Explore 4960 historical events from 2010–2019.
The 2019 Bærum murder and mosque attack occurred on 10 August 2019 at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in Bærum, Norway, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of the capital city Oslo. Philip…
Philip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.
On 17 August 2019, a suicide bombing took place during a wedding in a wedding hall in Kabul, Afghanistan. At least 92 people were killed in the attack and over 140 injured. The Isl…
A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.
Iceland is a Nordic island country between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Europe and North America. It is culturally and p…
One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which…
Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone, which became the most intense on record to strike the Bahamas. It is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurr…
Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was a Spanish statesman, politician and chemist who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 2010 to 2011, and previously as Minister of Education from…
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician and chemist (born 1951)
Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s a…
Doris Day, American singer and actress (born 1922)
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952…
Herman Wouk, American author (born 1915)
The sinking of MV Conception occurred on September 2, 2019 after the 75-foot (23 m) dive boat caught fire and eventually sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California, United…
The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34.
Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in southern Arabia, the country includes the Socotra Archipelago and borders Saudi Arabia to the north, …
Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, were a series of international strikes and protests to demand action be taken to address climate chang…
Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old…
On 26 November 2019 at 03:54 CET (UTC+1), northwestern Albania was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicentre 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west-southwest of Mamurras. The ear…
A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
Stephen Austin Eubanks was an American motivational speaker on addiction and recovery. He was one of the best known survivors of the Columbine High School massacre, both in its imm…
Austin Eubanks, American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the Columbine shooting (born 1981)
Pieter Marinus "Piet" Blauw was a Dutch politician for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He was born in Alkmaar, North Holland and was a farmer by profession. Bla…
Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (born 1937)
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was an Austrian racing driver, motorsport executive, and aviation entrepreneur, who competed in Formula One from 1971 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1985. L…
Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver (born 1949)
The 2019 Papua protests were a series of protests by Papuans in Indonesia that began on 19 August 2019 and mainly took place across Indonesian Papua region in response to the arres…
Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.
The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, were a series of international strikes and protests to demand action be taken to address climate chang…
Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.
Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019. According to preliminary results, which runner-up Abdullah Abdullah appealed against, incumbent Ashraf Ghani w…
Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.
On 1 October 2019, 24-year-old student Joel Otto Aukusti Marin fatally stabbed a female student and wounded 11 others at Savo Vocational College, located in the premises of Herman …
Kuopio school stabbing: One dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at…
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft that was developed in the mid-1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-…
A privately owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after…
Rik Kuypers was a Belgian film director. He directed 29 films between 1947 and 1981. He co-directed the film Seagulls Die in the Harbour, which was entered into the 1956 Cannes Fil…
Rik Kuypers, Belgian film director (born 1925)
Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he became the founding editor of Kwani? literary magazi…
Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (born 1971)
Claus von Bülow was a British lawyer, consultant and socialite. In 1982, he was convicted of attempting to murder his wife Sunny von Bülow in 1979, which had left her in a temporar…
Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (born 1926)
Extinction Rebellion is a UK-founded global environmental movement, with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points i…
About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland.