Top 24 Biggest Historic Events of Each Year (2000 - 2023)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- These events dominated news headlines, influenced government policies, and forever changed the way we see the world. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at the most impactful event of each year across the 21st century. Our countdown of the most historic events of each year includes 9/11, the Founding of Facebook, the Fukushima Earthquake & Nuclear Disaster, Brexit, Trump, & the Rise of Right-Wing Populism, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and more! Filtering an entire year into a single world-defining event is an impossible task. Were there major historical events that didn’t make our list? Let us know in the comments below!
Watch more great history videos here:
Top 10 Worst Decisions in History: • Top 10 Worst Decisions...
Top 10 Mind-Blowing Alternate Histories That Almost Happened: • Top 10 Mind-Blowing Al...
Top 10 Historically Accurate Movies: • Top 10 Historically Ac...
Become a channel member to get access to special perks:
/ @watchmojo
Don't forget to play our Live Trivia games at 3pm EST for a chance to win cash! The faster you answer, the more points you get!: www.watchmojo.com/play
Have your idea become a video!
wmojo.com/suggest
Subscribe for more great content!
wmojo.com/watchmojo-subscribe
Visit our shop for awesome merch!
shop.watchmojo.com/
Your trusted authority for Top 10 lists, reviews, tips and tricks, biographies, origins, and entertainment news
#History
#WorldEvents
#Politics
#Disasters
#Historic
#War
#DonaldTrump
#2000s
#2010s
#2020s
Filtering an entire year into a single world-defining event is an impossible task. Were there major historical events that didn’t make our list? Let us know in the comments below!
For more content like this, click here: ruclips.net/video/x5xHSBhKPMA/видео.html
Don't forget to play our Live Trivia (www.watchmojo.com/play) games at 3pm EST for a chance to win cash! The faster you answer, the more points you get!
Love your content 😊😊😊
the september 11 or 9/11 and obama becomes president
2020 was not only the worst year it was a fuckin nightmare
Love It WatchMojo And Happy New Year.
Hey WatchMojo, your "Top 10 Greatest Kids Movies of All Time" video was marked as "made for kids" by COPPA. This is the first time I've ever seen any of your vids marked as such. Please fix it! Your audience demographic is clearly not merely for younger people.
I think you totally missed 2004 - I think the biggest event that year was the tsunami at the end of it that effected a huge part of the Indian Ocean and killed 250,000 people. Yes, FB was big, but I think this event was much more significant.
Exactly!!!
Agreed! 👍🏻
agreed
My thinking exactly - I was like, where was the Tsunami of 2004?
Agree
From Kobe Bryant's death, COVID-19 pandemic, and the roits that broke out on George Floyd's death, 2020 was a rather depressing year.
Pretty much one of the reasons why the 21st century is hell.
FACTS
Chadwick BOSEMAN
@@JIMANGRYFOOTCOMICS oh yeah the lost of Chadwick Bosman and Tiny Lester jr a.k.a Debo as well
Mainly Covid-19, but it didn't actually impact me that much because I'm home most of the time anyways unless I'm at work.
Hurricane Katrina should have at least gotten a mention for 2005.
Literally came to the comments for this.
For the US yes for the world I don’t think so
Agreed! They still bring up Katrina in the local news to this day.
they do in their vid thru 2021.
Oh yeah true. I was saying it was the London 7/7 Bombings but it’s totally Katrina.
The 2019-20 bushfire season was terrible for Australians, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III are significant.
2004 was the Seaquake in the Indian Ocean which caused 232.000 Deaths.
2020 really changed the world big
2020 changed everything forever
I graduated in 2020 and felt its effects even after all these years. No one should forget it but we must be better than the ones before to not repeat the mistakes of our past.
I agree with you. Sadly, as humans we seem to repeat our mistakes more often than not.
It changed nothing because nothing needed changed.
That is how it was for 2001 too--you felt the effects for a long time, several years. I feel that will be the same for COVID19 too.
I was born in 2000, the 90s people feared about the Y2K, but that year 2000 has it's true meaning to me, the new millennium and time is evolved...
I was 16 going on 17 when Y2k occurred. To be honest, I never bought any of it. Just seemed like utter paranoia and of course that's what it was in the end
@@cajayson8301It was "nothing" because of all the programmers that worked to fix everything before 2000 happened.
@@thehumancomedy3891 which I know. I'm just saying I never bought into this hysteria that everything would melt down a la the 2008 economy crashing.
@@thehumancomedy3891 It means to me, and not to yourself! Year 2000 has it's meaning, a new millennium, our technology is evolved, new things, hope, terror, peace and the like...all of it are there, the true importance here...is time... forget the Y2K stuffs because it's some what a temporal superstition via machine...
2016 was crazy really. Seems like when Fandoms and things started getting infected by bs.
Yeah, that housing crisis in 2008 really f’d my parents. Never recovered from that.
Same 😒
Smart money bought all those foreclosed houses with cash and sat on them for a couple years. 😃👍🏼 thanks mom n dad
I graduated from high school in 2020, but everything that happened that year made it sadder than it should have been.
Congrats on your graduation 🥳 I’m sorry that it wasn’t the experience you expected or deserved 😢
@@Areniapixie thank you. It wasn’t what I expected, but it was a good farewell to my high school
I completed my masters in 2019, narrowly escaped the year 2020
Aww poor baby
@@legendslog3911 you got lucky my friend
To be honest, especially as a CT resident, I actually think the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown was 2012's most famous story, not that discovery. Not only was it Christmastime, nor it right being in my area, but it was super young kids, which still disgusts me even to this day, especially because one of the victims, Victoria Soto, was from my town.
Don't forget the first person the shooter killed that day was his mom
I know. Such a tragedy.@@goldenvulture6818
2007 was also peak runescape too.
It's notable how desensitized we've become to mass shootings and school shootings, given that none of them have made it onto this list.
I mean, there are multiple mass shootings every single day. It’s not like they exactly stand out
For 2019, you didn’t even choose the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand or the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire?
I have to argue for hurricane katrina in 2005. It was very historic as well. So was queen Elizabeth’s death.
The COVID-19 Pandemic was Life Altering for everyone, but it was a Learning experience.
Amazing video Rebecca from watch mojo of the human historic event throughout the different years in human history,fantastic job. Happy new year watch mojo
You missed the tsunami of 2004
Angela Merkel was amongst the most respected and derided of politicians in the last decade. WatchMojo needs to illustrate both ends of the spectrum better.
I am from Germany. She was a horrible leader and opened our downfall!
2005 also had hurricane Katrina.
You just listed everything that happened in my entire lifetime up to this point
I remember on Y2K my uncle who was drunk got super upset and confused if Y2K was supposed to happen at midnight and New York is 3 hours ahead of us and they did their countdown on TV before we did, when was it supposed to hit LOL He was furious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤯
Oof
The Paris terror attacks were hard for me to watch while waiting for pizza that day. That’s right: I saw them unfold while I was at a Pizza Hut a few minutes from my grandparents’ house.
I remember all of these because I was born at the end of the 80s
Same 88 👋🏼 getting old 😢
Same. 89 and remember these. Should show it to my younger brother
@@Areniapixie do you remember exactly where you were on 911 because I sure as hell do. I had to be taken out of school and I went home and me and Mom sat in front of our little TV we had watching it happen.
86.
Get off my lawn.
@@signergirl1 I do! I had skipped school and was sat on the sofa watching some trashy talk show when it just popped up on screen, every single channel. Wasn’t thinking and called my sister (I was living with her at the time) got in so much trouble for skipping 🤦🏻♀️ Not that me getting in trouble even mattered after what we all witnessed that day 😞
I track what I consider to be the most important events each year too and this is a really good list. Only a few disagreements:
2005 - Hurricane Katrina
2011 - Bin Laden killed
2013 - Pope Francis and a change at the top of the Catholic Church
2019 - Trump's (first) impeachment
2010 or 2011 should be Arab Spring.
He wasn't impeached. He stayed in rule
3 things only applies to the US...
In these past few years I feel like I’m my Dad experiencing the 60s.
How old are you?
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if aliens came down this year.
Why would they want to visit this 💩show
Of course it is an US-European centric video, but still amazing!
We do cause most of the worlds problems
No other countries really matter
I was terrified of the millennium bug. I was 10 and I thought an actual giant bug was guna take over earth lol x
History goes crazy like Greek
2020 had enough events for a whole decade
um.... did we forget the passing of the Queen ? That was a pretty historical moment IMO.
annnnnnnnnd this morning 2024....japan was hit with another earthquake :(
But nothing can be truly compared of the impact of the earthquake and Tsunami that has struck Japan in 2011, which led to a Fukushima nuclear disaster.
If it happened in the US, it might be important
Born in 04 I grew up through most of this
I was starting middle school when 9/11 happened. My dad was living on Long Island. I foolishly thought he had a job in NYC. I was wrong. But it was a scary time back then.
As a 90s kid : i had no idea about this Y2k thing
I remember it a little. My family thought it was all bs so it wasn't something we talked about much.
2004 was the hardest one to call. Because you had Facebook begin which was huge… but she also had the Indian Ocean tsunami, which took the lives of over 250,000 people. Then again in 2005, you had a lot of hurricanes that were crazy in the United States. The the strongest one, and the one that everybody remembers, was hurricane Katrina. But I think Germany electing their first female president was pretty significant too. Like you said, trying to sum up years in one event that changed history is impossible. Because there’s other things that happened throughout those years that were also significant
My dad was a computer programmer in 'Y2K' he assured us that most of the had been taken care of years prior
Tupac Shakur would've been Proud to have Seen Barack Obama's Presidency.
You should've put everything for 2020, there was always something new every month.
20:50 Oh Gretta... the cup game version of figure head. Is she a minor, or is she not? Is she mentally handy-caped or is she a well informed competent person? You criticize one and the other is played.
The 21st century has already very big historic events. Wondering what the biggest historic event of this year will be and the next decades.
I missed the Paris attacks in 2015 and of course all the terrorist attacks in that period by ISIS. I think that was an event that had a major impact on the world.
I thought the Dark Knight massacre was gonna be 2012, total 11 people died youngest was a 6 yr old girl.
The year 2000 isn't part of the twenty-first century, surprised some people still think it is
Interesting video. Be good for some younger ppl to see who probably don't know of some
The COVID pandemic was the biggest historic event of the millennium.
2020 has to be one of the most depressing years in human history
Years 1939-1945: *”Am I a joke to you?”*
1914-1918
It was the worst year of our lifetimes.
It was the worst year of our lifetimes.
The covid 19 pandemic was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced restaurants were only taking to go orders, a select number of people were allowed to enter a store at a time, classes were held online, and masks were mandatory everywhere
It was a complete joke for sure. Luckily I never wore a mask.
At least the pandemic is now over, and everything's back to the way it is.
messi and argentina wins the world cup finals
I saw the second plane hit on live TV. It was weird. I was at work and there was a TV above my desk. (EDI company owned by GE.) This guy walks up and went to ask me for the person he needed to see. He looked up and said, "a plane just hit the World Trade Center". I came around the desk in time to see the second plane. A lot of people freaked out. My mom's job would not allow their employees to call relatives, it was business as usual. I did not know this and I couldn't reach her. It was very scary.
You guys blew it --- the Nuclear power plant displayed at 12:55 is not Fukushima, but rather Three Mile Island in America. I would have assumed you'd know that.... since Three Mile Island was nearly 60 years ago and on a different continent..... I guess you guys just thought one nuclear plant looks the same as any other. Oh well.... in any case, you dropped the ball on this one.
I probably be dead by then I wonder what’s going to happen in 2100?
Im sorry but 2004 should have been the boxing day tsunami, NOT facebook. Is Facebook big, yes, but having so many die in the worst natural disaster is way more important
2021: Max Verstappen beats Mercedes
If what happened on 1/6/21 in Washington D.C. was in fact an actual insurrection then how come everyone who's been charged for the incident wasn't charged with the crime of insurrection?
Now we're asking the real questions. It's amazing how they can just call it an insurrection as though it's a fact, even being as generous as we can possibly be, that's an opinion. A very misinformed opinion.
@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 That event has left so many people heavily divided. Some people say it was an attack against America, and some say it was an attack by America against domestic enemies being influenced by foreign foes. My political beliefs are split down the middle, so I won't confirm or deny either view.
This is the agenda pushed by the far left to try and make the idea that "Trump = bad" in an abysmal attempt for the left to try and gain power! Yet Donald Trump has never been legally convicted, let alone charged with the crime of insurrection. Everyone on the left just constantly repeat "insurrection" like sheep. I'm surprised the liberal snowflakes haven't melted yet.
hi you probably won't see this but i think you should redo the worst saw traps video and add the newest traps to the list.
23 years in 17 minutes. Nice to remember some things😊9/11 is terrible! Mom was at the doctor,she thought it's a joke when she heared America is attacked. Dad and I watched the news. It's terrible,people waving. Humanity and world changed forever. Nice to remember 2004 when Facebook was founded. You remembered :) Angela is one of the most powerful women in history.Invention of I phone is also really nice. Obama did nothing won Nobel prize almost immediately. Later came wars. It's terrible what happened in 2014 in Ukraine. Maidan was created,Nazis came to power in Ukraine,genocide started. It's horrible. I think it's good England left EU though it's not for noble reason whatsoever. Great Recession was really felt worldwide. It hit us really strong too. I think it's Great Trump won in 2016. He turned Us to itself,to protect itself. Nationalistic,homeland approach. He made a mistake when he said his supporters not to send votes by mail. Huge mistake! That's why he lost. 2020 is one of the worst years in history. By 15th March entire Europe was closed down! Everything. Entire cities,traffic,people,borders,trains. Everything! State of Emergency here has finished on 6th May. Russian attack on Ukraine is not fullscale,yet It's self-defence preservation. Survival of Russia. I like history. Nice to remember these things😊Great video
Can you do Top 24 best cartoon shows of each year (2000-2023)?
Can you do WWE Superstars Each Year countdown next?
Wasn't Arab Spring important too since it had a domino effect in the region
I was in online class when my cousin came down and told me about the January 6th insurrection and I was like "Well that's something you don't see or hear about everyday"
It was hilarious watching it though.
Thought the queen's death would have been the most influential event in 2022
And the U.S. is involved in someway in every single military conflict on this list.
Yeah it's the US mentality of everything is about me and I must control everything's going on
@@meitavaizik yup, the U.S. thinks they're the world police.
Without the US, the nazis would control Europe
Nice try dude go cry somewhere else
@@meitavaizikgood
2010 or 2011 should be Arab Spring.
2007 should be Spider-Man 3, but I worked for home gold, the company ripping people off for mortgages in 2008, I quit after 4 days. 2 days later the feds busted in
Y2K was an absolute, well, nothing burger. I fixed PCs for a living, my Dad was an electrical engineer, and my Mom repaired and maintained mainframe computers for a living (think ancient machines the size of a refrigerator with less power than the stupidest smart phone.) The _only_ Y2K bug we encountered was *one* PC that wouldn't boot. We patched it and it was fine. I said to the owner, "You have my first Y2K bug!" Even Windows 95 looked forward enough toward Y2K that it was designed to function properly until, IIRC, 2035. They just shifted the 2-digit year. Other pieces of hardware and software obsolescence were way more troublesome than Y2K.
Like September 11th, a lot of hucksters made money selling questionable "survival" products to wait out the Y2K bug, the Rapture, the Sun exploding, whatever. However, there was also a job market for programmers who knew ancient (even then!) computer languages like COBOL. Like today, many government offices and large companies stuck with these old systems because they were stable and because upgrading was expensive and wrapped up in red tape. Good for the programmers who got a second chance to use their skills!
Note that 2021,2022, and 2023 evenst have one person in common: Vladimir Putin. The century's greatest chaos agent by far.
You misspelled "American Establisment"
2021- US withdrawal in Afghanistan
2022- Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
2023- Israeli-Hamas War
2024- upcoming TikTok Ban in USA (So far)
2024: A Whole New World 🌎
Let's hope so
A dazzling place I never knew
@@signergirl1HELP!? 😭
The earthquake was pretty bad but given how many people ended up dieing from the 9/11 attacks I was surprised finding and killing Bin Laden was not the top story of 2011.
We're in a new era after all, the Anthropocene Epoch.
18:14 You mean native nationalism?
It's always a bit annoying when people shrug off Y2K - the reason it was "just a blip" was because programmers (my father included) knew about it and worked on the the issue a decade before 2000 rolled around. Saying 'nothing really happened' kinda undermines the work and man hours everyone put in to make sure everything was still functioning like normal on January 1st.
I don’t know, think Y2K fears were mostly 1999. A better choice in my opinion would be the tightly contested and legally contested 2000 United States Presidential election. Weeks without even knowing who the next leader of the free world would be? To me, I would put that there instead.
2005 the founding of RUclips
The thing I remember is the COVID-19 virus which happened in 2020
Man, WatchMojo doesn't even hide their biases
In 2015 the Migrant wave in Europe started. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians, Afghans and people from Sub-Saharan Africa were welcomed to several countries in Western Europe. They were not integrated, instead they initiated a wave of violence against the locals, which Europe suffers from to this day.
Brexit - it's always bad watching a nation crumble to bits, but Brexit was the first time in History a Country actually voted for it.
Trump supporters: "Hold my beer."
This is the first time in history that a country imposed economic sanctions upon itself.
Yeah I totally love how Angela Merkel got Europe’s biggest economy addicted to Russias gas. She is so brilliant and should be remembered as a respected genius.
Covid 19 nearly destroyed my life. I never suffered from it directly however, it affected me in a different way. A few months before Covid hit the world I had just moved with my parents from the south east of England, where I lived for 21 years, all the way up to Scotland. I had never moved house once until then. It was a huge change for me. I had to leave all of my friends behind and I had never lived so far from family before. Given that I take longer than others to adapt to such a change such as finding things to go out and do, making new friends and so on, Covid hit at the absolute worst time possible for me. Both my academic and social life were in ruins as I literally couldn't do anything. I had never felt so lonely and depressed, and I also had to drop out of college just after the year had started due to everything becoming online which is not how I'm used to doing things. It was literally two years after I had moved to Scotland that I made my first proper friend. During the worst of those times I became suicidal. Now though things are much better, not perfect but much more bearable. I beg that I never find myself in a similar situation again.
I have watched both of your vids, and not a mention of 2011 Arab Spring.
I'm suprised the bit for 2011 didn't include the Joplin Misouri Tornado, it's damage is the most expensive in tornado damage history, EVER, it caused almost 5.5 BILLION dollars in damage.
2000 was such a terrible year to me. I mean that whole y2k stuff is better left in the dust. Ironically I was born that year though 😂.
Do we really need a recap of 20-23?
I know COVID will be 2020’s big event. But nothing will ever top the passing of Kobe Bryant in 2020. NOTHING! R.I.P Kobe, Gianna and the 7 innocent souls in that tragic crash.
Mamba Forever!
Yeah millions of innocent people died because of that virus but you're right, millions are "NOTHING" next to some famous guy and his family.
Yeah, he’s more important than the millions that died from Covid. SMH, the girl from Colorado disagrees with you
Honorable mention the Alabama Brawl
Blessed with a little more
Y2K was a real problem that was fixed. One system was missed in Japan they lost complete access to GPS. (Shipping, police, etc.) Just because people went nuts, doesn't mean there weren't a lot of things to fix.
Didn't you already make a video just like this two years ago? I guess you really ARE running out of ideas after all.
More like that video has been recycled and updated, every year, frankly speaking.
Surprised Hurricane Katrina wasn’t on the list!
We will never forget the Pandemic that’s for sure, and the Israel/Hamas War is absolutely shocking, Hamas makes the Taliban look like the Red Cross
I mean the Taliban and the red cross already have a lot in common honestly i don't know if I should laugh or cry about it
It looks like you don't know enough about what's happening there
25:01 thus escalating global situation more, for there was no need for Russian attack on Finland for it's Russia holding ex-Finnish lands, and not Finland holding Russian lands
You missed about Myanmar Civil War.
How did we get sooooo sucked up in the Y2K "problem" ?😂😊
4:44 unfortunately look at how it's monopolised things
2000 wasn’t in the 21st century it was the 20th century
A list like this is hard, for myself and probably a lot of Queenslander’s 🇦🇺, the event we remember most of 2011 & 2013 for example were the floods we had