2000s

From left to right: On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists attacked on September 11, 2001; on January 1, 2002, the Euro entered into circulation in 12 European Union countries; the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, in 2003; the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra-Andamán, Indonesia, leaves a number of American deaths in more than 275 000, without counting the thousands of people disappeared from Afghanistan. the Bird's Nest during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games; social media across the Internet extend throughout the world.

The 2000s, the 2000s, or 2000s, comprise the period of time from 1 January 2000, until December 31, 2009. The decade was declared International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World by the UN.

The decade of the 2000s was marked by the war against terrorism declared by the United States (under the mandate of George W. Bush) after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 against The Twin Towers in New York and The Pentagon. In this context, the armed conflicts took place in Afghanistan (since 2001) and Iraq nig (since 2003) that caused, respectively, the overthrow of the Taliban regime and that of Saddam Hussein. Although Al-Qaeda terrorism continued to strike and cause more deaths in Bali (2002), Madrid (2004), London (2005), Bombay (2006) and a multitude of attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It was also the decade of the rise of China as a world power (in 2001 it joined the WTO and in 2010 it became the second world economic power) and the economic rise of India and Brazil, which became poles of reference worldwide (those known as "emerging countries"). The United States will continue to be the main world superpower but it will not have the power it had in the previous decade, beginning the process towards a multipolar world.

The decade also brought the first presidency of an African American (Barack Obama) in the United States or the largest enlargement in the history of the European Union (May 1, 2004), with the addition of ten new countries for the most part from Eastern Europe (former socialist bloc). Also, it should be added that the first Conclave of the III Millennium took place (in 2005) that elected Benedict XVI as pope, after the death of John Paul II.

In Latin America, with the rise to power in Venezuela of Hugo Chávez, Socialism of the 21st century emerged. Fierce anti-globalization rhetoric and his outreach to the working class made the movement spread throughout the region. The Pink Tide was formed by governments such as Lula da Silva (Brazil), Néstor Kirchner (Argentina), Evo Morales (Bolivia) or Rafael Correa (Ecuador). It also led to the creation of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) or the movement against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (No to the FTAA). In Peru, the president Alberto Fujimori, was forced to resign after 10 years of government.

With the independence of Montenegro and, partially recognized, that of Kosovo, the dynamics of the dissolution of Yugoslavia that began in the previous decade ended. Also East Timor became permanently independent from Indonesia in 2002.

They were also years of scientific achievements in fields such as genetics (sequencing of the human genome) or astronautics (the end of the MIR and the commissioning of the ISS that same year). Unfortunately, in 2004 one of the greatest natural tragedies in history occurred, the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia and caused the deaths of more than 240,000 people.

From a social point of view, it is also the decade in which the massive introduction of the Internet and mobile phones change social relationships forever. Leading companies appear in the technology sector that have a decisive influence worldwide such as Apple, Google among others. The so-called "social networks" begin their "boom" at the end of the decade, modifying in a vertiginous way the social forms and relations throughout the planet.

The last years of the decade were profoundly marked by the start of the global financial and stock market crisis that began in the US in 2008 and was caused by the so-called subprime mortgages. Said crisis ended up affecting the global economic fabric and becoming the most important event of the last third of the decade and which will condition the following one.

Summary of the main historical events

From 2000 to 2002

• 2000: First absolute majority of the Popular Party in Spain. On January 17, 2000, the then president of the Government of Europe, José María Aznar, announced the call for general elections for March 12. For the first time since the recovery of democracy in Spain, a whole legislature was exhausted. Retired Felipe González from the general secretariat of the PSOE, Joaquín Almunia was nominated for that party after the resignation of José Borrell. The PSOE and Izquierda Unida, led by Francisco Frutos, signed a pact to present joint lists to the Senate, with the intention of organizing a coalition government in case of victory. The reduction of taxes, the decline in unemployment, the maintenance of stable economic growth and the reduction of the public deficit helped the victory by an absolute majority of the PP.

• 2000: The end of 72 years of PRI hegemony in Mexico. The main contenders of the Presidency of the Republic were Francisco Labastida Ochoa (PRI), Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (PRD) and Vicente Fox (PAN). The presidential campaign was intense and hidden. As in 1994, the presidential candidates debated publicly and, unlike the past, the authority had the capacity to control, to the satisfaction of all political actors, the electoral roll and to moderate the advantages of resources among the parties. Thus, on July 2, Ernesto Zedillo must have publicly acknowledged the first defeat of his party in 71 years. This was how a period of more than seven decades ended in the power of a single party and, also for the first time in the history of independent Mexico, the country experienced a transfer of power to peaceful and orderly opposition. The electoral result gave Vicente Fox 42.52% of the suffrages, while Francisco Labastida only obtained 36.10% and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas 16.64%. Mexico thus began its new political life with a tripartite system where the PAN was represented with 207 deputies and 46 senators, the PRI with 211 deputies and 60 senators and the PRD with 51 deputies and 7 senators. No party had the capacity to control legislative power. In the rest of the country, 19 states were governed by the PRI, seven by the PAN and four by the PRD, while the municipal governments had also been pluralized: 57% were PRI, 13.4% were Panistas and 10% perredistas.

He takes possession of George W. Bush as 43 president of the United States.

• 2001: George W. Bush, new president of the United States. In the elections to elect the new president of the United States. On 7 November 2000, Democratic candidate Al Gore, who had occupied the vice president of the country during the Clinton term, found Republican George W. Bush, the son of the same name of former President Bush, a difficult opponent to win. The polls gave as a favorite, although by a very narrow margin, the Republican candidate who after the general count appeared to be reached with victory for less than 1000 votes. This situation led the Democrats led by Al Gore to request the manual count of Florida's votes, arguing that there could have been electoral fraud in that state. Following its passage through the courts, the U.S. electoral process appeared to be clarified in December following the Supreme Court ruling marking the end of the manual vote counts. It was the beginning of the second Bush era that began on January 20, 2001.

• 2001: Advert to the decipherment of the Human Genome. In February 2001, with 90 per cent of the sequestered genome, a first draft of the genetic map of humans was published. The researchers completed the decipherment of the genome in April 2003. The sequencing of the human genome, one of the most relevant scientific events in the history of humanity, revealed that human beings have about 31,000 genes. This presupposes that, contrary to what had been thought of at first, the human genome barely has twice as many genes as the vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The first deciphered chromosomes were 22 in 1999, 21 in 2000, and chromosome number 20 in December 2001. Scientists have also sequenced the genome of numerous organisms such as the Escherichia coli bacteria, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast, the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode or the vinegar fly. These studies are important to know the similarities between human genes and the genes of other organisms and to better understand the functions of genes.

Area of land on which the Twin Towers were located after its collapse on 11 September 2001.

• 2001: USA The U.S. suffers the greatest terrorist attack ever. On September 11, 2001, Tuesday, an American Airlines Boeing 767-300 plane, with 92 passengers, took off from Boston Logan Airport to Los Angeles; it was 07:59 hours (in the U.S.) and 08:45, diverted its route, crashed into one of the Twin Towers (the North Tower), the World Trade Center in New York City, in the South of Manhattan. One minute before that take-off and at the same airport in Boston, another plane, also Boeing 767-300, but from the United Airlines (floor 175), with 65 passengers took off with the same destination: at 09:03 hours he crashed with the South Tower. At 08:01, the Boeing 757-200 aircraft of the United Airlines (floor 93) took off from Newark Airport (New Jersey), with 45 passengers heading to San Francisco: at 10:10 he crashed into a forested area of Pennsylvania. A few minutes later, at 8:10, John Foster Dulles Airport took off in Virginia, American Airlines' Boeing 757-200, with 64 passengers on board and destined for Los Angeles: it was 08:10 and at 09:43, crashed into the building of the Pentagon in Washington DC, headquarters of the United States Ministry of Defense. The White House, the State Department, the UN and Washington's main buildings are evacuated. The collisions caused a fire that affected the internal structure of the two skyscrapers, which collapsed respectively at 10.05 and 10.28. Much of the island of Manhattan is wrapped under a very thick cloud of smoke. The district of the area affected by the explosion is agreed. Following the claim of the attack by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda, led by Saudi Arabian Osama Bin Laden, the world shocked at the greatest terrorist attack in history in which nearly 3,000 people had lost their lives realized that nothing would be the same since that sinister day.

• 2001: War of Afghanistan. Following the 11-S terrorist attack by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda, the U.S. government of George W. Bush accused the Afghan Taliban of providing shelter to the leader of the organization, Bin Laden. The Kabul regime refused to hand over the leader of Al-Qaeda, and on 7 October, with unanimous international support and direct intervention by British and Australian forces, the United States began bombing Afghan territory, in a military operation baptized as Durable Freedom. At the same time, the troops of the Northern Alliance received significant support and launched a harsh military campaign to evict the Taliban from power. After more than a month of fighting, the capital fell: Kabul, and on 6 December, Kandahar (Taliban award). But since the mulah Mohammed Omar and Bin Laden remained unknown, the war operations continued, moving to the one who was presumed to be their place of refuge, the mountainous region of Tora Bora where many members of Al-Qaeda were still fighting. The resistance of Tora Bora ended on 16 December, but Omar and Bin Laden continued to be disappeared. At the same time, and under the auspices of the UN, a meeting was held in Bonn, Germany, which was attended by representatives of all the forces and ethnic groups of the country (except the Taliban), in order to design a new future for the Muslim country.

• 2001: Serious economic and political crisis in Argentina. In December 2001, Argentina was in a situation close to the suspension of payments and IMF credits were compromised. On the 3rd of that month, the government limited to 250 pesos the amount that citizens could withdraw from their accounts every week. It was the first in a series of unpopular measures aimed at restricting the cash provision of Argentines and limiting public payments (employed wages and sentences were, for example, postponed). All this caused the panic of the population and, at last, the social outbreak. On the 13th, a general strike was held by the LGTBI, and six days later thousands of people showed their protests in the streets of the whole country. The president of the Argentine Nation, Fernando de la Rúa decreed the state of siege, repealed it on the 20th day and, in the face of the Peronist refusal to form a government of national unity, resigned. It was happened internly by the President of the Senate, Ramon Puerta, until on 21 the Congress granted the head of the state to the Peronist Adolfo Rodríguez Saá. This announced the momentary suspension of external debt payments and the entry into circulation of a new currency, the "Argentine"backed by all state property. Differences with some provincial governors of their own party motivated Rodriguez Saá to resign on December 30. He was replaced for hours by the president of the lower chamber, Eduardo Camaño (Puerta resigned to the performance of a second interinity), and on January 2, 2002, appointed by the Congress, the also judicialist Eduardo Duhalde swore the position of president of the Republic. A few days after his access to power, the new first president ordered his first measures to address the economic crisis: abandonment of the fixed exchange rate, devaluation of the weight and pessification of the economy (including bank deposits). Although the crisis continued, the government attempted to progressively normalize the financial system; in November 2002, almost a year after its implementation, restrictions on the withdrawal of cash from current accounts (the so-called corralito) were completed, and in March 2003 restrictions on the withdrawal of fixed-term deposit funds (the so-called corralito) were lifted. corralito).

• 2002: Euro enters into circulation in 12 EU countries. During the first two months of 2002, in each participating country the national banknotes and coins coexisted with the euro banknotes and coins, while the progressive exchange of the first for the second. As of 1 March 2002, the euro, in the form of both banknotes (from 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euros) and coins (from 1 and 2 euros, and 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents of euro), was established in the only legal currency within the twelve EU countries, losing all their value the respective national currencies. That same day, a euro was $0.8671. In July 2007, its value had amounted to $1.36.

• 2002: Catastrophe Prestige. On November 13, 2002, the Prestige oil tanker sank a hundred kilometres from Galicia, with more than 77,000 tons of fuel on board. This caused a black tide that affected the Cantabrian coastline and the coasts of Portugal and France. The ecological tragedy of extraordinary magnitude caused by this disaster was combined with the disastrous consequences that affected the Galician area.

From 2003 to 2004

• 2003: Iraq War or Gulf War II. In the international context of the fight against international terrorism developed after the 11-S terrorist attacks, in early 2002, Bush accused Iraq of protecting international terrorism, justifying, according to his administration, a new armed conflict against Iraq. The threat of imminent military intervention led to a profound breakdown of the consensus of Western countries. While the governments of some countries such as the United Kingdom or Spain supported the decision of the United States; others, like France and Germany among them, decided to condemn any U.S. military intervention as they considered that there was no conclusive evidence of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraqi territory (this had been the fundamental reason the Bush Administration had claimed). In early 2003, the Bush regime reported that the Hussein regime was violating that resolution, while it did not successfully collaborate with the inspector team, and continued to conceal chemical and biological weapons. In the face of the impossibility of the Security Council adopting a new resolution authorizing an armed intervention, Bush launched on 17 March a 48-hour ultimatum for Saddam to exile, after meeting at The Azores Summit with Tony Blair and José María Aznar. On 20 March, the Anglo-American forces, deployed in the Persian Gulf for months, began a demolishing air strike and the beginning of the Earth invasion. Despite the fact that the Iraqi troops initially seemed to oppose a greater resistance than expected in maintaining control of the major southern cities, the United States. The U.S. started the siege to Baghdad on April 3. On the north front, while Turkey denied the pass permit to the Americans to invade Iraq, the Kurdish guerrillas, with the help of the US special forces. They moved on Mosul and Kirkuk. On 9 April, Baghdad was occupied and the regime collapsed, while its main leaders disappeared without the knowledge of its whereabouts. The total occupation of the Arab country was completed on 14th and the Pentagon concluded the military phase of the conflict.

Plaque commemorative to all victims of the 11-M.

• 2004: 11-M terrorist massacre in Madrid. On 11 March 2004, an Islamist terrorist cell installed in Spain and with connections with the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda perpetrated in Madrid the most serious terrorist attack in the history of Spain and one of the worst in Europe, in which 191 people were killed and nearly 2000 were injured. The attack was committed against four trains from Cercanías de RENFE that made the Alcalá de Henares-Madrid and Guadalajara-Madrid routes. The terrorists put explosive backpacks inside the train cars that detonated through mobile phone alarms. The explosions of the four trains occurred almost simultaneously in the early morning. Three devices exploded on the Guadalajara-Chamartín train 500 metres from Atocha station. Four others exploded in another of the trains on track 2 of Atocha station. Another two trains exploded at the El Pozo station of Uncle Raimundo and at the Santa Euguenia station. The confusion of the first few minutes led to the certification of the massacre committed by the terrorists.

• 2004: The largest expansion of European Union history. It was the day of unified Europe. From Estonia to Cyprus, from Madrid to Warsaw, Europe was a party on 1 May 2004. Seven countries of the former Soviet bloc (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia), another former Yugoslav with communist past (Slovenia) and two Mediterranean (Cyprus and Malta) joined a European Union that already added 25 countries and 455 million inhabitants. The largest expansion of the European club, the fifth, was, above all, the unification of Europe, the definitive fall of walls that for decades of cold war separated East and West. In Dublin, heads of State and Government of the 25 member countries were excited to the solemnized flags of all partners. Minutes later posed for the first photo of the new united Europe. Unity in diversity, the EU motto, has since been more real, with 75 million more citizens, the EU moved to 20 official languages, a large economic gap (the 10 incorporated contributed 20% of EU inhabitants, but only 5% of GDP). Hence the concern of Europe of the 15. But Europe that day advanced under a common project based on democracy and progress.

Tabaré Vázquez manages the presidency.

• 2004: Historic political change in Uruguay. The Batlle government has been marked, since mid-2002, by a serious financial crisis. Weight devaluation, increased public debt, increased unemployment and wage stagnation were some of the constants from then on. The discomfort of Uruguayan society and its desire for change were felt in the presidential and legislative elections of 31 October 2004. In the first, Tabaré Vázquez, once again aspiring to the head of the state by Encounter Progresista-Frente Amplio, was the most voted candidate, receiving 50.7% of the suffrages (white Jorge Larrañaga achieved 34.10%; colorful Guillermo Stirling, 10.3%). In the same way, Congress-Frente Amplio triumphed in the legislature and the majority was guaranteed in both the House of Representatives and the House of Senators. This historic victory, which put an end to the secular control of power by the National and Colorado parties, was officially sealed on March 1, 2005, when Vázquez was inaugurated President of the Republic.

• 2004: A tsunami devastates Southeast Asia. The worst disaster ever left more than 280,000 dead and millions displaced. The marine earthquake, of magnitude 9.3 on the Richter scale, originated around the north-west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, in the Indian Ocean, and caused a tsunami that reached the coasts of 12 countries, from South-East Asia to North-East Africa. Indonesia was the most damaged state, both in human losses and in material ravages. In fact, it was virtually impossible to encrypt the number of fatalities, missing, injured and displaced, as well as to quantify the damage. Few weeks after the disaster, when the Government finally killed more than 130,000 people who were still on the provisional balance sheets as "disappeared"the number of deaths in Indonesia rose to more than 228,000.

• 2004: The probe Mars Express Explore the surface of Mars. In June 2003, the European Space Agency and the Italian Agency launched the probe Mars Expresswith the objective of inserting into the orbit of Mars in December 2003. Among the probe missions are the exploration of the atmosphere and surface of Mars from a polar orbit and through the lander Beagle 2. The images sent to Earth in January 2004 demonstrated the existence of frozen water in the south pole of the red planet. It was the first time we saw the presence of water in Mars.

From 2005 to 2006

Funeral by Pope John Paul II.

• 2005: World shock at the death of John Paul II. The Pontiff ' s already poor health was aggravated during the first months of 2005, with massive attention to the world ' s media. After a tracheotomy was performed, which spread the image of a Pope without a voice and a certain polemic on the meaning of his continuity at the head of the Holy See, John Paul II died on April 2. His death, despite not being a surprise, meant an authentic planetary shock. Immediately received the appellant John Paul II The Great. His funeral, celebrated in the Roman square of Saint Peter, was the most crowded in the history of mankind. He was attended by hundreds of thousands of people, and his memory was honoured by heads of State and government of more than two hundred countries, as well as representatives of the great religions of the world.

• 2005: Terrorist Matanza in London (7-J). One day after London was elected to host the XXX edition of the Olympic Games, which would take place in the summer of 2012 and while in Scotland the annual G-8 summit was held, which had then British Prime Minister Tony Blair as host to that meeting and also this presiding since day 1 of that month, the European Union in its semi-annual presidency, on July 7, 2005, there was a chain of terrorist attacks that hit the city center of London. At the first hour of the morning, when public transports are very crowded, there was a virtually simultaneous explosion chain that affected two subway convoys (between Liverpool Street and Aldgate East and between King's Cross and Russell Square), a subway station (Edgware Road) and a bus (located in the Rusell Square mediations). These attacks resulted in the death of 56 people and left more than 700 injured. Police investigations concluded that their authors were British citizens of Pakistani origin, from the city of Leeds, who acted as suicide bombers and belonged to the Al Qaeda structure.

• 2006: For the first time, a woman occupies the Palacio de La Moneda. On 11 December 2005, legislative and presidential elections were held in Chile. In the first, the Concertación got 65 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, while the Alliance for Chile won 54. With regard to the second, the two candidates most supported in the polls were those of Bachelet, who aspired to the head of the state by the Concertación (obtained 46% of the votes) and Sebastián Piñera (25.4%), by Renovation Nacional. On January 15, 2006, they went to a second round, in which they imposed (with 53.5% of the suffrages) Michelle Bachelet, who became, on March 11, the first woman to access the Chilean presidency. Shortly after her access to power, the new president announced that in her first 100 days of government she would promote a package of 36 measures including the respective reforms of the binominal electoral system and the pension and health system. The first difficulties faced by the new executive stemmed from the student mobilizations developed in May and June 2006 to demand the reform of the educational system.

• 2006: War of Lebanon. On 12 July 2006, members of Hezbollah attacked the Israeli border base of Zarit, killed eight soldiers and abducted two others. Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, described this fact "act of war" and held it accountable to the Lebanese government for its latitude in the disarmament of Hezbollah (as required by the above-mentioned resolution 1.559 of the UN), to which Israeli diplomacy directly linked Hamas, Syria and Iran. Israel undertook a strong war offensive whose first objective was to destroy the Ebollah facilities in southern Lebanon. The Beirut airport and the main communications knots were repeatedly attacked, while a naval blockade prevented the ships from sailing from their port or arriving at it. Many people lost their lives in the Lebanese capital, which also suffered the destruction of buildings and infrastructures. Israeli actions did not take long to extend to Tripoli, Baalbek, Tyre and Sidon. Simultaneously, Hezbollah responded with the launch of rockets against northern Israeli towns, such as Haifa. In the first two weeks of bombing, more than 400 Lebanese died, with thousands of wounded and more than half a million displaced persons. The Siniora government repeatedly called for the imposition of a ceasefire, also demanded by various means of the international community. The disproportionate use of the force used by the Israeli Army and the indiscriminate nature of its operations (which lasted until the end of August), causing the death of many civilians and generators of a genuine humanitarian crisis, was condemned from multiple instances.

From 2008 to 2009

• 2008: Paraguay: The bishop who came to President. In the presidential elections held in April 2008, the former bishop Fernando Lugo beat the Colorado Party, after 61 years in power, accused of corruption and inefficiency. Lugo, who stood before the colorful candidate Blanca Ovelar and the military Lino Oviedo, presented himself as the candidate of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, which grouped left-wing unions, representatives of the indigenous and peasantry. The main objectives proposed by Lugo, a former bishop and ideologist of liberation theory, were the reduction of poverty and social inequalities, the halting of emigration to more developed countries, curbing corruption and concluding satisfactory agreements to export the electricity produced in his country.

G20 Summit Photo in Washington, November 15, 2008.

• 2008: Serious global economic and financial crisis. On 9 August 2007, the stock exchanges fell flatly, largely motivated by the uncertainty about the solvency of the entire network created on mortgages. subprime. It was suddenly discovered that in the United States mortgages had been granted to consumers who did not have a necessary solvency, funded by sophisticated assets that had already affected numerous banking entities and financial institutions, not only in the US. the United States, but also in Japan, countries of the European Union and the entire practice of the rest of the world. Since then, the US and European authorities injected large amounts of money into banks to help them resist the wave of unpaid. Despite this, the first bankruptcies and suspensions of payments occurred. From that month of August 2007, to the last month of 2008, very negative factors were added: the sharp rise in oil and cereal prices, the depreciation of the dollar and a global burst of the real estate bubble. The crisis moved from the financial world to the real economy. In 2008, a wave of bankruptcies and suspensions began in the US. U.S. On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in North America, broke down. This bankruptcy affected thousands of financial entities and panicked at a threat from a global financial crash. In short, most investment banks had lost more than 40% of their stock in stock. The world stock exchanges entered a period of great volatility, with historical falls followed by high ups in September and October, a period that passed to history as the Crash of October 2008, as in those last 7 days of that month they suffered falls higher than those recorded in the crisis of 1929 and 1987.

• 2008: The first African-American to arrive at the White House. The 2008 presidential elections not only meant the end of Bush's presidency, but also represented the possibility of a change with a global impact as at the beginning of the traditional primary elections to elect the presidential candidate of the world's most powerful country, for the first time in U.S. history a woman (Hillary Clinton) and an African-American (Barack Obama) aspired her by the Democratic Party. Barack Obama, Illinois Senator, with just two years of experience at the Capitol, broke the last racial barrier in the US. The United States, when elected the 44 President of the United States of America and the first black race. After an intense electoral campaign, which included several televised debates for a planetary audience, on 4 November (the first Tuesday after the first Monday of that month, as is traditional) the presidential elections were held, elections followed by millions of people around the world through the media, in the midst of a global interest like never before had awakened the relay at the White House. The count of votes, in a night that was lived as a memorable date in many places in the country, meant a victory without palliatives of the Democrats and access to the White House, for the first time in the history of an African-American. Forty-five years after Martin Luther King delivered his mythical speech announcing his dream and the subsequent enactment of the Civil Rights Act (1964) by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, the United States would choose an African-American president, something that many years ago saw possible in film or television. Obama achieved 365 electoral votes, and 66.9 million popular votes (53.6 per cent), compared to 173 and 58.3 million (46.4 per cent) of McCain. Obama thus became president-elect, as he would assume his presidency on January 20, 2009.

• 2009: Global Gripe A Pandemic (H1N1). Influenza A is an infectious disease caused by a strain of the H1N1 subtype flu virus, in which RNAs combine genetic materials from human influenza strains, aviary and pork flu strains. This is an acute air spread respiratory infection, with the typical symptoms of a flu (fever, cough, sore throat, headache, nasal secretion, muscle aches and joints) that, in some cases, can lead to severe respiratory conditions. The first recorded outbreak of the disease, called in principle swine flu, occurred in Mexico, where in April the first death occurred, and spread throughout the world. That same month, the first diagnosis of the disease in Europe was detected in Spain, and soon afterwards the WHO changed the name of swine flu by flu A or new flu. In June, WHO raised the alert to 6 and declared the disease pandemic. During the first phase of the extension, there was an alarm about its virulence, as epidemiological data on its mortality rate were still lacking, which was then lower than the seasonal flu.

• 2009: Death of Michael Jackson (The King of Pop). Michael Jackson, a singer who had his beginnings in the Jackson 5, a group of African Americans made up of his brothers who got great success. Then he launched as a soloist becoming the most successful artist of all time. In 2009 he planned to dismiss the scenarios with his 50-year-old This Is It tour, before the tour began in July, on June 25 he suffered a cardiorespiratory strike caused by an overdose of propofol, causing a huge impact on the media and the Internet.

New States

• East Timor becomes formally independent on 20 May 2002.
• Montenegro breaks its union with Serbia on 3 June 2006.
• Serbia breaks its union with Montenegro on 3 June 2006.

Timeline

Year 2000

Vicente Fox, became president of Mexico in 2000, ending 71 years of PRI hegemony.

• Celebration of the greatest global feast of history by the entry of the III Millennium and the new century.
• Panama assumes the sovereignty of the Canal.
• The British government releases Pinochet for health reasons: Chilean justice began its prosecution.
• Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia.
• Muere Hafez al-Asad. His son Bashar al-Asad happens in the presidency of Syria.
• Vicente Fox is elected president of Mexico; the end of 71 years of PRI hegemony.
• Ariel Sharón's visit to the Mosque Explanation contributes to the Second Intifada of the Palestinians.
• The end of the Milošević regime; Vojislav Koštunica is elected President of Yugoslavia.
• The U.S. Supreme Court gives George W. Bush the presidential election winner after a long political and legal battle.
• Alberto Fujimori resigns as president of Peru after uncovering the corruption of his authoritarian regime. In his replacement he assumes as interim president the attorney Valentín Paniagua.
• Concorde accident in Paris; 113 people die.
• Psychosis spreads in Europe due to the evil of mad cows.

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Year 2001

George W. Bush—43 President of the United States (2001-2009)—and his Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld seeing.

• George W. Bush, takes office as president of the United States.
• The Mir space station completed its service by disintegrating it by reentering the Earth's atmosphere.
• Detention and subsequent proceedings before the Hague Court of Slobodan Milosevic.
• Alejandro Toledo, president of Peru.
• G-8 Meeting in Genoa: Serious riots between the police and anti-globalization groups in which a protestant died.
• On 11 September (11-S) there was a chain of terrorist attacks against the United States, subsequently claimed by Al Qaeda, which came out with the destruction of the Twin Towers of New York, following the impact caused by two passenger planes and severe damage to El Pentagon following the impact of another hijacked aircraft and which caused about 3000 deaths.
• On October 7 the war of Afghanistan begins: U.S. and British military offensive supported by the land intervention of the Northern Alliance that overthrew the Taliban regime.
• The American Society of Genetic Engineering: ACT (Advanced Cell Technology) announces that it has completed the first cloning of human embryos for therapeutic purposes.
• "Black December": Serious economic crisis in Argentina; imposition of the economic race; popular insurrections; resignation of the president of the country, Fernando de la Rúa.
• Apple throws the iPod.

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Year 2002

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• Euro entry into circulation in 12 European Union countries: Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Finland, Portugal, Greece and Luxembourg. It would then be the official currency in Slovenia (2007), Malta and Cyprus (2008), and Slovakia (2009).
• The crisis is exacerbated by the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000, in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn.
• Birth of the International Criminal Court.
• Álvaro Uribe takes over the presidency of Colombia.
• Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks in Bali led to the death of 202 people.
• The Prestige oil tanker plunges into the Galician coast (Spain), causing an ecological catastrophe of great magnitude.
• Open your doors the Library of Alexandria.

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Year 2003

Two U.S. tanks cross the "Manos de la Victoria" after Baghdad was taken.

• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, takes over the presidency of Brazil and Néstor Kirchner becomes president of Argentina marking the beginning of a new political situation in South America.
• The United States and the United Kingdom invade Iraq to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime without the consent of the UN Security Council (March-April).
• The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia became the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
• Announcement of the completion of the sequencing of the Human Genome, formalized in a Joint Statement of the Heads of State or Government of Germany, China, France, Japan and the United Kingdom.
• The U.S. Army captures Saddam Hussein.
• Avian flu outbreak in Asia.
• The code Da Vinci Dan Brown.

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People on the Sumatra coast destroyed by the tsunami.

Year 2004

• On March 11 (11-M) Al-Qaeda perpetrates a chain of terrorist attacks on several nearby trains in Madrid, which led to the death of 191 people.
• The socialists, headed by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, return to power in Spain.
• The European Union is experiencing the largest expansion of its history following the entry of 10 countries: Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta and Cyprus.
• Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
• The taking of hostages in a school in Beslan (North Ossetia) by Chechen terrorists ends in a massacre.
• Earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra-Andaman, Indonesia devastates Southeast Asia and causes more than 280,000 deaths.
• Fire of the Cromañón republic, caused 194 deaths and more than 1432 wounded.
• The Lord of the Rings: the return of the King Get 11 Oscars.
• The probe Mars Express detects the presence of icy water in the Mars poles.
• Korean scientists first extract cloned human embryo stem cells.

Main references:

Year 2005

The American city of New Orleans flooded after Hurricane Katrina's passing.

• First multiparty general elections in Iraq.
• Death of Pope John Paul II, and later election by the Conclave of the new Pope Benedict XVI.
• Descent to the atmosphere of Titan and landing on this satellite Saturn from the European Huygens probe, which provides a lot of scientific information.
• Popular rejection in France and the Netherlands of the European constitutional treaty.
• Al-Qaeda terrorist attack in London (7 July).
• Signature of the Free Trade Agreements and rejection of the FTAA in the city of Mar del Plata.
• The Irish terrorist group IRA deposes the weapons and ends its armed struggle.
• Hurricane Katrina isolating the American city of New Orleans.
• Angela Merkel becomes the first woman to assume the Chancellery of Germany.
• First test flight of the giant Airbus A380 plane.

Main reference:

Year 2006

Michelle Bachelet on the day of her inauguration as the first woman president of Chile.

• Hamas' terrorist organization wins the Palestinian legislative elections.
• The socialist Michelle Bachelet takes possession and becomes the first woman to be president of Chile.
• Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, president of Liberia, becomes the first female head of State on the African continent.
• Evo Morales assumes his first term as president of Bolivia.
• One of the largest student mobilizations in the history of Chile begins.
• 11-J terrorist killing on several Bombay (India) trains.
• Alan García Pérez returns to the presidency of Peru for the second and last time, after winning in general elections the ex-military Ollanta Humala.
• War of Lebanon.
• Fidel Castro is sick and leaves Cuba's presidency to his brother and First Vice President Raúl.
• UAI excludes Pluto in its new definition of planet.
• Felipe Calderón (PAN) is elected president of Mexico in the most contested elections in the country's history.
• The war against drug trafficking in Mexico begins.
• Execution of Saddam Hussein.
• Bernard Devauchelle and Jean-Michel Dubernard: first worldwide partial transplant.

Main reference:

Year 2007

iPhone.

• Expansion of the European Union following the entry of Romania and Bulgaria.
• Gordon Brown happens to Tony Blair as head of the Labour Party and the British Government.
• Nicolas Sarkozy is elected president of the French Republic.
• Government of National Unity (British and Republican Unionists) in Northern Ireland.
• China recognizes private property.
• Mortgage crisis in the United States.
• 8-degree earthquake in the city of Pisco, Peru.
• Cristina Fernández becomes the first woman to be elected president of Argentina.
• Home «boom» of social networks on the Internet.
• Apple Inc's most popular product comes out for sale: the iPhone.
• The first extrasolate planet is discovered with conditions similar to Earth. This is the planet Gliese 581 c.

Main reference:

Year 2008

Lehman Brothers Headquarters in New York.

• Raúl Castro is elected by parliament as the new president of Cuba.
• Nepal abhors the monarchy that ruled the country for 240 years and establishes a federal republic.
• Dmitri Medvédev is elected president of the Russian Federation.
• The Colombian army rescues Ingrid Betancourt in the jungle, along with 14 other people.
• War between Russia and Georgia.
• Bank of American Investment Lehman Brothers: Start of the global economic and financial crisis.
• October: The Crash stock.
• Chain of terrorist attacks in Bombay, India.
• Barack Obama becomes the first African American to be elected president of the United States.
• Washington Summit: Meeting of the countries of the G-20 and of Spain and the Netherlands, in which the commitment to strengthening and reforming the financial markets was agreed.
• The Israeli army launched a large-scale military operation to combat the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip (Palestine) in which more than 3,000 people, mostly civilians, died.
• Craig Venter: Creation of the first synthetic chromosome, the bacteria "Mycoplasma genitalium".
• Stemagen Corporation: The first cloned embryo from human skin cells.
• Blu-ray launch (Sony).

Main references:

Year 2009

Barack Obama, along with his wife, Michelle, swears the position of president of the United States. to the president of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, in Washington (January 20).

• The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and all eurozone countries, among others, are in recession.
• Barack Obama takes office as president of the United States.
• Michael Jackson dies (The King of Pop).
• Earthquake in L'Aquila (Italy) where nearly 300 people died.
• General Motors, the most important automobile company in the United States, is declared bankrupt.
• State coup in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya.
• Influenza A (also known as H1N1 flu or swine flu), appears in Latin America, expanding around the world to the point of being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).
• Herman Van Rompuy, elected first president of the European Union.
• In Mexico there is a fire in the ABC Guard, 49 children died and there are still no culprits.

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Timeline of other events that occurred during the decade

2000

• Images of the dusty and rugged relief of the planet Mars are obtained and published.
• There is a historical conjunction of all known stars.
• The archaeological excavation of ancient Athens and its Agora of Athens is completed in its northwest corner, with the identification of the complete structure of the Stoa Poikilé, last to be exposed, to the side of the current street Adrianou and under the street Agiou Filipou.
• Entry from the extreme right (Jorg Haider) to the Government of Austria for a coalition with the conservative party.
• Intento de golpe de Estado en Paraguay, headed by an insurgent movement sympathizing with the then exile General Lino Oviedo.
• Reelection by absolute majority of the Spanish president, José María Aznar.
• Ecuador adopts the dollar as an official currency due to the economic crisis.
• The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk is anchored by unknown causes in the Barents Sea, 107 metres deep. 118 crew members die.
• The Burbuja pointcom crisis explodes.
• Plan Colombia is approved.

2001

The Buddhas of Bāmiyān

• The conservative Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister.
• The Taliban regime destroys the Buddhas of Bāmiyān of Afghanistan.
• George Harrison, a member of the British band The Beatles because of a long illness.

2002

• Dolly sheep has arthritis, which raises doubts about the risks of cloning.
• Entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997.
• In Colombia, the presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, by the FARC-EP, is kidnapped.
• A failed coup d’etat in Venezuela temporarily defeats President Hugo Chávez.

2003

Schwarzenegger during the election campaign.

• Arnold Schwarzenegger, an American actor—born in Austria—is elected governor of the State of California.
• Cuban singer of Celia Cruz salsa dies.

2004

• Yasir Arafat dies: Mahmud Abbas succeeded him as president of the PLO and later the presidency of the Palestinian National Authority.
• Formation of the South American Community of Nations.
• Wedding in Madrid of the Prince of Asturias with journalist Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano.
• Creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas in Havana.
• A fire in a commercial venue charges about 400 lives and hundreds of wounded in Paraguay. The owners are accused of closing the doors, to avoid theft of goods.
• First Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona (Spain).
• The Millau viaduct, the highest in the world built to this day, is opened in France.

2005

Mahmud Ahmadineyad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (2005-2013).

• Mahmud Ahmadineyad is elected President of Iran.
• For three weeks, there were serious disturbances in several French cities.

2006

Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador (2007-2017).

• Bolivia, becomes the third full member of ALBA.
• Rafael Correa is elected president of Ecuador.
• North Korea's first nuclear test.
• Two persons were killed in an attack by ETA terrorist organization at Barajas Airport (Madrid).
• The ecologist Steve Irwin dies attacked by a whitish strip while filming a documentary under the sea in Batt Reef.
• Deaths:
  • Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile (1973-1990).
  • Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress.
  • Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer.

2007

Benazir Bhutto, in his home country, 48 days before he was killed by a suicide bomber.

• The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is created, which integrates all countries of South America.
• Benazir Bhutto, leader of the People's Party of Pakistan (PPP), is killed in an attack shortly after his return to his home country.
• South Korean Seung-Hui Cho murders 33 people at Virginia Tech University (United States) in the largest massacre provaded by a massive shooting, until 2017.
• Members of the Nectar Group die in a tragic traffic accident in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• The new seven wonders of the world are known.
• Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

2008

International Exhibition of Zaragoza.

• The new Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador enters into force.
• The price of the ounce of gold reaches for the first time in history the figure of 1000 dollars.
• The founder and commander of the FARC-EP Manuel Marulanda Vélez dies.
• Celebration from 14 June to 14 September of the Zaragoza International Exhibition, under the theme "Water and sustainable development".

2009

• In Venezuela there is a constitutional amendment that makes the president can be re-elected indefinitely.
• In Peru, former President Alberto Fujimori, 70, is sentenced to 25 years in prison.
• Former Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín died.
• Entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.
• It takes place on July 27, the longest total solar eclipse of the centuryXXI.

Notable personalities and leaders of the decade

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  George W. Bush

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  Barack Obama

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  Michael Jackson

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  Madonna

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  Britney Spears

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  Rihanna

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  Vicente Fox Quesada

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  Felipe Calderón Hinojosa

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  Hugo Chávez

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  Álvaro Uribe Vélez

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  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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  Néstor Kirchner

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  Cristina Fernández

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  Evo Morales

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  Fidel Castro

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  Raúl Castro

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  Michelle Bachelet

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  Alejandro Toledo

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  Alan García

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  José María Aznar

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  José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

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  Nicolas Sarkozy

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  Tony Blair

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  Gordon Brown

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  Angela Merkel

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  Silvio Berlusconi

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  Herman Van Rompuy

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  John Paul II

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  Benedict XVI

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  Vojislav Koštunica

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  Dmitri Medvédev

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  Vladimir Putin

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  Bashar al-Asad

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  Saddam Hussein

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  Osama bin Laden

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  Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

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  Mahmud Abás

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  Muamar Gaddafi

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  Rafael Correa

Science and technology

In this decade, the Internet has established itself as a vehicle for mass communication and information storage, especially after the World Wide Web phase and the globalization of information reaches a historically unprecedented level. Declining access prices and broadband connections, which replaced the dial-up connections of the previous decade, allowed people to spend more time on the Internet and allowed not only access to information, but also the transfer of data. video, audio and software with the improvement of Internet speed. Social networks, instant messaging, VoIP technology and electronic commerce appear. Since this decade, the way in which people relate to each other has changed a lot, both personally and professionally.

This decade sees several transitions, from basic cell phones to smartphones, from VHS to DVD, CRT to LCD screens and monitors. By the end of the decade, cathode ray tubes were no longer being manufactured for televisions and computer monitors, giving way to the plasma screen and LCD screen. The standard format of the new manufactured screens has also changed, from 4:3 (approximately square) to 16:9 (rectangular or widescreen).

2000

• Nokia 3310 mobile phone.
• Computer virus I love you.
• Launching Windows Millennium — would become one of Microsoft's biggest failures.
• Sony's PlayStation 2 video console—the most sold video console in history— is on sale.

2001

• Birth of the Wikipedia website that would plant in the face of commercial encyclopedias of paper and Encarta.
• Nintendo launches the Nintendo GameCube video console and the Game Boy Advance portable video console.
• Microsoft Windows XP operating system.
• Publication of USB 2.0 and SATA standards.
• Microsoft launches its first console on the market, the Xbox.

2002

• Emule becomes the king of P2P in that year.
• Intel presents Pentium 4 with HyperThreading.
• Sega abandons the manufacture of video consoles.
• Sony patents the creation of the Blu ray Disc.

2003

• Skype is born.
• Myspace is born.
• The first HDMI cable is launched to the market.
• Launch of Nokia 1100, the best-selling cell phone ever (August 2019).

2004

• Start the Facebook page, the most important and most used social network in the world and the second most visited website worldwide in the next decade.
• Google Mail (Gmail) appears for the first time.
• Flickr.
• PCI-Express.
• Firefox rivals Explorer.
• Nintendo launches Nintendo DS portable video console — the most sold portable video console in history.
• Sony launches its first portable video console PlayStation Portable.
• Birth of Ubuntu.
• DVD and hard drive camcorders.

2005

• Birth of the website of online videos, YouTube.
• Microsoft releases the Xbox 360 video console.
• Google Maps is born.
• Start the War of high-definition optical disk formats between Sony Blu-ray Disc and Toshiba HD DVD.

2006

• Twitter is born.
• Spotify's born.
• Nintendo launches the Wii video console, the first console with a main use of motion control.
• Sony launches the PlayStation 3 system with a disastrous launch.
• Microsoft Zune is launched into the market.
• Microsoft Office 2007.

2007

• Windows Vista operating system is launched.
• Cloud storage (Dropbox).
• Amazon Kindle.
• Launch of the first IPhone of the Apple brand.

2008

• Google Chrome is born.
• HTC Dream, first smartphone with Android operating system.
• Spotify.
• Dropbox.
• Toshiba abandons the development of HD DVD format, leaving Blu-ray Disc as the winning format.

2009

• Windows 7 operating system is launched.
• Last edition of Microsoft Encarta.
• 3D film fever.
• Microsoft launches the Kinect, an Xbox 360 accessory that allows the body to be used as a control.
• Disco SSD.

Architecture

Taipei 101 was the highest building in the world, from 2004 to 2010.

• In 2004, the first building that exceeded 500 metres in the world was inaugurated, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
• March 5, 2006: The symbolic Diego Portales Building (which started being UNCTAD III in 1972) suffers a voracious fire at 16:45 hours. It mobilized more than 20 fire companies and disrupted the transit through the Alameda Bernardo Ohiggins, the Catholic University Station of Line 1 remained unserviced. The plenary hall, intended for a convention center was completely destroyed, in addition to the white and blue rooms that were damaged by 25%. Currently called Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral.

Cinema

2000-2004

The Passion of Christ, became the third most tachyllera film ever in 2004.

• 2000: Requiem for a Dream.
• 2000: Gladiator.
• 2001: Amélie.
• 2001: Donnie Darko.
• 2001: Moulin Rouge!.
• 2001-2003: Trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
• 2001: Harry Potter and Philosopher Stone.
• 2002: City of God.
• 2002: The pianist.
• 2002: Star Wars: Episode II - Clone Attack.
• 2002: Spider-Man.
• 2003: Looking for Nemo.
• 2003: Good Bye, Lenin!.
• 2004: Der Untergang.
• 2004: Million Dollar.
• 2004: The Passion of Christ.

2005-2009

Avatar, it was the most tachyllera film in history — until it was overtaken in 2019—, thus overcoming Titanic (1997), by the same director, James Cameron.

The Departed Martin Scorsese.

• 2005: Brokeback Mountain.
• 2005: Paradise Now.
• 2005: Star Wars: Episode III - The Sith Revenge.
• 2005: Pride and Prejudice.
• 2006: The Departed.
• 2006: 300.
• 2007: 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days.
• 2007: Atonement.
• 2007: There Will Be Blood.
• 2007: Juno
• 2007: No Country for Old Men.
• 2008: Slumdog Millionaire.
• 2009: Avatar.
• 2009: District 9.
• 2009: Up.
• 2009: 3 Idiots.

Mention to other films of the decade

Watchmen by Zack Snyder was one of the most infrared films in the years 2000 and 2009.

Cars started a saga in 2006.

From 2000 to 2004

• 2000: Mission impossible 2.
• 2000: American Psycho.
• 2000: Chicken in Fuga.
• 2000: Erin Brockovich.
• 2000: Scary Movie.
• 2000: The Grinch.
• 2000: X-Men
• 2000: Dinosaur.
• 2001: Monsters, Inc.
• 2001: Shrek.
• 2001: The planet of apes.
• 2001: Pearl Harbor.
• 2001: The Fast and the Furious.
• 2002: Ice Age.
• 2002: Die Another Day
• 2002: Catch me if you can.
• 2003: The last samurai.
• 2003: X-Men 2.
• 2003: 2 Fast 2 Furious.
• 2003: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
• 2003: Terminator 3: The Rebellion of Machines.
• 2003: Lost in Tokyo.
• 2004: The amazing.
• 2004: Shrek 2.
• 2004: Spider-Man 2.
• 2004: The aviator.
• 2004: Closer.
• 2004: Eternal glow of a mind without memories.
• 2004: The Polar Express.

From 2005 to 2009

• 2005: Batman Begins.
• 2005: King Kong.
• 2005: Madagascar.
• 2005: The War of the Worlds.
• 2006: The Da Vinci Code.
• 2006: Casino Royale.
• 2006: The devil dresses fashion.
• 2006: Cars.
• 2006: Ice Age: The Meltdown.
• 2006: Happy Feet
• 2006: Bambi II.
• 2006: X-Men: The Last Stand.
• 2006: Mission impossible 3.
• 2006: Monster House.
• 2007: Pirates of the Caribbean: at the end of the world.
• 2007: Spider-Man 3.
• 2007: The Simpsons: The Film.
• 2007: Shrek Third.
• 2007: August Rush.
• 2007: Norbit.
• 2007: Ratatouille.
• 2007: Transformers.
• 2008: Iron Man
• 2008: The Dark Knight.
• 2008: Quantum of Solace
• 2008: WALL·E.
• 2008: Kung Fu Panda.
• 2008: Madagascar 2: Escape from Africa.
• 2008: Twilight.
• 2008: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
• 2008: Bolt.
• 2009: Watchmen.
• 2009: 2012.
• 2009: The Hangover.
• 2009: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
• 2009: Angels and Demons.
• 2009: Hamburger Rain.
• 2009: Up.

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Television and series

2000

• Strain us:
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (USA)
  • Malcolm in the Middle (USA)
  • Gilmore Girls (USA)
  • Queer as Folk (USA)
  • Romané (Chile)
  • Hospital Central (Spain)
  • Police, in the heart of the street (Spain)

2001

• Strain us:
  • Smallville (USA)
  • Case closed (USA)
  • The Magic Godfathers (USA)
  • 24 (USA)
  • Scrubs (USA)
  • Six Feet Under (USA)
  • Lizzie McGuire (USA)
  • Tell me how it happened. (Spain)
  • A thousand trades (Peru)

2002

• Strain us:
  • CSI: Miami (USA)
  • Garitdwonivers(UK.)
  • Everwood (USA)
  • The Wire (USA)
  • Future Wildlife (USA)
  • Without a Trace (USA)
  • Rebelde Way (Argentina)
  • Kim Possible (USA)
  • A step forward (Spain)
  • The Academy (Mexico) (Mexico)

2003

• Strain us:
  • One Tree Hill
  • Cold Case
  • Two men and a half
  • NCIS
  • Nip/Tuck
  • The O. C.
  • Machos (Chile)
  • Pasión de gavilanes (Colombia)
  • There's no one alive here. (Spain)
  • The Serrano (Spain)
  • 31 minutes (Chile)

2004

• Strain us:
  • Lost
  • Peppa Pig
  • Doctor House
  • Wake up Housewives
  • Drake & Josh
  • Entourage
  • Veronica Mars
  • Rebelde (Mexico)
  • Lazytown
  • Backyardigans
  • That's life. (Peru)
• Finalizations:
  • Friends (USA) iconic series of the 1990s.
  • A thousand trades (Peru), after problems on the Panamericana Televisión channel.

2005

• Strain us:
  • Bones (USA)
  • Dexter (USA)
  • Grey's Anatomy (USA)
  • Between Ghosts (USA)
  • How I Met Your Mother (USA)
  • Prison Break
  • The Office
  • Supernatural
  • Zoey 101
  • The men of Paco (Spain)
  • Ben 10 (USA)

2006

• Strain us:
  • Heroes (USA)
  • Dexter (USA)
  • Mega Disasters (USA)
  • Hannah Montana — starring Miley Cyrus— (USA)
  • The tingling (Spain)
  • The Animated Chavo (Mexico)

2007

• Strain us:
  • Gossip Girl (USA)
  • Dexter (USA)
  • The Tudor (USA)
  • Traveler in time (USA)
  • The Universe (USA)
  • Chuck. (USA)
  • Mad Men
  • Private Practice —spin-off Grey's Anatomy— (USA)
  • iCarly
  • Skins (United Kingdom)
  • The boarding school (Spain)
  • Phineas and Ferb (USA)

2008

• Strain us:
  • Breaking Bad (USA)
  • The Earth without humans (USA)
  • The Mentalist (USA)
  • True Blood (USA)
  • Sons of Anarchy
  • Ben 10: Alienian Force (USA)
  • Leverage
  • 90210 —spin-off of the franchise Beverly Hills, 90210— (USA)
  • Physical or chemical (Spain)

2009

• Strain us:
  • Castle
  • Community
  • Glee
  • Modern Family
  • Go to La Versh (Mexico)
  • Masha and the Bear
  • The Capo
  • Misfits
  • The Vampire Diaries
  • The Good Wife
  • White Necklace
  • Red Eagle (Spain)
  • The Mysteries of Laura (Spain)

Animation

2000

• Digimon Adventure 02 (Japan)

2001

• Digimon Tamers (Japan)

2002

• Digimon Frontier (Japan)
• Naruto (Japan)

2006

• Death Note (Japan)

2006

• Digimon Data Squad (Japan)

2007

• Naruto Shippuden — will become the most seen anime in the next decade— (Japan)

Music

2000

• Britney Spears launches his hit "Oops!... I Did It Again."
• Mariah Carey launches her studio album "Rainbow" with different hits like "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)", "Heartbreaker" and "Thank God I Found You".
• Eminem removes the disk The Marshall Mathers LP that achieves great success worldwide.
• The Sum 41 pop band pulls out its first album Half Hour of Power obtaining an average recognition in Canada.
• The happy punk band called PXNDX pulls out Rice with milk disc that has a minor success in Mexico.
• A compilation album of The Beatles called The Beatles One is launched in the United States.
• Blink-182 released a live album: The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back).
• Bon Jovi once again succeeds with his song "It's My Life".
• Green Day launches his album Warning that has less success than Dookie, Insomniac or Nimrod.
• Shakira launches his live album MTV Unplugged.
• Coldplay makes his debut with Parachutes.
• Julieta Venegas publishes her second album: Bueninvento.
• Linkin Park launches her debut with Hybrid Theory.

2001

• Blink-182 launches the disk Take Off Your Pants And Jacket.
• Beginning of the musical contest Operation Triomfo.
• Shakira launches his best-selling record of Laundry Service history.
• Gorillaz releases his debut album Gorillaz (album).
• Michael Jackson releases his invincible studio album.
• The Argentine pop group Bandana emerges.
• Britney Spears releases her third album, Britney.
• John Mayer releases his debut album Room For Squares.

2002

• Christina Aguilera launches her most emblematic and controversial album, Stripped.
• The Nirvana band launches a compilation album with its best themes.
• Shakira launches her compilation album Great successes.
• Shakira launches his album special edition Gold Collection.
• Coldplay launches his second studio album A Rush of Blood to the Head, received many acclaims and is considered the best album of the band.
• Avril Lavigne launches his debut album Let Go.
• Russian duo t.A.T.u. launches its first album in English 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane.

2003

• Beyonce launches his first studio album Dangerously In Love starting his solo debut.
• Julieta Venegas publishes his third album of study Yes one of the most outstanding of the decade regarding Spanish music refers to the simple ones like Andar with me, Slow (Julieta Venegas song), and Something is changing (changing).
• Metallica publishes his eighth studio album St. Anger.

2004

• Shakira launches his live album in private and live.
• Green Day launches its American Idiot album with which it succeeded again.
• Michael Jackson releases a compilation album with unpublished themes Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection.
• Avril Lavigne launches his second studio album Under My Skin.

2005

• Shakira launches the disc Oral fixation vol. 1.
• Panic! At The Disco launches Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.
• Nickelback launches All The Right Reasons album reaching a great commercial success.
• Gorillaz releases his second studio album Demon Days.
• Madonna launches one of her most successful albums Confessions on a Dancefloor with "a more familiar and electronic image" behind the polemics American Life (2003). This album had several successful singles, among which stand out Hung Up, Sorry and Jump.
• Juanes launches The Black Walk simple from your album My Blood (2004) that came to N.o. 1 in more than 40 countries.

2006

• Shakira launches Oral Fixation vol. 2.
• Shakira launches his compilation album Oral Fixation Volumes 1 & 2.
• Julieta Venegas publishes his album with more sales: Lemon and Salt.
• Nelly Furtado launches the most successful album of his career, Loose which has several singles produced with Timbaland, among them Promiscuous, Say It Right and Maneater.
• John Mayer launches his successful Continuum album produced by himself, winner of the Best Album Award for Men’s Pop in the Grammy’s of 2007
• Taylor Swift releases his first album, which bears his name.

2007,

• The singer Bon Iver released one of his most famous Skinny Love songs.
• Shakira launches his live album Tour Fijación Oral.
• Avril Lavigne launches her third studio album The Best Damn Thing, which generated the successful Girlfriend.
• Britney Spears launches the most controversial album of his career, Blackout.
• Rihanna launches her best-selling album to date Good Girl Gone Bad.
• Heroes of Silence launches his 2007 Tour 2007 album.

2008

• Coldplay launches Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends being one of the best-selling CDs of the decade and its second single Live life a global success.
• Lady Gaga makes her debut with one of the best-selling albums in history The Fame becoming known as a global phenomenon with great successes like Poker Face, Just Dance and Paparazzi.
• Panic! At The Disco launches his second Pretty album. Odd.
• Julieta Venegas publishes her first live album MTV Unplugged (Album by Julieta Venegas) that has the participation of Gustavo Santaolalla, Mala Rodríguez, Juan Son, Sol Pereyra,Natalia Lafourcade, Jaques Morelenbaum among others. It is considered one of the best concerts in this format.
• Katy Perry makes her debut in pop music with her first album One Of The Boys with great global successes like I Kissed A Girl her first single number 1 on the list Billboard Hot 100 and Hot N Cold, reaching global fame.
• Taylor Swift launches his second Fearless studio album successfully like Love Story and You Belong with Me.
• Guns N' Roses returns with his new studio album called Chinese Democracy.
• Soda Stereo releases two albums from his tour Me Verás BackGira Me Verás Back (album).
• The Police releases a live album "Certifiable: Live in Buenos Aires" from its presentation in Buenos Aires.

2009

• American singer Michael Jackson dies in Los Angeles because of a heart attack. The news moved the world and the music industry.
• Madonna finishes her successful Sticky & Sweet Tour and becomes the female artist with the most up-and-coming tour of all time by raising $408 million. Until today she keeps this record.
• Shakira launches the Loba/She Wolf album, Shakira's second album (after Laundry/Laundry Service in 2001) to have two versions, one in English and one in Spanish.
• OneRepublic launches its Waking Up disk.
• Green Day launches its 21st Century Breakdown album.

Featured Artists

United States of America

• Madonna
• Christina Aguilera
• Britney Spears
• Justin Timberlake
• Michael Jackson
• Katy Perry
• Lady Gaga
• Taylor Swift
• Missy Elliott
• Beyonce
• Jennifer Lopez
• Black Eyed Peas
• John Mayer
• Hilary Duff
• Lenny Kravitz
• 50 cent
• Eminem
• Green Day
• Jason Mraz
• Anastacia
• Ashlee Simpson
• Jessica Simpson
• Linkin Park
• OneRepublic
• The Strokes
• Gwen Stefani
• Limp Bizkit
• Kesha
• Snoop Dog
• Pitbull
• The Killers
• Pharell
• Alicia Keys
• Evanescence
• Back Street Boys
• NSYNC
• Blink 182
• Moby
• My Chemical Romance
• Paramore

Germany

• Cascade
• Paul van Dyk
• Rammstein
• Tokyo Hotel

Argentina

• Gustavo Cerati
• Babasonics
• Miranda!
• The Tse Tse Mosca
• Diego Torres
• Axel
• Noel Schajris (No Flag)
• Bandana
• Teen Angels
• Tan Biónica
• Mambrú
• Erreway

Australia

• Kylie Minogue

Barbados

• Rihanna

Brazil

• Alexandre Pires

Canada

• Nickelback
• Avril Lavigne
• Nelly Furtado
• Celine Dion
• Shania Twain

Chili

• The Law
• Kudai

Columbia

• Juanes
• Carlos Vives
• Shakira
• Fanny Lu
• Jorge Villamizar Bacilos
• Fonseca
• Soraya

Spain

• Amaral
• The Ketchup.
• Alejandro Sanz
• Fifth Station
• The Van Gogh sheep
• Álex Ubago
• David Bisbal
• David Bustamante
• David Civera
• Enrique Iglesias
• Fran Perea
• The dream of Morpheus

Finland

• The Rasmus
• HIM

France

• Alizée
• Bob Sinclar
• David Guetta

Guatemala

• Ricardo Arjona

Italy

• Laura Pausini
• Eros Ramazzotti
• Tiziano Ferro

Netherlands

• Comeboys
• Tiësto

Puerto Rico

• Ricky Martin.
• Chayanne
• Don Omar
• Luis Fonsi
• Daddy Yankee
• Wisin and Yandel
• Calle 13

Mexico

• Belanova
• Belinda
• Mana
• Santana
• Paulina Rubio
• Thalía
• Julieta Venegas
• Reik
• Camila
• RBD
• Natalia Lafourcade
• Ximena Sariñana
• Leonel García (No Bandera)

Dominican Republic

• Adventure
• Juan Luis Guerra

United Kingdom

• Spice Girls
• Robbie Williams
• James Blunt
• Amy Winehouse
• Joss Stone
• Muse
• Keane
• Gorillaz
• Sophie Ellis Bextor
• Coldplay
• Dido
• George Michael
• Take that
• Starsailor
• Oasis
• Lily Allen

Russia

• t.A.T.u.

Venezuelan

• Chinese & Nacho
• Franco De Vita

Video games

PlayStation 2 is the most sold console in the history of the game

2000-2004

• 2000: Deus Ex
• 2000: Skies of Arcadia
• 2000: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
• 2000: Final Fantasy IX
• 2000: Paper Mario
• 2001: Grand Theft Auto III
• 2001: Halo: Combat Evolved
• 2001: Final Fantasy X
• 2001: Super Smash Bros Melee
• 2001: Shenmue II
• 2001: Devil May Cry
• 2002: Ico
• 2002: Kingdom Hearts
• 2002: Metroid Prime
• 2002: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• 2002: Super Mario Sunshine
• 2003: Prince of Persia: The Arenas of Time
• 2003: Call of Duty
• 2004: Half-Life 2 — Named game of the decade in the tenth edition of the Video Game Awards and in a survey of the English newspaper The Guardian-
• 2004: Ninja Gaiden
• 2004: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• 2004: World of Warcraft

2005-2009

Nintendo DS

• 2005: God of War
• 2005: Resident Evil 4
• 2005: Kingdom Hearts 2
• 2005: Shadow of the Colossus
• 2005: Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• 2006: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• 2006: Wii Sports
• 2006: Bully
• 2007: BioShock
• 2007: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• 2007: Gears of War
• 2007: Super Mario Galaxy
• 2007: Core Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
• 2007: Uncharted: The Treasure of Drake
• 2007: Team Fortress 2
• 2007: God of War II
• 2007: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
• 2007: Assassins Creed
• 2008: Mario Kart Wii
• 2008: Super Smash Bros Brawl
• 2008: Grand Theft Auto IV
• 2008: Dead Space
• 2009: Demon's Souls
• 2009: Minecraft
• 2009: Uncharted 2: The kingdom of thieves
• 2009: Wii Sports Resort
• 2009: Bayonetta
• 2009: Batman Arkham Asylum

Mention to other videogames of the decade

• 2000: Banjo-Tooie
• 2000: Tomb Raider: Chronicles
• 2000: Dino Crisis 2
• 2002: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
• 2002: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• 2003: Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
• 2004: Halo 2
• 2004: Kuon
• 2004: Prince of Persia: The Warrior's Soul
• 2005: Roblox
• 2006: Tomb Raider: Legend
• 2007: Halo 3
• 2007: The World Ends with You
• 2007: Tomb Raider: Anniversary
• 2008: Mirror's Edge
• 2008: Tomb Raider: Underworld
• 2008: Prince of Persia
• 2009: Plants vs Zombies
• 2009: Angry Birds

Sports

2000

• Celebration of the XXVII edition of the Olympic Games and the XI edition of the Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
• The selection of French football conquers its second Euro Cup—held in the Netherlands and Belgium—after defeating Italy in the final by 2-1 after David Trezeguet achieved the "gol of gold".
• In the same year that is celebrated the centenary of existence of the tournament, Spain raises its first Davis Cup after beating Australia 3-1 in the final held at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.
• The Deportivo de La Coruña wins its first and only League.
• Real Madrid achieves its eighth European Cup after winning in the first final of teams from the same country to Valencia for 3-0.
• Real Madrid writes to the captain and emblem of Barcelona, Luís Figo.
• A series of chairs.
• Spain is one of the biggest traps in sport history, winning the paralympic gold medal for intellectually disabled basketball in Sydney, when in that national combination it had only two players with disabilities.

2001

• Colombia's football team is proclaimed a champion of America for the first time in its history.
• Real Madrid writes to Zinedine Zidane—who would have the record of being the most expensive tab in history until 2009—.
• Tiger Woods.
• The German driver, Jutta Kleinschmidt first and to date (year 2021) the only woman to win the Paris-Dakar Rally.

Main reference:

2002

Instantly in which David Beckham notes the goal of the victory of the English team in the face of the albiceleste selection in the match that faced both national combined in the World Cup.

• Celebration of the 19th edition of the Winter Olympic Games and the 8th edition of the Winter Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City (United States).
• The Brazilian football team proclaims itself a world champion by winning in the end to Germany by 2-0 (the two goals of Ronaldo) in the first World Championship held jointly by two countries (Japan and South Korea) and on the Asian continent.
• Centenary: The Deportivo de la Coruña beats Real Madrid at the end of the Copa del Rey that disputed the day that the white team was 100 years old.
• Real Madrid wins its Ninth European Cup by beating Bayern Leverkusen by 2-1, after an unforgettable Zidane de volea goal.
• Yugoslavia conquers its fifth World Basketball World by defeating Argentina in the final, in a tournament that will be remembered for the three defeats suffered by the US team
• Jennifer Capriati manages her third Grand Slam in one year by winning Martina Hingis at the end of the Australian Open after going back to her four "match balls".
• Pau Gasol, becomes the first player who is not of American nationality to be named Rookie of the Year at the NBA.
• The Spanish artistic gymnast Elena Gómez achieves the world title of soil at the Debrecen World Championship.
• The image of the head of a cochinillo thrown into the Camp Nou lawn, when it was ready to remove a corner looting Luís Figo in the ClassicTurn the world around.
• Celebration of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom and the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador.

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2003

• England raises its first Rugby World Cup — becoming the first selection of the northern hemisphere to achieve it.
• Emanuel Ginóbili.
• Michael Jordan's final withdrawals — basketball — and Pete Sampras — you have.
• Swiss tennis player Roger Federer gets his first Grand Slam title in Wimbledon.
• Science
• The AC Milan conquers its sixth European Cup after winning in the second final in which two teams from the same country face the Juventus de Turin in the tanda de penaltis (3-2) after finishing the clash to zero.
• They arrive at LaLiga española David Beckham signed by Real Madrid and Ronaldinho signed by FC Barcelona.
• Boca Juniors gets his fifth Copa Libertadores after beating the Brazilian Santos in the final.

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2004

• Celebration of the XXVIII edition of the Olympic Games and the XII edition of the Paralympic Games in Athens.
  • 28 August; the most important day of the sport of Argentina.
• In the Euro Cup held in Portugal there is one of the greatest surprises in the history of sport when Greece wins in the final to Portugal by 0-1.
• The German pilot Michael Schumacher is proclaimed a heptacampion of the Formula-1 world.
• Two football teams that did not enter any forecast for the final victory are proclaimed champions on their respective continents: Porto in Europe and Eleven Caldas in South America.
• The Arsenal conquers the Premier League with the peculiarity of being the second team to achieve it without losing any game for 115 years.
• 86 years later he ended “the curse”: the Boston Red Sox proclaimed himself champion of the World Baseball Series.
• Andorra’s football team achieves its first and only victory in an official meeting in front of the selection of Macedonia by 1-0.
• Fight between Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers.

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2005

• The Spanish Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso proclaimed himself world champion and the youngest driver in history to achieve it (record that Lewis Hamilton would take in 2008).
• In which for many fans and professionals it is rated the best final of the Champions League of the story, the "Spanish Liverpool" of Rafa Benítez performs the Istanbul Miracle, as he went back in the second time a 3-0 against Milan and beat the Italian team in the tanda de penaltis.
• Real Betis Balompié conquers his second King's Cup in Vicente Calderón against the Osasuna Athletic Club.
• Barcelona beats Real Madrid for 0-3 at Santiago Bernabéu and Ronaldinho is applauded by the fans of the white club.
• Rafa Nadal gets the first of his Roland Garros tournaments.
• David Nalbandián.

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2006

• Celebration of the XX edition of the Winter Olympic Games and the IX edition of the Winter Paralympic Games in Turin, Italy.
• Italy’s football team is proclaimed the world’s tetra-campeone by winning in the criminal sludge—for the second time in the history of the World Cups, the winner is made clear—to France for 5-3 after finishing the final tie to one.
• Basketball World Cup.
• The FC Barcelona with Ronaldinho as its top star rises with its second Champions League —14 years later — after defeating the Arsenal.
• Dimission of Florentino Pérez after six years of president of Real Madrid.
• Calciopoli.
• Real City.
• Malaga conquers its first and only ACB League.
• Celebration of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, and the Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

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2007

• Spain conquers two Tour de France in the same year by winning it Alberto Contador and Óscar Pereiro receiving the recognition as winner of 2006, after depleting the resources of Landis by dopaje.
• The player of Seville, Antonio Puerta, died because of an arrhythmogenic dysplasia.
• In the semifinals match of the Copa del Rey between the FC Barcelona and the Getafe, Messi marks a goal that is almost like the best goal of the story that Maradona made to England in the 1986 World Cup.
• Real Madrid achieves its thirtieth liguero title in one of the most contested leagues in recent years.
• Marion Jones.
• South Africa champion for the second time of the Rugby World Cup.
• Iraq is champion of the Asian Cup.
• Celebration of the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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2008

• Celebration of the XXIX edition of the Olympic Games and the XIII edition of the Paralympic Games in Beijing.
  • Michael Phelps.
  • Argentina wins the football gold medal for the second consecutive time.
• 44 years later, the Spanish selection conquers its second Euro Cup, which is celebrated in Austria and Switzerland, when it defeats Germany by 1-0.
• Rafa Nadal conquers his first title of Wimbledon after defeating Roger Federer in the final in the longest and epic final of the tournament.
• Quito League is champion of the Copa Libertadores.
• Super Bowl XLII.

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2009

• The Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt sets the record of the 100-metre smooth in 9 seconds and 58-hundredth in the Berlin World Athletic World.
• The FC Barcelona trained by Pep Guardiola became the first team to achieve the Sextuplete.
• Barcelona beats Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu for 2-6.
• Real Madrid writes to Cristiano Ronaldo that would mark an era in years to come.
• Bolivia's soccer team beats Argentina in a 2010 World Cup qualifying stage match by 6-1.
• Real Madrid is eliminated in sixteen finals by a team of Second B, the Alcorcón after losing in the 4-0 party, a meeting that is remembered as "the Alcorconazo".
• New York Yankees holds its 27th World Series title by defeating Philadelphia's Phillips and thus becoming the most successful franchise in American sport.
• The football player Dani Jarque dies because of an asistolia.
• Because of a depression, German footballer Robert Enke took his life.
• Valentino Rossi achieves his ninth title of the world, seventh in the highest category of motorcycling.
• Juan Martín del Potro.
• The Sports Club, after eight years, has been a champion since 2000.

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Outstanding athletes

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  Roger Federer

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  Rafa Nadal

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  Andy Roddick

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  David Nalbandian

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  María Sharápova

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  Venus Williams

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  Serena Williams

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  Michael Phelps

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  Usain Bolt

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  Yelena Isinbáyeva

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  Tiger Woods

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  Gemma Mengual

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  David Cal

• 

  Falcão

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  Kike Boned

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  Michael Schumacher

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  Fernando Alonso

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  Valentino Rossi

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  Sébastien Loeb

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  Stéphane Peterhansel

• 

  Ivano Balić

• 

  Magnus Wislander

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  Ljubomir Vranjes

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  Mirza Džomba

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  Demetrio Lozano

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  Alberto Entrerríos

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  Nikola Karabatić

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  Thierry Omeyer

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  Bojana Radulović

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  Alberto Contador

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  Denís Menshov

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  Óscar Freire

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  Lance Armstrong

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  Shaquille O'Neal

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  Kobe Bryant

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  Tim Duncan

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  Pau Gasol

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  Emanuel Ginóbili

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  Jorge Garbajosa

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  Ronaldo

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  Ronaldinho

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  Lionel Messi

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  Cristiano Ronaldo

• 

  Kaká

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  Fabio Cannavaro

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  Carles Puyol

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  Iker Casillas

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  Gianluigi Buffon

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  Oliver Kahn

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  Edwin van der Sar

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  Fernando Torres

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  Zinedine Zidane

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  Luis Figo

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  Miroslav Klose

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  Ruud van Nistelrooy

Literature

• 2002: The Psychoanalyst by John Katzenbach, Snow of Orhan Pamuk

• 2003: The Da Vinci Code of Dan Brown

• 2005: Twilight of Stephenie Meyer

• 2007: Shadow Hunters of Cassandra Clare

• 2009: The Hunger Games of Suzanne Collins

Links of interest

• Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia category Years 2000.
• The History of the Decade of 2000 in Images
• Fifty moments for the decade
• The best sports images of the Decade of 2000. A special brand.com
• The sport decade in 50 images