The 21st century
5,958 sourced entries across 26 documented years, grouped into 3 decades. A century here runs 1900–1999 rather than 1901–2000, so its decades sit inside it exactly; on the BC side the same rule puts 1–99 BC in the 1st century BC and 100 BC in the 2nd.
Decades
By subject
- Conflict & Security in the 21st century — 702 entries
- Geopolitics & Diplomacy in the 21st century — 695 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 21st century — 559 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 21st century — 492 entries
- Culture & Society in the 21st century — 463 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 21st century — 459 entries
- Crime & Justice in the 21st century — 395 entries
- Health & Medicine in the 21st century — 363 entries
- Economy & Finance in the 21st century — 359 entries
- Technology & Infrastructure in the 21st century — 355 entries
- Religion & Belief in the 21st century — 283 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 21st century — 253 entries
A few of the years
- 2000August 12 – The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea during one of the largest Russian naval exercises since the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
- 200311 March – Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, announces that UN-sponsored talks on the reunification of Cyprus have failed. Cyprus remains a candidate for EU membership and the Greek Cypriot government intends to sign on behalf of the whole island. Analysts suggested that Turkish opposition to unification may hurt Turkey's chances of joining the EU.
- 2006February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
- 2009January 2 - Ethiopia withdraws its military forces from Somalia after two years of helping the Transitional Federal Government combat insurgents.
- 201213 January – The credit rating agency Standard & Poor's lowers its long-term credit ratings by two notches on multiple eurozone countries, including Cyprus, while lowering it by one notch for Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
- 2015July 1 – Greek government-debt crisis: Greece becomes the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund in the 71-year history of the IMF.
- 2018January 20 – Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announces the beginning of a military offensive to capture a portion of northern Syria from Kurdish forces, amidst the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict.
- 202120 January - India begins exporting the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Bhutan.