2021
2021 (MMXXI) was a common year beginning on a Friday in the Gregorian calendar, the number 2021 Anno Domini. It was the twenty-first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, the first year of the third decade of the 21st century, and the second year of the 2020s.
The year 2021 was:
- the Year of the oxAccording to the Chinese horoscope.
- the beginning of United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030According to the UN.
- the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable DevelopmentAccording to the UN.
- the International Year of Fruits and VegetablesAccording to the UN.
- the International Year for the Eradication of Child Labour declared by the International Labour Organization, with the support of a unanimous resolution adopted at the United Nations General Assembly.
- the International Year of Peace and TrustAccording to the UN.
- the Year of Independence and the Greatness of Mexicoaccording to the Government of Mexico.
- the Year of the Bicentennial of Peru: 200 years of Independence, according to the Government of Peru.
- the Year of the Bicentennial of the Carabobo Battleaccording to the Government of Venezuela.
- the Year of tribute to the Nobel Prize in Medicine Dr. César Milstein60 years after his return to his home country, according to the Government of Argentina.
Ephemeris
January
- 2 January: 245 years after the transfer of Guatemala City to its current settlement is completed.
- January 7: 130 years of the Chilean civil war of 1891 are being waged.
- January 10: 5 years after the death of British singer David Bowie.
- January 11: 30 years after the death of the physicist Carl David Anderson.
- January 15: It is 20 years since Wikipedia was created.
- January 20: It is 60 years since John F. Kennedy takes office in the United States.
- January 22: The Mexican Show TV Program Selling it is 25 years of its first broadcast in 1996. It is produced by Aztec TV.
- 23 January:
- Centenary of the creation of the Alavés Sports.
- 95 years of television invention
- January 27: Centenary of the death of the military Justiniano Borgoño.
- January 28: Fifth centenary of the beginning of the Diet of Worms.
- January 30: 30 years after the death of electric engineer John Bardeen.
February
- February 4th: 30 years from Innuendo, Queen's latest album with Freddie Mercury alive.
- 6 February:
- 5 years of the 2016 Taiwan earthquake.
- It's 10 years since guitarist Gary Moore's death.
- It is commemorated 100 years of the film The Kid by actor Charles Chaplin.
- 12 February: 90 years of the foundation of Vatican Radio, in Italy, whose mentor was Pope Pio XI.
- 13 February: Twenty-five years of the Nepalese civil war are being waged.
- 17 February: The Nintendo Direct returned after 2 years
- February 18: 25 years of the Courage the Cowardly Dog rider “Courage the Cowardly Dog”
- February 21st: The Legend of Zelda launches 35 years for the peripheral Famicom Disk Sytem in Japan and Nintendo Entertainment System in the West.
- February 23: 40 years of the coup attempt in Spain in 1981.
- February 24: Bicentennial of the promulgation of the Equal Plan.
- February 26: Bicentennial of the death of the philosopher Joseph de Maistre.
- February 27: 25 years of the Pokémon franchise are celebrated.
March
- March 1st: Seventy-five years of the Greek Civil War.
- March 4th: 10 years of Rango's film.
- March 8: International Women's Day marked by feminist social movements around the world.
- 11 March:
- Centenary of the birth of the Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla.
- Tenth anniversary of the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011.
- March 15: It is 18 years since the children's series, 31 minutes ago its premiere on television.
- March 16: The death of San Heriberto de Cologne is 1000 years.
- March 18: 10 years of the American comedy film of alien Paul is being held.
- March 21st: 70 years of uninterrupted transmissions from Channel 2 (XEW-TV Las Estrellas).
- March 23: 10 years after the death of American actress Elizabeth Taylor.
- 24 March:
- It's 5 years since football player Johan Cruyff died.
- Forty-five years of the coup d ' état in Argentina in 1976
- March 25: 15 years after the death of the Spanish singer Rocío Dúrcal.
- 26 March:
- It is 20 years after the release of the debut album Gorillaz of the band of the same name.
- 50 years after the birth of the most important DJ at the house Erick Morillo.
- March 27: 5 years after the death of Mother Angelica, founder of EWTN.
- 30 March:
- It's 40 years since Ronald Reagan's attempted murder
- It's 20 years from Magical Godfathers.
- March 31st: It is the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Starbucks company, considered one of the most important cafes in the world.
April
- 6 April:
- 125th Anniversary of the first Olympic Games held in Athens.
- Guatemala's sub-20 football team commemorates 10 years of qualifying the World Cup in that category.
- It is 50 years after the death of the composer Igor Stravinski.
- 11 April:
- It is 60 years from the first flight crewed by a human being "Vostok 1" to space.
- Twenty years of the greatest score in football history, when Australia won American Samoa for 31 to 0.
- 2500 years after the death of the Confucius Thinker.
- April 15: 20 years after the death of singer Joey Ramone.
- April 16: 5 years of the 2016 Ecuadorian earthquake.
- April 17: 10 years of the first broadcast of the Game of Thrones TV Series.
- April 18: Fifteenth Years of the San Francisco Earthquake 1906
- April 21: 5 years after the death of singer Prince.
- April 23: 500 years of the battle of Villalar.
- April 25: 15 years of student mobility in Chile 2006
- April 26: 35 years of disaster in Chernobil, Ukraine.
- 27 April:
- It is 230 years after the birth of inventor Samuel Morse.
- It is 500 years after the death of the military Fernando Magallanes.
- April 29: 10 years of the marriage link of the Dukes of Cambridge, William of Cambridge and Catherine of Cambridge.
May
- 2 May: 10 years after Osama bin Laden's death, the result of an assault by the U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistan.
- May 3: 10 years of the premiere of the series The amazing world of Gumball.
- May 5: Bicentennial of the death of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
- May 6: Bicentennial of the Constituent Congress of the Great Colombia in the Villa del Rosario.
- May 9: 10 years since Paul McCartney first stepped on Peru to perform a show in the framework of his world tour Up and Coming Tour. He opened it with his success with the Beatles: Hello, Goodbye.
- 11 May:
- It is 10 years after the 2011 Lorca earthquake that destroyed part of the city.
- It's 40 years since Reggae Bob Marley's singer died.
- May 12: Ten Years of Student Mobilization in Chile 2011
- 13 May:
- Forty years of the attack on Pope John Paul II, in the Vatican.
- It is 10 years after the launch of the simple “Save The World” composed of the Swedish House Mafia electronic music trio.
- 18 May:
- It's 20 years from the animated film Shrek.
- Fifteen years of the American film The Da Vinci Code.
- May 20: 20 years after the death of singer Renato Carosone.
- May 22: 25 years of the Mission action movie impossible.
- May 24: Forty years after the death of Ecuadorian President Jaime Roldós Aguilera, a product of an aviation accident, are fulfilled.
- May 29: 40 years of the inauguration of the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City.
- May 30: The death of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, a product of an attempted murder, is 60 years old.
June
- June 1st: 15 years after the death of the Spanish singer and Cypriot Rocío Jurado.
- June 3: 5 years after the death of boxer Muhammad Ali.
- June 5: 12 years of the ABC Guard Fire in Hermosillo, Sonora in 2009.
- June 5: Forty years of the first clinical description in homosexual patients with pneumonia and skin cancer are completed and weeks later they would die. The next year he would be baptized as AIDS and in 1983 the causative virus was discovered.
- June 6: 75 years of the creation of the NBA Founded in New York, United States.
- June 8: 15 years of the premiere of the animated film Cars.
- 10 June:
- Centennial of the birth of Prince Philip of Edumburg (1921-2021), Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
- In Mexico, 50 years of the massacre of Thursday of corpus, also known as The Halconazo.
- It is 5 years after the murder of 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie in an autograph firm
- June 12: 5 years of the Orlando Pulse disco massacre in Orlando, Florida.
- 17 June:
- Bicentennial of the death of General Martin Miguel de Güemes.
- Five years after Rubén Aguirre died.
- June 18: 10 years after the death of footballer Ulrich Biesinger.
- 19 June:
- 125 years after the birth of the American aristocrat Wallis Simpson (f. 1986), the wife of British king Edward VIII.
- It is 100 years after the death of Mexican poet Ramón López Velarde (n. 1888).
- A year of launch of the second delivery of the video game The Last of Us Part II.
- June 20: 50 years from the first sketch The Chavo of 8transmitted within the Mexican humorous program Chespirito, in its first phase, in 1971.
- 21 June:
- It is 145 years since the death of Mexican military and political Antonio López de Santa Anna (n. 1795).
- Twenty-five years of the film The Jorobado of Notre Dame, produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
- 22 June:
- 80 years of Operation Barbarossa, in the framework of the Second World War, are completed.
- Thirty-five years of the goal known as The Hand of God and the Gol of the century were both carried out in the Mexican football world 1986 by Diego Armando Maradona.
- 105 years of the Arab Rebellion
- It's 20 years since the U.S. action movie Fast and furious.
- 23 June:
- The video game franchise Sonic The Hedgehog celebrates 30 years of its launch.
- Twenty-five years of Super Mario 64 launch are celebrated.
- It is 140 years since the death of the philosopher Matthias Jakob Schleiden.
- June 24: In Venezuela, a bicentennial of the Carabobo Battle.
- June 24: 10 years of the film Cars 2
- 25 June:
- In Mexico, 165 years of the issuance of the Lerdo Law by then President Ignacio Comonfort are fulfilled.
- Centenary of the death of the politician Javier Prado and Ugarteche.
- It is 30 years since the beginning of the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.
- The law of euthanasia in Spain enters into force, becoming the sixth State of the world to legally recognize it.
- 26 June:
- It is 480 years since the death of the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro (n. 1478).
- 210 years after the shooting of the novo-Hispanic independencemen Juan Aldama (n. 1764), Ignacio Allende (n. 1769) and José Mariano Jiménez (n. 1781).
- 27 June: 115 years of the taking of the city of Buenos Aires by British troops during the first English invasion are fulfilled.
- 28 June:
- It is 530 years since the birth of the English king Henry VIII (f. 1547), founder of the Anglican church.
- 55 years of the Argentine Revolution
- June 30: Mojang Studios closes the Minecraft Earth servers.
July
- 1 July:
- It is 60 years after the birth of Princess Diana of Wales.
- Centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
- July 2nd: 25 years of the Independence Day science fiction film.
- July 3: 50 years of the death of singer Jim Morrison.
- 4 July:
- It is 245 years after the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 480 years of the death of the Spanish conqueror Pedro de Alvarado (n. 1485).
- 30 years of the current Constitution of Colombia are fulfilled.
- 5 July:
- The Venezuelan declaration of independence of the Spanish crown is 110 years old.
- Twenty-five years after the birth of the Dolly sheep, the first cloned animal.
- 80 years of the Peruvian-Ecuadorian War, better known as the war of 41.
- July 6: 50 years after the death of singer Louis Armstrong.
- July 8: The philosopher Edgar Morin is 100 years old.
- 9 July:
- 40 years of launch in arcade of the Donkey Kong video game, which was also the first appearance of the video game character "Mario".
- It is 10 years after the murder of Argentine singer Facundo Cabral (n. 1937).
- Tenth anniversary of South Sudan ' s independence.
- 10 July:
- It is 170 years after the death of the Daguerrotype inventor and first photo divultor Louis Daguerre (n. 1787).
- The birth of inventor Nikola Tesla is 165 years old (f. 1943).
- 14 July:
- It is 205 years after the death of Venezuelan politician and military Francisco de Miranda (n. 1750).
- It is 140 years since the murder of the American cowboy and outlaw Billy the Kid (n. 1859).
- In Ecuador, centenary of the birth of former Ecuadorian President Sixto Durán-Ballén.
- 5 Years of the 2016 Nice Atentate
- July 15: 415 years after the birth of the Dutch painter Rembrandt (f. 1669) are completed.
- 16 July:
- 455 years of the death of the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas (n. 1474 or 1484).
- It is 200 years from Florida's Spanish session to the United States.
- 18 July:
- Centenary of the birth of astronaut and politician John Glenn.
- 85 years after the start of the Spanish Civil War.
- 20 July:
- Eighth centenary of Burgos Cathedral.
- Independence of Colombia.
- 22 July: 10 years of 2011 Norwegian Attacks
- 23 July:
- It is 80 years since the death of aviator José Quiñones González.
- Seventy years after the death of the French military and politician Philippe Pétain.
- It's 10 years since the death of singer Amy Winehouse.
- July 24: 110 years after Machu Picchu Discovery
- 27 July:
- 50 years of the song "Imagine", composed by John Lennon, are fulfilled.
- It is 100 years after the discovery of insulin.
- July 28: Bicentennial of the independence of Peru.
- 29 July:
- Forty years of the wedding in the UK between Carlos de Gales and Diana Spencer.
- It's 10 years since the movie Los Pitufos.
- July 30: 50 years of the film premiere Those crazy years starring Palito Ortega and Mercedes Carreras.
- July 31: Bicentennial of the death of José Fernando de Abascal.
August
- 2 August: 25 years of the premiere of the comedy film Matilda.
- August 3: 95 years after the birth of the singer of Jazz Tony Bennett.
- August 4th: 120 years after the birth of the singer Louis Armstrong.
- August 5: 10 years of the American Fiction Science Film The Origin of the Planet of the Simes.
- 6 August:
- It is the 35th Anniversary of Arcade Metroid Videogame represented with Metroid Dread.
- Guatemala's sub-20 football team commemorates 10 years of its first goal and first victory in a Sub-20 World Championship after defeating Croatia for 1 to 0 with Marvin Ceballos goal.
- Eighth centenary of the death of Santo Domingo de Guzmán.
- 7 August: 202 years of the Battle of Boyacá.
- August 8: The birth of the chemical Ernest Lawrence is 120 years old.
- 11 August: 30 years of the first Rugrats broadcast since 1991 by Nickelodeon.
- 12 August:
- It is 110 years after the birth of Mario Moreno "Cantinflas".
- 30 years of Metallica's homonym disc, Black Album.
- 13 August:
- It is 500 years after the conquest of Mexico with the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521.
- It is 60 years from the beginning of the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- August 15: 40 years of the foundation of EWTN, in the United States.
- August 21: 60 years after the birth of the animator Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the Sponge Bob series.
- August 24: Mexico marks 200 years of the signing of Treaties of Córdoba.
- August 25: The thirtieth anniversary of Michael Schumacher's debut is celebrated in Formula 1.
- 28 August:
- It is 200 years after the foundation of the National Library of Peru.
- Five years after the death of Mexican singer Juan Gabriel.
- August 29: 55 years of the last formal concert of The Beatles.
- August 30: 150 years after the birth of the physicist Ernest Rutherford.
September
- 1 September:
- It is 90 years after the birth of Mexican singer and actor Javier Solís.
- 60 years of the first conference of the Non-Aligned Movement were held.
- It is 30 years since Uzbekistan ' s independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2 September: Tenth anniversary of the Caza 212 air accident in Archipelago Juan Fernández (Chile).
- September 4th: Bicentennial of the murder of José Miguel Carrera.
- 7 September:
- It's 280 years since Blas de Lezo died.
- It's 120 years since William McKinley's murder.
- September 8: The Blue Tracks Children's Program is 25 years old.
- September 9: 25 years after the launch of Crash Bandicoot.
- September 10: The publication of Blacklist, 30th anniversary disc of the Metallica
- 11 September:
- It is 50 years since the death of the politician Nikita Jrushchov.
- 20 years of the Attacks of 11 September 2001.
- 14 September:
- 700 years after the death of the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy and considered the father of the Italian language.
- It is 20 years after the release of the video game Luigi's Mansion.
- September 15: Bicentennial of the independence of Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica) of the Spanish Empire.
- September 16: 10 years of the film Don Cat and his gang are completed.
- 16 September:
- Centenary of the Ecuadorian newspaper The Universe.
- 75 years of birth of the famous Spanish singer, Camilo Sesto (f. 2019).
- September 18: The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria is 90 years old
- September 19: There is a volcanic eruption in the island of La Palma, which is hard until December 25 at Christmas of the same year and its lava will occupy hundreds of hectares and destroy thousands of buildings, deleting from the map almost entirely the population of Todoque and part of it. La Laguna / La Laguna (The Plains of Aridane)
- September 22: 230 years after the birth of the chemical Michael Faraday.
- 24 September:
- It's 30 years since the launch of Nevermind by the American Nirvana band.
- Five years of animated film My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Everfree legend.
- 27 September:
- Bicentennial of the Consumption of Independence of Mexico.
- It's 60 years since the cartoon series, Don Cat and his gang.
- 28 September:
- It is 120 years after the birth of sports reporter Ed Sullivan.
- It's 30 years since Saxophonist Miles Davis died.
- September 30: 10 years after the death of the Mexican actor and comedian Capulina.
October
- 3 October:
- Bicentennial of the proclamation of General Simon Bolivar as president of the Great Colombia.
- Fifteen years after the death note.
- October 4: Francisco Morales Bermúdez, former president of Peru, is 100 years old.
- 5 October:
- It is 10 years after Steve Jobs died, founder of the Apple company.
- Microsoft launches its latest Windows 11 operating system to the international market.
- 7 October:
- It is 25 years since the American series “Hey Arnold” (Hey Arnold) makes its premiere on television.
- Twenty years after the beginning of the Afghanistan War (2001-2021)
- October 12: 50 years after the death of musician Gene Vincent
- October 13: Bicentennial of the birth of the doctor Rudolf Virchow.
- 16 October:
- Tenth anniversary of the death of the motor racing driver Dan Wheldon.
- In Huaral Peru there has been a 4.6-degree tremor that surprised limeños at 7:53:40 a.m.
- 17 October: 70 years after the start of broadcasts of Public Television in Argentina.
- 18 October:
- It is 150 years after the death of writer Manuel Ascencio Segura.
- It is 150 years after the death of mathematician Charles Babbage.
- 20 October:
- It is 130 years since the birth of the physicist James Chadwick.
- It's 10 years since the murder of Muamar the Gaddafi.
- October 21: 15 years of the premiere of El Chavo animated by Chespirito.
- October 22: It is 210 years after the birth of Franz Liszt.
- October 23: 10 years after the death of the motorcycle driver Marco Simoncelli, in the Moto GP Malaysia GP.
- October 24: 14 years after Rodolfo's death.
- 25 October:
- It is 140 years from the birth of the painter Pablo Picasso.
- 20 years of Windows XP launch.
- October 28: 40 years of the creation of the American rock metallica band.
- 29 October:
- It's 50 years since guitarist Duane Allman died.
- 65 years of the Sinai War
- October 30: 60 years of the detonation of the Zar Pump, by the former Soviet Union, causing a stir in the world.
November
- 2 November: 20 years of the film Annimada Monsters, Inc.
- November 3: 15 years after the death of Ecuadorian ex-futbolist, Alberto Spencer, a product of strong cancer.
- 5 November:
- Forty years after the death of Ecuadorian politician Assad Bucaram, a product of a strong heart attack, are fulfilled.
- It's 20 years since the death of writer Milton William Cooper.
- 7 November:
- 5 years after the death of the singer, novelist and poet Leonard Cohen.
- Ecuador’s soccer team commemorates 20 years of ranking its first world in 2002.
- 8 November:
- Five years of Donald Trump's Victory in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections.
- 125 years of X-ray Discovery
- 20 Years of Microsoft Xbox Console Release
- November 10: 15 years of the animated 3D Happy Feet film.
- November 11: Bicentennial of the birth of the philosopher Fiódor Dostoyevski.
- 12 November:
- It's three years since Stan Lee's death, Spider-Man creator, Iron Man and many more.
- The Disney + Day is celebrated, the 2-year event of the Disney+ streaming service.
- 13 November: 30 years of the animated film The beautiful and the beast.
- 14 November: 50 years of the Tragedy of Kibon, which took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, resulted in 8 deaths and 40 injuries.
- November 15: 25 years of the American film Space Jam was made based on the cartoon series of the Looney Tunes.
- 16 November: 30 years of the first edition of the Women's Soccer World Cup held in China.
- 17 November: 2 years of the first case of COVID-19 in the world.
- 21 November: 10 years of the first broadcast of the animated series My Little Pony: The Magic of Friendship in Discovery Kids.
- 23 November:
- The death of Alexander Litvinenko was 15 years after the polenio-210.
- It marks the 20th anniversary of the successful franchise of Harry Potter movies.
- 24 November:
- It's 30 years since the death of singer Freddie Mercury.
- It is 30 years since the death of drummer Eric Carr.
- 25 November:
- It is 140 years since the birth of Pope John XXIII.
- Five years after the death of Fidel Castro.
- Fifteen years after the murder of Mexican regional singer, Valentin ElizaldeThe Gold Gallo".
- 26 November:
- It's 30 years after Dangerous's launch of pop king Michael Jackson.
- It's 10 years since the death of drummer Keef Hartley.
- 28 November:
- Bicentennial of the Independence of Panama.
- It's 5 years since Chapecoense's Tragedy.
- 29 November:
- It's 20 years since the death of singer George Harrison.
- It is 10 years of "Levels" of Swedish dj Avicii.
December
- 1 December:
- Bicentennial of the ephemeral Independence of the Dominican Republic.
- It is 500 years since the death of Pope Leo X.
- 50 years of the March of the Vacías Cacerolas, in Chile.
- The first HIV/AIDS case is 40 years old.
- December 3: The birth of the politician Javier Prado and Ugarteche is 150 years old.
- 5 December:
- It's 120 years since Walt Disney's birth.
- It's 230 years since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died.
- December 4: 30 years after the closure of the Pan Am airline company.
- December 6: 300 years after the birth of Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes.
- 7 December:
- Eighty years of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which meant the US entry into World War II.
- It is 1500 years from the birth of San Columba, who allegedly saved someone attacked by Lake Ness Monster.
- Five years after the death of bassist Greg Lake.
- 8 December:
- Five years after the death of astronaut and politician John Glenn.
- 2 years after the death of rapper Juice WRLD
- 9 December: 5 years of the 2016 Solomon Islands Earthquake.
- December 10: The centenary of the Nobel Prize in Physics won by Albert Einstein is commemorated.
- 12 December:
- Bicentennial of the birth of writer Gustave Flaubert.
- It is 20 years after the death of footballer Josef Bican.
- 13 December:
- It is 500 years after the birth of Pope Sixtus V.
- Five years after the death of economist Thomas Schelling.
- December 14: 430 years after the death of the writer Juan de la Cruz.
- December 15: The Rock and roll community commemorates the centenary of Alan Freed's birth.
- 16 December: Centenary of the death of the musician Camille Saint-Saëns.
- 17 December:
- Centenary of the birth of the poet Gustavo Valcárcel.
- It is 10 years after the death of former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall.
- It is 10 years since the death of dictator Kim Jong-il.
- December 19: It is 10 years from the launch "Toulouse" of the dj and producer Nicky Romero.
- 20 December:
- Twenty-five years of comedy film "slasher" Scream.
- 5 years of the 2016 San Pablito Market Tragedy are completed.
- 21 December:
- It's 20 years since Nicktoons' film Jimmy Neutron: the genius boy.
- Twenty years of the premiere of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings.
- 24 December:
- The bicentennial of the birth of Ecuadorian President Gabriel García Moreno is fulfilled.
- Five years after the death of guitarist and singer Rick Parfitt.
- Libya is 70 years old as an independent country.
- 25 December:
- It is 30 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
- It is 60 years since the death of physiologist Otto Loewi.
- 5 years after the death of singer George Michael.
- The birth of Trance Armin van Buuren is 45 years old.
- 26 December:
- The painter José Gutiérrez de la Vega is 230 years old.
- It is 230 years after the birth of mathematician Charles Babbage.
- December 27: It is 450 years after the birth of astronomer Johannes Kepler.
- December 28: 40 years of the National Cinematography of Ecuador "Ulises Estrella" of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana "Benjamín Carrión".
- 31 December: 10 years of Samoa’s time transition, when changing UTC-11 hours to UTC+14, makes this island country come from the last to the first to receive a new day and new year.
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- It is 40 years after the occurrence of HIV, which produces commonly called AIDS.
- It is 100 years since the debut of footballer Lucien Laurent, who scored the first goal of World Cup history.
Events
January
- 1 January:
- The VRAEM is completely peaceful according to the plans of the Peruvian government.
- The Brexit transition period ends.
- The COVID-19 pandemic continues with 83,620,974 million accumulated cases, of which 65 million have recovered and 1,915,715 million people have died from the disease to this point. [1]
- 2 January:
- Pedro Pierluisi swore and took office as the new Governor of Puerto Rico.
- More than 100 people die in the Tchioma Bangou and Zaroumbey Darey terrorist attacks in Niger.
- The Norwegian company DNV GL refused to certify the Nord Stream 2 pipeline due to the threat of US sanctions.
- 3 January:
- Kazakhstan finally abolished the death penalty.
- In Bogotá, Colombia, it decrees 14 days of strict quarantine in the localities of Suba, Usaquén and Engativá from January 5 to January 18.
- In Merseyside, UK, the vocalist of the Gerry and the Pacemakers band, Gerry Marsden, died at 78.
- 4 January:
- A London court ruled that Julian Assange will not be extradited to the United States.
- The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation announced that it would not introduce compulsory use of any foreign language in the country.
- Saudi Arabia lifts its blockade against Qatar. This puts an end to the Catar crisis that has existed since 2017.
- 5 January:
- Oman confirmed the first positive case of a new variant of the UK's SARS-CoV-2 virus.
- The Iranian parliament passed a law that compels the government to destroy Israel by 2041.
- The American company Tesla can import vehicles to Israel.
- The Ho Chi Minh City People ' s Court sentenced the defendant Pham Chi Dung to 15 years ' imprisonment and the defendants Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Le Huu Minh Tuan to 11 years ' imprisonment for the same charges of processing, possession, distribution or dissemination of information. Documents, articles intended to defend the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- Colombia authorizes Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19.
- 6 January:
- Protesters in support of President Donald Trump break into the U.S. Capitol. The violent protests left 5 people dead and 50 arrested.
- The Hong Kong police arrest 53 democracy activists under the National Security Act.
- The Arab countries lift the blockade on Catar.
- Events in the Vega in Caracas, Venezuela, an operation carried out by police officers where 23 people died.
- 7 January:
- In Bogotá, Colombia, compulsory quarantine is decreed throughout the city following the growth of cases of COVID-19 in the city. Quarantine is declared in Kennedy, Fontibón and Teusaquillo in Bogotá from January 7 to January 21.
- Elon Musk becomes the richest man in the world, overcoming Jeff Bezos.
- 8 January:
- Peru confirms the first case of the new coronavirus variant that emerged in the UK.
- China stops Lai Xiaomin, former president of Huarong, for corruption.
- Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook, among others, close Donald Trump's accounts.
- 9 January:
- A Boeing 737 of Sriwijaya Air, with 62 passengers on board, covering the route Jakarta - Pontianak loses contact and falls to the sea of Java after taking off in Indonesia.
- La erasca Filomena aparece en España.
- A gigantic blackout leaves all Pakistan out of power.
- The Central Metro Control Post of Mexico City is set on fire, leaving 6 lines and millions of affected users unoperated.
- Christine Aschbacher resigns as Minister of Finance of Austria.
- 10 January:
- Japan finds a new variant of the coronavirus in travelers from Brazil.
- Alexánder Lukashenko, president of Belarus, plans to reform the constitution in 2021.
- Mexico confirms the first case of the new coronavirus variant that emerged in England. An additional 38 cases are investigated.
- The Parliament of Norway approves granting 1600 million to a CO2 capture and storage project.
- The United Kingdom records 54 940 new cases of COVID-19 and 563 deaths.
- Strong winter storm left at least 8 dead and 240 wounded in Japan.
- 11 January:
- Albania begins the vaccination campaign against COVID-19.
- North Korea supports Joe Biden's investiture.
- Albania donates vaccines to Kosovo.
- Democrats throw another impeachment against Trump for inciting the insurrection.
- Asturias announces new restrictive measures for the control of the pandemic: the curfew will be from 22:00 to 06:00.
- All Spain (savo Canarias and Asturias) at extreme risk by COVID-19.
- Sadir Zhapárov had won the presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan.
- Antonio Guterres announces that he will aspire to a second term as head of the UN.
- Great snowfall in Japan, with up to 88 centimeters.
- Inundated six classrooms of the French school of the Massana.
- For the first time, red light is activated in Berlin by coronavirus.
- Germany launches stricter confinement.
- Following the trilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin, Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev, he agreed to unlock all the economic and transport aspects of the Nagorny Karabakh.
- A meteorite hits Norway at 50 000 km/h.
- WHO forces all countries to start the vaccination campaign, up to 100 days.
- In Bogotá, Colombia, the mayor Claudia López decrees quarantine in the towns of Kennedy, Fontibón and Teusaquillo from January 12 to January 21, 2021 for increased contagions.
- 12 January:
- Completion of compulsory quarantine in Bogotá, Colombia.
- In Bogotá, Colombia, the mayor Claudia López decrees quarantine in the localities of Bosa, Ciudad Bolívar, San Cristóbal, Puente Aranda, Rafael Uribe Uribe and Usme from January 18 to January 28, 2021 for capacity-building in the UCI's of that city. It also decrees quarantine in Bogotá between January 15 and January 18, 2021.
- In Bogotá, Colombia, Mayor Claudia López decrees quarantine uprising in Teusaquillo.
- In Venezuela, five representatives of the non-governmental organization Azul Positivo were arrested when a commission of officials of the General Directorate of Military Counter-intelligence (DGCIM) intervened their office and interrogated them, subsequently taking them to the headquarters of Maracaibo.
- 13 January:
- In Lyon, France takes the first transplant of both arms and shoulders to an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital.
- In Colombia, President Iván Duque extended isolation and health emergency until February 28, 2021.
- 14 January:
- In Manaus, Brazil collapses the hospital system by the second wave of COVID-19. The city faces a serious lack of oxygen cylinders for the sick.
- Presidential elections were held in Uganda, where Yoweri Museveni won re-election; the opposition considers it a fraud.
- In Beijing, China reaches the WHO scientific commission to investigate the origin of the virus in the country.
- In Bogotá, Colombia, the mayor indicates that the town of Tunjuelito begins quarantine sectored on January 15, 2021 together with the other localities mentioned above until January 28, 2021.
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hits Indonesia, nearly 150 km from the city of Palopó. 96 dead.
- The video game Lotus Reverie is released: First Nexus.
- January 15: The number of deaths per coronavirus reaches more than 2 million.
- January 16: Armin Laschet is elected leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), to replace the leader Angela Merkel.
- January 17: Russian opposition leader Alexéi Navalni is arrested on his arrival in Russia from Germany.
- 18 January:
- It ends the mandatory quarantine in Bogotá announced by Claudia López for high contagions in the city.
- In Bogotá, Colombia, the mayor Claudia López de nuevo decreta cuarentena total el fin de semana que va desde el 22 de enero hasta el 25 de enero de 2021.
- January 19: The number of deaths in the U.S. COVID-19 Pandemic reaches 400,000
- 20 January:
- Joe Biden assumed as the 46th President of the United States, as well, Kamala Harris assumes as 49th Vice President of the United States, being the first woman to occupy that position.
- In Madrid, Spain a strong gas explosion in a building leaves at least three dead and one disappeared.
- 21 January:
- In India a fire at the facilities of the Serum Institute (SII), the largest vaccine manufacturer of the British University of Oxford and AstraZeneca against COVID-19, left at least five dead.
- In Kharkov, Ukraine a nursing home was consumed by a fire that left 15 people dead.
- In Iraq, a double suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State in a Baghdad market left 32 dead and 110 wounded.
- January 22: Lloyd Austin is confirmed as Secretary of Defense by the U.S. Senate and the first Black Chief of the Pentagon.
- 23 January:
- Concentrations were held in support of Alexéi Navalni in several Russian cities, which has 3400 detainees.
- The Argentine merchant Irineo Garzón is arrested and charged for sexual abuse of a young Venezuelan.
- 24 January:
- In the Netherlands riots explode after government measures on curfew.
- Presidential elections are held in Portugal where Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was reelected.
- In Brazil, a plane with part of the delegation of Palmas Futebol and Regatas crashes shortly after taking off, four players die, the president of the association and the pilot of the aircraft.
- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador positively gave COVID-19.
- 25 January:
- In Shandong, China rescued 11 of 22 Chinese disappeared after the collapse of a mine, 10 people were reported dead.
- It ends the strict quarantine in Bogotá decreed by Claudia López, due to the increase in patients in ICU in that city.
- January 26: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 exceeds 100 million worldwide.
- 27 January:
- In Bogota, Colombia, the mayor of this city decrees quarantine in the towns of Suba, Engativa, Fontibón, Kennedy and Usaquén.
- In Guayaquil, Ecuador is assassinated by Ecuadorian actor Efraín Ruales at the hands of hitmen. His remains were buried in Peace Park of the Aurorain Daule, Ecuador on January 29.
- 28 January:
- In the United States, the US financial services company Robinhood restricts the trade in shares of several companies, including GameStop, which provokes online outrage. Members of Congress, including House Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib and Senator Ted Cruz, request an investigation, and walltreetbets users file a collective lawsuit.
- In Georgia, the U.S. a liquid nitrogen leak in a bird processing plant leaves 6 dead and 130 wounded.
- 29 January:
- Indonesia surpasses the millions of COVID-19-acquired contagions.
- Vladimir Putin signed a law that ratifies an agreement extending START III for five years.
- In Holguin, Guantánamo, an aircraft from the Cuban armed forces crashed leaving 5 dead.
- In Colombia, President Iván Duque indicated that the vaccine against COVID-19 began on 20 February in that South American country.
- In Connecticut, the United States, the guitarist of the band The Animals, Hilton Valentine, died at age 77.
- January 30: In Havana, Cuba at least 10 people died in a bus accident where teachers traveled on a road between Havana and the province of Mayabeque.
- 31 January:
- After almost 9 months without service, they reopen the stretch of the Mexico City's Light Train, Xochimilco-State Azteca, thus concluding, to almost 2 years of greater rehabilitation of that system.
- In Somalia a suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu left 17 dead and several wounded.
February
- 1 February: In Rangun, Burma occurs a coup d'etat. The Burmese army arrests State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other leaders of the ruling party, disconnects the Internet and the media and, through a special television broadcast, the army decrees the state of emergency for one year and takes over the state, proclaiming head of State to General Min Aung Hlaing.
- 2 February:
- In the United States, the Starship, a prototype of SpaceX rocket, crashes when landing.
- More than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.
- In Miramar, Argentina a team of researchers found the remains of a giant lazy over 3.5 million years.
- In Colombia, the Bogotá mayor's office ended the isolation decreed on January 30.
- February 3: The United States and Russia extend their New START nuclear weapons control treaty for five years, the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement between the two countries.
- 4 February:
- Czech Republic surpasses the million contagions accumulated by COVID-19.
- China conducts anti-ballistic missile launches (ABM) to test its air defence system and its ability to intercept and destroy enemy missiles in full flight.
- 5 February:
- In Italy, the Etna volcano enters eruption
- The Netherlands surpasses the million contagions accumulated by COVID-19.
- 6 February:
- In La Esperanza, Honduras, there is a murder of a 26-year-old girl by the Honduran National Police.
- 7 February:
- In Ecuador, presidential elections of president and vice president of the republic are held in the first round and legislative elections of national, provincial and foreign Assembly members, representatives of the Andean Parliament. Andrés Arauz and Guillermo Lasso contested the presidency in the second round.
- In India, the authorities confirmed the death of 30 people and 200 disappeared by an avalanche caused by the breakage of a glacier in the north of the country. Rescue work continues against watch.
- 8 February: Colombia presents a law regulating Venezuelan migrants and refugees for 10 years.
- February 9: In Washington, D.C., the 4th process of dismissal against former U.S. President Donald Trump, accused by the majority of the Democrats and a minority of Republicans of inciting and planning the 6 January Capitol Assault.
- 10 February:
- In Costa Rica, the president, Carlos Alvarado, appeared in the Legislative Assembly for his alleged responsibility in issuing a decree, already repealed, which would incur the violation of personal data.
- In the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia, an earthquake of 7.5 degrees of magnitude shakes the Pacific by activating the alert of Tsunami; the U.S. Geological Service reported. U.S.
- 11 February:
- China forbids the transmission of BBC World News in its territory after the British chain produced real reports on the issues of Xinjiang and the handling of COVID-19 by the Chinese Government, in violation.
- In Fort Worth, Texas at least nine people died in an accident involving 133 vehicles on a Texas road; affected by weather conditions that have left behind a snowstorm system.
- February 12: Super Mario 3D World launches for the Nintendo Switch plus Bowser's Fury.
- 13 February: In Japan there was an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 degrees on the Ritcher scale on the east coast of Japan, near the Fukushima nuclear power station.
- 14 February:
- Former Argentine President Carlos Menem died.
- The Emirati Hope probe today captured Mars' first image after entering five days ago successfully into the orbit of the red planet, where it plans to study the climate and atmosphere to answer questions so far without answer.
- Former United States President Donald Trump is acquitted of his second political trial.
- February 15: In Mexico a mega blackout occurs in the northern part of the country, leaving several states of the republic without electricity, this due to the effects of the low temperatures of the cold front 35.
- 16 February:
- Violent demonstrations and protests begin in Catalonia, Spain in defense of the freedom of the rapper Pablo Hasél.
- In Andhra Pradesh, south of India, a crash between a truck and a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims left 14 dead.
- February 17: Republican Senator Ted Cruz flies to Cancun, Mexico with his family in the middle of the North American Cold Wave 2020-2021 that affected the state of Texas which generates a widespread condemnation.
- 18 February: El Perseverance land on Mars.
- February 19: The media repercussion takes place in Chile, the Tomasito case the disappearance of a 3-year-old boy mysteriously disappeared outside the city of Los Angeles whose body appeared later on February 26, without finding the killer.
- February 20: The United States deports Germany to Nazi concentration camp guard 95 years.
- 21 February: Russia informs WHO of first cases of H5N8 flu in humans.
- February 22: In Latin America Fox prémium channels are replaced by Star Premium and in all its channels they begin their broadcasts following a Disney ad.
- 22 February: After 28 years of career, the legendary electronic music duo Daft Punk announced its separation.
- February 23: In Ecuador several riots in prisons in Guayaquil, Cuenca and Cotopaxi leave 79 dead.
- February 24: The United Nations-backed COVAX initiative begins to deliver vaccines to middle- and low-income countries with the first shipment of AstraZeneca to Ghana.
- 25 February:
- Australia adopts the law that compels Google and Facebook to pay the press for their contents.
- Joe Biden orders a bombing on Syria, causing 22 deaths, to warn Iran that it will not tolerate aggression.
- In Colombia, health emergencies are extended until 31 May and non-binding isolation until 1 June.
- February 26: Hasbro toy manufacturer announces that the name of the brand Mr. Potato Head will be changed to be non-binary gender.
- February 27: In Tonalá, Mexico, an armed attack left 11 dead, including a minor. It appeared to be construction workers who expected their payment.
- 28 February:
- In Colombia, the renowned singer of Vallenato Jorge Oñate died at 71, a victim of a pancreatitis derived from COVID-19.
- The elections of mayors and deputies were held in El Salvador for the period 2021-2024.
- Brazil launches the Amazon 1 space to monitor the deforestation of the Amazon.
- In Libya at least 41 people died when they shipwrecked the tyre boat they were traveling on and from which they had sent a relief call.
March
- 1 March:
- In Port-au-Prince, a 400-prison escape leaves 25 dead.
- Morocco suspends diplomatic relations with Germany.
- 2 March:
- In Bolivia, at least 7 people died when a rail broke in the middle of a student trim in the Financial Sciences Building of the Public University of El Alto. The students fell from a height of 16.7 meters.
- In Cochabamba, Bolivia a bus accident leaves 20 dead.
- In the Imperial County, south of California, the U.S. a car accident between a truck and an SUV left 15 dead.
- In Colombia serious clashes between FARC dissident guerrillas and soldiers after a military bombardment leave 10 dead.
- March 3: Australian Attorney General Christian Porter denies the charge of rape involving a 16-year-old girl in 1988.
- March 4: A series of earthquakes occur in New Zealand, where the largest one reaches 8.1 degrees Mw, triggering a tsunami alert in several Pacific Ocean countries.
- March 5: Pope Francis travels to Baghdad (Irak) celebrating in the country a historic Mass.
- 6 March: In Paraguay violent incidents left a balance of 1 dead and at least 18 injured in Asunción. The opposition is studying to promote a political trial against Mario Abdo Benítez.
- March 7: In a military base of Bata (Equatorial Guinea) there are four explosions that leave at least 98 dead and 615 wounded.
- 8 March:
- International Women's Day marked by feminist social movements around the world.
- Mexican humorist Ricardo González Gutiérrez, better known as Cepillin, died
- 9 March: In Tunisia 14 migrants died and 139 were rescued after the shipwreck of two boats in front of Sfax.
- 10 March:
- The use of cannabis in Mexico is legalized.
- A political earthquake begins in Spain, where a motion of censorship in Murcia provoked in full pandemic the fall of the Government of Madrid, one of the major European economic poles, and threatens to destabilize other regions such as Andalusia and Castilla y León.
- The “MAR10 Day” (World Day of Super Mario Bros).
- March 11: In the United Kingdom, the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca suspended the distribution of lots of vaccines in several countries in Europe and Asia due to thromboembolic episodes among the nearly 5 million people vaccinated.
- 12 March: 8 people were killed and 47 others were injured in a terrorist bombing in Afghanistan.
- 13 March:
- British ex-star Murray Walker died.
- In Bolivia, former president Jeanine Añez was arrested for conspiracy and terrorism related to the events of October 2019 that led to the resignation of Evo Morales.
- March 14: Honduras' General Elections began in 2021.
- March 15: Armed attackers kill at least 58 people in the Tillabery region, southwest of Niger, the government declares three days of mourning.
- 16 March:
- In the state of Georgia, the United States several shootings in three massage rooms in the metropolitan area of Atlanta left 8 dead and 1 wounded.
- Find new variant of coronavirus in France. So far, a British hospital has identified eight cases of the new variant. As announced this new variant of the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus, it is more difficult to detect by the classic PCR tests, although it is also reported that the symptoms are the same as those of COVID-19.
- 17 March: John Magufuli, president of Tanzania, died at 61 years.
- March 18: In the city of Coatepec Harinas, Mexico, the criminal gang Familia Michoacana carries out an ambush, where 13 policemen die.
- 19 March:
- The global fall of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter social networks is reported, the servers re-established at night.
- In Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo due to failures in the brake system, a freight transport vehicle crashed at high speed against three other vehicles, including two total buses die 25 people.
- At 21:06 (UTC-6) South and Central Mexico, the seismic alert was activated after a 5.7-degree earthquake with an epicenter in Guerrero. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
- In Moa, Cuba, at 22:06 (local time), there is a strong explosion that could be related to the fall of a meteorite.
- 20 March:
- The tsunami alert in Japan is activated after a 7.2-degree earthquake with near Fukushima epicenter, this earthquake occurs just 9 days after 10 years of Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, no damage is reported.
- In Mexico City, resulting in a system error, seismic alert is re-activated, the second being in less than 24 hours and the fourth time since its installation, which is wrongly activated, no major incidents are reported.
- March 21st: A curfew is decreed in Miami Beach, after registering massive crowds of uncovered tourists, and without respecting prevention measures against COVID-19
- 22 March:
- The Brazilian variant causes an accelerated increase in hospitalizations for young people in hospitals in Brazil.
- Several schools and faculties belonging to the National Autonomous University of Mexico enter Paro of labors in protest for the lack of pay payments to teachers in different campuses of the university.
- 23 March:
- In the United States a shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado left 10 dead.
- In Egypt a Taiwanese container MV Ever Given staggered causing the obstruction of the Suez channel through which more than 10% of the world's maritime trade traffic circulates.
- March 24: UEFA Classification eliminations begin for the 2022 World Cup of Football.
- 25 March: India detects a new variant of COVID-19, with a double mutation, is investigated whether this new variant is more contagious, or is more resistant to existing vaccines.
- 26 March:
- The Butantan Institute of São Paulo announces the creation of the ButanVac, the first Brazilian vaccine against COVID-19
- In Tahta, Egypt a clash of two trains left at least 32 people dead and 66 wounded.
- 27 March:
- In Cairo, Egypt at least five people died and 24 others were injured, after a nine-story building collapsed.
- On Saturday, the Government of Mexico admitted on its website that the actual number of deaths by the coronavirus pandemic is more than 321,000 people, 60% higher than the official figure of 201,429 deaths according to the number of deaths confirmed so far with diagnostic tests, that number would exceed 310,550 deaths recorded in Brazil, positioning Mexico as the second country with the most deaths per COVID-19.
- March 28: In Mexico a policewoman murders in the same way as George Floyd a Salvadoran immigrant named Victoria Salazar, several feminists protested because of that fact.
- March 29: The release of the Suez Canal after a severe 6-day bottle-up occurred, the decoupling of the MV Ever Given holders occurred at 13:05 UTC 15:05 (Local time), three hours later the transit through the channel was resumed, it is estimated to have a great economic impact following the incident.
- 30 March:
- Target date for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.
- There is a fire in the area of the Ajusco picacho in Mexico City, reaching different points of the area between them, a few meters near the facilities of the TV Azteca. So far there is no major incident.
- In Babo Genbile, Ethiopia 100 people died after an attack by terrorist groups.
- March 31: U.S. President Joe Biden overturns Trump's restrictions on transgender people serving in the armed forces.
April
- 1 April: Seven pro-democracy protesters are sentenced to imprisonment for an unauthorized meeting in Hong Kong, including Martin Lee and Jimmy Lai.
- 2 April:
- In Hualien, Taiwan a train derailed, killing at least 51 people and wounding at 186 more.
- In Washington, United States a car packed the northern barricade in front of the Capitol along Constitution Avenue, killing one police officer and wounding another. The attack was carried out by a follower of the radical group Nation of Islam.
- 3 April:
- In Cairo, the Golden Parade of the Pharaohs with which twenty-two (22) mummies, including eighteen (18) kings and four (4) queens from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
- 4 April:
- The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization officially opens its doors to the public.
- In Bangladés the 'Sabbit Al Hasan' ferry, which carried 150 passengers on board, shipwrecked after crashing with another boat while sailing through the Shitalakhsya River; leaving 34 dead and multiple wounded.
- April 5: Seroja tropical cyclone causes floods and landslides in southern Indonesia and East Timor, killing at least 113 people according to local authorities.
- April 6: Jeff Bezos heads the Forbes list of billionaires with a patrimony of $177 billion.
- 7 April:
- In Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States, a shooting by Phillip Adams, a former American Football League former judge, left six people, including two children, dead, while a sixth is in critical condition with serious bullet wounds.
- The Walt Disney Company closes Blue Sky Studios after 34 years of existence, due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all its businesses, making a third animation study not sustainable.
- April 8: The social networks Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are reported worldwide.
- April 9: In Windsor, Berkshire, England, Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh died after 69 years in the position of Royal Consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
- The DMX rapper dies at 50 years of age due to acute myocardial infarction.
- La Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine publishes in Japan the last chapter of Hajime Isayama's famous sleeve, Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on the Titans) after 11 and a half years since its publication
- April 10: China orders Alibaba Group to pay a record fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) after antimonopoly standards ensured that the company was acting as a monopoly.
- 11 April:
- In Ecuador, the second round is held in the presidential elections. Guillermo Lasso, a banker and businessman, succeeds in the presidency of Ecuador, defeating leftist Andrés Arauz.
- In Peru, general elections.
- April 12: Britain loosens its COVID-19 restrictions and opens pubs and shops after 175 days, the longest period of restrictions in the world.
- April 13: U.S. authorities, South Africa and the European Union temporarily suspend the administration of vaccines against Johnson ' s COVID-19 after six women developed blood clots.
- 14 April: In Egypt, the derailment of a train outside Cairo leaves 11 dead and 98 wounded; it is the third derailment of a passenger train in less than a month.
- April 15: A shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, leaves eight dead and five wounded.
- 16 April:
- In the United States a shooting at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis left 8 dead and several wounded.
- In Cuba, former Cuban President Raúl Castro resigns from the position of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, ending the era of leadership that the Castros had since the Cuban Revolution.
- April 17: The global number of deaths per COVID-19 exceeds three million.
- April 18: Two people die in an accident caused by a Tesla without a driver in Texas.
- April 19: The Cuban Communist Party announces that Miguel Díaz-Canel will replace Raul Castro as party leader.
- April 20: The president of Chad for three decades, Idriss Déby, was killed in a battlefield fighting the rebels near the capital of Ndjamena.
- 21 April: In Indonesia, an armed submarine carrying out a military exercise with 53 crew members on board disappears after losing communication at the Bali Strait.
- April 22: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, record numbers of daily contagions are reported in India, leaving hospitals and crematoriums of the country completely saturated, with no quota to receive more patients.
- April 23: In the city of Vasai-Virar, in India, the fire of a hospital of COVID patients left 13 dead.
- April 24: In Iraq a fire in a hospital in Baghdad left 82 dead and 110 wounded.
- April 25: The remains of the Indonesian Navy submarine have been missing since four days ago. The 53 crew members on board were declared dead.
- 26 April:
- In Burkina Faso, two Spanish and one Irish journalists are killed while recording a documentary on poaching. They were in a transit area of different Islamist terrorist organizations.
- All over the world you could see the Superluna Rosa, where the full moon was closer and brighter.
- April 27: In Chile, President Sebastián Piñera is forced to promulgate a third withdrawal of 10% of the AFP funds, after not being accepted by the Constitutional Court.
- April 28: In Colombia there are strong protests in almost every city of the country against the tax reform presented by the Government of Iván Duque.
- April 29: The official number of deaths per COVID-19 in Brazil exceeds 400,000, with 3,000 deaths per day, below 4,000.
- April 30: On Mount Meron, Israel a stampede leaves at least 45 dead and dozens wounded during the Lag Ba'omer celebration.
May
- May 3: In Mexico, the high section of the Mexico City Metro Line 12 collapses, derailing two cars, with at least 26 people dead and 80 people injured. It is considered the second worst accident in Mexico City Metro history.
- 4 May:
- In Colombia: The activist group Anonymous hacks the three web pages of the Colombian government national army, Senate and Presidency.
- Elections to the Madrid Assembly.
- Globally end your operations the Yahoo website! Replies after their closure was announced on 6 April 2021.
- 4-6 May: A rain of stars is visible throughout the world.
- May 6: In the U.S. city of Houston (Texas), the Colonial Pipeline pipeline suffered a cyber attack on Russian ransomware DarkSide, which caused the operator to close its entire network and affect the fuel supply of the eastern coast of the country.
- 8 May: In Afghanistan, a terrorist attack at a girls ' school in Kabul left 68 people dead and 165 injured.
- 9 May:
- At 03:30 (UTC time), the remains of the Chinese Larga March 5 rocket fell into the Indian Ocean, west of the Maldives islands, impacting much of its fuselage on the latter.
- In the United States, a shooting at a party in Colorado Springs left a 7-dead balance, including the aggressor.
- 10 May: Operation Guard of the Israeli Army Walls is launched against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip.
- May 11: In Kazan (Russia) there is a shooting in a school that left nine dead (seven students and two adults), as well as 21 wounded.
- 16 May:
- In Chile: municipal elections, regional governors, and conventional constituents, changed date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will be carried out for two days (15 and 16 May).
- The 69th edition of the Miss Universe contest was held in Hollywood in Florida, Andrea Meza became the third Mexican to conquer the title.
- 17 May: In Ceuta, Spain, there are some 8,000 irregular immigrants coming from Morocco. The Spanish Army is deployed in the autonomous city to stop the massive entrance of people and ensure security.
- May 18: In Apure (Venezuela) the Colombian guerrilla Jesus Santrich died in confrontation between illegal gangs.
- 22 May:
- End of the Eurovision 2021 Song Festival.
- In the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mount Nyiragongo erupted by destroying part of Goma and leaving 32 deaths and hundreds of victims.
- May 23: In Italy, the fall of a cabin in a cable car in Stresa has left a total of 14 people dead and 3 more seriously wounded.
- 24 May:
- The British atonement Max Mosley died of cancer.
- Asunción de Guillermo Lasso como presidente del Ecuador.
- In Lima, Peru at around 11:00 (UTC time) an electric storm is reported never before seen after about 100 years, several people were alarmed after what happened. At the same time, in an area of the city, a hail shower was recorded.
- In the VRAEM area in Peru, a terrorist attack perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso left 14 people killed inside a bar. This is an attack with a magnitude never seen in the last 20 years.
- In a village near the city of Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a massacre attributed to the Islamic State left 22 dead people, the majority decapitated.
- After his allegations of pedophilia, the Megadeth gang expelled his bassist David Ellefson.
- 26 May:
- Visible lunar eclipse over the Pacific Ocean, Oceania, Asia and parts of North America.
- In the United States, a shooting in San José, California left 10 people dead, including the aggressor.
- First Europa League for the Villarreal, in an end against Manchester United, which ended with a result of 11-10 in the criminals.
- May 28: In Colombia the health emergency extends until August 31.
- May 29: In Porto the Chelsea conquers its second UEFA Champions League.
- May 30: After almost 24 years of drought of titles, the Mexican football team Cruz Azul, is crowned champion at the end of Mexican football Guard1anes 2021, by imposing on the global score 2-1 against Santos Laguna.
- May 31: In Colombia, selective isolation extends until September 1.
June
- June 1: In Colombia, the Colombian police exterminate the criminal organization Los Caparrapos.
- June 5: In Musquiz, Coahuila in Mexico collapses a coal mine, leaving 7 miners trapped.
- 6 June:
- In Mexico, federal elections.
- In Peru, the second round was held in the presidential elections, where the left-wing professor and trade union leader Pedro Castillo won, defeating the ultra-right candidate Keiko Fujimori.
- June 10: Anular solar eclipse was mainly visible in Canada, Greenland and Russia.
- 11 June: Beginning of the Euro Cup 2020.
- 12 June: Danish footballer Christian Eriksen was decompensated during the match between Denmark and Finland of the Euro Cup 2020 and was taken from emergency. It was discharged at 5 days.
- June 13: Beginning of the 47th edition of the American Cup 2021 in Brazil.
- June 15: The third wave of COVID-19 contagions is presented in Mexico.
- June 16: In Cúcuta, Colombia, the ELN explodes a car-bomb in the Army's 30th Brigade.
- June 21: After a year and a half, suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Mexico the first macrosimulacro of sism of 2021 is performed, the hypothesis was of an 8-degree earthquake with epicenter on the coasts of Guerrero.
- June 22: In Lima, Peru recorded a 6.0-degree earthquake that dropped buildings. The epicenter was Mala.
- 24 June:
- In Miami, the United States, a part of a building collapses causing 78 dead and several disappeared.
- All over the world was visible Fresa SupermoonLike in April, the full moon was closer and more clearly.
- June 25: Police Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd, is sentenced to 22 years in prison.
- 26 June:
- In the Pacific of Mexico there is a Hurricane, which is called "Enrique", is continuing during these days and causing fear in the city.
- During a biking competition in France, a woman accidentally caused the fall of several cyclists, many were fractured. The woman had been sought to see if she paid a fine of 1,500 Euros or went to a year in prison. They found her four days later.
- June 27: In Bangladés there is a gas explosion, leaving 7 dead and more than 50 wounded.
- June 28: In London, the United Kingdom has an explosion and a fire on a bridge.
- 29 June: Former South African President Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of the court.
July
- July 1st: In Canada there is a heat wave of up to 50°, it is so strong that it came to the West of the United States, caused forest fires in both countries. He has left 676 dead in Canada so far and more than 226 dead in the United States.
- 2 July:
- The footballer Toni Kroos announced his retirement from the football team in Germany.
- In Iraq there is a 50° heat wave and a electricity cut across the country.
- July 3: A series of torrential rains are recorded in Japan, causing floods.
- 4 July: In the Philippines a Lockheed C-130H Hercules aircraft from the Philippine Air Force (PAF) crashed in Sulu, leaving a balance of at least 50 dead, including three people on the ground.
- July 5: In Thailand, the explosion in a chemical factory near Bangkok left as balance 1 dead, 33 injured and more than 1,000 evacuated persons.
- 6 July:
- In the Kamchatka Krai in Russia there is an accident at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Flight 251, leaving 28 dead and no survivors.
- In the Province of Ilam to the south-west of Iran there is an explosion in an oil field, leaving 3 dead and 4 wounded.
- 7 July:
- In Haiti, the president of that country, Jovenel Moïse, was murdered.
- Argentinean atonement and politician Carlos Reutemann dies.
- In Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua there was a total blackout in the 3 countries at 1:00 pm (local time).
- 8 July:
- In Bangladesh a fire at a food factory near Daca left 52 dead and 25 wounded.
- In Caracas, Venezuela initiates the 905 Cota Frontements between the police forces against the criminal gangs of 'el Koki' (Carlos Luis Revete), 'el Vampi' (Carlos Calderón Martínez) and 'el Galvis' (Garbis Ochoa Ruíz).
- 10 July:
- Finalize the American Cup 2021. Argentina defeats Brazil in the Maracaná Stadium (Rio de Janeiro) for 1 to 0, and breaks the 28-year drought without being a champion.
- The Concacacaf 2021 Gold Cup begins.
- 11 July:
- Final Euro 2020. The selection of Italy defeats England in the Wembley Stadium (London), from the criminals obtaining its second European title after the first title obtained in 1968.
- In Cuba, there are many protests against the Cuban government.
- 14 July:
- In Western Europe, floods cause at least 205 deaths and great damage.
- In Chile, a constitutional reform of 2017 is in effect, in which the figure of the Regional Intendent is replaced by that of the Regional Presidential Delegate in the 16 regions of the country, in turn the figure of Provincial Governor is replaced by that of Provincial Presidential Delegate in 40 provinces of the country. Each presidential delegate is appointed and removed from office by the President of the Republic, and they remain in the exercise of their functions while confident. Paralemante assumes the new authorities of the 16 regions of Chile, known as regional governors, who were democratically elected and assume certain functions that the Intendents had previously had. In this way, the 16 regions of the country are headed in a bicephalous manner, consisting of a regional government (by the democratically elected Governor) and a presidential delegation (by a designated delegate).
- July 19: In Peru, Pedro Castillo is proclaimed by the National Elections Jury as elected president after more than 1 and a half months after the Second Round of the Presidential Elections of June 6.
- July 20: In Zhengzhou, China, torrential rains have left 73 dead and severe material damage.
- 21 July: In Tokyo at an IOC session, the city of Brisbane, Australia is designated as the headquarters of the 2032 Olympic Games.
- July 23: The opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is held.
- July 26: Battery Joey Jordison died.
- 28 July:
- Assumption of Pedro Castillo as president of Peru. (President of the Bicentennial).
- A strong 8.2 earthquake shakes the Alaskan Peninsula.
- Start a series of forest fires in Turkey.
- July 29: National Paro in Guatemala protesting the government of President Alejandro Gimmattei and demanding his resignation.
- July 30: In Piura, Peru, there is a 6.2-degree earthquake that collapsed some buildings.
August
- Rains of Merida, Venezuela. At least 20 dead.
- 1 August:
- The Popular Consultation is held in Mexico 2021.
- In Las Vegas, the United States finishes Concacaf 2021 Gold Cup. At the Allegiant Stadium, the selection of the United States defeats the selection of Mexico by a 1-0 marker in extra times, achieving its seventh title in the competition.
- August 5: Lionel Messi is leaving F.C. Barcelona after 17 seasons in which it won 35 titles.
- August 8: Closure of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
- 9 August: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publishes the first part of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, which states that the effects of man-made climate change are now "generating and rapidly intensifying."
- 11 August: An earthquake of 7.1 degrees of magnitude is recorded on the coast of the Philippines.
- 12 August: Two earthquakes of 7.5 and 8.2 occur in the Sandwich Islands.
- 14 August: In Haiti there is an earthquake of 7,2 with an epicentre 200 kilometres west of the capital Port-au-Prince, leaving a balance of 2,248 dead.
- 15 August:
- In Wolfratshausen, Germany, German footballer and world champion died in 1974, Gerd Müller.
- In Afghanistan, capital Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban. It was the last territory governed by the regime of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, in the so-called Taliban offensive. President Ashraf Ghani flees to Tajikistan.
- In Altalil, north Lebanon, the explosion of a petrol-fueled tanker left 28 dead and 80 injured. The event occurred in the midst of a fuel supply crisis that has paralyzed the country.
- August 16: In Mexico City there was an explosion in a housing building in the Benito Juárez mayor's office caused by a possible gas leak, leaving a balance of 29 injured and a deceased person.
- August 17: The singer Bob Dylan is accused of having raped a 12-year-old girl in 1965.
- 18 August: Vanuatu has an earthquake of 6.8 degrees of magnitude, also affecting the Solomon Islands and causing tsunami warning.
- August 20: Rainfall for the first time in Greenland in more than 70 years. It was reported that the rain also caused the loss of seven times more ice than the daily average for this time of year.
- August 24: In London, UK, the drummer of the band The Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts, died at 80.
- 26 August: Double suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, with at least 183 deaths.
- August 27: At 18:00 UTC the tropical storm Ida was strengthened, becoming a hurricane, whipping Cuba.
- August 29: The Hurricane Ida reaches category 4 in the S.S. Scale while making its way through Louisiana, USA. UU, causing serious damage, deaths and floods.
- 30 August:
- WHO declares Mu as a variant of interest.
- Ida degraded to tropical storm 183 deceased.
- President Iván Duque extends health emergency in Colombia until 30 November.
September
- 2 September:
- The global fall of Instagram is reported, the servers re-established at night.
- In New Zealand, there is a terrorist attack in the city of Auckland, wounding 6 people.
- 5 September: There is a coup in the Republic of Guinea.
- 7 September:
- An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 is recorded on the Richter scale in Acapulco de Juárez (Mexico), causing damage to 16 States leaving 10 people dead and thousands injured.
- El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as an official currency.
- The Supreme Court of Mexico unanimously fails to decriminalize abortion in Mexico.
- September 10: In Tlalnepantla, Mexico, a collapse occurs that leaves at least two people dead and 10 others missing.
- September 11: At the Callao Naval Base, the Peruvian terrorist Abimael Guzmán died at 86. His death occurs one day before 29 years of his capture were completed.
- September 12: Simultaneous and compulsory primary elections (PASO) in Argentina, culminating in a wide victory of the opposition to Kirchnerismo throughout the country.
- 13 September: Parliamentary elections are held in Norway.
- In the United States the Cartoonito channel is released.
- September 15: Sismo of magnitude 5, 4 on the Richter scale shakes the west of Sichuan, China with tsunami alert. Leaving at least 3 dead and 60 wounded.
- September 16: Inspiration4 is launched by SpaceX and becomes the first fully civilian space flight, with a crew of four people in a three-day Earth orbit.
- September 18: In Mars, NASA detected a 4.2-degree earthquake of a duration of an hour and a half.
- 19 September:
- The Russian legislative elections of 2021 are held in Russia.
- In La Palma, Canarias, a series of volcanic eruptions leaves more than 6000 people affected and natural damage.
- 20 September:
- In Kazan, Russia registers a Tyre in a school, killing 9 people and leaving 28 wounded.
- Federal elections are held in Canada.
- September 22: An earthquake of 5.9 shakes the Victorian Alps in Australia.
- 25 September: Parliamentary elections are held in Iceland.
October
- October 1st: Expo 2020 is held for the first time in Dubai.
- 4 October:
- The global fall of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is reported, the worst fall in its recent history.
- Google launches Android 12 operating system.
- October 5: Microsoft launches Windows 11 operating system.
- 6 October: WHO approves RTS, S, the first candidate for malaria vaccine.
- 9 October: In Lebanon, there is a nationwide breakdown, due to the lack of fuel for its most important generators.
- 14 October: At least 6 people died and 32 others were injured this Thursday in Beirut in an intense shooting shortly before the start of a demonstration organized by the Shia group, Hezbollah.
- October 15: The Italian airline Alitalia ceases its air operations after 75 years.
- October 18: U.S. military, diplomat and politician Colin Powell died of COVID-19.
- October 19: Air accident in Houston, Texas, (United States) of a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 aircraft with 21 occupants on board survive all its occupants. (See MD-87 crash of 987 Investiments LLC)
- October 23: In Colombia, during Operation Osiris, members of the Army and Police capture Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, alias Otoniel.
- 25 October: There is a coup in Sudan.
- October 28: Facebook Inc., Facebook Owner, WhatsApp, Instagram, changes its name to Meta.
- October 29: He died in Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico, Mexican actor Octavio Ocaña, at the age of 22, known for having played "Benito Rivers" in the series Vecinos, by Televisa.
- October 31: In Puebla, Mexico, an explosion occurs in a clandestine gas in the municipality of San Pablo Xochimehuacan, leaving a balance of 15 wounded and 3 dead people, in addition to tens of evacuated families and material damage.
November
- November 2nd: In the United States, the Atlanta Bravos win the 2021 World Series, after 26 years without winning that victory.
- 3 November: WHO provides emergency use authorization for the Indian Covaxin vaccine; at the moment it is supplied to persons over 18 years of age.
- 4 November: There is a fire inside the Sonora Market located in the southeast of Mexico City; 600 evacuees and 10 damaged premises were recorded, as well as hundreds of pets sheltered in the streets surrounding the incident, around noon.
- 5 November: An explosion of a tanker in the Wellington district of Freetown, Sierra Leone causes at least 101 dead and over 100 wounded.
- 6 November: A car accident and a subsequent fire at kilometer 33 of Mexico-Puebla Highway leaves a balance of 19 people dead.
- 7 November: General elections are held in Nicaragua.
- 8 November:
- In Bolivia, he began a multisectoral national strike against the Law on Illicit Livestocks 1386 and other laws, in the first year of management of President Luis Arce Catacora.
- In Ramos Mejía, Argentina, there is a mass march against the national and municipal government following the murder of a merchant in the hands of criminals. The demonstration caused multiple disturbances, increasing the climax of tension and violence on large scales. No deceased persons were registered.
- The capsule Endeavour of the space mission SpaceX Crew-2 amerized in the Gulf of Mexico, the crew was composed of Robert S. Kimbrough, K. Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet. For the first time a capsule Dragon reused, carried by rockets Falcon 9 reused.
- 14 November: In Argentina, legislative elections are held, after 40 years, officialism loses a majority in the Senate.
- 14 November: Russia is internationally condemned in testing an anti-satellite weapon that perjured the International Space Station.
- 19 November:
- Lunar eclipse, mainly visible in North America, South America, the Pacific Ocean and parts of Africa, Europe and Asia. It deals with the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century and almost 600 years.
- In Europe thousands of people associated with anarchist groups cause riots in several cities in Germany, France, Austria, Poland and Russia against the application of vaccines and new restrictions by the fifth wave of new COVID-19 contagions on the continent.
- Nicaragua announces its withdrawal from the OAS, due to lack of knowledge of the elections made on November 7.
- 20 November:
- In Caracas, the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestra and Coros of Venezuela achieves the Guinness Record by bringing together 12,000 musicians from different cores of the country to interpret the Marcha eslava by Piotr Ilich Chaikovski, thus obtaining the title of the world's largest orchestra.
- 21 November: In Chile the general elections are held, where two main candidates are taken to the scene.
- November 24: In Botswana, a new variant of Covid-19 is detected as a variant of concern and called B.1.529; South African and British experts concluded that it is a variant never before seen since the number of mutations is high so a drastic change is feared in viral behavior, and that it is harmful to the immunity that vaccines provide.
- 26 November:
- WHO holds an emergency meeting in response to the emergence of the new Covid-19 variant, it was concluded that it would be considered a variant of concern and received the name Omicron in accordance with the nomenclature for variants of interest and concern, this after discovering cases in Israel, Hong Kong and Belgium as well on a speculation on the speed of transmission, after the announcement the world markets were heavily affected and causing global alarm and health alerts.
- November 27: The government of Iván Duque extends the health emergency in Colombia until February 28, 2022.
- 28 November:
- There is a strong earthquake of 7.5 with epicenter in Barranca, Peru, within the department of Loreto, at 05:52 hours (UTC-5), damage to buildings and at least more than 10 injured and one deceased person.
- In Honduras, general elections were held, where Xiomara Castro was elected, becoming the first woman to win the presidency of the republic and the most voted person to win the post, ending 12 years of National Party governments.
- The British atonement and businessman Frank Williams dies.
- 30 November: Barbados declares itself a parliamentary republic, abandoning the parliamentary constitutional Monarchy system that led the Caribbean country with Queen Isabel II as head of State and Governor General as its representative on the island.
December
- December 4: In Antarctica a total solar eclipse is visible.
- December 5: In the State of Apure (Venezuela) the Colombian guerrillas Hernán Darío Velásquez, alias 'El Paisa' and Henry Castellanos, alias 'Rogna', are ambushed.
- December 6: The United States announces a diplomatic boycott at the Beijing Olympic Games 2022 in response to human rights violations records. Canada, Japan, Australia and other European countries would then join the boycott.
- 9 December:
- Mexican actress and politics Carmen Salinas died at the age of 82 because of a stroke for hypertension.
- It is recorded on the Panamericana road, in a stretch between Chiapa de Corzo and Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico, the blast of a truck with Central American migrants leaving a balance of 55 people dead and 105 wounded.
- 10-11 December: A wave of tornadoes strikes the south and the west-central of the USA. UU, causing a balance of at least 88 deceased.
- 12 December:
- Mexican singer and actor Vicente Fernández died at 81 years of age because of a pneumonia, having suffered a fall in his ranch last August.
- After 70 years without titles, the Atlas football team was crowned champion of Mexican football, Grita Mexico 2021, after beating the Lion Club in criminals. With this title, the team breaks with the worst drought of Mexican football and one of the worst of the world’s football.
- Max Verstappen becomes the champion of the Formula 1 World Championship after a heartbeat close to Lewis Hamilton at the last round of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It's his first title and besides the Red Bull Racing team, he breaks with the Mercedes-Benz hegemony after seven years.
- The 70th edition of the Miss Universe contest was held in Eilat, Israel where Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu became the third representative of India to crown after 21 years.
- The Referendum of Independence of New Caledonia was held in 2021, where 96% chose the stay of New Caledonia in France.
- 13 December:
- A tanker carrying gasoline explodes in the city of Cap-Haïtien, north of Haiti. The explosion also caused the fire of several houses. He left a balance of at least 75 dead people and a large number of wounded; generating the collapse of hospitals. The Government decreed three days of national mourning.
- Spanish actress Veronica Forqué died at age 66.
- Spider-Man premiere: No Way Home starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
- 14 December: In Indonesia, an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurs on the Island of Flores, with a maximum intensity of VI (strongcausing structural damage and several injuries. It triggered a tsunami alert.
- December 15: In Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, an executive plane was crashed, transporting, among other passengers, the Puerto Rican music producer Flow La Movie and his family, and headed for the United States. No survivors reported.
- December 16: Typhoon Rai plays land in the Philippines, equivalent to a category 5 hurricane, the strongest typhoon of the year 2021 on that country, causes the death of 375 people and the evacuation of 400,000 people. The provinces of Bohol, Guimaras and Cebu are the most affected.
- December 19: In Chile the second round of the general elections was held where the candidate Gabriel Boric will become the next president of Chile, being the youngest president of Chile's history with 35 years of age.
- December 20: A earthquake of magnitude 6.2 sits in northern California, the United States, without serious damage, injury or fatality.
- 21 December: Last day with numerical synchrony, 21st Century. This will not happen again until the 22nd of January of 2122 when it occurs on the 22nd of the 22nd century.
- December 25: Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.
- 26 December:
- Cities such as Paris, Berlin, New Delhi, Edinburgh, Rome and London decide to cancel their new-year celebrations, Rio de Janeiro, Dubai, New York and Sydney decide to reduce aid efforts, this because of fears of the omicron variant, as there has been a growing number of cases in all regions of the world as a result of this strain of COVID-19 after the Christmas celebrations overwhelming the celebrations and celebrations.
- In South Africa, the clergy, advocate for LGBT rights and Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 of South African Desmond Tutu at the age of 90 for prostate cancer.
- December 29: Ghislaine Maxwell is found guilty of 5 of the 6 charges that he was accused of the cases of the island of the pedophilia of his friend Jeffrey Epstein.
- December 31: Actress and comedian Betty White died at 99, a few days before she turned 100.
Undetermined date
- It is expected that in December, it will begin in Oaxaca, Mexico, the Feasts of the Guelaguetza that yearly honors the Oaxacan culture, after being postponed by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- The Government of Ecuador is expected to carry out the 8th Population and 7th Housing Census, following that in 2010. However, it will be postponed from 28 November to 3 December 2021, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In Colombia, the Mu variant is first detected.
Deaths
Catholic Church
- Holy Year James, the third centuryXXI.
- Year of Saint Joseph, 150th anniversary of the declaration of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Church.
Cinema
Even with the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic, the way in which various functions can be carried out is being sought, therefore, various strategies are being adopted to make the presence of said premieres looking for a pleasant return to the public.
- A Quiet Place Part II
- Absolute Proof
- America: The Motion Picture
- Army of the Dead
- Bad Trip
- Black Widow
- Candyman
- Cinderella
- Chaos Walking
- Clifford, the big red dog
- CODA
- Coming 2 America
- Cruel
- Detective Chinatown 3
- Don't Breathe 2
- Don't Look Up
- Dune
- The green knight
- The Suicide Squad
- Charm
- Eternals
- Gospeln: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
- F9
- Flee
- Free Guy
- We were songs.
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Godzilla vs. Kong
- Halloween Kills
- Hi, Mom.
- Hotel Transilvania 4: Transformanía
- House of Gucci
- In the Heights
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Jujutsu Kaisen 0
- Jungle Cruise
- Kate
- King Richard
- Street of Terror (Part 1): 1994
- The Street of Terror (Part 2): 1978
- The Street of Terror (Part 3): 1666
- The woman in the window
- Last Night in Soho
- Luca
- Parallel mothers
- Malcolm & Marie
- Malignant
- Mortal Kombat
- Mortal Kombat Legends: The Battle of the Kingdoms
- Moxie
- My Hero Academy: World Heroes Mission
- My Name Is Pauli Murray
- My Little Pony: A New Generation
- No Time to Die
- Nobody
- Old
- Once Upon a Time in Staten Island
- PAW Patrol: The Movie
- Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal
- Raya and the last dragon
- Resident Evil
- Shang-Chi and the legend of the Ten Rings
- Sing 2
- Snake Eyes
- Space Jam: A New Legacy
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Spiral: From The Book of Saw
- Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night
- The Boss Baby: Family Business
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
- The Dig
- The Forever Purge
- The French Dispatch
- The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
- The Matrix Resurrections
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines
- The Power of the Dog
- The Tomorrow War
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- The United States vs. Billie Holiday
- The Witcher: The Wolf's Nightmare
- The Worst Person in the World
- Tom & Jerry
- Trollhunters: The Wake of the Titans
- A rescue of eggs
- Val
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Paper life
- Vivo
- Wish Dragon
- Zack Snyder's Justice League
- Ron gones wrong
Music
Television
- 1 January: New Mixels series (Boing).
- January 15: Netflix premieres the final episode of Carmen sandiego.
- February 12: New Grizzy series and Lemmings (Boing).
- February 19: New Bia series: A world backwards Disney+ Colombia.
- 18 September: New series Rosita fresita: In the big city (YouTube).
- December 1st: The renowned Boomerang children's channel ends its emissions worldwide after 20 years of programming. Being his number replaced by the preschool channel Cartoonito.
Sports
Even with the emergency that the world is experiencing due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and what the blow of the second or third wave would be like, some sports organizations are still discussing how to develop the different sporting events at the start of the 2021, on how fans will be able to return to sports venues safely without taking risks, for which some strategies are being adopted to safeguard health and therefore make the presence of the different actors in it more pleasant.
- 15 January: in Saudi Arabia, the Dakar Rally of 2021 was disputed, won by the pilots; the French Stephane Peterhansel by car, the Argentines Kevin Benavides and Manuel Andújar by motorcycles and quadrimoto, respectively, the Russian Dmitry Sotnikov by truck, the Chilean Francisco López in SSV and classics, the Frenchman Marc Douton.
- February 7: in Tampa: the Super Bowl LV was held, won by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the Kansas City Chiefs for 31-9.
- 22 February-7 March: The LIV Nordic World Ski Championship was held in the town of Oberstdorf, Germany.
- 23 July-8 August: the 2020 Olympic Games were held in Tokyo.
- 24 August-5 September: the 2020 Paralympic Games were held in Tokyo.
Athletics
- 4-7 March: European Athletic Championship in Pista Covered in Toruń, Poland
- 29-30 May: European Championship of Athletics by Nations in Chorzów, Poland.
Football
- 23 January: in Córdoba: the Final of the South American Cup 2020 was held.Where Defense and Justice would win 3-0 to Lanús
- January 30: in Rio de Janeiro: the Final of the Copa Libertadores 2020 was held. Where Palmeiras would win 1-0 to Santos FC
- 11 February: In Catar, the end of the FIFA 2020 World Cup of Clubs was held, won by the FC Bayern München of Germany in the final to the Tigers of the UANL of Mexico for 1-0 and its union to the FC Barcelona, as the only groups in the world to have achieved the Sextetete.
- May 29: the end of the UEFA Champions League was played in Porto. Chelsea got her second title by beating Manchester City for 1-0.
- May 30: Cruz Azul got his ninth title after 23 and a half years by beating Santos Laguna for 2-1 global in the Azteca Stadium.
- Eurocopa 2020, won by the Italian football team to the England football team in prison at the Wembley Stadium, which meant the second continental cup in its history, after the win in 1968.
- Cup America 2021 in Brazil, won by the Argentina Soccer Team in the Maracaná to the Brazilian Soccer Team for 1-0 with goal of Angel Di María.
- Concacacaf 2021 Gold Cup, won by the U.S. football team, the Mexican football team for 1-0 with Miles Robinson goal, in the end.
Professional Wrestling
- January 4th and 5th: In Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan, the New Japan Pro-Wrestling Wrestle Kingdom 15 free fighting event took place.
- April 10th and 11th: In Tampa, Florida, United States, the WWE WrestleMania 37 main event took place.
- August 14: In Mexico City, Mexico, the AAA free fighting event, Triplemania XXIX, was held.
Tennis
- Open from Australia 2021, developed on Sunday, February 7, Sunday, February 21, won by Novak Djokovic to Daniil Medvédev in men for 7-5 and double 6-2 and Naomi Osaka to Jennifer Brady in women for 6-4.6-3.
- Roland Garros 2021 Tournament: developed from 17 May to 6 June, won by Novak Djokovic to Stéfanos Tsitsipás by 6-7(8), 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in men and Barbora Krejčíková to Anastasía Pavliuchénkova by 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in women.
- Wimbledon 2021 Championship: developed from 28 June to 11 July, won by Novak Djokovic to Matteo Berrettini by 6-7(7), double 6-4 and 6-3 in men and Ashleigh Barty to Karolina Pliskova by 6-3, 6-7(7) and 6-3 in women.
- Open from the United States 2021: developed from 30 August to 12 September won by Daniil Medvédev to Novak Djokovic by triple 6-4 in men and by Emma Raducanu to Leylah Fernandez by 6-4 and 6-3 in women, in which in this tournament Djokovic could no longer choose the Grand Slam and not even the Golden Grand Slam, made only by Steffi Graf and in 6-6
- The Billie Jean King 2020-21 Cup, held in Prague, Czech Republic, won by the team of Billie Jean King Cup Russia to the Swiss Fed Cup Team for 2-0.
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