Events during a life well lived
and Captain Phillips divorce, the Waleses and the Yorks separate, and Windsor Castle goes up in flames.
1994: The Queen and French President Francois Mitterrand open the Channel Tunnel. IRA ceasefire.
1995: Official Aids cases pass one million mark. Barings Bank collapses. Terrorist gas attacks panic Tokyo and Yokohama.
1996: The Duke and Duchess of York divorce. The Prince and Princess of Wales divorce. 1997: New Labour under Tony Blair beats the Conservatives. The Royal Yacht Britannia is decommissioned. Diana, Princess of Wales dies in a car crash in Paris. Scotland and Wales vote for devolution. Dolly the Sheep is cloned. Handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.
1998: War breaks out in Europe as a Nato coalition attacks Yugoslavia. Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.
1999: The European single currency, the euro, is born. 2001: September 11 terrorist attacks. Foot-and-mouth outbreak in UK.
2002: The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret die.
2003: Britain and the US go to war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
2004: Asian tsunami kills more than 100,000.
2005: Pope John Paul II dies and is succeeded by Pope Benedict XVI. July 7 terror attacks in London.
2008: Barack Obama is elected to become the first black US President. 2011: Japanese tsunami. 2012: London 2012 Olympics. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting a baby.
2013: Baroness Thatcher and Nelson Mandela die. Prince George of Cambridge is born. 2014: Ukraine crisis. Scotland votes No to independence. 2015: Attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. Terror attacks in Paris including at the Bataclan concert hall. 2016: Shooting at gay nightclub in Orlando. British astronaut Tim Peake returns to Earth after a six-month mission. Brexit vote.
2017: Manchester Arena bombing. Grenfell Tower fire. Queen and Philip’s platinum wedding anniversary. 2018: Diplomatic row breaks out with Russia over poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding.
2019: Notre Dame fire. Terrorist attack in Sri Lanka. The birth of Archie Mountbatten-windsor. Theresa May resigns and Boris Johnson becomes PM. Duke of York steps down from royal duties amid Epstein scandal.
2020: Megxit – Harry and Meghan quit royal life. Brexit – the UK leaves the EU. Coronavirus pandemic. Lockdown in the UK. Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd in the US. Lebanon blast.
2021: Joe Biden becomes US president. Coronavirus crisis continues. Harry and Meghan accuse the royal family of racism in their Oprah interview.