2021: Year

2021 (MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st year of the 3rd millennium, the 21st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s decade.

2021: Events, Births, DeathsJames Webb Space Telescope2021 Myanmar coup d'étatOctober 2021 Sudanese coup d'étatFall of Kabul (2021)January 6 United States Capitol attackIngenuity (helicopter)2020 Summer Olympics2021 Suez Canal obstruction
From left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 Sudanese coup d'état; Crowd shortly after the January 6 United States Capitol attack; The container ship Ever Given gets stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking international shipping for six days; A scene from; the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan; The Ingenuity helicopter after deployment on the Martian surface by the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover; Taliban fighters in Kabul on a captured Humvee following the 2021 fall of Kabul at the end of the War in Afghanistan.
Millennium: 3rd millennium
Centuries: 20th century21st century22nd century
Decades: 1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years: 2018 2019 202020212022 2023 2024

The global COVID-19 pandemic continued into the year, and multiple COVID-19 variants were discovered. 2021 also hosted most major events that were originally scheduled for 2020 that were postponed or cancelled due to the pandemic, including the Eurovision Song Contest, UEFA Euro 2020, and the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Events

January

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On 6 January, protesters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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On 9 January, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes in the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia
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On 13 January, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump a second time over the storming of the U.S. Capitol
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On 20 January, former Vice President Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States
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On 26 January, Kaja Kallas becomes the first woman to be Prime Minister of Estonia, following the resignation of Jüri Ratas

February

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On 1 February, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi (left) is removed from power in a military coup d'état led by Min Aung Hlaing (right)
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On 7 February, a glacial burst in Uttarakhand, India kills at least 36 people
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On 13 February, former U.S. President Donald Trump is found not guilty in his second impeachment trial for inciting the storming of the U.S. Capitol
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From 13 to 17 February, a deadly winter storm hits North America killing 70 people and cutting off water, power and heating for millions

March

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On 1 March, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is found guilty of corruption and sentenced to three years in prison
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On 17 March, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is re-elected to a fourth term with his VVD party winning the elections
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On 18 March, a series of massive floods occur in New South Wales, Australia with over 18,000 people being evacuated and three people killed
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On 23 March, the Ever Given blocks the Suez Canal after a sandstorm forcibly moves the container ship

April

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On 9 April, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the royal consort of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at Windsor Castle (flag at half-staff pictured) at aged 99
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On 10 April, conservative banker Guillermo Lasso is elected the 47th President of Ecuador
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On 13 April, Japan's government approves the dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years
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On 20 April, President of Chad Idriss Déby is shot and killed during a military conflict in the Tibesti Region
On 22 April, the United States hosts a global summit on climate change where many countries promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions

May

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On 2 May, many protests break out in Colombia against a tax increase policy. The protests would result in the deaths on six civilians
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On 3 May, a section of the Mexico City Metro overpass collapses, killing 26 people
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On 11 May, a crisis between Israel and Palestine began after Hamas launched rockets onto Israeli cities while Israel hits the Gaza Strip with airstrikes
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On 14 May, CNSA's Zhurong rover lands on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet
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On 24 May, Naomi Mataʻafa becomes Samoa's first female Prime Minister, however her leadership is disputed as her predecessor Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi refuses to leave office

June

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On 2 June, former Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog is elected the 11th President of Israel
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On 9 June, El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make Bitcoin a legal tender in the country
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On 11 June, teacher Pedro Castillo is elected the 63rd President of Peru
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On 13 June, Naftali Bennett becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Israel, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's twelve-year tenure
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On 19 June, Ebrahim Raisi is elected the 8th President of Iran
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On 24 June, in the United States a condominium in Miami, Florida collapses, killing 97 people
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On 29 June, former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma is sentenced to 15 months in prison

July

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On 7 July, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated
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On 11 July, massive anti-government protests erupt in Cuba
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On 12 July, severe floods in Europe kill over 120 people
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On 15 July, Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries is shot and killed while leaving a studio set in Amsterdam
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On 17 July, floods and landslides in Henan, China kill over 50 people and leave over 2 million evacuated or homeless
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On 22 July, a flood in Maharashtra, India kills over 250 people
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On 23 July, the 2020 Summer Olympics begin in Tokyo, Japan

August

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On 4 August, sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya takes asylum in Poland after criticizing Belarus at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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On 14 August, a 7.2 earthquake hits Haiti, killing over 300 people
On 15 August, the Taliban takes control of Kabul and the Afghan government collapses with President Ashraf Ghani going into exile
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On 26 August, two suicide bombings caused by ISIS kills over 180 people at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul
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On 30 August, the evacuations in Afghanistan end, officially ending the War in Afghanistan

September

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On 3 September, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces his resignation, effective at the end of the month
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On 5 September, President of Guinea Alpha Condé is arrested and removed from power
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On 13 September, Norway's Opposition Leader Jonas Gahr Støre is elected Prime Minister
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On 20 September, Justin Trudeau is re-elected as Canadian Prime Minister
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On 26 September, the Social Democratic Party led by Olaf Scholz win the most seats in the Bundestag

October

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On 4 October, Fumio Kishida becomes the 100th Prime Minister of Japan
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On 4 October, a massive outage affects the social media sites Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram for seven hours
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On 8 October, Filipino journalist Maria Ressa is awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Russian editor Dmitry Muratov
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On 9 October, Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz announces his resignation following the creation of a corruption investigation against him
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On 14 October, a building fire in Taiwan kills 46 people
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On 25 October, Prime Minister of Sudan Abdalla Hamdok is removed from office and arrested during a military coup

November

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On 3 November, the World Health Organization gives emergency use listing to the Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine
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On 7 November, Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi survives an assassination attempt
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On 26 November, the World Health Organization officially names the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
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On 29 November, Magdalena Andersson is elected the first female Prime Minister of Sweden
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On 29 November, Barbados officially became a republic with Sandra Mason becoming the country's first president

December

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On 4 December, Mount Semeru erupts killing 46 people in Indonesia
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On 8 December, Olaf Scholz replaces Angela Merkel as the Chancellor of Germany
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On 10 December, a tornado outbreak in southern parts of the United States kills 88 people
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On 25 December, the James Webb Space Telescope is launched into space, replacing the Hubble Space Telescope

Births

Deaths

January

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Modibo Keita
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Martinus J. G. Veltman
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Phil Spector
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Cloris Leachman

February

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Christopher Plummer
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Mary Wilson
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Carlos Menem
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Sir Michael Somare

March

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Bunny Wailer
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Lou Ottens
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John Magufuli
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Nawal El Saadawi
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Didier Ratsiraka

April

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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Idriss Déby
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Michael Collins

May

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Olympia Dukakis
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Humberto Maturana
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Franco Battiato
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Yuan Longping
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Carla Fracci
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Poul Schlüter

June

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Sir Anerood Jugnauth
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Ei-ichi Negishi
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Kenneth Kaunda
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Benigno Aquino III

July

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Raffaella Carrà
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Dilip Kumar
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Jovenel Moïse
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Steven Weinberg

August

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Sir Lester Bird
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Gerd Müller
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Sonny Chiba
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Hissène Habré
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Charlie Watts

September

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Mikis Theodorakis
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Borisav Jović
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika

October

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Abolhassan Banisadr
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Abdul Qadeer Khan
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Edita Gruberová
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Roh Tae-woo

November

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Aaron T. Beck
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F. W. de Klerk
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Chun Doo-hwan

December

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Mustafa Ben Halim
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Vicente Fernández
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Desmond Tutu
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E. O. Wilson

Nobel Prizes

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References

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