2011 CE

A protester at Occupy Wall Street, which begins the Occupy movement; Protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, killed in October; Celebrating the independence of South Sudan, the world's newest country; Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastates Eastern Japan and kills nearly 20,000 people while initiating a major nuclear accident, becoming the most expensive natural disaster on record; Attacks in Norway kill 77 and mark the rise of white supremacist terrorism across the west; U.S. national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor progress of Operation Neptune Spear, resulting in the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; A drought in East Africa kills 50,000–260,000 people; A block from Minecraft, released this year, which later becomes the world's best-selling video game; Anti-government protests known as the "Arab Spring" spread across the Middle East and North Africa, sparking revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria.

In the 2010s, the 21st century.