2021 in History

Finishes the Copa America with four goals, sharing the tournament scoring lead as Argentina become champions.

Scores from long range as Leicester City win their first FA Cup.

Myint Swe is installed as acting president after the coup

U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan is completed.

Announces U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan.

The Act funds household payments, unemployment benefits, vaccination and state and local governments.

Signs the American Rescue Plan Act.

Signs the law intended to limit excessive oligarchic influence on politics and public life.

Kais Saied designated Najla Bouden to form a government, making her Tunisia's first female head of government.

Tshisekedi appoints Sama Lukonde to form a new parliamentary government.

Goita appoints Maiga to lead the reconstituted transitional government.

Bukele's party gains legislative majority and strengthens presidential control

Announces the AUKUS security partnership.

Barcelona announce that Messi will not continue at the club after contract negotiations cannot be completed.

Makes his competitive Barcelona first-team debut against Getafe at seventeen years of age.

Returns to Barcelona as first-team manager after leaving Al Sadd.

Wins the Barcelona presidential election and returns to lead the club.

Releases Barn with Crazy Horse, recorded in a restored nineteenth-century barn.

BepiColombo completes its first Mercury flyby, beginning a sequence of six Mercury gravity assists before orbital arrival.

BepiColombo makes a second Venus flyby to reduce its solar orbital energy before the first Mercury encounter.

Meets Joe Biden at the White House and discusses security, reform and Russian aggression.

Birmingham begins charging the most polluting vehicles entering its city-centre Clean Air Zone.

Resigns as Brexit minister.

Burnham decides to place Greater Manchester buses under a franchised system of local control.

Releases Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top, an album of French-language cover versions.

Guides Chelsea to the European title four months after becoming head coach.

Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu becomes Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force.

Publishes proposals to change the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Addresses the COP26 climate summit.

Scores the only goal as Argentina defeat Brazil at the Maracana and win the Copa America.

Saves three penalties against Colombia as Argentina win the Copa America semi-final shootout.

Receives a COVID-19 vaccination while visiting Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region.

Opens the inaugural Crimea Platform summit with delegations from dozens of countries.

NASA selects DAVINCI to investigate Venus's atmosphere and composition using a descent probe and remote observations.

Win Myint is detained as the military seizes power

Serdar Berdymukhamedov is appointed Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers

Levi directs DESI as its five-year main survey begins mapping millions of galaxies and quasars to track the effect of dark energy across cosmic history.

Forces loyal to Goita detain President N'Daw and Prime Minister Ouane.

Attends the Eastern Partnership summit and presses European leaders over Russian military pressure.

Abbas postpones planned Palestinian elections citing disputes over voting in East Jerusalem

Hiramatsu leads research using Hubble and other observations to identify strong evidence for an electron-capture supernova.

Myint Swe transfers executive power to Min Aung Hlaing

The Erna Solberg Government ends in Oslo, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Norway.

The First Katrin Jakobsdottir Government ends, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Iceland.

ESA selects EnVision as a future Venus orbiter designed to study the planet from its interior to its upper atmosphere.

Promulgates legislation establishing marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Hosts European Union leaders at the twenty-third EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv.

Scores the only goal as Belgium eliminate defending champions Portugal from the European Championship.

Scores after coming on as a substitute in Belgium's 3-0 European Championship victory over Russia.

Scores Belgium's winning goal in the 2-1 European Championship comeback victory over Denmark.

Kais Saied suspended parliament, dismissed the head of government, and assumed emergency executive authority.

Villa's under-18 team defeats Liverpool 2-1 to win the FA Youth Cup.

Defends withdrawal as the Taliban retakes Kabul.

Signs a federal mask requirement for federal property.

Forms a centre-right coalition government.

Leaves office as Joe Biden is inaugurated.

Holds his first presidential phone conversation with Joe Biden and discusses security and democratic reform.

Starmer presents a programme centred on work, care, equality and security.

Attends his first NATO summit as president.

Wins the first major trophy in Villarreal's history.

Announces a new five-year economic plan.

Juno makes a close flyby of Ganymede.

Wins another Liberal minority government.

Wins another Liberal minority government.

General election outcome recorded for Justin Trudeau: Wins another Liberal minority government.

Government context for this general election: Wins another Liberal minority government.

Becomes general secretary of the Workers Party.

Meets Vladimir Putin at a Geneva summit.

The Najla Bouden government took office under the exceptional constitutional arrangements.

Dbeibah and his cabinet take the oath before the House of Representatives.

Juno data show the Great Red Spot extends hundreds of kilometres below Jupiter's cloud tops.

Zhou leads Hubble ultraviolet observations of the young planet PDS 70b actively accreting material from its surrounding disk.

Starmer accepts responsibility for Labour's defeat and promises further party reform.

Rounds Ederson and scores the only goal as Chelsea defeat Manchester City.

Becomes prime minister after Matovic resigns.

Directs I'm Your Man.

Signs legislation defining the rights of indigenous peoples of Ukraine.

Signs the bipartisan infrastructure law.

Agrees arrangements allowing IAEA inspectors to service specified monitoring equipment and replace storage media in Iran.

Reaches a temporary technical understanding with Iran allowing necessary verification and monitoring activities to continue.

Addresses supporters before the Capitol is stormed.

Razzaz participates in jerusalem policy connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.

Signs legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday.

Juno makes the closest spacecraft pass of Ganymede since Galileo and changes its orbital period.

NASA extends Juno through 2025 and adds close exploration of Jupiter's rings and Galilean moons.

Dominates midfield and receives the official player-of-the-match award.

Tottenham defeat Brentford to reach the League Cup final.

Contributes calibration and polarization analysis for the Event Horizon Telescope view of magnetic fields near M87*.

Coordinates EHT polarimetry work revealing magnetic-field structure close to the event horizon of M87*.

Enacts National Security and Defense Council sanctions targeting Viktor Medvedchuk and associated interests.

Approves Ukraine's Military Security Strategy focused on comprehensive defense and closer NATO cooperation.

Imran Khan wins a confidence vote in the National Assembly.

The United States and Russia agree to extend New START for five years through February 2026.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.

Is honoured for writing about colonialism and the refugee experience between cultures and continents.

Shares the medicine prize for discoveries of receptors involved in temperature and touch.

Shares the medicine prize for discoveries of receptors involved in temperature and touch.

Is honoured for climate modelling that connected weather variability with long-term climate change.

Is honoured for climate modelling that quantified variability and helped predict global warming.

Is honoured for discovering how disorder and fluctuations interact in complex physical systems.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force.

Scores her 100th Arsenal goal during a Women's Champions League victory over Slavia Prague.

Marks his 1,000th match as a manager with Roma's dramatic Serie A victory over Sassuolo.

Orders the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement.

The House of Representatives grants confidence to Dbeibah's Government of National Unity.

Is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.

Presidential Decree 117 reorganized public powers and expanded presidential authority during the exceptional measures.

Natalia Gavrilita becomes Prime Minister after PAS wins parliamentary power

Min Aung Hlaing becomes Prime Minister of the caretaker government

Is presented as a Real Madrid player after joining from Rennes.

Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kraftwerk.

Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kraftwerk

Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kraftwerk for musical influence.

Is posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kraftwerk.

Roma announce Mourinho as head coach for the following season.

Begins competitive management of Roma with a Conference League qualifying victory over Trabzonspor.

Is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.

House passes article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection.

Faces second impeachment trial in the Senate.

Begins the Second Katrin Jakobsdottir Government and serves as Prime Minister of Iceland.

Burnham wins a second term as Mayor of Greater Manchester.

Starmer appoints a revised shadow team focused on economic credibility and public services.

The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum selects al-Menfi to lead the new Presidential Council.

The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum selects Dbeibah to form a unified interim government.

Warns the UN that occupied Ukrainian territories remain a threat to international law and collective security.

Starmer reorganises Labour's front bench following the local election results.

Faces suspension from major social media platforms.

Hosts the first Summit for Democracy.

Goita is sworn in as transitional president after removing the civilian transition leaders.

Opens Genesis's The Last Domino tour in Birmingham.

Performs with Genesis on The Last Domino tour in Birmingham.

Leads national events marking thirty years since Ukraine declared independence.

Is dismissed by Tottenham six days before the club's League Cup final.

The UK EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement begins provisional application.

Joins Barcelona after leaving Lyon at the end of his contract.

Launches a national COVID-19 strategy.

Announces vaccine requirements for federal workers.

Akatsuki infrared cloud tracking separates day and night circulation patterns and clarifies the role of thermal tides in Venus's atmosphere.

NASA selects VERITAS to map Venus at high resolution and investigate the planet's geology, tectonics and interior.

Leads Villarreal past Manchester United in a penalty shootout.

The World Health Organization appoints Brown Ambassador for Global Health Financing.

Liverpool loses its UNESCO World Heritage status after waterfront development disputes.