Clockwise from top-left: theJames Webb Space Telescope is launched; protesters inYangon ,Myanmar , following thecoup d'état ; a civil demonstration against theOctober coup in Sudan ; supporters of then United States presidentDonald Trump stormed the country's Capitol in afailed attempt to overturn the2020 United States presidential election ; thecontainer ship Ever Given gets stuck in theSuez Canal , blocking international shipping for six days; the2020 Summer Olympics are held inTokyo ,Japan ; theIngenuity helicopterPerseverance roverTaliban fighters on a captured Humvee following thefall ofKabul at the end of theWar in Afghanistan .
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2021 (MMXXI ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar , the 2021st year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 3rd millennium and the21st century , and the 2nd year of the2020s decade.
Calendar year
Like the year2020 , 2021 was also heavily defined by theCOVID-19 pandemic , due to the emergence of multipleCOVID-19 variants . The major global rollout ofCOVID-19 vaccines , which began at the end of 2020, continued in 2021. Most major events scheduled for 2020 that were postponed due to the pandemic were hosted in 2021, including the26th United Nations Climate Change Conference ,Expo 2020 , and sporting events such asUEFA Euro 2020 , the2020 Summer Olympics andParalympics , as well as the2021 Copa América .[ 1]
2021 additionally witnessed numerous advancements in space exploration, particularly by theUnited Arab Emirates ,NASA andSpaceX , including the launch of theJames Webb Space Telescope .
Civil unrest grew in 2021, with coups occurring inSudan ,Myanmar ,Mali andGuinea , and insurrections occurring inArmenia and theUnited States .
January 1 January 4 –The border betweenQatar andSaudi Arabia reopens.[ 4] Crowd outside the US Capitol on January 6 January 6 – Supporters ofUS President Donald Trump attack the US Capitol , disruptingcertification of the2020 presidential election , and forcingCongress to evacuate. Five people die during the ensuing riot.[ 5] domestic terrorist attack, and drawsinternational condemnation .[ 6] January 10 –Kim Jong Un is elected as theGeneral Secretary of the rulingWorkers' Party of Korea , inheriting the title from his fatherKim Jong Il , whodied in2011 .[ 7] January 13 – InLyon , France, the firsttransplant of both arms and shoulders is performed on an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital.[ 8] January 14 – The2021 Ugandan general election is held. Incumbent presidentYoweri Museveni , who has ruled since 1986, wins re-election.[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] January 15 January 22 – TheTreaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons , the first legally binding international agreement comprehensively to prohibit nuclear weapons, comes into effect.[ 14] January 24 –2021 Portuguese presidential election : Incumbent presidentMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa is reelected.[ 15] January 26 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeds 100 million worldwide.[ 16] January 27 January 29 – COVID-19 pandemic: The European Union invokesArticle 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol following a row overCOVID-19 vaccine supplies before reversing the decision.[ 19] January 31 –Nguyễn Phú Trọng is re-elected for a third five-year term as theGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam .[ 20] April 2 April 4 April 9 –Roscosmos launches theSoyuz MS-18 mission, carrying threeExpedition 65 crewmembers to theInternational Space Station .[ 57] April 11 April 13 –Japan's government approves thedumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years, with full support of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency . The decision is opposed by China, South Korea, and Taiwan.[ 61] April 15 – Scientists announce they successfully injectedhuman stem cells into the embryos of monkeys, creatingchimera -embryos.[ 62] April 17 April 18 April 19 April 20 –Idriss Déby , President ofChad , is killed inclashes with rebel forces after 30 years in office. Theconstitution is suspended and aTransitional Military Council is established to govern the country for 18 months.[ 72] April 22 – World leaders markEarth Day by hosting a virtual summit onclimate change , during which more ambitious targets forgreenhouse gas emission reductions are proposed, including a 40% cut by 2030 for the United States.[ 73] April 23 April 24 Following an international search and rescue effort, theIndonesian navy reports the sinking ofKRINanggala with 53 crew members, the largest loss of life aboard a submarine since2003 .[ 76] COVID-19 pandemic: The number ofvaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 1 billion. Half of these doses have been administered in just three countries (the United States, China and India).[ 77] April 25 –Albania holdsparliamentary elections .[ 78] [ 79] [ 80] April 28 April 29 – TheChina National Space Administration launches the first module of itsTiangong space station , namedTianhe [ 83] May 2 – TheSpaceX Crew-1 mission ends, returning four crew members ofExpedition 64 and65 toEarth from theInternational Space Station aboard Crew DragonResilience [ 84] May 3 –Mexico City Metro overpass collapse : 26 people were killed and 98 people were injured when aMexico City Metro train bridge collapsed when a train passed it.[ 85] May 11 –2021 Israel–Palestine crisis : Israel hits theGaza Strip withairstrikes asHamas increasesrocket fire .[ 86] Palestinians due to a long-standing property dispute in theSheikh Jarrah neighbourhood ofEast Jerusalem .[ 87] May 12 –COVID-19 pandemic in India : The country's death toll exceeds 250,000.[ 88] Delhi cremation grounds were running out of places[ 89] Ganges .[ 90] May 14 – TheChina National Space Administration lands itsZhurong Utopia Planitia on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet and only the second to land a rover.[ 91] [ 92] May 15 – Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants continues to escalate, as the death toll exceeds 150. An Israeli airstrike destroys a high-rise office building inGaza occupied byAssociated Press ,Al Jazeera , and other media outlets.[ 93] May 17 –Discovery, Inc. agrees to buymedia conglomerate WarnerMedia and all of its subsidiaries fromAT&T for US$43 billion. The merger is set to be complete the following year.[ 94] May 18 –May 22 – TheEurovision Song Contest 2021 is held inRotterdam ,Netherlands , after the cancellation of the2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[ 95] [ 96] Italian entrantsMåneskin with the song "Zitti e buoni [ 97] May 20 – Following international pressure, and nearly 250 deaths, Israel agrees to a ceasefire deal to end the conflict withGaza militants, effective the next day at 2:00 amlocal time .[ 98] May 23 –Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land byBelarusian authorities to detain dissident journalistRoman Protasevich .[ 99] May 24 May 26 May 29 –2021 UEFA Champions League Final ;Chelsea become champions, defeating fellow English clubManchester City 1–0 to win theUEFA Champions League for the second time.[ 105] May 30 – The2021 Cypriot legislative election is held.[ 106] [ 107] June 2 – The2021 Israeli presidential election is held, and won byIsaac Herzog .[ 108] [ 109] Benjamin Netanyahu from power,Naftali Bennett agrees to form a coalition with the Israeli opposition as arotation government that will come to take effect after eleven days.[ 110] June 5 – TheG7 agrees on a globalminimum corporate tax rate of 15% intended to preventtax avoidance by some of the world's biggest multinational companies.[ 111] June 7 June 9 June 10 – Anannular solar eclipse is visible from Canada,Greenland , theNorth Pole , and theRussian Far East .[ 119] June 11 –July 11 – The delayedUEFA Euro 2020 , hosted by 11 different countries, is held,[ 120] Italy after beatingEngland on penalties in thefinal .[ 121] June 11 –June 13 – World leaders meet at the47th G7 summit , hosted by the United Kingdom, with topics of discussion including theCOVID-19 pandemic ,climate change , and the corporate taxation of multinationals.[ 122] June 12 – The2021 Algerian legislative election is held to elect all 407 seats in thePeople's National Assembly .[ 123] June 13 –Benjamin Netanyahu ,the longest-serving prime minister of Israel , is voted out of office;Naftali Bennett andYair Lapid are sworn in asPrime Minister of Israel and asAlternate Prime Minister of Israel , respectively.[ 124] June 13 –July 10 – The2021 Copa América , hosted behind closed doors by Brazil, is held,[ 125] is won byArgentina .[ 126] June 17 – TheChina National Space Administration sends its first three astronauts to occupy theTiangong Space Station , the country's first space station.[ 127] June 18 – The2021 Iranian presidential election is held.[ 128] June 20 –2021 Armenian parliamentary election : Acting PMNikol Pashinyan wins the country's snap election, with hisCivil Contract party gaining 54% of the vote.[ 129] June 23 –2021 ICC World Test Championship Final : New Zealand wins the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship.[ 130] June 24 –Surfside condominium collapse : A portion of the Champlain South Towerscondominium building collapses inSurfside, Florida , United States, leaving 98 people dead.[ 131] [ 132] [ 133] [ 134] June 25 –Derek Chauvin is convicted and sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison, for themurder ofGeorge Floyd and for starting thenational andinternational protest. Despite this, the civil unrest still goes on.[ 135] June 28 –Tigray War : TheTigray Defense Force seizes the Tigrayan capitalMekelle shortly after the Ethiopian government declares a ceasefire.[ 136] June 29 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number ofvaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 3 billion.[ 137] July 3 – Over 130wildfires , fuelled bylightning strikes, burn throughWestern Canada following a record-breakingheatwave in North America that results in over 600 deaths.[ 138] [ 139] [ 140] [ 141] July 5 – More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers flee to neighbouringTajikistan afterclashing with Taliban militants.[ 142] July 7 –Assassination of Jovenel Moïse : Haitian PresidentJovenel Moïse is shot to death by unidentified gunmen at 1:00 am local time in his home. First LadyMartine Moïse is injured and hospitalized.[ 143] July 8 –COVID-19 pandemic : The number of deaths from COVID-19 surpasses 4 million.[ 144] July 10 –August 1 – The2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup is held in, andis won by, the United States.[ 145] [ 146] July 11 July 12 –2021 European floods : Heavy rain causes flooding in the border region of Germany and Belgium, resulting in 229 deaths, including 184 in Germany, 42 in Belgium with 1 person still missing there,[ 151] [ 152] jetstream caused byclimate change .[ 151] July 13 – After theSupreme Court declares his incumbency unconstitutional,KP Oli is succeeded bySher Bahadur Deuba as43rd Prime Minister of Nepal .[ 153] July 18 –An international investigation reveals thatspyware sold by Israel'sNSO Group to different governments is being used to target heads of state, along with thousands of activists, journalists and dissidents around the world.[ 154] [ 155] July 19 July 23 –August 8 – The2020 Summer Olympics were held inTokyo , Japan. They were originally scheduled for 24 July–9 August 2020, but were postponed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic .[ 160] July 23 – The Court of Appeal of Samoa deemed the swearing-in ofFiamē Naomi Mataʻafa and her government as constitutional, endinga three-month constitutional crisis .[ 161] July 25 –Tunisian presidentKais Saied formallytakes power in the country, suspending theparliament and sacking theprime minister .[ 162] July 28 – The first direct observation oflight from behind ablack hole is reported, confirming Einstein's theory ofgeneral relativity .[ 163] [ 164] July 29 August 3 August 4 August 5 –Tigray War : The Tigray Defense Forces seize theUNESCO World Heritage Site ofLalibela .[ 172] August 9 – TheIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the first part of itsSixth Assessment Report , which concludes that the effects of human-causedclimate change are now "widespread, rapid, and intensifying".[ 173] [ 174] [ 175] August 12 – The2021 Zambian general election is held.[ 176] [ 177] August 14 –A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti, killing more than 2,500 people.[ 178] UK coalition forces assist a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul August 15 –2021 Taliban offensive : The Talibancapture Kabul ; theAfghan government surrenders to the Taliban.[ 179] August 24 –September 5 – The2020 Summer Paralympics were held inTokyo , Japan. They were originally scheduled for 25 August–6 September 2020, but were postponed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic .[ 180] August 26 –2021 Kabul airport attack : At least 182 people are killed, including 13 U.S. service members, in a suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport.[ 181] [ 182] August 27 – The United States launches anairstrike that it claims killed theIslamic State member who was believed to have planned theKabul airport bombings .[ 183] [ 184] August 29 –Hurricane Ida strikesNew Orleans , Louisiana, USA, after having caused devastation inVenezuela .[ 185] August 30 Military parade inKaloum , a day after thecoup September 5 –2021 Guinean coup d'état : Guinea's PresidentAlpha Condé is detained by an elite military unit led by a former French legionnaire,Lt. Col. Mamady Doumbouya , claiming to have seized power.[ 190] September 7 –El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to acceptBitcoin as an officialcurrency .[ 191] September 13 September 14 September 15 AUKUS : A trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States is formed, to counter the influence of China. This includes enabling Australia to build its firstnuclear-powered submarine fleet.[ 196] Several ministers of the Argentine presidentAlberto Fernández 's cabinet resign after the government's defeat in the primary elections, triggering a political crisis in the country.[ 197] [ 198] September 16 –Inspiration4 , launched bySpaceX , becomes the first all-civilianprivate spaceflight , carrying a four-person crew on a three-day orbit of the Earth.[ 199] Sian Proctor becomes first female commercial astronaut spaceship pilot andHayley Arceneaux becomes first astronaut with a prosthesis.[ 200] [ 201] September 19 – The2021 Russian legislative election is held, with theUnited Russia party winning nearly 50% of the vote.[ 202] [ 203] September 20 – The2021 Canadian federal election is held, withJustin Trudeau and theLiberal Party retaining aminority government .[ 204] September 25 – The2021 Icelandic parliamentary election is held.[ 205] September 26 – The2021 German federal election is held, withOlaf Scholz and theSocial Democratic Party beating out theCDU/CSU coalition.[ 206] [ 207] October 1 – The2020 World Expo inDubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic .[ 208] October 3 – TheInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists and assorted media partners publish a set of 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 financial services companies known as thePandora Papers , revealing offshore financial activities that involve multiple current and former world leaders.[ 209] October 4 –Fumio Kishida becomes the 100thPrime Minister of Japan , succeedingYoshihide Suga .[ 210] October 5 October 6 – TheWorld Health Organization endorses the firstmalaria vaccine .[ 215] October 6 –October 10 – The2021 UEFA Nations League Finals is held in Italy, and is won byFrance . They were originally scheduled for 2–6 June 2021, but were moved following the rescheduling ofUEFA Euro 2020 to June and July 2021 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic .[ 216] October 8 –October 9 – The2021 Czech legislative election is held, with the main opposition coalition alliance ofSPOLU andPirates and Mayors gaining a legislative majority.[ 217] [ 218] October 9 –Sebastian Kurz announces his resignation asChancellor of Austria as a result of acorruption probe launched against him.[ 219] October 16 – TheLucy spacecraft is launched by NASA, the first mission to explore theTrojan asteroids .[ 220] October 17 –November 14 – The2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is held in theUnited Arab Emirates andOman , andis won byAustralia .[ 221] October 23 – Colombia's most wanted drug lord,Dario Antonio Úsuga , whoseGulf Clan controls many smuggling routes into the US and other countries, is captured by Colombia's armed forces.[ 222] [ 223] October 24 – The2021 Uzbek presidential election is held.[ 224] October 25 – TheSudanese military launches acoup against thegovernment . Prime MinisterAbdalla Hamdok is placed under house arrest. PresidentAbdel Fattah al-Burhan declares a state of emergency and announces the dissolution of the government.[ 225] October 31 December 4 – The2021 Gambian presidential election is held and incumbentpresident Adama Barrow is reelected.[ 247] December 6 – TheUnited States announces a diplomatic boycott of the2022 Winter Olympics inBeijing in response to China's human rights record.[ 248] Canada , theUnited Kingdom , andAustralia join shortly after.December 9 –A truck crash inChiapas ,Mexico , kills 55 migrants who were beingsmuggled in it fromGuatemala through Mexico toits border with the United States .[ 249] December 9 –December 10 – TheSummit for Democracy , a virtual summit, is hosted by the United States "to renew democracy at home and confront autocracies abroad".[ 250] [ 251] December 10 –December 11 – A late seasontornado outbreak occurs in theSouthern andMidwestern United States , causing major damage and killing at least 94 people. 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