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March 11: Madrid train bombings killed 193 people and injured around 2,000, Europe's deadliest attack since Pan Am Flight 103. September 1 – 3: On the first school day in Russia, a group of Chechen terrorists held students, parents and teachers hostage in Beslan school, in North Ossetia–Alania. During three days under attack, 334 people died.
This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world since 2000. It includes dates of declarations of independence , changes in country name , changes of capital city or name, and changes in territory such as the annexation , cession , concession , occupation , or secession of land.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history. 2010 – In the 2010 Midterm elections, the Republicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats. [1]
Timeline of scientific experiments (240 BCE – present) Timeline of the history of scientific method (2000 BCE – 2009 CE) Timeline of science and engineering in the Muslim world (610 CE – present) Timeline of Polish science and technology (1251 – present) Timeline of dendrochronology timestamp events (~10,000 BCE–present)
It is the first in a series of earthquakes between 2010 and 2012 that resulted in the deaths of 187 people and over $40 billion worth of damage. [70] [71] Seismologists noted that the earthquake sequence was highly unusual, and likely to never happen again anywhere else in the world. [72] September 7 – Israel becomes the 33rd member of the ...
Shia insurgents. Mahdi Army; Special Groups; Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq; Others; Supported by: Iran 2004 2010 Sinaloa Cartel–Gulf Cartel conflict. Part of the Mexican drug war. Sinaloa Cartel
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
2010–present: al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: The U.S. has been launching a series of drone strikes on suspected al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, and ISIS positions in Yemen. 2010–2011 : Operation New Dawn , on February 17, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that as of September 1, 2010, the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" would be ...