2023 AD

• January 3–7, 2023: The election for the House speakership takes 15 ballots. Kevin McCarthy is ultimately elected as speaker, but only after 6 representatives-elect vote “present“, lowering the threshold to be elected from 218 to 215.

• January 8 – Following the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto.
• February 3 – The US announces it is tracking alleged Chinese spy balloons over the Americas, later announcing that the balloons did not collect any information. One balloon drifts from Yukon to South Carolina before being shot down the next day, and a second hovers over Colombia and Brazil. This event is followed by subsequent detections and shootdowns of high-altitude objects elsewhere.
• February 6 – A 7.8 M_ww earthquake strikes southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria followed by a 7.7 M_ww  aftershock on the same day, causing widespread damage and at more than 59,000 fatalities and 121,000 injured.
• March 10 – Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, fails, creating then the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, affecting companies around the world
• March 17 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, marking the first arrest warrant against a leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
• May 5 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of COVID-19 being a global health emergency, but continues to refer to it as a pandemic.
• June 18 – Titan submersible implosion: All five crew members of Titan, a deep-sea submersible exploring the wreck of the Titanic, are killed following a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.
• June 23-24 – Wagner Group rebellion
• August 8 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires: 17,000 acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii
• October 7 – Israel–Hamas war: Hamas launches an incursion into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and taking about 240 hostages, prompting a military response from the Israel Defense Forces. Israel launches numerous air strikes on Lebanon after rockets are fired by Hezbollah and further attempts are made to penetrate Israel.
• October 17–25, 2023: October 2023 Speaker election. Mike Johnson is ultimately elected as speaker

• November 8 – Pro Brexit Revolution agains

2024 AD

• January 1 – A 7.5 Mwwearthquake strikes the western coast of Japan (Noto Peninsula), killing at least 462 people and injuring 1,344 others. A further five are killed the next day when a Coast Guard aircraft carrying humanitarian aidcollides with a Japan Airlines passenger jet, destroying both aircraft. All 379 people aboard the passenger jet are evacuated safely.
• February 6 – Former President of Chile Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter crash at the age of 74.
• March 15–17 – 2024 Russian presidential election: Incumbent Vladimir Putin is re-elected for a fifth term.
• March 22 – Islamic State-affiliated gunmen attack concertgoers at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia, killing at least 145 people and injuring 551.
• April 1 – Israel attacks the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing 16 people.
• April 8 – A total solar eclipse is visible across North America.
• May 10 – A series of solar storms and intense solar flares impact the Earth, rated G5 by NOAA, creating aurorae at more southerly and northerly latitudes than usual. This was the first G5 storm since 2003.
• May 19 – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian are killed, along with seven other passengers and crew, in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan–Iran border.
• June 6–9 – The 2024 European Parliament election is held. The EPP, of incumbent Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, retains its status as the largest group in parliament amid notable gains by far-right political groups.
• June 10 – A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President of Malawi Saulos Chilima.
• June 24 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the United Kingdom after being freed from prison in a plea deal with the United States. He returns to his native Australia two days later.
• July 4 – 2024 United Kingdom general election: Sir Keir Starmer leads the Labour Party to a landslide victory, returning the party to government for the first time in 14 years. Incumbent Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak resigns the next day, with Starmer taking office afterwards.

• July 13 – While campaigning for the 2024 United States presidential election, former President Donald Trump is shot in the right ear in an assassination attempt at a rally he held near Butler, Pennsylvania.
• July 19
  • Global IT outages impact a variety of businesses and organisations across the world.
  • 75 people are killed during the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. The government of Bangladesh imposes a curfew.
• July 21 – Incumbent United States President Joe Biden ends his candidacy in the 2024 United States presidential election.
• July 26 – August 11 – The 2024 Summer Olympics are held in Paris, France. The controversial opening ceremony and the boxing match of Luca Hámori and Imane Khelif spark international debate.
• July 31 – Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated at his residence in Tehran.
• July 28 – 2024 Venezuelan presidential election: Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro declares victory against opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia amid alleged irregularities, causing numerous South American states to refuse to acknowledge the results or suspend diplomatic relations with the Maduro government and sparking nationwide protests.
• August 1 – 2024 American–Russian prisoner exchange: Twenty-six individuals are released from Ankara Esenboğa Airport in the largest prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia since the Cold War.
• August 5 – Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina announces her resignation and flees to India following nationwide protests.
• August 17 – Indonesia‘s 79th Independence Day celebration is held in Nusantara. The celebration is supposed to inaugurate Nusantara as the new capital of Indonesia, but this does not occur due to delays.
• September 12 – Heavy rainfall in Central Europe triggers the worst flooding in the region since 2010.
• September 26 – Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Maria in 2017, makes landfall in Florida as a category four hurricane. It has a death toll of 236 and leaves more than 685 missing.
• October 1 – The Israel Defense Forces invade southern Lebanon, escalating its conflict against Hezbollah.
• October 16 – Hope there will be a change is Begin
• October 20 – The 2024 Moldovan European Union membership referendum is held and narrowly approved.
• October 29 – November 16 – Spanish floods at Sedaví, Horta Sud;
• November 5 – The 2024 United States presidential election is held, with Donald Trump, with his running mate JD Vance, is elected for a second non-consecutive term, the first candidate to be so since Grover Cleveland in 1892
• November 11–22 – COP29 is held in Baku, Azerbaijan
• December 3 – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law during a late-night address broadcast live on YTN television, accusing the country’s main opposition Democratic Party of sympathizing with North Korea and engaging in anti-state activities.
• December 7- The Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens to the public after previously being damaged by a structural fire in 2019.
• December 8 – Syrian civil war: President of Syria Bashar al-Assad leaves Damascus after being overthrown, ending his presidency since 2000 and the Ba’athist Syria regime after 53 years of authoritarian rule. The Syrian opposition forms the Syrian Transitional Government as a provisional government.
• December 14 – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol‘s powers and duties are suspended after MPs vote to impeach him, following his martial law declaration the previous week.
• December 17 – Hope there will be a change is End