Explore 1542 historical events from 2010–2019.
Win Tin was a Burmese journalist, politician and political prisoner. He co-founded the National League for Democracy (NLD). He was imprisoned by the military government for 19 year…
Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (born 1930)
Kinshasa, formerly named Léopoldville from 1881 to 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-growing meg…
Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer sta
On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May. In total, 301 people were killed, making it the wor…
An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners
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 …
Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of 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…
Random killings occurred on the Bannan Line of the Taipei MRT, killing four and injuring 24
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.…
General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of politica
Oswaldo Vigas was a Venezuelan artist who worked as a painter, muralist, and sculptor. His body of work encompassed paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, and tapestries. He integr…
Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (born 1926)
Benjamín Brea was a Spanish-born Venezuelan musician, arranger and teacher, mostly associated with jazz, even though he had the advantage to play several music genres in various ba…
Benjamín Brea, Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor (born 1946)
Michael Glawogger was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, born in Graz.
Michael Glawogger, Austrian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (born 1959)
On the morning of 22 May 2014, two sport utility vehicles (SUVs) carrying five assailants were driven into a busy street market in Ürümqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Au…
An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 in
On the evening of May 23, 2014, multiple misogynistic terrorist attacks occurred in Isla Vista, California, United States. Elliot Rodger murdered six people and injured fourteen ot…
Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of Univers
An earthquake occurred in the northern Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey on May 24, 2014. It had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Ser…
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On the afternoon of 24 May 2014, a gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people in an antisemitic Islamist terrorist attack. Three of them, a…
At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the membe…
Narendra Modi takes oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India
Conrado Eugenio Marrero Ramos, nicknamed "Connie", was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher. The right-handed Marrero pitched in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1954 for the Wa…
Connie Marrero, Cuban baseball player and coach (born 1911)
Felix Michael Rogers, usually known as Michael Rogers, was a general in the United States Air Force and the former commander of the Air Force Logistics Command, with headquarters a…
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Mark Roland Shand, a brother of Queen Camilla, was an English travel writer and conservationist. Shand wrote four travel books, and as a BBC conservationist appeared in documentari…
Mark Shand, English conservationist and author (born 1951)
Patric Standford was an English composer, supporter of composers' rights, educationalist and author.
Patric Standford, English composer and educator (born 1939)
Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the …
Hans Hollein, Austrian architect, designed Haas House (born 1934)
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…
Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh
Shia Islam in Iraq has a history going back to the times of Ali ibn Abi Talib who moved the capital of the Rashidun Caliphate from Medina to Kufa, two decades after the death of Mu…
Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Camp Sp
On 14 June 2014, an Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the 25th Transport Aviation Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the Russia-backed separatists fro…
A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board
Charles Gyude Bryant was a Liberian politician and businessman. He served as the Chairman of the Transitional Government of Liberia from 14 October 2003 to 16 January 2006. The ins…
Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (born 1949)
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors o…
Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)