Haiti earthquake
A quake levels the capital of the Americas' poorest country
On 12 January 2010 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake centred near Léogâne destroyed much of Port-au-Prince. The death toll is uncertain, with estimates from 100,000 to over 300,000, and about 1.5 million people lost their homes. That autumn a cholera epidemic broke out, traced by researchers to UN peacekeepers; it killed nearly 10,000 people.
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Whole world
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 2 years earlier
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 21 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 21 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 18 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 8 years earlier
- 2012 Discovery of the Higgs boson — 2 years later
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
Asia
- 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests — 12 years earlier
- 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
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 1 year later
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)