Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan
Protests from the south topple President Akayev in a day
After disputed parliamentary elections in spring 2005, protests broke out in Jalal-Abad and Osh, and on 24 March a crowd in Bishkek seized the government building. Askar Akayev, in power since 1990, flew to Moscow and resigned in April. Kurmanbek Bakiyev was elected president that summer.
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Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 25 years earlier
- 1981 AIDS first described — 24 years earlier
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 8 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 3 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 16 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 16 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 3 years earlier
- 2010 Eurozone debt crisis — 5 years later
- 2012 Discovery of the Higgs boson — 7 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 20 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 16 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 14 years earlier
- 1999–2009 Second Chechen War — 6 years earlier
- 2004 Beslan school siege — 1 year earlier
Middle East
- 1992–1993 War in Abkhazia — 13 years earlier
- 1993 Oslo Accords — 12 years earlier
- 2003 Rose Revolution — 2 years earlier
- 2008 Russo-Georgian War — 3 years later
- 2011–2024 Syrian civil war — 6 years later
Africa
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 22 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 11 years earlier
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — 7 years earlier
- 2011 Independence of South Sudan — 6 years later
Americas
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 22 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 4 years earlier
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 2 years earlier
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 2 years later
- 2010 Haiti earthquake — 5 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 13 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 87)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 75)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 86)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 81)
- Fidel Castro (aged 79)
- Elizabeth II (aged 79)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 78)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 74)
- Boris Yeltsin (aged 74)
- Pelé (aged 65)