East Timor

18 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for East Timor, 2002 CE to 2025 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

21st century

18 entries, 2002 CE to 2025 CE

2002May 20 - Timor-Leste restores its Republic as proclaimed back in 1975, thus confirming its independence from Portugal in 2002.East Timor source
2008January 17 - President José Ramos-Horta urges Timorese to forgive and pray for former Indonesian president Suharto, who ordered the invasion of East Timor in 1975.East Timor source
2008January 30 - A 6.6-magnitude earthquake shakes Maluku, Indonesia, and triggers a tsunami alert, which is later lifted. The epicenter was on the sea bed about 160 miles northeast of Dili.East Timor source
202013 November – 12 December: 2020 Taça 12 de Novembro.East Timor source
202021 March – The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in Timor-Leste, a state of emergency is declared.East Timor source
2021April – Cyclone Seroja makes landfall in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. As of 5 April 2021, it was estimated that at least 27 people in Timor-Leste had died in landslides and flash floods as a result of the storm, most of them in Dili.East Timor source
2022April 19 – The East Timorese people vote in the second round of the presidential election between José Ramos-Horta and incumbent Francisco Guterres.East Timor source
20223 January – Silvino Adolfo Morais, 65, politician.East Timor source
20231 July: 2023 East Timorese parliamentary election: Xanana Gusmão is sworn in as prime minister of Timor-Leste.East Timor source
20249 January - President José Ramos-Horta makes the first-ever visit by an East Timorese president to India, attending the 10th biennial Vibrant Gujarat summit with Foreign Minister Bendito Freitas.East Timor source
2024The Government extends the temporary ban on all martial arts groups by six months, citing violence linked to some groups.East Timor source
20249 August - Indian President Droupadi Murmu makes the first-ever visit by an Indian head of state to Timor-Leste, as part of a tour of Pacific region countries.East Timor source
20249-11 September - Pope Francis makes a visit to Timor-Leste, becoming the first pope to do so since 1989 and the first since the country gained independence in 2002.East Timor source
2024A journalist covering evictions of street vendors in Dili is briefly detained, and another journalist’s camera is seized.East Timor source
202414-16 August - The Sci-Tech EXPO 2024 takes place in Dili.East Timor source
20252 July – Myanmar officially notifies Malaysia, the 2025 ASEAN chair, of its opposition to Timor-Leste joining the bloc in October 2025, amid Timor-Leste reportedly supporting anti-junta forces in the Myanmar civil war.East Timor source
202529 May – Arnolfo Teves Jr., a Filipino congressman who had been seeking sanctuary in Timor-Leste after being wanted in his home country for the Pamplona massacre in 2023, is deported and repatriated on national security grounds and concerns over Dili's accession to ASEAN.East Timor source
20253 November – National Women's DayEast Timor source