaccine, the Dengvaxia.
• 2016: A study in December finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine to be 95-100% effective against the Ebola virus, thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.

NASA announced that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars on 4 August 2011.

The first collisions of CERN's Large Hadron Collider took place on 31 March 2010.

CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Space

• 2011: NASA announced that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons.
• 2011: The United States' Space Shuttle program officially ended following its last mission, STS-135, flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis.
• 2012: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft became the first private commercial spacecraft to successfully attach to the International Space Station, the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with another spacecraft.
• 2012: NASA landed the Curiosity rover in Gale crater on Mars.
• 2013: The Chinese Chang'e 3 landed on the Moon, the first Lunar landing in 37 years.
• 2014: The Philae probe from the Rosetta spacecraft landed successfully on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
• 2014: The Orion spacecraft completed its first test flight, an unmanned orbital and reentry flight.
• 2015: NASA's Dawn probe entered orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.
• 2015: NASA announced that liquid water had been found on Mars.
• 2015: NASA's New Horizons probe became the first spacecraft to reach Pluto, completing its main mission.
• 2015: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed after a launch, making it the first rocket to successfully return and perform a vertical landing.
• 2016: The ESA and Roscosmos launched the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.
• 2016: Diwata-1 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Cygnus spacecraft on a supply mission.
• 2016: NASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
• 2016: Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.
• 2016: Proxima Centauri b is discovered as closest exoplanet to Earth that may be habitable.
• 2016: NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe will visit Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023.
• 2018: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket successfully performs its first flight. Designed to carry humans to the Moon and Mars, as of its launch it was the most powerful rocket in operation.
• 2019: Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon.
• 2019: NASA concludes the 15-year Opportunity rover mission after being unable to wake the rover from hibernation.

Technology

انظر أيضاً: Timeline of computing 2010–2019

Communications and electronics

Television sets with curved screens were first introduced in the early 2010s

Cryptocurrency becomes widely popular as a digital financial asset

• Smartphones maintained their surging popularity throughout the 2010s, along with the arrival of tablets. Apple Inc. launched the iPad in 2010, its first tablet computer, which offers multi-touch interaction. The iPad became an immediate bestseller and only months after its release became the best selling tech product in history. By the mid-2010s, almost all smartphones were touchscreen-only, and Android and iPhone smartphones dominated the market.
• In the mid-late portion of the decade, 4K resolution has been implemented through high-definition displays and gained traction into more U.S. homes in a much faster adoption rate than that of Full HD (1080p).
• Smart glasses, such as Google Glass, were released during this decade.
• Mobile apps become commercially available in the early 2010s, along with popular app stores such as Google Play, iOS App Store, and Microsoft Store.
• In 2016, scientists at MIT created the first five-atom quantum computer with the potential to crack the security of traditional encryption schemes.
• Social media continuously gained prominence through the convenience of mobile apps, including the services of WhatsApp, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Tinder, Vine, and TikTok being released throughout the decade. Facebook, which was released in the 2000s, was still the most popular social media platform with over 1.59 billion monthly active users in 2018.
• Fixstars Solutions created the world's first 13 Terabyte SSD in 2016.
• During the course of the decade, 3D printing, 3D modeling, and 3D scanners became increasingly popular, in which the technologies enabled users to join or solidify certain materials to create a concrete three-dimensional object. The 3D printer industry gained over $7 billion in sales.
• Within the early 2010s, transparent display screens and curved touchscreen displays entered the market, and slowly gained popularity throughout the decade.
• Throughout the early 2010s, sales for PCs decline in favor of tablet computers and laptop convertibles.
• Cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, gained ground as a digitally alternative way to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets.
• The supply of IPv4 internet addresses was exhausted; an early period of transition to IPv6 continued during 2011.
• Smart watches become more widespread in usage, with over 175 million of them sold in 2018.
• Virtual reality took a radical shift in the 2010s, with headsets such as the Oculus Rift gaining popularity. While the device was only capable of rotational tracking, the initial design would later serve as a basis from which the later designs came. Other popular headsets include PlayStation VR, Google Cardboard, HTC Vive, and the Samsung Gear VR.
• In 2011, more than 2 billion people used the Internet, one billion mobile broadband users predicted and 4.6 billion people worldwide were subscribed to mobile phones, and Americans spent more time using mobile apps than using the World Wide Web.
• In 2012, Samsung overtook Nokia for the first time as the largest mobile phone maker in the world, tablet and smartphone sales overtook netbooks, Google Chrome became the world's most used web browser, replacing Internet Explorer, and the Wikimedia Foundation started developing Wikidata, its first new project in six years.
• In 2013 in developed countries, smartphone sales surpassed feature phones, and streaming media and rental kiosk services such as Netflix and Redbox forced video rental chains such as Blockbusters to close.

Miscellaneous

• The e-cigarette gained popularity within the 2010s, with the JUUL e-cigarette becoming the most popular e-cigarette in the U.S. in 2017 with a market share of over 72%, and Altria becoming the most valuable e-cigarette company in the world by 2018.

Software

• Virtual assistant devices and apps become widely available due to the immense popularity of Apple's Siri within the early 2010s, prompting a widespread trend in which other virtual assistants also obtained significance: Amazon Alexa on the Amazon Echo device, Samsung's Bixby, Google Assistant on Google-enabled/Android mobile devices, and text (online chat), especially in an instant messaging app or other app.
• Collaborative source code sharing website GitHub became the world's most popular open source hosting site.
• Oracle sued Google over the use of Java-related technology in Google's popular Android operating system in 2011. Google won the lawsuit on 26 May 2016, citing fair use.
• Following an unprecedented internet protest and blackout campaign, the widely criticized Stop Online Piracy Act bill was temporarily withdrawn in the US Congress in 2012.
• The controversial Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 in the Philippines was adopted.

Automobiles and transportation

• Electric and hybrid vehicles start becoming popular in many countries in the Western world during the decade. Notable electric vehicles include the Chevrolet Volt, which became the world's top selling plug-in hybrid of all time with over 100,000 units sold in 2015. Other hybrid vehicles have been also noted such as the Porsche Panamera and BMW i3.
• Drones become increasingly popular, especially in the assistance of making deliveries, aerial photography, and drone racing.
• Self-driving cars, while still in their infancy, have been widely tested throughout the 2010s with significant progress. Google developed Waymo, the world's first self-driving car, to be licensed for use on public roads in 2011. In 2018, a woman in Tempe became the first recorded casualty of an accident involving an autonomous vehicle.
• In 2013, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk proposed the Hyperloop mass transit system. Multiple companies joined in the opportunity to develop the concept.
• Automaker Volkswagen is alleged to have been involved in worldwide rigging of diesel emissions tests in 2015, affecting an estimated 11 million vehicles globally.

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  The smartphone became massively popular around the world during the decade

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  Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad for the first time at a press conference on January 27, 2010

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  Google's autonomous car Waymo

• Over the course of the decade Virtual assistant devices/apps enter the market.

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  A drone used to make deliveries

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  In 2013 entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk unveiled the mass transit system hyperloop

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  During the decade there was a significant increase in the sales of home 3D printers.

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  A smart clock displaying an email message

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  Electric and hybrid vehicles start becoming popular in many countries in the Western world during the decade.

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  Google Glass

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  The self-balancing scooter, invented in 2013 by the American inventor Shane Chen, became popular in the middle of the decade.

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  The selfie stick became popular in the middle of the decade as well.

Society

Aging population

Percentage of world population over 65

The 2010s are the decade in which most baby boomers in developed nations are to retire, putting pressure on pension programs and other safety net programs. Many countries reported declining fertility rates in their 2010 censuses. The consequences of an aging society were felt hardest in Europe and Japan, which were the first to experience substantial population decline.

Over 20% of Japan's population is over the age of 65, making it the most elderly nation. As a result, Japan examined alternative solutions for elder care, including robots. In the United States, proposals for revising Medicare and Social Security proliferated, including raising the age of retirement or adjusting benefit amounts. Opponents instead wanted to increase benefit levels. In 2010, France debated and raised the retirement age from 60 to 62, despite widespread demonstrations in opposition. A few years later the threshold was lowered back to 60.

Environmentalism

During the course of the decade, climate change was a growing topic of concern, with more than half of the global population viewing it as a "very serious problem" in 2015 and giving broad support for limits on greenhouse gas emissions to address the issue.

Renewable energies enjoyed a surge in popularity, due to lower costs and increased efficiency, receiving more investment than traditional fossil fuels. In 2015, Hawaiʻi became the first state in the الولايات المتحدة to formally commit to a plan of developing a 100% clean energy grid. In 2018, California's state commission approved a plan requiring solar panels for all residential buildings starting in 2020. In China, as pollution reached critical levels, the government began investing in clean energies to improve the air quality.

Events

Event	Date	Description	Media
Celebration of Mexican political anniversaries in 2010	15 September 2010	Mexico celebrated the 200th anniversary of its Independence and 100th anniversary of its Revolution.
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton	29 April 2011	A television audience of an estimated two billion people watched the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton.
Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II	6 February 2012	Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, which marked the 60th anniversary of her accession.
Papal inauguration of Pope Francis	13 March 2013	Pope Francis became the first non-European Pope in over 500 years.
Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II	27 April 2014	Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II were canonized.
Iglesia ni Cristo centennial celebration	27 July 2014	Approximately 2 million members of the Iglesia ni Cristo joined the worship rites held at the Philippine Arena for its centennial celebration.
Pope Francis's visit to the Philippines	18 January 2015	An estimated 6 to 7 million attended the Concluding Eucharistic Celebration in Manila on the Feast Day of Santo Niño de Cebú, ending the 5-day apostolic and state visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines, the largest papal crowd in history.
Adoption of the Paris Agreement	12 December 2015	A historic agreement aimed at keeping global warming below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial levels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions is adopted by all 195 UNFCCC member states.
60th death anniversary of Elpidio Quirino	29 February 2016	The remains of the late President Elpidio Quirino, the sixth president of the Philippines, are transferred from the Manila South Cemetery in Makati to the Heroes' Cemetery in Taguig to mark his 60th death anniversary.
Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle	19 May 2018	Prince Harry marries former American actress Meghan Markle, an event watched by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
2018 North Korea–United States summit	12 June 2018	The 2018 North Korea–United States summit is held in Singapore. It is the first summit between a United States President and the North Korean leader.

LGBT rights

المقالة الرئيسية: 2010s in LGBT rights

Plaintiffs celebrate outside the Supreme Court on 26 June 2015 following same-sex marriage legalization in the United States nationwide.

During the 2010s, acceptance of LGBT people slowly increased in many parts of the world. Marriage for same-sex couples was an ongoing debate in many nations, while over eighteen nations legalized same-sex marriage.

In June 2011 the United Nations Human Rights Council passed the UN's first-ever motion condemning discrimination against gays, lesbians and bisexuals commissioning a report on the issue. During an ABC News interview in 2012, Barack Obama expressed his support for gay marriage, becoming the first US President to do so. Although many nations allowed gays and bisexuals to serve in their militaries, a major milestone came in September 2011 when the US abolished its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.

In 2015, Ireland became the first nation to legalize same-sex marriage via referendum. In 2017, Leo Varadkar became Ireland's first openly gay Taoiseach, joining the ranks of other nation's first openly gay and lesbian heads of state in the 2010s.

In April 2015, former olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner came out as a transgender woman, and was subsequently called the most famous openly transgender person in the world. Organizations such as the Girl Scouts and the Episcopal Church announced acceptance of transgender people in the 2010s.

However, LGBT rights supporters faced obstacles with the implementation of laws curbing expression of homosexuality in Russia and China, as well as in the الولايات المتحدة, with the Trump administration's decisions to reinstate the ban on transgender people serving in the military and the rescission of protections for transgender students.

Youth culture

Widespread internet use has been around for younger people's entire lives. The youth of the 2010s were called the "best-behaved generation on record." In May 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that teenage pregnancies and their uses of drugs and alcohol reached record lows. A 2013 survey showed that the rate of teen smoking dropped to 15.7%, the rate of teenagers having unprotected sex dropped to 34% and the rate of teenagers participating in a physical fight dropped to 25%, much lower than their counterparts 22 years earlier. E-cigarette and smokeless tobacco use among teenagers rose. The psychological effects of social media and the internet on the minds of young people, especially children, became an increasing concern during this decade.

Culture

Film

المقالة الرئيسية: 2010s in film

The biggest blockbuster of the decade so far is Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

Styles and Trends

Superhero and science fiction films became box office leaders. Animated films in the 2010s remained predominately computer-generated, especially with films such as How to Train Your Dragon, Despicable Me, The LEGO Movie and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Traditional animation styles lost favor among older audiences, although (2D) Anime remained popular, especially with the success of Your Name, The Secret World of Arrietty and One Piece: Film Z.

Technology

3D films gained popularity, led by Avatar and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in late 2009. In 2010, Avatar became the first film to gross more than US$2 billion. Other 3D releases were also successful. 360-degree video also became widely available with the introduction of consumer virtual reality.

Distribution

Movies and television struggled to maintain their position, as online viewing grew rapidly. Internet piracy was a major concern for the industry. In 2012 Viacom launched a US$1 billion lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement. In early 2012, the United States Congress began debating the SOPA and PIPA bills that were heavily lobbied by the entertainment industry.

Most popular

Year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Highest grossing by release year	Toy Story 3	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	The Avengers	Frozen	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Captain America: Civil War	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Avengers: Infinity War
	$1.07 Billion	$1.34 Billion	$1.52 Billion	$1.28 Billion	$1.10 Billion	$2.07 Billion	$1.15 Billion	$1.7 Billion	$2.04 Billion

Award winners

On 7 March 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to receive the Academy Award for Best Director for the 2008 film The Hurt Locker.

Award	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Academy Award for Best Picture winners	The King's Speech	The Artist	Argo	12 Years a Slave	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Spotlight	Moonlight	The Shape of Water
Best films of the Sight & Sound annual poll	The Social Network	The Tree of Life	The Master	The Act of Killing	Boyhood	The Assassin	Toni Erdmann	Get Out	Roma

Television

The American soap opera format lost popularity in favor of reality television and daytime talk shows. Long-lived but canceled shows All My Children and One Life to Live return in 2013 as online content. Prime-time television serials and Spanish-language telenovelas remain popular globally. A new development in global television is the great popularity of Turkish drama series in parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Cable providers saw a decline in subscriber numbers as cord cutters switched to lower cost online streaming services such as Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Video. These non-cable, internet-based media streaming services even began producing their own programming. TV sets, such as the Samsung SmartTV, started offering online streaming via television. At the same time, the advent of streaming services has allowed for more serialized television content to rise in popularity which may allow for more complex and longer storytelling. House of Cards became the first online-only web television series to earn major nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2013.

Award winners

Award	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series	Mad Men	Mad Men	Homeland	Breaking Bad	Breaking Bad	Game of Thrones	Game of Thrones	The Handmaid's Tale	Game of Thrones
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series	Modern Family	Modern Family	Modern Family	Modern Family	Modern Family	Veep	Veep	Veep	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Music

المقالة الرئيسية: 2010s in music

Advances in music technology, such as the ability to use 32 or more tracks in real time, changed the sound of many types of music. Globalism and an increased demand for variety and personalization in the face of music streaming services created many subgenres. Dance and pop music surged into the 2010s, with EDM achieving mass commercial success. EDM, synthpop, indie, and trap see mainstream success throughout the early to mid 2010s. R&B and hip-hop rose to prominence again during the early 2010s and have remained popular forms of music since. In 2013, Baauer's "Harlem Shake" was the first Internet meme song to reach the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 100, reflecting a shift in popular culture as Internet memes became mainstream. K-pop (and the rise in popularity of South Korea's entertainment industry due to technological advances) finally mounted into the music scene of the United States with Psy's "Gangnam Style" winning the Billboard Music Award for Top Streaming Song (Video) in 2013. In the early 2010s, dubstep and drumstep, originating in the United Kingdom, rose in popularity globally. Drumstep is continuing to grow in popularity along with drum and bass. It mirrors the electronic-leaning musical trends elsewhere, while hardstyle is becoming increasingly popular in Australia and North America, with music festivals such as Defqon 1, IQON and The sound of Q-dance. In 2017, Hip Hop and R&B surpassed Rock and Pop music as the most consumed form of music in the United States.

Distribution

Digital music sales in 2012 topped CD sales. Music streaming services such as Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora Radio became the preferred music delivery systems, similar to movie and television streaming services such as Netflix.

Most popular

Award	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Billboard's best-performing single	"Tik Tok"	"Rolling in the Deep"	"Somebody That I Used to Know"	"Thrift Shop"	"Happy"	"Uptown Funk!"	"Love Yourself"	"Shape of You"	"God's Plan"
	Kesha	Adele	Gotye	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	Pharrell Williams	Mark Ronson	Justin Bieber	Ed Sheeran	Drake

Award winners

Award	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Record of the Year Grammy Winners	"Use Somebody"	"Need You Now"	"Rolling in the Deep"	"Somebody That I Used to Know"	"Get Lucky"	"Stay with Me"	"Uptown Funk"	"Hello"	"24K Magic"
	Kings of Leon	Lady Antebellum	Adele	Gotye featuring Kimbra	Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams	Sam Smith	Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars	Adele	Bruno Mars

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  Psy's song "Gangnam Style" broke the record for the most number of YouTube views during 2012 until 2017.

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  اعتبارا من August 2018 the Barbadian artist Rihanna has had the most songs top the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 2010s (nine) and is tied for the longest cumulative run at number one (forty-one weeks, with Drake)

Video gaming

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PlayStation 4 was released in November 2013 and so far it has been the best-selling gaming console of the decade (91.6 million units sold worldwide اعتبارا من ديسمبر 2018).

Cloud gaming, virtual reality, stereoscopic 3D gaming and ongoing improvements in graphics were some of the biggest trends. Video game sales declined in the early 2010s, most likely due to the effects of the Great Recession. According to the Entertainment Software Association, in 2014, the average age of a person who played video games was 30.

Consoles

The decade began dominated primarily by seventh-generation consoles, such as Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and Wii.

The Nintendo 3DS, released in early 2011, introduced a glasses-free interface for 3D. The 2D PlayStation Vita was released in 2012. The Wii introduced the sensor bar with compatible sensitive controllers, followed by the PlayStation Move and Kinect. This expanded the video game market to the elderly and those interested in physical therapy.

PC gaming

Games such as The Sims and many of Blizzard's titles remained popular on PCs and expanded to other devices.

Virtual reality

Commercial tethered headsets released for VR gaming include the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive, and Sony's PlayStation VR (which requires a PlayStation instead of a PC to run).

Cloud gaming

The OnLive console was released in 2010 becoming the first massively produced cloud gaming-based gaming device. 2012 introduced the first console regarded to be in the eighth generation, the Wii U, followed in late 2013, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. They faced stiff competition from tablet and smartphones.

Award winners

Award	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
As the Spike Video Game Awards	Red Dead Redemption	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	The Walking Dead	Grand Theft Auto V	—	—	—	—	—
As The Game Awards	—	—	—	—	Dragon Age: Inquisition	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Overwatch	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild	God of War (2018)

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  The game Pokémon Go became the first game of its kind that gained tremendous popularity using augmented reality technology to both promote physical activity and increase the number of potential customers who visit local businesses

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  The first generation of the virtual reality glasses Oculus Rift

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  The Nintendo 3DS is the first gaming device released to feature 3D gaming without the need for stereoscopic glasses

Architecture

Burj Khalifa, tallest building when completed in 2010.

Postmodernism and green design were common architectural themes. "Sustainable design" emphasized natural lighting, green/white roofs, better insulation and other cost-saving features. New urbanism and urban revival influenced urban planning in the United States and other developed countries. China and the Middle East led in large-scale development.

In 2010, the United Arab Emirates' Burj Khalifa became the tallest man-made structure ever built, standing at 828 م (2,717 قدم). The United States' One World Trade Center, completed in 2014, is the tallest building in North America at 1,776 قدم (541 م).

Art

In 2015 Excessivism emerged. Trends that began since earlier decades are continuing into this decade are: Pop art, altermodern, cynical realism, the Kitsch movement, post-contemporary, metamodernism, pseudorealism, remodernism, renewable energy sculpture, street art, Stuckism, Superflat, Superstroke, urban art, video game art and virtual art.

Fashion

المقالة الرئيسية: 2010s in fashion

Rapper Macklemore sporting an undercut.

• The 2010s have been defined by a revival of interwar, austerity era, 1970s, early 1990s and skater fashions.
• In the early 2010s, many late 2000s fashion trends remained popular, especially the indie pop and emo look which largely draws upon 1960s Mod clothing combined with elements of 1970s garage rock and contemporary alternative fashion. Hipster subculture and the "Thrift Shop" look had a considerable impact upon mainstream fashion.
• In many Western countries, the growing of a full beard became a popular trend among young males throughout the decade, with some suggesting this was due to the influence of the hipster subculture and the Movember campaign.
• Other facial hair styles such as moustaches and goatees were popular during the most part of the decade.
• The undercut, a variation of a crew cut, was popularized by rapper Macklemore in 2013 and stayed popular for the rest of the decade. The style has been embraced by the hip-hop, hipster and punk subcultures.
• Items that were significantly fashionable in the 2010s include the fidget spinner, the self-balancing scooter (also known as a "hoverboard") and the selfie stick.
• Overall, fashion in the 2010s marked a step away from the loose-fitting, ultra casual mode of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Dress began to skew slightly more formal, with an emphasis on tighter fitting, sleeker, and simpler clothing.

Food

Avocado salad, tomato and salsa on a toasted baguette.

المقالة الرئيسية: 2010s in food

Gluten-free diets became popular. Fusion cuisine offered a new twist on many traditional food items. An interest in local and organic foods carried over from the mid to late 2000s as a part of green and sustainable living. There was an increase in the number of vegetarians and vegans. Finger foods such as hors d'oeuvres and tapas were applied to many desserts and comfort foods. Food presentation became more important as social media caused an increase in food photography and sharing. In the United States, soda sales dipped in favor of healthier options, such as sparkling water. Energy drink sales experienced substantially higher growth than coffee.

The 2010s also saw significant early stage developments in cultured meat, a form of cellular agriculture whereby animal cells are cultured in order to grow meat without the need to raise and slaughter animals. This technology also saw substantial investment from billionaire entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson.

Theatre

In 2013, for the first time, the four nominees for the Best Musical Tony Award were all based on movies. 2016 was the first year in which all the musical acting awards were won by performers of color.

Award	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Tony Award for Best Musical	Memphis	The Book of Mormon	Once	Kinky Boots	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder	Fun Home	Hamilton	Dear Evan Hansen
Pulitzer Prize for Drama	Next to Normal, by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey	Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris	Water by the Spoonful, by Quiara Alegría Hudes	Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar	The Flick, by Annie Baker	Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis	Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda	Sweat, by Lynn Nottage	Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok

Sports

Tom Brady with the Vince Lombardi Trophy following Super Bowl LI, 6 February 2017.

• Usain Bolt became the most successful sprinter in Olympic history, holding world records in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay.
• India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup by defeating Sri Lanka in the final.
• London became the first city to host the Olympic Games three times in 2012.
• Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian ever after winning his 22nd medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
• The Spain national football team became the first international football team to win three consecutive major tournaments.
• Jason Collins became the first active male professional athlete in a major American professional team sport to publicly come out as gay.
• In 2015, football's world governing body FIFA was accused of bribery totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Fourteen individuals were indicted.
• The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup expands to 24 teams of 23 players each and becomes the biggest team female sport event.
• Chile national football team won their first Copa América in 2015 and repeated the feat the following year.
• In May 2016, Leicester City became the sixth team to win the Premier League, becoming English league champions for the first time in their 132-year history. They were considered massive outsiders at 5000–1.
• The Cleveland Cavaliers won their first championship in the 2016 NBA Finals. The Cavaliers were the first in the NBA history to come back from a 1–3 series deficit.
• The Portuguese national football team won their first UEFA European Championship in 2016.
• The Chicago Cubs won the World Series, erasing a 108-year championship drought, defeating the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the World Series on 3 November 2016.
• New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was awarded his fourth Super Bowl MVP award after overcoming a 25-point deficit to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI, becoming the player with the most Super Bowl MVP awards in NFL history. This was also the first Super Bowl to be held in overtime.
• The Pittsburgh Penguins repeated as Stanley Cup champions in 2016–2017, becoming the first NHL team to accomplish the occupation since the Detroit Red Wings of 1997–98.
• Paris Saint-Germain's signing of Neymar in 2017 sets an all-time record for highest football transfer fee at €222 million (£198 million).
• The 2018 Winter Olympics were held in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February.
• WWE Chairman and CEO, Vince McMahon, announced the return of the XFL with a target relaunch in 2020. The new league will begin with 8 teams, with the promise of less off-field controversies and faster, simpler play in comparison to the rival NFL.
• In 2018, the Philadelphia Eagles win Super Bowl LII over the New England Patriots 41-33, ending their 57-year championship drought and bringing home their first ever Super Bowl. Nick Foles wins Super Bowl MVP.
• France beat Croatia 4–2 to claim their second World Cup title during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.

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