Explore 3325 historical events from 2010–2019.
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.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies. It is head…
The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic, which began in December 2013, to be a…
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
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
United States v. Manning was the court-martial of Chelsea Manning, a former United States Army Private First Class.
The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Mead
On 3 June 2013, a fire at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng (吉林宝源丰) poultry processing plant in Mishazi (米沙子镇), a town about 35 km (22 mi) from Changchun, in Jilin province, People's Republic …
At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China
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…
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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
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, commonly shortened to ERT, is the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster of Greece.
Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras
On 15 June 2013, a series of bombings resulted in the deaths of 26 people and injuries to dozens more. On the same day, separatist militants attacked and demolished the historic Qu…
A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others
On 26 June 2013, rioting broke out in Shanshan County, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. 35 people died in the riots, including 22 civilians, two police officers and ele…
Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others
On 2 July 2013, an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a moment magnitude of 6.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). The strike-slip earthquake kil…
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
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
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon o…
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police
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…
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The 2013 Hawija clashes relate to a series of violent attacks within Iraq, as part of the 2012–2013 Iraqi protests and Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013). On 23 April, an army raid again…
At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq
The Rana Plaza collapse occurred on 24 April 2013 in Savar Upazila, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, when the eight-story Rana Plaza commercial building collapsed due to a structural failur…
A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others
On 6 July 2013, Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Government Secondary School in the village of Mamudo in Yobe State, Nigeria and killed at least 42 people. Most of the victims we…
At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
On 12 July 2013, a train crash in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris left seven people dead and 428 injured when a passenger train carrying 385 peopl…
Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
An outdoor sculpture depicting the biologist, conservationist, and author Rachel Carson by David Lewis was installed in Waterfront Park in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States,…
Dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
On April 29, 2013 at around 10:00am CEST, an explosion occurred in a building in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic. The incident occurred in a townhouse belonging to the Air Nav…
A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43