Jacinda Ardern was born on 26 July 1980 in Hamilton. A New Zealand politician, Ardern became leader of the Labour Party in 2017 and, at the age of thirty-seven, the country's youngest prime minister in more than a century. Her government dealt with the Christchurch mosque shootings of 2019, introducing swift gun-law reforms, and with the White Island volcanic eruption and the COVID-19 pandemic, in which New Zealand initially pursued an elimination strategy. Labour won a landslide in 2020. She also gave birth while in office, becoming one of the few leaders to do so. She resigned in 2023, saying she no longer had enough energy to do the job.
Before and after
- from 18 May 1980 to 27 May 1980Gwangju Uprising
- 1 June 1980Founding of CNN
- 20 July 1980Birth of Gisele Bündchen
- 25 July 1980Death of Vladimir Vysotsky
- 26 July 1980Birth of Jacinda Ardern
- 27 July 1980Death of Mohammad Reza I of Iran
- 26 August 1980Birth of Chris Pine
- 31 August 1980Solidarity is founded in Poland
- 9 September 1980Founding of Dutch Language Union
More in Wars, politics & history
- 15 August 1947India and Pakistan become independent
- from 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953Korean War
- from 16 May 1966 to 6 October 1976Cultural Revolution
- from 2 August 1990 to 28 February 1991Gulf War
- 20 February 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 31 January 2020Brexit
The era
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