2008 CE

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai kill 166 people and injure more than 300 people; The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers occurs during the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession; it is also known as the climax of the crisis; The Russo-Georgian War took place between Russia and Georgia; An earthquake in Sichuan, China kills 88,000; The 2008 Summer Olympics took place in Beijing, China; Cyclone Nargis kills 138,000 people in Myanmar; The one million voices against FARC civic mobilizations in different parts of the world under the slogan Colombia soy yo; The Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, a major environmental disaster that occurred in Roane County, Tennessee; The 2008 Tibetan unrest, a series of protests and demonstrations against Chinese rule in Tibet.

In the 2000s, the 21st century.