Eurozone debt crisis
Greece nears default as Europe fights to save the euro
In 2010 it became clear that Greece could not service its debt after its budget deficit turned out to be far larger than reported. Eurozone countries and the IMF lent hundreds of billions of euros to Greece, then Ireland, Portugal and Spain, in return for harsh austerity; unemployment in Greece and Spain rose above 25%.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 13 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 2 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 25 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 24 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 21 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 19 years earlier
Middle East
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 20 years earlier
- 1993 Oslo Accords — 17 years earlier
- 2011–2024 Syrian civil war — 1 year later
Africa
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 16 years earlier
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — 12 years earlier
- 2011 Independence of South Sudan — 1 year later
Asia
- 2001–2021 US war in Afghanistan — 9 years earlier
- 2001 China joins the WTO — 9 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 6 years earlier
- 2008 Sichuan earthquake — 2 years earlier
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 1 year later
Americas
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 20 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 9 years earlier
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 7 years earlier
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 3 years earlier
- 2010 Haiti earthquake — same year
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 18 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 92)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 80)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 86)
- Fidel Castro (aged 84)
- Elizabeth II (aged 84)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 83)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 79)
- Pelé (aged 70)
- George H. W. Bush (aged 86)
- Chinua Achebe (aged 80)