Timeline (21st Century Crisis)

This the timeline for the 21st Century Crisis alternate timeline.

= 21st Century =

January

 * January 1 – The African Continental Free Trade Area comes into effect.
 * January 4
 * A British judge blocks the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, while Mexico offers him political asylum.
 * The border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia reopens.
 * January 6 – Supporters of President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol, disrupting certification of the 2020 presidential election and forcing Congress to evacuate. Five people die during the riot, including a police officer and a woman who is shot and killed inside the Capitol building. The event is classified as a domestic terrorist attack and draws international condemnation.
 * January 10 – Kim Jong-un is elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, inheriting the title from his late father Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.
 * January 13
 * In Lyon, France, the first transplant of both arms and shoulders is performed on an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital.
 * Donald Trump is impeached by Congress for incitement of insurrection, becoming the first federal officeholder in American history to be impeached twice. However, he was acquitted again by the Senate on February 13.
 * January 15
 * The Lao People's Revolutionary Party elects Thongloun Sisoulith as its new General Secretary, replacing retiring chief Bounnhang Vorachith. Sisoulith is elected for a five-year term as top leader in Laos.
 * COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 2 million.
 * January 20 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States, becoming the oldest individual to hold the office.
 * January 22 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, comes into effect.
 * January 24 – 2021 Portuguese presidential election: Incumbent president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is reelected.
 * January 26 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeds 100 million worldwide.
 * January 29 – COVID-19 pandemic: The European Union invokes Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol following a row over COVID-19 vaccine supplies before reversing the decision.
 * January 31 – Nguyễn Phú Trọng is re-elected for a third five-year term as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

February

 * February 1
 * A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule leading to widespread demonstrations across the country.
 * Kosovo officially establishes diplomatic ties with Israel and announces plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem.
 * COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 100 million.
 * February 3 – Canada becomes the first country to designate the Proud Boys as a terrorist organisation.
 * February 4 – President Joe Biden announces that the United States will cease providing weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for use in the Yemeni Civil War.
 * February 9
 * COVID-19 pandemic: A joint WHO–China investigation into the source of the outbreak concludes. Investigators deem a Wuhan laboratory leak to be "extremely unlikely", with a "natural reservoir" in bats being a more likely origin.
 * The UAE's uncrewed Hope spacecraft becomes the first Arabian mission to successfully enter orbit around Mars.
 * February 13–17 – A major winter storm kills at least 136 people and causes over 9.9 million power outages in the U.S.
 * February 18 – NASA's Mars 2020 mission (containing the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter drone) lands on Mars at Jezero Crater, after seven months of travel.
 * February 19 – The United States officially rejoins the Paris Agreement, 107 days after leaving.
 * February 20 – 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak: 7 people test positive for H5N8 bird flu at a poultry farm in southern Russia, becoming the first known human cases.
 * February 22 – COVID-19 pandemic: The United States becomes the first country to surpass 500,000 deaths from the virus.
 * February 24 – COVID-19 pandemic: Ghana becomes the first country to receive vaccines through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.
 * February 25
 * COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 2.5 million.
 * The Armenian military calls for prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign. Pashinyan accuses the military of attempting a coup d'état.

March

 * March 5 – COVID-19 pandemic: Moldova becomes the first country in Europe to receive vaccines through COVAX.
 * March 6 – Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq. It is the first ever meeting between a pope and a grand ayatollah.
 * March 7 – Switzerland becomes the seventh European nation to ban the wearing of the burqa in public, joining Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Latvia, and Bulgaria.
 * March 17 – The Dutch general elections for the House of Representatives of the Netherlands take place.
 * March 19 – North Korea severs diplomatic ties with Malaysia due to its citizens being extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges. Malaysian authorities order North Korean officials to leave the country in 48 hours.
 * March 20 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces his country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, the first country to do so.
 * March 21 – Clashes in Apure between Colombian FARC dissidents and the Venezuelan Armed Forces cause at least eight casualties and 4,000 displaced Venezuelans.
 * March 23
 * The Israeli general elections take place, the fourth Knesset election in two years.
 * Ever Given, one of the largest container ships in the world, runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal, disrupting global trade. The ship is freed on March 29.
 * March 25 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 500 million.

2039
= 22nd Century =