WORLD HISTORY · 2021 日本語
Events of 2021Reiwa 3 (Japan) · Year of the Ox
What happened in 2021?
In July 2021, a deadly mudslide struck Atami, and the Tokyo Olympics, postponed by a year, were held. In October, Kishida Fumio's cabinet took office, and the Liberal Democratic Party secured a commanding majority in that month's general election.
- Trump supporters storm the U.S. CapitolNorth America
- Biden inaugurated as presidentNorth America
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons takes effectWorld
- Mudslide disaster strikes AtamiAsia
- Tokyo Olympics open after one-year delayAsia
- Taliban take control of KabulAsia
- Kishida Fumio cabinet takes officeAsia
- LDP wins commanding majority in general electionAsia
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2021 at a glance
| Japanese era | Reiwa 3 |
|---|---|
| Chinese zodiac | Year of the Ox |
| Age of people born in 2021 | Turn 5 in 2026 |
| Previous / next year | 2020 (Reiwa 2) ／ 2022 (Reiwa 4) |
| Events | 95 |
| AP World History | Unit 9 (Globalization) |
| AP U.S. History | Period 9 |
Famous people born in 2021
Our birthday pages list 1 people born in 2021. Here are some of them.
- Princess Lilibet of SussexBorn June 4 · turns 5 this year
Events of 2021 (timeline · 95)
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Supporters of U.S. president Donald Trump storm the United States Capitol Building to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in four deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.
Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.
Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.
Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people.
Protesters and farmers storm the Red Fort near Delhi, clashing with police. One protester is killed and more than 80 police officers are injured.
A nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten.
A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule.
The Burmese military establishes the State Administration Council, the military junta, after deposing the democratically elected government in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.
The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.
Sixty people drown and hundreds are missing after a boat sinks on the Congo River near the village of Longola Ekoti, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.
Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.
Mya Thwe Thwe Khine, a 19-year-old protester, becomes the first known casualty of anti-coup protests that formed in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.
Twenty-eight political institutions in Myanmar establish the National Unity Consultative Council, a historic alliance of ethnic armed organizations and democratically elected leaders, in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.
La Plume noire, an anarchist bookstore in Lyon, is targeted by an attack of the far-right, provoking a shock in Lyon's far-left circles.
At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.
A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.
COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed.
Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station.
Twenty-year-old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer mistakes her pistol for her taser.
A mass shooting occurs at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, killing nine and injuring seven.
The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.
State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.
Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala (402) sinks in the Bali Sea during a military drill, killing all 53 on board.
Twenty-six people are killed and ninety-eight are injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses.
A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.
Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.
A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people.
Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
Ten people are killed in a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, California, United States.
A Cessna Citation I/SP crashes into Percy Priest Lake in Tennessee, killing all six people on board, including actor Joe Lara and his wife Gwen Shamblin Lara.
A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China, kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
Juneteenth National Independence Day is signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 people inside.
The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30.
An Antonov An-26 operating as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing all 28 aboard.
Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.
American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.
The International Space Station temporarily spins out of control, moving the ISS 45 degrees out of attitude, following an engine malfunction of Russian module Nauka.
Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.
Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban as Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan along with local residents and foreign nationals, effectively reestablishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.
The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.
The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.
The National Unity Government of Myanmar declares a people's defensive war against the military junta during the Myanmar civil war.
Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.
Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
A 6.0 Mw earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13.
The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.
The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
The Los Angeles Superior Court formally ends the 14-year conservatorship to pop singer Britney Spears.
An SUV plows through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six and injuring 62.
COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.
Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.
A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others. Another tornado in Edwardsville, Illinois strikes an Amazon warehouse, killing six workers.
Dutch Formula One racing driver Max Verstappen wins the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, beating seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton to become the first Formula One World Champion to come from the Netherlands.
Burmese military forces commit the Mo So massacre, killing at least 44 civilians.
Three people are killed when a 14-year-old opens fire on civilians at a Texaco convenience store in Garland, Texas.
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FAQ
What year was 2021 in the Japanese calendar?
2021 was Reiwa 3 in the Japanese era system.
What Chinese zodiac animal is 2021?
2021 is the Year of the Ox.
How old is someone born in 2021?
They turn 5 on their birthday in 2026.
What happened in 2021?
In July 2021, a deadly mudslide struck Atami, and the Tokyo Olympics, postponed by a year, were held. In October, Kishida Fumio's cabinet took office, and the Liberal Democratic Party secured a commanding majority in that month's general election.
Dates and events are based on Wikipedia and other references. Summaries and regions are written by the site editors.