Explore 2580 historical events from 2010–2019.
On 17 May 2014, an Antonov An-74 transport aircraft of the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force crashed while en route to Xiangkhouang Province, northern Laos, killing all but on…
A military plane crash killed 17 people and left one survivor in northern Laos
On 16 May 2014, two improvised explosive devices were detonated simultaneously in the Gikomba market in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 12 people and injuring 70. The first blast …
At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya
On 21 May 2014, a Taiwanese man carried out a stabbing spree targeting random civilians on a Taipei Metro C321 train near Jiangzicui Station, resulting in four deaths and 24 injuri…
A Taiwanese man carried out a stabbing spree on a Taipei Metro train, killing four people and injuring 24 others
Prayut Chan-o-cha is a Thai former politician and military officer who became the 29th prime minister of Thailand after seizing power in the 2014 coup d'état and served until 2023.…
Prayut Chan-o-cha (pictured), the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état against the caretake
Islamic extremism is characterised by extremist beliefs, behaviors and ideologies adhered to by some Muslims within Islam. The term 'Islamic extremism' is contentious, encompassing…
A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people
Telangana is a state in southern India on the Deccan Plateau bordering Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh to the north and Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka to the south. It is the eleventh l…
The Indian state of Telangana was officially formed, with K
The war in Donbas, also called the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The war began in April 2014, when Russian-backed para…
War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-procl
Lars Joachim Mittank is a German man who disappeared on 8 July 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was on holiday at the Golden Sands resort, where he was supposed…
German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements were widely watched on…
The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organised by FIFA. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to…
In the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final at the Mineirão, Germany defeated Brazil 7–1 (players pictured), breaking…
The Germany national football team represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, f…
Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against Argentina, with Mario Götze scoring the game's only goal (pictured) in…
The Methow River is a tributary of the Columbia River in northern Washington in the United States. The river's 1,890-square-mile (4,900 km2) watershed drains the eastern North Casc…
Lightning strikes started four fires in the Methow Valley in the U.S. state of Washington, collectively known as the…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces with a Buk 9M38 surface-to-air missile on 17…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in three governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was…
The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found guilty of paying for an underage…
The 2014 Farafra ambush occurred on 19 July 2014 when unidentified gunmen ambushed a desert checkpoint in the Farafra Oasis Road in Egypt's New Valley Governorate. Twenty-two borde…
Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan Desert near Farafra, killing 22 soldiers.
Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed near Gossi, Mali, on 24 July 2014. The McD…
Air Algérie Flight 5017 disappeared from radar shortly after take-off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; its wreckage was…
On 30 July 2014, a landslide occurred in the village of Malin in the Ambegaon taluka of the Pune district in Maharashtra, India. The landslide, which hit early in the morning while…
More than 150 people died after heavy rains triggered a landslide in the village of Malin in Maharashtra, India.
On 24 April 2013, ethnic clashes occurred in Marelbeshi (Bachu), Xinjiang, China. The violence left at least 21 people dead, including 15 police and officials.
Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people
Willem-Alexander is the current King of the Netherlands, having reigned since 30 April 2013.
Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix
The 2013 Reyhanlı car bombings took place on 11 May 2013, when two car bombs exploded in the Turkish town of Reyhanlı, a town of 64,000 people, 5 km from the Syrian border and the …
Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey
The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Similar to t…
A 7
The Baga massacre began on 16 April 2013 in the village of Baga, Nigeria, in Borno State, when as many as 200 civilians were killed, hundreds wounded, and over 2,000 houses and bus…
The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga
On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States, while emergency services p…
An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others
From 15 to 21 May 2013, a series of deadly bombings and shootings struck the central and northern parts of Iraq, with a few incidents occurring in towns in the south and far west a…
An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days
Naxalism is the communist ideology of the Naxalites or Naxals, a grouping of political and insurgent groups from India. It is influenced by Maoist political sentiment and ideology.
Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congres