istoryworld
All Events
The film series of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia is launched with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The French people become the first to reject, in a referendum, the proposed European Constitution
After a long trial US singer Michael Jackson is declared in a California court not guilty on ten charges of child molestation
Fundamentalist politician Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected president of Iran
Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour
A Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, is killed on the London underground by police mistaking him for a terrorist
US cyclist Lance Armstrong retires from competition after winning a seventh successive victory in the Tour de France
The Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to dump all their weapons
Israel uses force to remove settlers who refuse to leave Gaza in accordance with Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan
Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, is a sensitive account of a homosexual relationship between two Wyoming cowboys
Hurricane Katrina brings flooding and chaos to New Orleans and other coastal areas, causing more than 1500 deaths
In the New Zealand election Helen Clark wins a third term as prime minister
Controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad are published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten
Just three years after the first attack, suicide bombers kill more than 25 people in the same Balinese town of Kuta
An earthquake kills more than 70,000 people in inaccessible regions near Muzaffarabad in the Pakistan part of Kashmir
Fliint tools from more than 800,000 years ago are discovered at Happisburgh in Norfolk, evidence of human habitation in Britain some 300,000 years earlier than previously thought
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad causes international outrage by describing Israel as a blot that should be 'wiped off the map'
The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, resigns from his party (Likud) with the intention of forming a new one (Kadima)
Angela Merkel, leader of the CDU, replaces Gerhard Schröder and becomes Germany's first woman chancellor
French surgeon Bernard Devauchelle and his team in Amiens carry out the first human face transplant
David Cameron wins the Tory leadership election, succeeding Michael Howard as the Leader of the Opposition in Britain
The first general election is held in Iraq, for 275 members of a permanent Iraqi General Assembly
Conceptual artist Simon Starling wins the Turner Prize with Shedboatshed, a shed which he turned into a boat, sailed down the Rhine and turned back into a boat again
Blackberry launches its first smartphones, including the BlackBerry 7730 with a colour screen
The Royal Shakespeare Company launches a unique Shakespeare festival, presenting in a single year all thirty plays, together with the long poems and sonnets
