Rose Revolution
Protesters with roses storm parliament and Shevardnadze resigns
After November 2003 parliamentary elections that observers judged rigged, mass protests broke out in Tbilisi. On 22 November opposition supporters led by Mikheil Saakashvili entered parliament carrying roses, and on 23 November President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned without bloodshed.
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Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 23 years earlier
- 1981 AIDS first described — 22 years earlier
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 6 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 5 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 14 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 14 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 1 year earlier
- 2010 Eurozone debt crisis — 7 years later
- 2012 Discovery of the Higgs boson — 9 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 18 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 14 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 12 years earlier
- 1999–2009 Second Chechen War — 4 years earlier
- 2004 Beslan school siege — 1 year later
Africa
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 20 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 9 years earlier
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — 5 years earlier
- 2011 Independence of South Sudan — 8 years later
Asia
- 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests — 5 years earlier
- 2001–2021 US war in Afghanistan — 2 years earlier
- 2001 China joins the WTO — 2 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 1 year later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 8 years later
Americas
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 20 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 2 years earlier
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — same year
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 4 years later
- 2010 Haiti earthquake — 7 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 11 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 85)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 73)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 92)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 84)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 79)
- Fidel Castro (aged 77)
- Elizabeth II (aged 77)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 76)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 72)
- Boris Yeltsin (aged 72)