January

• January 2 – Abdalla Hamdok resigns as Prime Minister of Sudan

• January 5 – (Kazakhstan) state of emergency is declared in Kazakhstan - Kazakh unrest.

• January 6 – The CSTO deploys a "peacekeeping" mission in Kazakhstan,

• January 9 – February 6 – The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is held in Cameroon,

• January 15 – A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano in Tonga,

• January 23 - Tropical Storm Ana kills 115 people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique,

• A coup d'état in Burkina Faso removes president Roch Kaboré from power.

February

• February 3 – (Syria) Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is killed in counter-terrorism raid by U.S. special forces

• February 4 – February 20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics are held in Beijing, China, (Summer Olympics)

• February 5 – (Madagascar, Mauritius, and Réunion) Cyclone Batsirai & Tropical Storm Ana

March

• March 3 - The National Assembly of Armenia elects Vahagn Khachaturyan, as president

• March 4 – March 13 – The 2022 Winter Paralympics are held in Beijing, China,

• March 4 – Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, - Insurgency

• March 9 - South Korean presidential election: Yoon Suk-yeol elected President

• March 10 – The National Assembly of Hungary elects Katalin Novák, as president

• March 11 – Gabriel Boric is sworn in as President of Chile.

• March 12 – 2022 Turkmenistan presidential election: Serdar Berdimuhamedow,

• March 21 – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China,

• March 27 – The M23 offensive begins in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• April

• April 3 - Costa Rican general election / Rodrigo Chaves Robles

• April 7 - President of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns

• April 11 – The National Assembly of Pakistan elects leader of the opposition Shehbaz Sharif as prime minister,

• April 19 – East Timorese presidential election / José Ramos-Horta is elected

• April 20 – A European Southern Observatory team announce the discovery of micronovae, a new type of exploding star.[101]

• April 24 – Slovenian parliamentary election

• April 28 – The Parliament of Montenegro elects a new government with Dritan Abazović as prime minister,

May

• May 9 - Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns / succeeded by Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister

• Philippine presidential election: Bongbong Marcos

• May 13 – (United Arab Emirates) Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is elected president

• May 15 – Former President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is elected president.

• May 21 – Australian federal election: / Anthony Albanese

• May 28 – UEFA Champions League final played at the Stade de France in Paris, France

June

• June 4 –(Albania) Bajram Begaj is elected the 9th President

• June 5 –( Owo, Nigeria) mass shooting-bomb attack

• June 19(France) legislative election / hung parliament, with President Macron's coalition losing its majority in the National Assembly.

• Colombian presidential election / Gustavo Petro

• June 22 – (Afghanistan and Pakistan) 6.2 earthquake

• June 23 – (Grenada) Dickon Mitchell's party wins a majority of seats in general election,

• June 26 – G7 leaders gather for a summit in Germany

• June 28 – June 30 – A NATO summit is held in Madrid, Spain

July

• July 1 – (Israel) Yair Lapid succeeds Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister

• July 6 – July 31 – UEFA Women's Euro 2022 is held in England, with the hosts winning their first major tournament since 1966.[147]

• July 8 – Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated

• July 18 – (India) Droupadi Murmu is elected as President

• July 19 – 2022 European heat waves

• July 21 Sri Lanka elects Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as President

• July 27 – Philippines - 7.0 earthquake

• July 28–August 8 – The 2022 Commonwealth Games is held in Birmingham, England.[161]

• July 31 – (Kabul Afghanistan) Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian terrorist is killed in an airstrike

August

• August 4 (Taiwan) China conducts its largest ever military exercise around Taiwan. Visit by Nancy Pelosi

• (Peru) Prime Minister Aníbal Torres, resigns following multiple criminal investigations against the President of Peru, Pedro Castillo.

• August 6 – Saint Kitts and Nevis - Terrance Drew is sworn in as prime minister

• August 9 – Kenyan general election: William Ruto is elected president

• August 10 – (Finland) 2022 UEFA Super Cup

• August 19 – The coalition government of Montenegrin prime minister Dritan Abazović collapses

• August 27 – September 11 – United Arab Emirates - 2022 Asia Cup

• August 28 – Pakistan floods:

September

• September 5 – (Sichuan province, China) 6.8 earthquake

• September 6 – Liz Truss is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• September 8 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom dies

• September 11 – Swedish general election i
  Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns succeeded as prime minister by Ulf Kristersson

• September 12 – September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes:

• September 14–September 20 – 2022 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes

• September 14–September 25 – Hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic

• September 19 – (London, England)The state funeral of Elizabeth II

• September 22 – October 1 – (Sydney Australia)The 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup

• September 24 – Nauruan parliamentary election / Russ Kun elected president

• September 25 – Italian general election

• September 27–September 30 – (Cuba) Hurricane Ian

• September 30 (Ukraine / Russia) Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine

• Burkina Faso's military junta is overthrown led by army captain Ibrahim Traoré.

October

• October 1 – (East Java, Indonesia) A fatal human crush at football match

• October 16–October 23 – (China) Xi Jinping is re-elected as General Secretary by the Central Committee,

• October 20 – (United Kingdom) Liz Truss announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.[221]

• October 25 – (United Kingdom) Rishi Sunak becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,

• October 28 - (Lesotho) Sam Matekane is sworn in as Prime Minister of Lesotho

• October 29(South Korea) crowd crush fatalities

• (Samalia) double car bombing by al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia

• October 30 - Brazilian general election: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeats incumbent

• (India) collapse of a suspension bridge

November

• November 1 - Israeli legislative election: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins

• Danish general election: / Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

• November 2–November 3 – (Ethiopia) Tigray War: peace agreement

• November 6–November 18 – The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on climate change mitigation takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.[241][242]

• November 15 G20 Bali summit

• November 19 – Malaysian general election results in a hung parliament, Anwar Ibrahim is appointed as prime minister

• November 19–November 26 – (Colombia) 2022 Central American and Caribbean Beach Games

• November 20–December 18 – (Qatar) The 2022 FIFA World Cup

• November 20 – Nepalese general election: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba,

• November 21 – (Indonesia) 5.6 earthquake

December

• December The Congress of Peru removes President Pedro Castillo from office
  arrests him in a coup attempt, Vice President Dina Boluarte succeeds
  

• December 17 – (Ireland) Leo Varadkar succeeds Micheál Martin as Taoiseach

• December 18 – Argentina wins the 2022 FIFA World Cup

• December 24 – Fijian general election: Sitiveni Rabuka as Prime Minister of Fiji,

• December 31 –Pope Benedict XVI dies

January

• January 14 – Ugandan general election / Yoweri Museveni
  - Lao People's Revolutionary Party elects Thongloun Sisoulith General Secretary.

• January 24 – Portuguese presidential election: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is reelected.

• January 31 – Nguyễn Phú Trọng General Secretary of Vietnam.[20]

February

• February 1 oup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi

• February 20 – 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak in Russia

• February 22 – (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Luca Attanasio, the Italian Ambassador murdered

• February 25 – The Armenian military calls for prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign.

• February 28 – Salvadoran legislative election

March

• March 6 - (Najaf, Iraq) Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in .
  Ivorian parliamentary election

• March 19 - (Tanzania) Samia Suluhu Hassan is sworn in as president following the death of John Magufuli.

• March 21 – (Colobia / Venezuela) Clashes in Apure between Colombian FARC dissidents and the Venezuelan Armed Forces

• March 23 - Israeli general elections
  Ever Given, one of the largest container ships in the world, runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal,

April

• April 2 – Russia warns NATO against sending any troops to aid Ukraine, amid reports of a large Russian military build-up on its borders.[52]

• April 4 - 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election

• (Indonesia and East Timor) Cyclone Seroja

• April 9 – Roscosmos launches the Soyuz MS-18 mission, carrying three Expedition 65 crewmembers to the International Space Station.[55]

• April 13 – Japan's government approves the dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean

• April 15 – Scientists announce they successfully injected human stem cells into the embryos of monkeys, creating chimera-embryos.[60]

• April 18 - Cape Verdean parliamentary election is held.

• April 19 - (Cuba) Raúl Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party,

• April 20 – Idriss Déby, President of Chad, is killed in clashes with rebel forces

• April 24 - (Indonesia) Indonesian navy reports the sinking of KRI Nanggala

• April 25 – Albania holds parliamentary elections

• April 28 - Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan serious clashes following border disputes between .

May

• May 11 – 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis

• May 15 – Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants continues to escalate, as the death toll exceeds 150. An Israeli airstrike destroys a high-rise office building in Gaza occupied by Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets.[90]

• May 23 – (Belarus) Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.

• May 24 - coup d'état in Mali removes president Bah Ndaw prime minister, Moctar Ouane / restores military rule
  (Ecuador) The Government of Guillermo Lasso is formed

• May 26 - 2021 Syrian presidential election

• May 30 – Cypriot legislative election

June

• June 2 – Israeli presidential election i won by Isaac Herzog. Removes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ,

• June 9 - Mongolian presidential election

• June 11–July 11 – UEFA Euro 2020, hosted by 11 different countries,

• June 11–June 13 – (United Kingdom) World leaders meet at the 47th G7 summit,

• June 12 – Algerian legislative election

• June 13 – (Israel) Benjamin Netanyahu, voted out of office; Naftali Bennett Yair Lapid sworn in as Prime Minister

• June 13–July 10 – 2021 Copa América, hosted behind closed doors by Brazil

• June 17 – June 18 – The 2021 Iranian presidential election

• June 20 – Armenian parliamentary election: Nikol Pashinyan wins

• June 23 – ICC World Test Championship Final

• June 28 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Force seizes the Tigrayan capital

July

• July 5 – July 7 – Assassination of Jovenel Moïse: Haitian President

• July 11 (Cuba) anti-government protest in San Antonio de los Baños

• Moldova parliamentary election

• Bulgaria holds a parliamentary election

• July 12 – 2021 European floods: Germany and Belgium

• July 19 - (Peru) Pedro Castillo is confirmed as President

• July 23–August 8 – Summer Olympics were held in Tokyo, Japan.

• July 25 – Tunisian president Kais Saied formally takes power

• (Oman) The oil tanker Mercer Street is attacked

August

• August 3 (United Arab Emirates.) The oil tanker Asphalt Princess is hijacked
  Wildfires in Greece begin.[165]

• August 4 Summer Olympics:
  (Polan) Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya given political asylum.

• August 5 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Forces seize the UNESCO World Heritage Site

• August 12 – Zambian general election

• August 14 – (Haiti) 7.2-magnitude earthquake

• August 15 – (Afghanistan) Taliban offensive: Afghan government surrenders

• August 24–September 5 – 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in Tokyo, Japan.

• August 26 – (Afghanistan) Kabul airport attack

• August 29 – (Venezuela) Hurricane Ida

• August 30

September

Military parade in Kaloum, a day after the coup

• September 5 – Guinean coup d'état: Guinea's President Alpha Condé is detained / Lt. Col. Mamady Doumbouya, seized power.[186]

• September 13 - Norwegian parliamentary election

• September 15 - (Argentina) president Alberto Fernández's cabinet resign after the government's defeat

• September 19 – Russian legislative election

• September 20 – Canadian federal election / Justin Trudeau

• September 25 – Icelandic parliamentary election

• September 26 – German federal election / Olaf Scholz

October

• October 1 – The 2020 World Expo in Dubai

• October 4 – Fumio Kishida becomes the 100th Prime Minister of Japan, succeeding Yoshihide Suga.[206]

• October 6 – The World Health Organization endorses the first malaria vaccine.[211]

• October 8–October 9 – Czech legislative election

• October 9 – (Austria) Sebastian Kurz resignation as Chancellor

• October 17–November 14 – (UAE / Oman) ICC Men's T20 World Cup

• October 23 – Colombia's most wanted drug lord, Dario Antonio Úsuga, captured

• October 24 – Uzbek presidential election is held.[220]

• October 25 – Sudanese military coup.
  Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under arrest.
  President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan state of emergency / dissolution of the government.

• October 31 - Japanese general election / Fumio Kishida

November

• November 5 - (Ethiopia) Tigray War

• November 14 - Argentine legislative election
  Bulgarian general election

• November 21 – Chilean general election

• November 24 - (Sweden) Magdalena Andersson resigns as Prime Minister-elect

• November 30–December 18 – (Qatar) FIFA Arab Cup
  (Barbados) Governor-General of Barbados, Sandra Mason (President)

• November 30 – Barbados becomes a republic

December

• December 4 – Gambian presidential election / president Adama Barrow is reelected.

• December 9 - (Mexico / Guatemala) A truck crash in Chiapas, Mexico, kills 55

• December 12 - New Caledonian independence referendum
  (UAE) Max Verstappen Formula One World Championship

• December 16 – Typhoon Rai, / Typhoon Odette, hits the Philippines

• December 19 - Hong Kong legislative election

• Chilean presidential election / Gabriel Boric

January

• January 1 - Flash floods struck Jakarta, Indonesia

• January 2 – Australian bushfire season - Royal Australian Air Force and Navy are deployed to New South Wales and Victoria

• January 3 – (Iraq) A United States drone strike at Baghdad International Airport Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

• January 3 - 7: SECSTATE Pompeo will travel Kyiv, Ukraine; Minsk, Belarus; Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; and Nicosia, Cyprus

• January 5 Second Libyan Civil War: deployment of Turkish troops
  Croatian presidential election: Zoran Milanović

• January 8 (Iraq) Iran launches ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases
  Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian forces

• January 9 - (Nigeria) Islamic State in the Greater Sahara militants assault a Nigerien military

• January 10 – Haitham bin Tariq succeeds Qaboos bin Said as the Sultan of Oman]

• January 11 – Presidential and legislative elections in Taiwan. Tsai Ing-wen reelected

• January 12 – The Taal Volcano in the Philippines - major eruption

• January 18 – Yemeni Civil War: drone and missile attack on a military camp

• January 18 - 23: SECSTATE Pompeo travels to Germany, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica,

• January 20 – COVID-19 pandemic: Chinese confirm human-to-human transmission of coronavirus 2

• January 22 – (Greece) Katerina Sakellaropoulou elected president

• January 23 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the initial COVID-19 outbreak, is quarantine

• January 26 - Peruvian parliamentary election

• January 29 - Febrary 4: Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo traveled to London, U.K.; Kyiv, Ukraine; Minsk, Belarus; Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan

• January 30 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of the disease as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern

• January 31 – The United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union,

February

• February 6 – (Italy) Livraga derailment: derailed in Livraga, Lombardy, Italy.

• February 8 – Irish general election

• February 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) names the disease COVID-19.

• February 13 – NASA publishes a detailed study of Arrokoth, the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft.[

• February 14 - 25 : (India) POTUS Trump visit

• Feb 13 - 23: SECSTATE Pompeo travels to Germany, Senegal, Angola, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and Oman

• February 19 – ( Frankfurt Germany) Hanau shootings:

• February 24 – (Malaysia) The Pakatan Harapan government of Malaysia collapses / Muhyiddin Yassin becomes Prime Minister

• February 27 – 2020 stock market crash

• February 28 – Syrian Civil War: NATO expresses solidarity with Turkey

• February 29 (Afghanistan) conditional peace agreement United States & Taliban.
  Venezuela - Barquisimeto shooting:

March

• March 9 COVID-19 pandemic: Italy becomes the first country nationwide quarantine

• March 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.

• March 12 – Global stock markets crash due to the COVID-19 pandemic

• March 17 - The European Union's external and Schengen borders are closed for at least 30 days in an effort to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.

• March 24 - COVID-19 pandemic: India and the United Kingdom go into lockdown to contain COVID-19.

April

• April 10 - Kivu Ebola epidemic: The Democratic Republic of the Congo reports the first case of Ebola since February 2020.

• April 15 - South Korean legislative election

• April 21 – Mozambique police say 52 male villagers were killed by Islamist militants

• April 25 - Yemeni Civil War: The Southern Transitional Council (STC) accepts Saudi-brokered peace deal and abandons its self-rule aspirations.

May

• May 1 - Guanare, Venezuela - Guanare prison riot

• May 3–4 – Venezuelan dissidents and a North American-based private military company, Silvercorp USA, unsuccessfully attempt to infiltrate Venezuela and forcibly remove President Nicolás Maduro from office.[

• May 9 – Chinese and Indian soldiers are injured in a cross-border clash at the Nathu La crossing.

• May 8 Aurangabad railway accident occurred in India.

• May 12 – Kabul, Afghanistan - Gunmen storm a maternity hospital
  In a separate incident in Kuz Kunar, 32 people are killed by a suicide bomber.

• May 13 - SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Israel

• di Arabia, and Oman

• May 21 Cyclone Amphan makes landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh,

• May 22 - Karachi, Pakistan Flight PK8303, crashes in a residential area near

• May 23 – COVID-19 pandemic: China reports no new cases for the first time since the pandemic began, according to the National Health Commission.
  SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan and Doha, Qatar

• May 25 - Surinamese general election is held to elect all 51 members of the National Assembly of Suriname.[156]

June

• June 1 – Democratic Republic of the Congo - Kivu Ebola epidemic:

• June 2 – A US$5 billion class action lawsuit is filed against Alphabet Inc. and Google, alleging the company violates users' right to privacy by tracking them in Chrome's incognito mode.[169]

• June 3

  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK will change immigration laws to offer a pathway to UK citizenship for all Hong Kong citizens who are eligible for BN(O) status if the government of China imposes new security laws on the territory.[170]

  • SpaceX successfully launches and deploys 60 Starlink satellites into a low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, bringing the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to 482.[171]

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin declares a state of emergency after 20,000 tons of oil leaked into the Ambarnaya River near the Siberian city of Norilsk within the Arctic Circle on May 26, 2020. The World Wildlife Fund said the accident is believed to be the second-largest in modern Russian history.[172]

• June 4

  • Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) says they are in full control of the capital, Tripoli, after forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) retreat from the territory following months of intense fighting in the city.[173]

  • Hong Kong legislative council passed the controversial National Anthem Ordinance.[174]

• June 5 – The 2020 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election is held to elect all 15 members of the National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis.[175]

• June 7 – COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 400,000.[176]

• June 8 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 7 million worldwide.[177]

• June 9 – COVID-19 pandemic: A Harvard University study suggests that COVID-19 may have been spreading in China as early as August 2019, based on hospital car park usage and web search trends.[178]

• June 15

  • At least 20 Indian soldiers and over 40 Chinese forces are killed or injured in skirmishes in the disputed Galwan Valley, the largest escalation along the Sino-Indian border in five decades.[179]

  • Turkish and Iranian forces commence air and artillery strikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party forces in Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkey launches a land operation in the region on June 17.[180]

• June 16

  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 8 million worldwide.[181]

  • North Korea demolishes the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in Kaesong, established in 2018 to improve relations.[182]

• June 21

  • An annular solar eclipse occurs.[183]

  • The 2020 Serbian parliamentary election is held to elect all 250 members of the National Assembly of Serbia and the ruling For Our Children coalition won 188 out of 250 seats.[184][185]

• June 22

  • COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 9 million worldwide.[186]

  • The 2020 Kiribati presidential election is held and incumbent president Taneti Maamau is reelected.[187][188]

  • The 2020 Malawian presidential election is held and Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party is elected president.[189][190][191][192]

• June 24 – The 2020 Mongolian legislative election is held to elect the State Great Khural and the ruling Mongolian People's Party wins 62 out of 76 seats.[193][194][195][196]

• June 27

  • Micheál Martin succeeds Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach of Ireland, with Varadkar becoming Tánaiste in a historic three-party coalition government.[197]

  • The 2020 Icelandic presidential election is held and incumbent president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson is reelected.[198][199]

• June 28

  • COVID-19 pandemic:

    • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 10 million worldwide.[200] The U.S. continues to report the highest number of any country as it reaches 2.5 million, a quarter of all cases globally.[201]

    • The global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 500,000.[202]

    • The first round of voting of the 2020 Polish presidential election is held.[203][204][205][206]

• June 30 – China passes the controversial Hong Kong national security law, allowing China to crack down on opposition to Beijing at home or abroad.[207]

July

• July 5 - Croatian parliamentary election
  Dominican Republic general election: Luis Abinader is elected president

• July 7 - Protests begin throughout Bulgaria to remove Ivan Geshev from office
  COVID-19 pandemic (Serbia): Thousands of people rally in response to stricter lockdown measures proposed by President Aleksandar Vučić

• July 8 – Djibo, Burkina Faso - mass graves in Djibo, Burkina Faso,

• July 10 - Singaporean general election Lee Hsien Loong wins

• July 12 – Polish presidential election / president Andrzej Duda is reelected.

• July 19 – (India) Flooding of the Brahmaputra River kills 189 and leaves 4 million homeless in India and Nepal.

• July 20 - 22: SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to London, U.K., and Copenhagen, Denmark

August

• August 4 – Beirut, Lebanon. explosion the Lebanese government declares a two-week state of emergency.

• August 7 – (India) Air India Express Flight 1344 crashes

• August 9 – presidential election in Belarus Alexander Lukashenko's reelection sparks protests throughout the country

• August 10 - Trinidad and Tobago general election / Keith Rowley

• August 11 - 15: SECSTATE Pompeo travels Czech Republic; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Vienna, Austria; and Warsaw, Poland

• August 15 – Mauritius - Japanese bulk carrier Wakashio, which stranded on a reef - breaks in half.

• August 16 - SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

• August 18 – (Mali) coup d'état. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé arrested - resigns

• August 23 – Bayern Munich wins UEFA Champions League

• August 23 - 27: SECSTATE Pompeo travels to Israel, Sudan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman

• August 28 – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, resigns

September

• September 3 - Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and Abdelaziz al-Hilu, the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM–N), sign an agreement to transition the country into a secular state.

• September 6 – Typhoon Haishen Japan / South Korea

• September 12 - SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Cyprus

• September 12 - SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Qatar

• September 16 - Yoshihide Suga becomes the new Prime Minister of Japan

• Semptember 17 - 20: SECSTATE Pompeo traveled Paramaribo, Suriname; Georgetown, Guyana; Boa Vista, Brazil; Bogota, Colombia

• September 29 - Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Sabah dies / Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah successor.

October

• October 1 - 6: SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Italy, The Holy See, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Greece.

• September 27 - October 2 - SEC STATE Pompeo travels to Greece, Italy, the Holy See, and Croatia

• October 4-6 - SECSTATE travel Tokyo, Japan

• October 15 Thai protests: Government of Thailand declares state of emergency

• President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov resigns massive protests / Sadyr Japarov assumes office

• October 16 - 19: SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Ankara, Jerusalem, and Brussels

• October 17 – New Zealand general election: Jacinda Ardern's

• October 21 – Vietnam - tropical storm Linfa

• October 25-30 SECSTATE travel New Delhi, India; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Malé, Maldives; Jakarta, Indonesia; Hanoi, Vietnam

• October 29 – (Senegal) The International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirms the death 140 migrants who drowned off the coast of Senegal

• October 30 - (Greece / Turkey) Aegean Sea earthquake

• October 31 – Typhoon Goni - Philippines

November

• November 1 – Moldovan presidential election: / Maia Sandu

• November 4 - United States presidential election: Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States
  (Ethiopia) Beginning of the Tigray War

• Novmber 6 - 8: SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Germany

• November 7 – Hurricane Eta makes landfall in Nicaragua,

• November 9 - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia sign a ceasefire agreemen Second Nagorno-Karabakh War:

• November 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Sputnik V vaccine 92% effective

• November 13 - 23 : SECSTATE Travel to France, Turkey, Georgia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia

• November 12 – 13 - Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse,

• Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Vietnam, after crossing the Philippines

• Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Western Sahara conflict

• November 15 - Turkish Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton wins

• November 16 COVID-19 pandemic: The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is proven to be 94.5
  Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua / two weeks after Hurricane Eta

• November 18 – COVID-19 pandemic: Pfizer and BioNTech complete trials on their COVID-19 vaccine,

• November 19 - 21 : SECSTATE Pompeo traveled to Brussels, Belgium, attending the NATO Ministerial

• November 23 – COVID-19 pandemic: AstraZeneca's AZD1222 vaccine, 70% effective

• November 28 – Borno, Nigeria, - Koshobe massacre

December

• December 1 - 5: SECSTATE Pompeo travels to London, United Kingdom; Lisbon, Portugal; and Rabat, Morocco,

• December 2 - COVID-19 pandemic: The United Kingdom approves Pfizer-BioNTech's BNT162b2 vaccine,

• December 4 - Somali Civil War: The United States announces its withdrawal from the conflict over the next month.

• December 5 – COVID-19 pandemic: Russia begins mass vaccination against COVID-19 with the Sputnik V candidate.

• December 6 – Venezuelan parliamentary election

• December 14 - total solar eclipse South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the South Atlantic Ocean

• December 29 – (Croatia) Petrinja earthquake

2021

These are news events from 2021. These incidents occured in countries where MSGs served at Diplomatic posts, were aware and / or directly involved.

2020

These are news events from 2020. These incidents occured in countries where MSGs served at Diplomatic posts, were aware and / or directly involved.