Independence of South Sudan
The world's newest country after half a century of war
On 9 July 2011 South Sudan declared independence from Sudan after almost 99% voted for secession in a January referendum. It followed two north–south civil wars (1955–1972 and 1983–2005), the second of which cost an estimated two million lives.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 14 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 3 years earlier
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 22 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 22 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 9 years earlier
- 2010 Eurozone debt crisis — 1 year earlier
- 2012 Discovery of the Higgs boson — 1 year later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 25 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 22 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 20 years earlier
Middle East
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 21 years earlier
- 1993 Oslo Accords — 18 years earlier
- 2011–2024 Syrian civil war — same year
Asia
- 2001–2021 US war in Afghanistan — 10 years earlier
- 2001 China joins the WTO — 10 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 7 years earlier
- 2008 Sichuan earthquake — 3 years earlier
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — same year
Americas
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 21 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 10 years earlier
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 8 years earlier
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 4 years earlier
- 2010 Haiti earthquake — 1 year earlier
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 19 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 93)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 81)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 87)
- Fidel Castro (aged 85)
- Elizabeth II (aged 85)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 84)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 80)
- Pelé (aged 71)
- George H. W. Bush (aged 87)
- Chinua Achebe (aged 81)