Chronyas has 26,597 events dated to the 21st century (2001 to 2100 CE), during the Contemporary world. Below are the most notable ones, in date order.
Most of the events in this century belong to Science & technology and Society, economy & sport.
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- 2001Establishment of Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park
- 2001Creation of C#
- 15 January 2001Release of English Wikipedia
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 24 March 2001Creation of macOS
- 14 June 2001Founding of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
- 11 September 2001September 11 attacks
- 2002Release of Mozilla Firefox
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
- 1 July 2002Founding of International Criminal Court
- 12 December 2002Release of Wiktionary
- 2003Rise of Anonymous
- 2003Construction of Three Gorges Dam
- from 20 March 2003 to 15 December 2011Iraq War
- 14 April 2003The Human Genome Project is declared complete
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2004Construction of Cam Ranh International Airport
- 4 February 2004Founding of Facebook
- 7 September 2004Founding of Wikimedia Commons
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
- 26 December 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake
- 14 February 2005Launch of YouTube
- 15 May 2005Discovery of Nix
- 15 May 2005Discovery of Hydra
- 27 May 2005Release of Madagascar
- 10 September 2005Discovery of Dysnomia
- 14 November 2005Construction of Taipei 101
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
- 19 January 2006Launch of New Horizons
- 10 May 2006Founding of Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano
- 4 October 2006Founding of WikiLeaks
- c. 2007Great Recession
- from 24 September 2007 to 16 May 2019Premiere of The Big Bang Theory
- from 20 January 2008 to 29 September 2013Premiere of Breaking Bad
- 23 September 2008Creation of Android
- October 2008Construction of Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
- 2009Discovery of tennessine
- 2009Premiere of As Aventuras de Gui & Estopa
- 3 January 2009Release of Bitcoin
- 16 June 2009Founding of BRICS
- 21 July 2009Creation of Windows 7
- 4 January 2010Construction of Burj Khalifa
- from 18 December 2010 to 1 December 2012Arab Spring
- 2011Release of Minecraft
- 11 March 20112011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
- from 15 March 2011 to 8 December 2024Syrian Civil War
- from 17 April 2011 to 19 May 2019Premiere of Game of Thrones
- 28 June 2011Discovery of Kerberos
- 5 December 2011Discovery of Kepler-22 b
- 2012Higgs boson
- 26 June 2012Discovery of Styx
- 28 June 2012Doudna and Charpentier publish CRISPR gene editing
- 26 October 2012Creation of Windows 8
- 29 October 2012Release of Wikidata
- 13 July 2013Rise of Black Lives Matter
- 8 December 2013Introduction of Dogecoin
- 20 February 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2015Rise of Wikipedia Asian Month
- 14 July 2015New Horizons flies by Pluto
- 29 July 2015Creation of Windows 10
- 13 November 2015November 2015 Paris attacks
- from 9 March 2016 to 15 March 2016AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol
- October 2017Rise of MeToo movement
- 10 April 2019The first image of a black hole
- from 15 November 2019 to 5 May 2023COVID-19 pandemic
- 31 January 2020Brexit
- 11 March 2020The WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic
- 3 November 20202020 United States presidential election
- from 26 January 2021 to 27 November 2023Premiere of Go, Dog. Go!
- from 17 September 2021 to 27 June 2025Premiere of Squid Game
- 5 October 2021Creation of Windows 11
- 25 December 2021Launch of James Webb Space Telescope
- 24 February 2022Full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war
- 30 November 2022ChatGPT
- 6 February 20232023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
- 7 October 2023Gaza War
- 7 October 2023Gaza genocide
- 5 November 20242024 United States presidential election
- 7 December 2024Construction of Notre-Dame de Paris
- 28 February 20262026 Iran War