The ^twenty-first century of the Common Era began on January ^1, 2001 and will end on 31 December 2100.

List of decades and years of XXI ^century

Types Table of years

Events

World

• Attacks of September 11, 2001.
• Afghanistan war.
• Earth Summit of Johannesburgh (2002).
• Iraq War , beginning in 2003.
• Israel-Lebanon conflict of 2006.
• Genocide in Darfur : The civil war in Darfur is an armed conflict since 2003 that affects the Darfur region of west Sudan. The origins of the conflict are old and are due to ethnic tensions that lead to the first conflict in Darfur in 1987.
  The Darfur conflict has caused:
  Approximately 200 000 deaths, according to The Express1, the Sudanese government citing the number of 10 000; 1.85 million displaced, 230,000 refugees in Chad , mainly in the east.
• The subprime crisis , triggered in 2006 by a crash of the subprime mortgages in the United States and transformed into global financial crisis from the summer of 2007.
• On February 24, 2008, Raul Castro succeeded his brother Fidel as head of Cuba.
• On April 22, 2008, the euro exchange exceeds 1.60 for the first time since its inception.
• The Summer Olympics of 2008 are an opportunity to put the issue of human rights in Tibet on the international stage for many protests and boycott threats.
• Summer 2008: Gasoline prices soar (up to 1.5 per liter in France).
• On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president mestizos.
• 12 January 2010 : Haiti : An earthquake of magnitude 7 hit the island, followed by a second shock on 20 January.

Europe

• ¹ January 2002 : transition to euro cash for 12 European countries. Full bore ¹ March 2002.

• June 2007 : Parliamentary elections in Belgium.
  The country is still several months with no government and there regularly refers to the separatism between Flemings ( Dutch ) and Walloon ( French )

• On February 17, 2008, the parliament of Kosovo unilaterally proclaimed independence of the territory.

France

• May 2002 : Presidential election. Jacques Chirac (RPR, UMP) was elected president for the second consecutive time against Jean-Marie Le Pen (FN).

• First half of August 2003 : Heatwave exceptional.

• May 29 2005 : French referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. The European Constitutional Treaty (ECT) is rejected by nearly 55% of voters.

• 2005 riots in French suburbs.

• May 2007 : Presidential election. Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP) was elected President of the Republic against Sgolne Royal (PS).

• June 2009 : pushing the Greens in the European elections on June 7 , with 8 additional members (for a total of 14 Green MPs French). The UMP won the largest number of MPs (24 of 72), also with eight additional members.

Asia

• Tsunami of December 26, 2004
• The attack against Benazir Bhutto

Significant Figures

The 2000s

• Angela Merkel
• Ariel Sharon
• Barack Obama
• Benazir Bhutto
• Benedict XVI
• George W. Bush
• Jacques Chirac
• John Paul II
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Osama Bin Laden
• Recep Tayyip Erdoan
• Saddam Hussein
• Silvio Berlusconi
• Tony Blair
• Vladimir Putin
• Yasser Arafat

Inventions, discoveries, introductions, problems

• Development of Internet and computer topics, the computer becomes more crucial in the home as a TV.
• Acceleration and confirmation of climate change from anthropogenic sources.
• Discovery of the presence of water on March and the Moon.
• Spread of mobile phones.
• Development and miniaturization of electronic devices.
• Development of the theory of complex networks: people or biological systems are not linked randomly, but exhibit many common properties (commerce applications, information technology, biology and especially in Epidemiology).
• First face transplant.
• Emergence and growing popularity of reality television.

Events astronomical advenus or planned XXI ^century

List of long total solar eclipses

• July 22, 2009: Total eclipse of the Sun , (6 min 23 sec) of Saros 136.
• August 12, 2045: Total Solar Eclipse , (6 min 06 s) of Saros 136.
• August 24, 2063: Total Solar Eclipse , (5 min 49 sec) of Saros 136.
• May 11, 2078: Total Solar Eclipse , (5 min 40 sec) of Saros 139.
• May 22, 2096: Total Solar Eclipse , (6 min 07 s) of Saros 139.

Other phenomena

• Wednesday, 7 May 2003 : First transit of Mercury of the XXI ^century.
• Tuesday, 8 June 2004 : First transit of Venus in the XXI ^century.
  The precedent that took place nearly 122 years ago, December 6, 1882.
• Wednesday, 8 November 2006 : Transit of Mercury ^(2nd of this century).
• 2009 : Triple conjunction Jupiter - Neptune.
• 2010 / 2011 : Triple conjunction Jupiter- Uranus.
• Wednesday, 6 June 2012 : Second transit of Venus , (and last) of this century.
• Friday, 21 December 2012 : End of a calendar cycle from the Mayans.
• Monday, 9 May 2016 : Transit of Mercury ^(3rd of this century).
• Monday, 11 November 2019 : Transit of Mercury ^(4th of this century).
• 2024 (plus or minus 5 years): next scheduled return of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks.
• 2025 / 2 026: Triple conjunction Saturn-Neptune.
• Friday, April 13 2029 : Asteroid (99942) Apophis (better known under its initial provisional designation 2004 MN4) will increase to ~ 30 000 km of the Earth.
• Saturday, 13 November 2032 : Transit of Mercury ^(5th of this century).
• In 2037 / two thousand and thirty-eight : Triple conjunction Jupiter-Uranus.
• Monday, November 7, 2039: Transit of Mercury ^(6th of this century).
• 2041/2042: Triple conjunction March -Uranus.
• October ^1, 2044: Occultation of Regulus by Venus. The last took place July 7, 1959.
  After 2044 the next occultation of Regulus by Venus will take place on October 21 3187, although some sources indicate the 6 October 2271 . .
  This occultation will be the first occultation of a planet by another (as seen from Earth) since January 3, 1818, who was also an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.
  It will be very difficult to observe because of the elongation of only 8 2 planets towards the Sun.
• 2066: Triple conjunction Jupiter-Uranus.
• July 15, 2067 at 11:56 UTC Mercury will occult Neptune .
  This rare event will be very difficult to observe, first of low elongation (Sun) Mercury, and secondly the magnitude of Neptune (magnitude ~ 9) is always higher (but lower light intensity) to limited visibility to the naked eye (magnitude 6).
• 2071/2072: Triple conjunction Mars-Neptune.
• November 14, 2078: Transit of Mercury ^(11th of this century).
• 2079: Triple conjunction Saturn-Uranus.
• August 11, 2079 at 01:30 UTC Mercury will occult March .
• Friday, November 10, 2084: Transit of Earth (and moon) is visible from Mars, the first and only in this century. .
• 2088/2089: Triple conjunction Mars-Neptune.
• 2093: Triple conjunction Jupiter-Uranus.
• April 7, 2094 at 10:48 UTC Mercury will occult Jupiter .
• May 8, 2095: Transit of Mercury ^(13th of this century).
• November 10, 2098: Transit of Mercury ^(14th and last of this century).
• March 24, 2100: the star Polaris will reach its greatest proximity to the celestial north pole of the Earth .

Sport

Olympics

• The first few games of the XXI ^century are the winter games in Salt Lake City , the first winter games of the century and the first general games. The first summer games are the games of Athens 2004.
• Olympic Winter Games of 2002 in Salt Lake City
• Summer Olympics from 2004 to Athens
• Olympic Winter Games of 2006 in Turin
• Summer Olympics of 2008 in Beijing
• Olympic Winter Games of 2010 in Vancouver
• Summer Olympics of 2012 in London
• Olympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi
• Summer Olympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

World Cup Football

• World Cup 2002 : Victory in Brazil
• 2006 World Cup : Italy wins
• World Cup 2010 : Victory for Spain

References

See also

• 2000s in France
• List of centuries
• Roman numerals

• Portal History
• Portal XXI ^century

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