What historical events occurred from 2005-2009?

Answer 1

This obviously isn't the world news for 2005 to 2009 in its entirety, but here's a list:

2005

Jan - George W Bush inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States

- First free Parliamentary Elections since 1958 in Iraq

Feb - The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect without support from Australia and the United States

- More than 500 people are killed in Iran after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits the Kerman province

Mar - The People's Republic of China ratifies laws aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence

- The Taiwanese government calls on its people to demonstrate against laws to prevent them from declaring independence

Apr - Death of Pope John Paul II

- Pope Benedict XVI becomes the 265th Pope

- 104 people are killed in the Amagasaki rail crash in Japan

May - Trials of 23 accused Islamic extremist are protested in Uzbekistan. Uzbek troops killed up to 700 of the protesters.

- A passenger ferry capsizes in Bangladesh leaving 200 people missing

- Kuwaiti women are granted the right to vote

July - The IOC selects London as the hosts of the 2012 Olympic Games

- London's transport system is rocked by terror attacks leaving 52 dead and more than 700 injured

Aug - More than 1800 people are killed in the United States when Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast

Sept - Largest ever UN World Summit is held in New York

- North Korea agrees to halt is manufacture of nuclear weapons in exchange for aid

Oct - Terrorist bombings in Bali kill 26 and injure over 100

- Earthquake in Kashmir kills around 80 000

- Trial of Saddam Hussein begins

- Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60 people

Nov - More than 50 people are killed in suicide bombings in Jordan

- United Nation Climate Change Conference begins in Montreal

- French surgeons perform the first human face transplant

Dec - Chad declares a state of war with Sudan

- An extra second (leap second) was added to the year

2006

Jan - 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is celebrated

Feb - Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1400 people sinks in the Red Sea

- 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy

- Mudslide in the Philippines kills 1,126 people

- A mine disaster kills 65 people in Mexico

Mar - Geysers of a liquid substance are found to be shooting out from Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons

Apr - First case of Avian Flu is detected in the United Kingdom

May - Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence

- A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits Java, Indonesia killing over 6,000 and injuring more than 36,000

July - The Nathula Pass between India and China is reopened after 44 years

- Bomb attacks strike trains in Mumbai during rush hour

Aug - Pluto is demoted to the status of "dwarf planet"

Oct - North Korea claims that it has performed its first ever nuclear test

Nov - Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging

- Mercury transits the sun

- Typhoon Durian causes a mudslide in the Philippines killing more than 700 people

Dec - The Chinese River Dolphin becomes extinct

2007

Jan - 200 tons of crude oil is spilled off the coast of Norway when a Greek ship breaks in half

Feb - The IPCC releases its fourth assessment report declaring that global warming is very likely to have mainly human causes

- North Korea agrees to shut down one of its nuclear facilities in exchange for aid

Apr - Gliese 581 c is discovered in the Libra constellation and appears potentially inhabitable

May - British child, Madeleine McCann, disappears from her parents' resort room in Portugal

- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of Dubai makes a donation of 7.41 billion euros to an educational foundation, making the largest single charitable donation in modern history

Aug - An 8.0 magnitude earthquake hits Peru leaving more than 1,500 injured and 512 dead

Oct - Marion Jones surrenders five Olympic medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games after admitting to doping

Nov - Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh with 10,000 believed dead

- A mine disaster in the Ukraine leaves 101 miners dead

Dec - Nepalese government announces that it will abolish its monarchy in 2008

- Riots over election results in Kenya leave over 200 dead

2008

Jan - The Federal Court of Australia orders a halt to research whaling within their exclusive economic zone by a Japanese whaling company

- Global stock markets plunge amidst fears of a recession in the United States

Feb - Iran opens its first space centre

- Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, delivers an apology to Australia's Indigenous People

- Fidel Castro announces his resignation as President of Cuba

- Raul Castro is elected President of Cuba

Mar - Bhutan holds its first ever general elections

- A 414 square kilometre chunk of Antarctica's Wilkin's Ice Shelf disintegrates

- Surgeons in London perform the first bionic eye transplants

May - A 7.9 magnitude earthquake kills over 69,000 people in China

- The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is established

Aug - Pirates hijack cargo ships off the coast of Somalia

- Hurricane Gustav kills 7 in the United States, 66 in Haiti, 8 in the Dominican Republic and 11 in Jamaica

- Hurricane Hanna kills 7 in the United States and 529 in Haiti

Sept - Hurricane Ike kills 27 in the United States, 4 in Cuba, 1 in the Dominican Republic and 75 in Haiti

- The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva

- President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, signs a power sharing deal with opposition leaders Morgan Tsvanqirai and Arther Mutambara, making Tsvanqirai Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

- Typhoon Hagupit kills 17 in China, 8 in the Philippines, 1 in Taiwan and 41 in Vietnam

Oct - Global financial crisis

- A 6.6 magnitude earthquake kills 65 in Kyrgyzstan

Nov - Barack Obama is elected as the 44th President and first African-American President of the United States

- King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan is crowned

- Floods in Santa Catarina, Brazil, kill 126 and over 78,000 are forced to evacuate

Dec - An extra second (leap second) is added to the year

2009

Jan - Russia cuts off all gas supplies to Europe

Feb - Johanna Siguroardottir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland, making her the world's first openly lesbian head of government

- Australia's deadliest bushfires in recorded history begin, killing 173 and injuring over 500

- The Taliban releases a video of the beheading of a Polish geologist they had captured a few months earlier

Mar - President Joao Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated in his residence

Apr - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits Italy killing around 300 people

June - Swine flu is deemed a global pandemic

- The death of singer, Michael Jackson, causes levels of internet traffic that block up several major internet sites and servers

Aug - Typhoon Morakot kills 500 people in Taiwan

Sept - An 8.3 magnitude earthquake triggers a tsunami near the Samoan Islands killing 189

- A 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra kills around 1000 people in Indonesia

Oct - The OIC declares Rio de Janeiro as the hosts of the 2016 Olympic Games