Explore 4132 historical events from 2010–2019.
On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally…
Two American journalists were murdered on live television while conducting an interview in Moneta, Virginia.
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lif…
Elizabeth II (pictured) became the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves. Prior to LIGO, all…
Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by…
The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2025 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Leg…
The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leadi
On 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The terrorist attack killed 3 people, and injured 79 others. The attack coincided with t…
A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others
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 in northern Laos kills 17 people
Kerala Blasters Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Blasters, is an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala, that competes in the Indian Super League (IS…
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed
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…
Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
On 31 July 2014, a series of gas explosions occurred in the Cianjhen and Lingya districts of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, following reports of gas leaks earlier that night. Thirty-two people…
Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
The 2014 Kunshan explosion was a dust explosion that occurred at Zhongrong Metal Production Company, an automotive parts factory located in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China, on 2 August 201…
At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
The Yazidi genocide also known as the 74th firman by Yazidis, was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genoc…
The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
Thomas Motsoahae Thabane is a Mosotho politician who was the fifth Prime Minister of Lesotho from 2012 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2020. He founded the All Basotho Convention (ABC) in…
Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) is a charismatic Christian megachurch located in Lagos, Nigeria. The Church was founded in 1987 and has a presence across the globe with…
Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's,…
The siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State (IS) on 13 September 2014, in order to capture the Kobanî Canton and its main city of Kobanî in northern Syria, in the de fact…
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 2…
The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
Taavi Aulis Rytkönen was a Finnish footballer. He became the country's first professional player when he signed for France's Toulouse FC in 1952.
Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (born 1929)
Ernst Florian Winter was an American historian and political scientist, the first director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna after World War II, and chairman of the International…
Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (born 1923)
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean De…
The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to wid
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research in…
NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another sta
Flint is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. The city's population was 81,252 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 79,735 in 2024, maki…
The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water cri
Bernat Klein CBE was a Serbian textile designer and painter. Based in Scotland, Klein supplied textiles to haute couture designers in the 1960s and 1970s, and later sold his own cl…
Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (born 1922)
Wojciech Grzegorz Leśnikowski, was a Polish-American architect, writer and educator. He oversaw and participated in the design and construction of numerous large-scale architectura…
Wojciech Leśnikowski, Polish–American architect and academic (born 1938)
Karpal Singh s/o Ram Singh Deo was an Indian Malaysian politician and lawyer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bukit Gelugor in the state of Penang from 200…
Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (born 1940)
On 2 May 2014, a pair of mudslides occurred in Argo District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The death toll is uncertain, the number of deaths is believed to be at least 350 and…
Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing