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2016 — Korea: 12월 3일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵소추안 발의 / China: 2016 southern Taiwan earthquake / Japan: to 27 May — The 42nd G7 summit is held on Kashiko Island / United States: January 6 United States Capitol attack

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KoreaSouth Korea 1948–	ChinaChina 1949–	JapanHeisei era 1989–2019	United StatesUnited States 1776–
12월 3일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵소추안 발의KO 2016 Gyeongju earthquake 9월 9일 북한 5차 핵실험KO 9 December. President Park Geun-hye is impeached. 10월 24일 JTBC의 태블릿 PC보도 후 대한민국 최악의 국정농단사태 발생, 박근혜 - 최순실 게이트KO 1월 6일 북한 4차 핵실험KO 201416 April. Sinking of MV Sewol, where 304 people, mostly students, die. 2014세계 수학자 대회 201412월 19일 통합진보당 위헌정당해산 사건 (대한민국 최초의 정당 해산사건) 201411월 중국과 FTA 협상 체결 20144월 16일 진도 팽목항에서 세월호 침몰, 사망자 304명 2015Japan–South Korea Comfort Women Agreement 201511월 김영삼 전 대통령 서거 20175월 10일 문재인 대통령 취임, 문재인 정부 출범 20172017 Pohang earthquake 20173월 10일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵 20176월 18일 강경화 최초 여성 외교부 장관 임명 20175월 12일 국정교과서 폐지 20175월 31일 이낙연 국무총리로 취임 20175월 14일 북한 탄도미사일로 추정되는 미사일 발사 2017March. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision, removing Park from office. 2018한일 해상 군사 분쟁 2018포항 지진 2018북미정상회담(싱가포르 개최) 20182월 9일 평창 동계올림픽 개최 20184월 27일 판문점 선언(판문점 평화의집 개최)	2016 southern Taiwan earthquake 月16日，亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）在北京开业。ZH 月15日，“天宫二号”空间站发射升空，后于2019年7月结束任务、受控离轨。ZH 月25日，500米口径球面射电望远镜在贵州建成启用。ZH 月17日，“神舟十一号”载人飞船搭载景海鹏、陈冬两位航天员成功发射升空，与天宫二号对接，并于11月18日返回地球。ZH 月16日，量子科学实验卫星（“墨子号”）顺利升空。ZH 月4日，原中共中央统战部部长、中共中央办公厅主任令计划因受贿罪、非法获取国家秘密罪、滥用职权罪被判处无期徒刑。ZH January — presidential election; with 56.3% of the vote, DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen defeats KMT candidate Eric Chu. 月25日，原中央军委副主席郭伯雄因受贿罪一审被判处无期徒刑，褫夺中国人民解放军上将军衔。ZH 2016 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections 月30日-7月8日，长江中下游沿江地区及江淮、西南地区东部等地因持续强降雨引发严重水灾，164人死亡，26人失踪；安徽和湖北两省受灾最为严重。ZH 月，广东大亚湾核反应堆中微子实验国际合作团队获得2016年度“基础物理学突破奖”。ZH 月23日，江苏盐城龙卷风造成99人丧生、846人受伤。ZH 月，原西藏自治区党委书记陈全国调任新疆维吾尔自治区委员会书记，新疆开始大规模修建针对穆斯林等少数民族的“新疆再教育营”，在世界范围内引发巨大争议。ZH 月，河北邢台特大洪灾造成130人死亡、110人失踪，受灾人口达904万。ZH 月4-5日，杭州举办“G20峰会”。ZH 月，计划生育“两孩政策”正式施行。ZH 20142014 Ludian earthquake 20142014 Kunming attack 2014Sunflower Student Movement 2014月3日，云南昭通市鲁甸县发生6.5级地震，617人死亡。 20142014 Yingjiang earthquake 20142014 Guangzhou attack 20142014 Kunshan explosion 20142014 Kangding earthquake 20142014 Yutian earthquake 2014Yarkand violence 2014月27日，中央军委原副主席徐才厚涉嫌受贿犯罪案件侦查终结，后被开除党籍军籍。 2014月31日，上海外滩陈毅广场在跨年活动期间发生人群践踏事故，造成36死49伤。 2014月-12月，香港爆发争取真普选的“雨伞革命”。 2014月28日，新疆莎车县发生严重恐怖袭击，造成37名民众遇害，59名暴徒被击毙。 2014China became the world's second largest economy. 2014月22日，新疆乌鲁木齐发生严重暴力恐怖事件，43人死亡。 2014月10日-11日，亚太经合组织第二十二次领导人非正式会议（APEC峰会）在北京举行。 2014月16日-28日，第二届夏季青年奥林匹克运动会在江苏南京举行。2014年秋，香港爆发要求真普选的“雨伞革命”。 2014月1日，云南昆明发生恐怖袭击事件，造成30余人死亡。 2014月24日，国家信访局发布《引导逐级走访办法》，明确不受理越级上访。 2014月8日，飞往北京的马来西亚航空370号班机失联，马航MH370事件引发国际高度关注，机上239人（大部分乘客为中国公民）下落不明。 20143月1日昆明火车站恐怖袭击。香港雨傘革命。台灣太陽花學運。7月23日复兴航空222号班机空难。九合一選舉。 2015TransAsia Airways Flight 235 2015月，屠呦呦成为首位获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的中国籍科学家。 2015September — 2015 China Victory Day Parade was held on the Tiananmen Square. 20152015 New Taipei water park fire 2015China–Australia Free Trade Agreement 2015月17日，暗物质粒子探测卫星（“悟空”）顺利发射升空。 2015月28日，國家發改委、外交部、商務部聯合發布《推动共建丝绸之路经济带和21世纪海上丝绸之路的愿景与行动》白皮书，並首次提出粵港澳大灣區概念。 2015June — 2015–2016 Chinese stock market turbulence started. 20152015 Aksu colliery attack 2015月1日起，中国全面停止使用死囚器官作为移植供体来源，公民逝世后自愿器官捐献将成为中华人民共和国器官移植使用的唯一渠道。 2015November — Ma Ying-jeou meets with Xi Jinping, the first Cross-Strait leader meeting. 2015月9日起，大规模抓捕中国的人权律师，中华人民共和国公安当局在多达23个省份大规模逮捕、传唤、刑事拘留、带走、失联、约谈了上百位律师、民间维权人士、上访民众及其亲属的事件，部分人士因此下落不明。 2015月7日，习近平、马英九的两岸领导人会面在新加坡举行，是自1949年政治分立以来，双方最高领导人的首次会晤。 2015月12日，天津港发生严重爆炸事故，至少165人死亡、798人受伤，直接经济损失68.66亿元人民币。 2015月，中国大陆爆发股灾。 2015月20日，深圳山體滑坡事故，造成73死4失踪、逾900人被疏散。 2015月1日，湖北荆州发生“东方之星号客轮翻沉事件”，共442人死亡。 2015月起，南方大洪水，至少319人死亡、81人失踪。 2015月11日，“周永康案”，原中共中央政治局常委、政法委书记周永康在庭审中，因受贿罪、一滥用职权罪、故意泄露国家秘密罪，被判处无期徒刑剥夺政治权利终身、没收财产。 2017月18日-24日，中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会在北京召开，习近平在10月25日召开的中共十九届一中全会上连任中共中央总书记，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括李克强、栗战书、汪洋、王沪宁、赵乐际、韩正（参见：中国共产党第十九届中央委员会）。 20172017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake 2017月1日，“雄安新区”成立。 20172017 Milin earthquake 20172017 National People's Congress election in Hong Kong 2017月29日，原政治局委员孙政才被开除党籍和公职移交司法机关。 2017月，时任美国总统唐纳德·特朗普访华，与中国国家主席习近平会面。 20173月17日高雄三民區下水道火警事故。815全臺大停電。 2017月8日，四川九寨沟地震导致至少25人死亡、数百人受伤。 2018China–United States trade war 2018March — Xi Jinping removed the term limits of the Presidency. 20182018 Hualien earthquake 2018He Jiankui affair 2018月，“嫦娥四号”和“玉兔二号”成功发射升空，此后成功着陆月球，是人类探测器首访月球背面。 2018Harbin hotel fire 2018月19日-21日，山东寿光市出现洪灾灾害，13人死亡、3人失踪。 2018月5日-20日，在第十三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上，习近平连任中华人民共和国主席，李克强连任中华人民共和国国务院总理。会议对《八二宪法》进行了第五次修改，《宪法修正案》废除国家主席任期限制，并收录了“习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想”、胡锦涛提出的“科学发展观”等内容。 2018月底，知名媒体人崔永元爆料“陕西千亿矿权案”中二审案卷丢失，引发巨大争议，该事件最终以最高法院法官王林清在央视新闻上“电视认罪”而结束。 2018月，中国大陆爆发非洲猪瘟疫情。 2018月24日，港珠澳大桥建成通车。 2018月31日，新疆射月沟水库溃坝事件，造成20人遇难、8人失踪。 2018中華民國直轄市長及縣市長選舉	to 27 May — The 42nd G7 summit is held on Kashiko Island. July — Yuriko Koike won the Tokyo gubernatorial election and was elected the 9th Governor of Tokyo Metropolis. 2016 Tottori earthquake July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election for the second time. 2016 Okinawa prefectural election 우치우라만 지진 to 16 April — A series of major earthquakes strikes Kumamoto Prefecture, killing 277 people and injuring 2,809. January — The Supreme Court rejects the appeal of former Aum Shinrikyo founder and leader Shoko Asahara, and his sentence of 9 years in prison is confirmed. 2014March — The International Court of Justice ruled that Japan's whaling program violated the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. The court found that the operations were not for research purposes and ordered Japan to halt the program. 2014March — Abeno Harukas opens in Abeno-ku, Osaka, becoming the tallest building in Japan. 2014September — The Mount Ontake eruption began and killed 63 people. It was the worst volcanic disaster since 1991. 2014April — Consumption tax increases to eight percent from five percent since 1997. 20142014 Nagano earthquake 2014December — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the second time. 2014이요나다 지진 2014August — 2014 Hiroshima landslides: According to several news reports, there were 74 fatalities in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima. 2014August — According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, the first dengue fever outbreak in the country since 1945 occurred. 153 people showed the same symptoms by October, mainly in the Greater Tokyo Area in the Kantō region. 2014March — During the 2012–2013 PC remote control incident in Japan, a 31-year-old male suspect was released on bail for the first time in almost a year from the Tokyo Detention Center. However, following a prosecutorial claim, the Tokyo District Court revoked his bail on 19 May, and the suspect was imprisoned in the Tokyo Detention Center on 20 May. 2015July — President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata died of bile duct cancer at the age of 55. 2015February — JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries conduct their first launch of an Information Gathering Satellite with the aid of an H-IIA rocket F-27 from Tanegashima Space Center. 2015April — The Nikkei 225 index reaches 20,006.00 in the first few minutes of trade, passing the 20,000 level for the first time since April 2000. 2015March — Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, has announces that he discovered the Japanese battleship Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by the United States Navy, in the Sibuyan Sea, of the Philippines. 2015March — Hokuriku Shinkansen starts its service between Nagano and Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, cutting travel time between Tokyo and Kanazawa by about 80 minutes to as little as 2 hours and 28 minutes. 2015April — The Government of South Korea lifts the departure ban on a former chief of the Sankei Shimbun's Seoul bureau, who had been barred from leaving the country for eight months following his indictment in October 2014 for defamation of South Korean President Park Geun-hye. The charges were due to an article, posted on a Sankei website, that referred to a rumor in a South Korean publication that Park was seeing a man on the day of the sinking of MV Sewol in April 2014. 2015March — The main keep of Himeji Castle, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, reopened to the public after a 5-year restoration project. The keep itself is recognized as one of the National Treasures of Japan. 2015April — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Takeshi Onaga, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture for the first time to push ahead with the government plan to relocate a U.S. military base in Futenma to the proposed location around Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, but failed to reach agreement over the relocation. 2015January — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approves a record defence budget with plans to buy surveillance aircraft and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to improve the security of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China. 2015Japan–Australia Economic Partnership Agreement 20152015 Tokyo drone incident 2015August — Sendai Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 reactor is the first reactor to be restarted in accordance with the new regulatory requirements established by the Nuclear Regulation Authority following the Fukushima nuclear accident. 2015Japan–South Korea Comfort Women Agreement 2015February — Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau (TMPDPSB) arrests Tsutomu Shirosaki, a Japanese Red Army member, for attempted arson associated with a 1986 mortar attack in Indonesia as he arrives at Narita Airport, having been deported from the United States following his January 16 release from prison. 2015January — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration fines Honda a record 70 million dollars for grossly under-reporting fatal accidents and injuries to the government. 2015March — The Supreme Court rejects prosecutors' claims that a 41-year-old man from Osaka Prefecture in Kansai region, who evaded 570 million yen in taxes by failing to declare income from betting on horse races, confirming that money lost betting on horses can, for tax purposes, be considered expenses deductible from winnings.FamilyMart and UNY Group Holdings, the holding company of Circle K Sunkus, reach an agreement to merge in September 2016, forming the second biggest convenience store operator by sales in Japan under a single brand name. 2015February — Prince William made his first official visit to Japan, which included visiting Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, to support the areas that had been affected by the 2011 triple disaster. 2015February — The Supreme Court finalizes the death sentence of Tomohiro Kato, a man who was convicted of killing 7 people and wounding 10 people in an indiscriminate rampage in Akihabara, Tokyo, on 8 June 2008. 2017November — Emperor Akihito announces that he intends to retire and the end of Heisei period on April 30, 2019. 2017October — Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. 20172017 Tokyo prefectural election 2017October — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the third time. 2017가나가와현 토막 살인 사건 2017Kemono Friends Tatsuki firing controversy 2017June — According to National Police Agency confirmed report, eight person arrested for violating customs law, who brought the equivalent of about 200 kg of gold, about 8.2 million US dollars to the fishing port without permission in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture. 20182018 Osaka earthquake 2018December — Since the founder of International Whaling Commission in 1946, Japan announced that IWC had failed its duty to promote sustainable hunting, which is one of its stated goals, Japan is withdrawing its membership and will resume commercial hunting in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone from July 2019, but will cease whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean. 2018August — According to Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism official confirmed report, nine people died when a Bell 412EP helicopter crashed into the forest site in Nakanojō, Gunma Prefecture. 2018March — According to the Japan Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, an official report confirmed the Kumano cherry tree (Kumanozakura) as a new species Cherry tree (Sakura). The tree was discovered widely throughout the Kii Peninsula. The last new type of Sakura tree found in Japan was in 1915. 2018한일 해상 군사 분쟁 2018시마네현 서부 지진 2018October — Toyosu Market has opened as the largest wholesale fish market in the world. It replaced the old Tsukiji fish market. 2018April — Japan activated the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, its first marine unit since World War II. They're trained to counter invaders from occupying Japanese islands. 2018July to 26 August — East Asia heat wave kills least 116 people, due to heat-related causes, and at least 22,000 more suffer from heat strokes. 2018September — A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Hokkaido created a region-wide power outage, because of damage to a thermal power station in the hard-hit town, Atsuma. According to a Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official report, 41 people were killed and 692 people were wounded. 2018March — Japanese government has official confirmed that Japanese Ministry of Finance rewrote 14 decision documents in accordance with the response about a cooperative school in Osaka Prefecture to the National Assembly in 2017. 2018December — Japan executes two more prisoners, bringing 2018 executions to 15 taking annual total to highest since 2008. 2018June to 9 July — Heavy floods was started in western areas of Japan, most in Hiroshima Prefecture, which has been hit by torrential rain. As of 20 July, 225 people were killed, another 13 were declared missing, and 1.5 million people were displaced.	January 6 United States Capitol attack 올랜도 나이트클럽 총기 난사 사건 U.S. presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president. Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge 2016 Ohio State University attack 2016 Old Iliamna earthquake Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 53 members of the LGBT community at the Pulse nightclub. 2016 Oklahoma earthquake 2016 United States presidential election in New Jersey Obama's America (2012) election 36 people are killed in the Oakland Warehouse Fire. 20142014 South Napa earthquake 2014Deja Vu Tour 2014The Republicans win the Senate in the Midterm elections. 2014A grand jury decides not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown inciting protests and riots against racism and police brutality in the St. Louis area Causing riot. 20152015 Curtis Culwell Center attack 2015Gold King Mine waste water spill 20152015 attack on Dallas police 2015Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is convicted and sentenced to death for committing the Boston Marathon bombing. 2015Dylann Roof kills 9 people during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. 2015Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik carried out an attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and seriously injuring 22 others. 2017라스베이거스 스트립 총기 난사 사건 2017Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places. 2017Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 20172017 Women's March 20172017 New York City truck attack 2017Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands. 2017United States and the Paris Agreement 2017October 1, 2017 – A gunman opens fire at a Las Vegas Strip concert, killing 60 people and injuring 867. This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. 2017Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in the United States, flooding broad swaths of Texas and Louisiana and causing tens of billions of dollars of damage, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. 2017Fort Lauderdale airport shooting. 2017Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power. 2017Film producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual harassment in a New York Times expose, marking the beginning of the Me Too movement. 20172017 New York City Subway bombing 2017Oroville Dam crisis 2017February 14, 2018 – A gunman kills 17 people and injures 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. 2017A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia leads to three deaths and to the discussion about racism in modern American society. The term alt-right receives renewed popular consciousness. 2017Vote Count 2017January 20, 2017 – Trump becomes the 45th president, Pence becomes the 48th vice president. Trump is the first person without prior military or government service to hold the office. 2017Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation. 2017November 5, 2017 – A gunman kills 26 people and wounds 22 others at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before killing himself. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history and the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history. 2017state visit to China 2018Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore. 2018In the 2018 United States elections, the Democrats retake the House while the Republicans keep the Senate. 2018미국 우편 폭탄 미수 사건 2018March for Our Lives 20182018 Hawaii earthquake 2018Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Stephen Hillenburg and Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee both die in November. 2018United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal 2018하와이 미사일 경보 20182018 Anchorage earthquake 20182018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake 2018October 27, 2018 - A gunman opens fire on the Tree of Life congregation in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting killing 11 and wounding 6. 20182018 Women's March 2018Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse 2018November 30, 2018 – Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred. 2018Southern California mudflows 20182018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election 2018The entire West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is impeached.

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12월 3일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵소추안 발의KO
2016 Gyeongju earthquake
9월 9일 북한 5차 핵실험KO
9 December. President Park Geun-hye is impeached.
10월 24일 JTBC의 태블릿 PC보도 후 대한민국 최악의 국정농단사태 발생, 박근혜 - 최순실 게이트KO
1월 6일 북한 4차 핵실험KO

201416 April. Sinking of MV Sewol, where 304 people, mostly students, die.
2014세계 수학자 대회
201412월 19일 통합진보당 위헌정당해산 사건 (대한민국 최초의 정당 해산사건)
201411월 중국과 FTA 협상 체결
20144월 16일 진도 팽목항에서 세월호 침몰, 사망자 304명
2015Japan–South Korea Comfort Women Agreement
201511월 김영삼 전 대통령 서거
20175월 10일 문재인 대통령 취임, 문재인 정부 출범
20172017 Pohang earthquake
20173월 10일 박근혜 대통령 탄핵
20176월 18일 강경화 최초 여성 외교부 장관 임명
20175월 12일 국정교과서 폐지
20175월 31일 이낙연 국무총리로 취임
20175월 14일 북한 탄도미사일로 추정되는 미사일 발사
2017March. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision, removing Park from office.
2018한일 해상 군사 분쟁
2018포항 지진
2018북미정상회담(싱가포르 개최)
20182월 9일 평창 동계올림픽 개최
20184월 27일 판문점 선언(판문점 평화의집 개최)

2016 southern Taiwan earthquake
月16日，亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）在北京开业。ZH
月15日，“天宫二号”空间站发射升空，后于2019年7月结束任务、受控离轨。ZH
月25日，500米口径球面射电望远镜在贵州建成启用。ZH
月17日，“神舟十一号”载人飞船搭载景海鹏、陈冬两位航天员成功发射升空，与天宫二号对接，并于11月18日返回地球。ZH
月16日，量子科学实验卫星（“墨子号”）顺利升空。ZH
月4日，原中共中央统战部部长、中共中央办公厅主任令计划因受贿罪、非法获取国家秘密罪、滥用职权罪被判处无期徒刑。ZH
January — presidential election; with 56.3% of the vote, DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen defeats KMT candidate Eric Chu.
月25日，原中央军委副主席郭伯雄因受贿罪一审被判处无期徒刑，褫夺中国人民解放军上将军衔。ZH
2016 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections
月30日-7月8日，长江中下游沿江地区及江淮、西南地区东部等地因持续强降雨引发严重水灾，164人死亡，26人失踪；安徽和湖北两省受灾最为严重。ZH
月，广东大亚湾核反应堆中微子实验国际合作团队获得2016年度“基础物理学突破奖”。ZH
月23日，江苏盐城龙卷风造成99人丧生、846人受伤。ZH
月，原西藏自治区党委书记陈全国调任新疆维吾尔自治区委员会书记，新疆开始大规模修建针对穆斯林等少数民族的“新疆再教育营”，在世界范围内引发巨大争议。ZH
月，河北邢台特大洪灾造成130人死亡、110人失踪，受灾人口达904万。ZH
月4-5日，杭州举办“G20峰会”。ZH
月，计划生育“两孩政策”正式施行。ZH

20142014 Ludian earthquake
20142014 Kunming attack
2014Sunflower Student Movement
2014月3日，云南昭通市鲁甸县发生6.5级地震，617人死亡。
20142014 Yingjiang earthquake
20142014 Guangzhou attack
20142014 Kunshan explosion
20142014 Kangding earthquake
20142014 Yutian earthquake
2014Yarkand violence
2014月27日，中央军委原副主席徐才厚涉嫌受贿犯罪案件侦查终结，后被开除党籍军籍。
2014月31日，上海外滩陈毅广场在跨年活动期间发生人群践踏事故，造成36死49伤。
2014月-12月，香港爆发争取真普选的“雨伞革命”。
2014月28日，新疆莎车县发生严重恐怖袭击，造成37名民众遇害，59名暴徒被击毙。
2014China became the world's second largest economy.
2014月22日，新疆乌鲁木齐发生严重暴力恐怖事件，43人死亡。
2014月10日-11日，亚太经合组织第二十二次领导人非正式会议（APEC峰会）在北京举行。
2014月16日-28日，第二届夏季青年奥林匹克运动会在江苏南京举行。2014年秋，香港爆发要求真普选的“雨伞革命”。
2014月1日，云南昆明发生恐怖袭击事件，造成30余人死亡。
2014月24日，国家信访局发布《引导逐级走访办法》，明确不受理越级上访。
2014月8日，飞往北京的马来西亚航空370号班机失联，马航MH370事件引发国际高度关注，机上239人（大部分乘客为中国公民）下落不明。
20143月1日昆明火车站恐怖袭击。香港雨傘革命。台灣太陽花學運。7月23日复兴航空222号班机空难。九合一選舉。
2015TransAsia Airways Flight 235
2015月，屠呦呦成为首位获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的中国籍科学家。
2015September — 2015 China Victory Day Parade was held on the Tiananmen Square.
20152015 New Taipei water park fire
2015China–Australia Free Trade Agreement
2015月17日，暗物质粒子探测卫星（“悟空”）顺利发射升空。
2015月28日，國家發改委、外交部、商務部聯合發布《推动共建丝绸之路经济带和21世纪海上丝绸之路的愿景与行动》白皮书，並首次提出粵港澳大灣區概念。
2015June — 2015–2016 Chinese stock market turbulence started.
20152015 Aksu colliery attack
2015月1日起，中国全面停止使用死囚器官作为移植供体来源，公民逝世后自愿器官捐献将成为中华人民共和国器官移植使用的唯一渠道。
2015November — Ma Ying-jeou meets with Xi Jinping, the first Cross-Strait leader meeting.
2015月9日起，大规模抓捕中国的人权律师，中华人民共和国公安当局在多达23个省份大规模逮捕、传唤、刑事拘留、带走、失联、约谈了上百位律师、民间维权人士、上访民众及其亲属的事件，部分人士因此下落不明。
2015月7日，习近平、马英九的两岸领导人会面在新加坡举行，是自1949年政治分立以来，双方最高领导人的首次会晤。
2015月12日，天津港发生严重爆炸事故，至少165人死亡、798人受伤，直接经济损失68.66亿元人民币。
2015月，中国大陆爆发股灾。
2015月20日，深圳山體滑坡事故，造成73死4失踪、逾900人被疏散。
2015月1日，湖北荆州发生“东方之星号客轮翻沉事件”，共442人死亡。
2015月起，南方大洪水，至少319人死亡、81人失踪。
2015月11日，“周永康案”，原中共中央政治局常委、政法委书记周永康在庭审中，因受贿罪、一滥用职权罪、故意泄露国家秘密罪，被判处无期徒刑剥夺政治权利终身、没收财产。
2017月18日-24日，中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会在北京召开，习近平在10月25日召开的中共十九届一中全会上连任中共中央总书记，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括李克强、栗战书、汪洋、王沪宁、赵乐际、韩正（参见：中国共产党第十九届中央委员会）。
20172017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake
2017月1日，“雄安新区”成立。
20172017 Milin earthquake
20172017 National People's Congress election in Hong Kong
2017月29日，原政治局委员孙政才被开除党籍和公职移交司法机关。
2017月，时任美国总统唐纳德·特朗普访华，与中国国家主席习近平会面。
20173月17日高雄三民區下水道火警事故。815全臺大停電。
2017月8日，四川九寨沟地震导致至少25人死亡、数百人受伤。
2018China–United States trade war
2018March — Xi Jinping removed the term limits of the Presidency.
20182018 Hualien earthquake
2018He Jiankui affair
2018月，“嫦娥四号”和“玉兔二号”成功发射升空，此后成功着陆月球，是人类探测器首访月球背面。
2018Harbin hotel fire
2018月19日-21日，山东寿光市出现洪灾灾害，13人死亡、3人失踪。
2018月5日-20日，在第十三届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上，习近平连任中华人民共和国主席，李克强连任中华人民共和国国务院总理。会议对《八二宪法》进行了第五次修改，《宪法修正案》废除国家主席任期限制，并收录了“习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想”、胡锦涛提出的“科学发展观”等内容。
2018月底，知名媒体人崔永元爆料“陕西千亿矿权案”中二审案卷丢失，引发巨大争议，该事件最终以最高法院法官王林清在央视新闻上“电视认罪”而结束。
2018月，中国大陆爆发非洲猪瘟疫情。
2018月24日，港珠澳大桥建成通车。
2018月31日，新疆射月沟水库溃坝事件，造成20人遇难、8人失踪。
2018中華民國直轄市長及縣市長選舉

to 27 May — The 42nd G7 summit is held on Kashiko Island.
July — Yuriko Koike won the Tokyo gubernatorial election and was elected the 9th Governor of Tokyo Metropolis.
2016 Tottori earthquake
July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election for the second time.
2016 Okinawa prefectural election
우치우라만 지진
to 16 April — A series of major earthquakes strikes Kumamoto Prefecture, killing 277 people and injuring 2,809.
January — The Supreme Court rejects the appeal of former Aum Shinrikyo founder and leader Shoko Asahara, and his sentence of 9 years in prison is confirmed.

2014March — The International Court of Justice ruled that Japan's whaling program violated the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. The court found that the operations were not for research purposes and ordered Japan to halt the program.
2014March — Abeno Harukas opens in Abeno-ku, Osaka, becoming the tallest building in Japan.
2014September — The Mount Ontake eruption began and killed 63 people. It was the worst volcanic disaster since 1991.
2014April — Consumption tax increases to eight percent from five percent since 1997.
20142014 Nagano earthquake
2014December — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the second time.
2014이요나다 지진
2014August — 2014 Hiroshima landslides: According to several news reports, there were 74 fatalities in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima.
2014August — According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, the first dengue fever outbreak in the country since 1945 occurred. 153 people showed the same symptoms by October, mainly in the Greater Tokyo Area in the Kantō region.
2014March — During the 2012–2013 PC remote control incident in Japan, a 31-year-old male suspect was released on bail for the first time in almost a year from the Tokyo Detention Center. However, following a prosecutorial claim, the Tokyo District Court revoked his bail on 19 May, and the suspect was imprisoned in the Tokyo Detention Center on 20 May.
2015July — President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata died of bile duct cancer at the age of 55.
2015February — JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries conduct their first launch of an Information Gathering Satellite with the aid of an H-IIA rocket F-27 from Tanegashima Space Center.
2015April — The Nikkei 225 index reaches 20,006.00 in the first few minutes of trade, passing the 20,000 level for the first time since April 2000.
2015March — Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, has announces that he discovered the Japanese battleship Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by the United States Navy, in the Sibuyan Sea, of the Philippines.
2015March — Hokuriku Shinkansen starts its service between Nagano and Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, cutting travel time between Tokyo and Kanazawa by about 80 minutes to as little as 2 hours and 28 minutes.
2015April — The Government of South Korea lifts the departure ban on a former chief of the Sankei Shimbun's Seoul bureau, who had been barred from leaving the country for eight months following his indictment in October 2014 for defamation of South Korean President Park Geun-hye. The charges were due to an article, posted on a Sankei website, that referred to a rumor in a South Korean publication that Park was seeing a man on the day of the sinking of MV Sewol in April 2014.
2015March — The main keep of Himeji Castle, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, reopened to the public after a 5-year restoration project. The keep itself is recognized as one of the National Treasures of Japan.
2015April — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets Takeshi Onaga, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture for the first time to push ahead with the government plan to relocate a U.S. military base in Futenma to the proposed location around Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa, but failed to reach agreement over the relocation.
2015January — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approves a record defence budget with plans to buy surveillance aircraft and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to improve the security of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China.
2015Japan–Australia Economic Partnership Agreement
20152015 Tokyo drone incident
2015August — Sendai Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 reactor is the first reactor to be restarted in accordance with the new regulatory requirements established by the Nuclear Regulation Authority following the Fukushima nuclear accident.
2015Japan–South Korea Comfort Women Agreement
2015February — Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau (TMPDPSB) arrests Tsutomu Shirosaki, a Japanese Red Army member, for attempted arson associated with a 1986 mortar attack in Indonesia as he arrives at Narita Airport, having been deported from the United States following his January 16 release from prison.
2015January — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration fines Honda a record 70 million dollars for grossly under-reporting fatal accidents and injuries to the government.
2015March — The Supreme Court rejects prosecutors' claims that a 41-year-old man from Osaka Prefecture in Kansai region, who evaded 570 million yen in taxes by failing to declare income from betting on horse races, confirming that money lost betting on horses can, for tax purposes, be considered expenses deductible from winnings.FamilyMart and UNY Group Holdings, the holding company of Circle K Sunkus, reach an agreement to merge in September 2016, forming the second biggest convenience store operator by sales in Japan under a single brand name.
2015February — Prince William made his first official visit to Japan, which included visiting Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, to support the areas that had been affected by the 2011 triple disaster.
2015February — The Supreme Court finalizes the death sentence of Tomohiro Kato, a man who was convicted of killing 7 people and wounding 10 people in an indiscriminate rampage in Akihabara, Tokyo, on 8 June 2008.
2017November — Emperor Akihito announces that he intends to retire and the end of Heisei period on April 30, 2019.
2017October — Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.
20172017 Tokyo prefectural election
2017October — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the third time.
2017가나가와현 토막 살인 사건
2017Kemono Friends Tatsuki firing controversy
2017June — According to National Police Agency confirmed report, eight person arrested for violating customs law, who brought the equivalent of about 200 kg of gold, about 8.2 million US dollars to the fishing port without permission in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture.
20182018 Osaka earthquake
2018December — Since the founder of International Whaling Commission in 1946, Japan announced that IWC had failed its duty to promote sustainable hunting, which is one of its stated goals, Japan is withdrawing its membership and will resume commercial hunting in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone from July 2019, but will cease whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean.
2018August — According to Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism official confirmed report, nine people died when a Bell 412EP helicopter crashed into the forest site in Nakanojō, Gunma Prefecture.
2018March — According to the Japan Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, an official report confirmed the Kumano cherry tree (Kumanozakura) as a new species Cherry tree (Sakura). The tree was discovered widely throughout the Kii Peninsula. The last new type of Sakura tree found in Japan was in 1915.
2018한일 해상 군사 분쟁
2018시마네현 서부 지진
2018October — Toyosu Market has opened as the largest wholesale fish market in the world. It replaced the old Tsukiji fish market.
2018April — Japan activated the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, its first marine unit since World War II. They're trained to counter invaders from occupying Japanese islands.
2018July to 26 August — East Asia heat wave kills least 116 people, due to heat-related causes, and at least 22,000 more suffer from heat strokes.
2018September — A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Hokkaido created a region-wide power outage, because of damage to a thermal power station in the hard-hit town, Atsuma. According to a Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official report, 41 people were killed and 692 people were wounded.
2018March — Japanese government has official confirmed that Japanese Ministry of Finance rewrote 14 decision documents in accordance with the response about a cooperative school in Osaka Prefecture to the National Assembly in 2017.
2018December — Japan executes two more prisoners, bringing 2018 executions to 15 taking annual total to highest since 2008.
2018June to 9 July — Heavy floods was started in western areas of Japan, most in Hiroshima Prefecture, which has been hit by torrential rain. As of 20 July, 225 people were killed, another 13 were declared missing, and 1.5 million people were displaced.

January 6 United States Capitol attack
올랜도 나이트클럽 총기 난사 사건
U.S. presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president.
Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
2016 Ohio State University attack
2016 Old Iliamna earthquake
Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 53 members of the LGBT community at the Pulse nightclub.
2016 Oklahoma earthquake
2016 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Obama's America (2012)
election
36 people are killed in the Oakland Warehouse Fire.

20142014 South Napa earthquake
2014Deja Vu Tour
2014The Republicans win the Senate in the Midterm elections.
2014A grand jury decides not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown inciting protests and riots against racism and police brutality in the St. Louis area Causing riot.
20152015 Curtis Culwell Center attack
2015Gold King Mine waste water spill
20152015 attack on Dallas police
2015Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is convicted and sentenced to death for committing the Boston Marathon bombing.
2015Dylann Roof kills 9 people during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
2015Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik carried out an attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and seriously injuring 22 others.
2017라스베이거스 스트립 총기 난사 사건
2017Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places.
2017Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
20172017 Women's March
20172017 New York City truck attack
2017Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.
2017United States and the Paris Agreement
2017October 1, 2017 – A gunman opens fire at a Las Vegas Strip concert, killing 60 people and injuring 867. This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
2017Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in the United States, flooding broad swaths of Texas and Louisiana and causing tens of billions of dollars of damage, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
2017Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.
2017Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.
2017Film producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual harassment in a New York Times expose, marking the beginning of the Me Too movement.
20172017 New York City Subway bombing
2017Oroville Dam crisis
2017February 14, 2018 – A gunman kills 17 people and injures 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
2017A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia leads to three deaths and to the discussion about racism in modern American society. The term alt-right receives renewed popular consciousness.
2017Vote Count
2017January 20, 2017 – Trump becomes the 45th president, Pence becomes the 48th vice president. Trump is the first person without prior military or government service to hold the office.
2017Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation.
2017November 5, 2017 – A gunman kills 26 people and wounds 22 others at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before killing himself. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history and the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history.
2017state visit to China
2018Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
2018In the 2018 United States elections, the Democrats retake the House while the Republicans keep the Senate.
2018미국 우편 폭탄 미수 사건
2018March for Our Lives
20182018 Hawaii earthquake
2018Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Stephen Hillenburg and Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee both die in November.
2018United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal
2018하와이 미사일 경보
20182018 Anchorage earthquake
20182018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake
2018October 27, 2018 - A gunman opens fire on the Tree of Life congregation in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting killing 11 and wounding 6.
20182018 Women's March
2018Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse
2018November 30, 2018 – Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred.
2018Southern California mudflows
20182018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election
2018The entire West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is impeached.