Important Historical Events of the year 2021, Year 2021 in History
List of 2021 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 2021
What happened in the year 2021?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 6, 2021 | Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress. |
| January 8, 2021 | Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela. |
| January 9, 2021 | Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board. |
| January 13, 2021 | 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. |
| January 15, 2021 | A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people. |
| January 20, 2021 | Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. At 78, he becomes the oldest person ever inaugurated. Kamala Harris becomes the first female Vice President of the United States. |
| January 26, 2021 | Protesters and farmers storm the Red Fort near Delhi, clashing with police. One protester is killed and more than 80 police officers are injured. |
| January 28, 2021 | A nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten. |
| February 1, 2021 | A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule. |
| February 5, 2021 | Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist.[17] Eleven police officers are arrested. |
| February 6, 2021 | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries. |
| February 7, 2021 | The 2021 Uttarakhand flood begins. |
| February 9, 2021 | Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began. |
| February 10, 2021 | The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| February 13, 2021 | Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. |
| February 13, 2021 | A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.[14] |
| February 15, 2021 | 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. |
| February 16, 2021 | Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria. |
| February 18, 2021 | Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully. |
| February 23, 2021 | Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador. |
| February 26, 2021 | A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria. |
| March 5, 2021 | Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq[14] amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| March 5, 2021 | Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. |
| March 7, 2021 | At least 105 die and 600 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea. |
| March 8, 2021 | International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone. |
| March 11, 2021 | US President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. |
| March 16, 2021 | 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. |
| March 22, 2021 | Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado. |
| March 23, 2021 | A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days. |
| April 2, 2021 | At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track. |
| April 2, 2021 | A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol. |
| April 5, 2021 | Nguyễn Xuân Phúc took office as President of Vietnam after dismissing the title of Prime Minister. |
| April 7, 2021 | 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. |
| April 11, 2021 | 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 allegedly mistakes her own gun for her taser. |
| April 17, 2021 | The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. |
| April 19, 2021 | The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet. |
| April 20, 2021 | 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. |
| April 21, 2021 | Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala (402) sinks in the Bali Sea during a military drill, killing all 53 on board. |
| April 30, 2021 | Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.[5] |
| May 8, 2021 | A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150. |
| May 22, 2021 | Severe weather kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, Gansu province of China. |
| May 23, 2021 | A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people. |
| May 23, 2021 | Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich. |
| May 26, 2021 | Ten people are killed in a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, California, United States. |
| June 13, 2021 | A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others. |
| June 17, 2021 | Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. |
| June 24, 2021 | The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 people inside. |
| June 30, 2021 | 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.[23] |
| July 8, 2021 | President Joe Biden announces that the official conclusion of U.S. involvement in the War in Afghanistan will be on August 31, 2021. |
| July 11, 2021 | Richard Branson becomes the first civilian to be launched into space via his Virgin Galactic spacecraft. |
| July 11, 2021 | Italy defeats England in the UEFA Euro 2020 Final to win their second European title. |
| July 15, 2021 | Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash. |
| July 20, 2021 | American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin. |
| August 5, 2021 | 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. |
| August 9, 2021 | The Tampere light rail officially started operating. |
| August 12, 2021 | Six people,five victims and the perpetrator are killed in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010 in Keyham, Plymouth. |
| August 14, 2021 | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis. |
| August 15, 2021 | 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. |
| August 26, 2021 | During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians. |
| August 30, 2021 | The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war. |
| September 5, 2021 | The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état. |
| September 7, 2021 | Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador. |
| September 16, 2021 | A 6.0 Mw earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88. |
| September 18, 2021 | A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, killing ten people and five missing. |
| September 19, 2021 | 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. |
| October 3, 2021 | Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy. |
| October 4, 2021 | Bubba Wallace becomes the first African-American Driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win a major race |
| October 14, 2021 | About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike. |
| October 21, 2021 | 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. |
| November 5, 2021 | The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized |
| November 12, 2021 | The Los Angeles Superior Court formally ends the 14-year conservatorship to pop singer Britney Spears. |
| November 21, 2021 | An SUV plows through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six and injuring 62. |
| November 30, 2021 | Barbados becomes a republic. |
| November 30, 2021 | 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. |
| December 3, 2021 | COVID-19 pandemic: New Zealand moves into COVID-19 Protection Framework (Traffic Light System), moving Auckland out of lockdown for fully vaccinated people. |
| December 4, 2021 | Semeru on the Indonesian island of Java erupts, killing at least 68 people. |
| December 9, 2021 | Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.[13][14] |
| December 10, 2021 | 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. |
| December 12, 2021 | 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. |
| December 25, 2021 | The James Webb Space Telescope is launched. |