2013年

2013年 — 韩国: 12 December. North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, executes his uncle and major North Korean politician, Jang Song-thaek / 中国: One Belt, One Road was proposed to connect and cooperate among countries primarily between China and rest of Eurasia / 日本: Minamata Convention on Mercury / 美国: 서아프리카 에볼라 유행

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韩国大韩民国 1948–	中国中华人民共和国 1949–	日本平成 1989–2019	美国美国 1776–
12 December. North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, executes his uncle and major North Korean politician, Jang Song-thaek.EN 2월 25일 박근혜 대통령 취임, 박근혜 정부 출범KO 2011Kim Jong Il dies, Kim Jong Un takes over as the Supreme Leader of North Korea. The National Intelligence Service accuses pro-unification lawmakers of being spies. One of the members was a former Democratic Party representative. In a move indicative of the heavy-handedness of the Park regime, the party is outlawed and key party members are imprisoned. 201112월 17일 김정일 사망, 김정은 국방위원회 제1위원장 집권(조선민주주의인민공화국) 2011무역 1조 달러 돌파 201219 December. Park Geun-hye, a daughter of Park Chung Hee, is elected as first female and the 11th president of South Korea. 20123월 15일 한미 FTA 발효 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 2015한·일 일본군 위안부 협상 타결 201511월 김영삼 전 대통령 서거	One Belt, One Road was proposed to connect and cooperate among countries primarily between China and rest of Eurasia.EN 月14日，“嫦娥三号”和“玉兔号”完成首次月面软着陆和月面巡视勘探。月28日，北京发生天安门金水桥恐怖袭击案，五人死亡。月11日，“神舟十号”载人飞船搭载聂海胜、张晓光、王亚平三位航天员顺利发射升空，与天宫一号对接，并于6月26日返回地球。 China–Russia floodsEN 2013年巴楚县“4·23”暴力恐怖袭击事件 2013年3月南投地震 2013年6月南投地震深化国防和军队改革 September — The Shanghai Free-Trade Zone was established.EN 月3日，吉林寶源豐禽業公司因液氨泄漏發生火災，造成121人死亡，77人受傷。月5日-17日，在第十二届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上，习近平当选中华人民共和国主席，李克强当选中华人民共和国国务院总理。月16日，辽宁抚顺“8·16”特大洪灾，共造成76人死亡、88人失踪。月7日，廈門BRT快1線發生公車起火事故，造成47人死亡、34人受傷，事故原因認定為自殺式縱火襲擊。月25日，中国共产党总书记习近平在北京会见中国国民党荣誉主席连战及随访的台湾各界人士，是首次“习连会”。月20日，四川省芦山“4·20”7.0级强烈地震（雅安大地震），造成196人死亡。 4月20日芦山地震。洪仲丘事件。臺紐經濟合作協定（ANZTEC）、臺星經濟合作協定（ASTEP）簽訂。月28日，第十二届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第六次会议通过《关于废止有关劳动教养法律规定的决定》，劳教制度正式废止。 20112011年缅甸地震 20112011年錫金地震 20112011年盈江地震 2011月29日，“天宫一号”实验性空间站发射升空，后于2018年4月结束任务、落入大气层。 2011烏坎事件 2011月1日，“神舟八号”无人飞船顺利发射升空，与天宫一号对接，并于11月17日返回地球。 20112011年喀什暴力恐怖袭击事件 20112011年和田市“7·18”暴力恐怖袭击事件 2011October — The 100th Anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution and Republic of China was commemorated. 2011Central Tibetan Administration general election 2011月，中国红十字会爆发重大丑闻“郭美美事件 ”。 2011月14日，大连市爆发上万人参加的反对PX项目游行。 2011月，内蒙古抗议示威事件。 2011月，深圳举办“2011年世界大学生夏季运动会”。 2011月，微博实行实名制。 2011月起，中国南方水灾，至少105人死亡，63人失踪。 2011月，北斗二号导航系统开始为中国及周边地区用户提供服务。 2011月23日，甬台温铁路列车追尾事故，造成40人死亡、上百人受伤。 2011月起，中国秋季洪涝灾害，共造成97人死亡、21人失踪。 20111月1日中俄原油管道投入运行。中國國內生產總值超越日本成為全球第二大經濟體。蓬莱19-3油田溢油事故。深圳举办世界大学生夏季运动会。10月10日，中華民國100年國慶。 2012July — The Three Gorges Dam went into operation. 2012月25日，中国第一艘航空母舰“辽宁号”正式交付使用。 2012月11日，莫言获得诺贝尔文学奖，成为首位获此殊荣的中国籍作家。 2012月16日，“神舟九号”载人飞船搭载景海鹏、刘旺、刘洋三位航天员发射升空，与天宫一号对接，于6月29日返回地球。 2012Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances 20122012年彝良地震 2012August — 2012 China anti-Japanese demonstrations: Anti-Japanese protests took place in China due to the Senkaku Islands dispute. 2012月8日-14日，中国共产党第十八次全国代表大会在北京召开，习近平在11月15日召开的中共十八届一中全会上当选中共中央总书记，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括李克强、张德江、俞正声、刘云山、王岐山、张高丽（参见：中国共产党第十八届中央委员会）。此后，大规模反腐败运动展开，但外界对此也有“清洗政治对手”、“选择性反腐”的质疑。 20122012年扬州地震 20122012年啟豐二號船員登上釣魚島事件 2012月6日，原重庆市公安局局长王立军私自进入美国驻成都总领事馆（“王立军事件”），引发中国巨大政治变动，后续事件包括薄熙来事件和周永康案。 2012馬英九當選第13任總統。第8屆立委選舉。薄熙来、周永康等被捕。11月15日，習近平當選中國共產黨中央委員會總書記及中國共產黨中央軍事委員會主席。 2012月，湖南衡阳发生大规模贿选案件。 2012月，北京特大暴雨造成79人死亡、160.2万人受灾，经济损失116.4亿元。 20142014年鲁甸地震 20142014年昆明火车站暴力恐怖袭击事件 2014March — Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan, students occupy the Legislative Yuan force to halt the enforcement of Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement. 2014月3日，云南昭通市鲁甸县发生6.5级地震，617人死亡。 20142014年盈江地震 20142014年5月6日广州火车站暴力袭击事件 2014月2日，江苏昆山中荣工厂爆炸事故造成146人死亡。 20142014年康定地震 20142014年于田地震 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。 20152月4日復興航空235號班機空難。纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年大会。8月12日2015年天津港危化品仓库爆炸事故。11月7日两岸领导人会面。12月20日深圳滑坡事故。 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. 2015바셴하이안 폭발 사고 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. 2015Aksu 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。	Minamata Convention on MercuryEN 2013年淡路島地震 July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election at the first time.EN 2013年北海道地震 September — During the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Japan is awarded the rights to host 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games for the first time since the Reiwa period. Istanbul and Madrid were other contenders.EN December — The State Secrecy Law passes the National Diet.EN June to October — 2013 Japanese heatwave, according to Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare official confirmed report, 1,077 people lost their lives to heatwave, caused by heat stroke, second worst heatwave disaster in Japan.EN January — Abenomics and Japanese policies are enacted to handle the consequences of the Lost Decade. Japanese aging population has begun to decrease since July 2010.EN 20112011年4月福島地震 20112011年靜岡地震 2011榮村地震 2011March — Japan gets hit with the (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, etc.), which claimed the lives of 20,000 people. 2011March — Japan Self-Defense Force Base was established in Djibouti. 2011January and March — The Tokyo Skytree 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) became the third tallest tower in the world, which opened in 2012. 2012December — Shinzo Abe is inaugurated as the 98th Prime Minister of Japan. 20122012年啟豐二號船員登上釣魚島事件 2012Fantastic Babys 2012December — Shinzo Abe wins the general election for the first time. 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年长野地震 2014December — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the second time. 2014伊予灘地震 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. 2015January — Japan–Australia Economic Partnership Agreement enters into force. 2015수상 관저 무인기 추락 사건 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. 2015한·일 일본군 위안부 협상 타결 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.	서아프리카 에볼라 유행EN Black Lives Matter emerges as a political movement, protesting against widespread racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.EN Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency.EN The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history burns nearly 16,000 acres and kills two people.EN A tornado devastates suburbs near Oklahoma City, killing 24.EN The Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal recognition of same-sex marriages and refused to recognize the legal standing of proponents of Proposition 8, which resulted in the re-legalization of same-sex marriage in California.EN Terrorists attack the Boston Marathon by detonating two bombs at the finishing line of the race, killing three and injuring 283 runners and spectators. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev then led Boston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after.EN Christopher Dorner murders three people in Southern California, starting the largest manhunt in Los Angeles history. His spree ends in Big Bear Lake, California where he barricades himself in a cabin, kills a second officer, before committing suicide.EN 2011Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs. 2011Virginia earthquake 2011Joplin tornado 2011STS-135: The Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981. 2011A tornado devastates Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 and injuring over 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting 2011The ATF gunwalking scandal emerged, wherein thousands of guns were allowed to "walk" through interdiction to Mexico, supposedly to aid in the capture of criminals. 2011Oklahoma earthquake 2011Colorado earthquake 2011A series of tornadoes cause heavy damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina. 2011Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt when a gunman went on a shooting spree, killing federal judge John Roll and five other people, and wounding at least 13 others, at an event Giffords was hosting in suburban Tucson, Arizona. 2011Flooding devastates the Mississippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage. 2011Casey Marie Anthony is acquitted of all charges related to the death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served. 2012Hurricane Sandy strikes the Eastern Seaboard. 2012A gunman kills 12 and injures 70 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. 2012California Proposition 39 2012U.S. presidential election, 2012: Barack Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president. 2012Killing of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams 2012U.S. Virgin Islands Republican presidential caucuses 2012Northern Mariana Islands Republican presidential caucuses 2012American Samoa Republican presidential caucuses 2012campaign 2012January 20, 2013 – President Obama and Vice President Biden begin their second terms. 20142014年南納帕地震 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. 2015Curtis Culwell Center attack 2015Gold King Mine waste water spill 2015attack 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.

韩国大韩民国 1948–

中国中华人民共和国 1949–

日本平成 1989–2019

美国美国 1776–

12 December. North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, executes his uncle and major North Korean politician, Jang Song-thaek.EN
2월 25일 박근혜 대통령 취임, 박근혜 정부 출범KO

2011Kim Jong Il dies, Kim Jong Un takes over as the Supreme Leader of North Korea. The National Intelligence Service accuses pro-unification lawmakers of being spies. One of the members was a former Democratic Party representative. In a move indicative of the heavy-handedness of the Park regime, the party is outlawed and key party members are imprisoned.
201112월 17일 김정일 사망, 김정은 국방위원회 제1위원장 집권(조선민주주의인민공화국)
2011무역 1조 달러 돌파
201219 December. Park Geun-hye, a daughter of Park Chung Hee, is elected as first female and the 11th president of South Korea.
20123월 15일 한미 FTA 발효
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
2015한·일 일본군 위안부 협상 타결
201511월 김영삼 전 대통령 서거

One Belt, One Road was proposed to connect and cooperate among countries primarily between China and rest of Eurasia.EN
月14日，“嫦娥三号”和“玉兔号”完成首次月面软着陆和月面巡视勘探。
月28日，北京发生天安门金水桥恐怖袭击案，五人死亡。
月11日，“神舟十号”载人飞船搭载聂海胜、张晓光、王亚平三位航天员顺利发射升空，与天宫一号对接，并于6月26日返回地球。
China–Russia floodsEN
2013年巴楚县“4·23”暴力恐怖袭击事件
2013年3月南投地震
2013年6月南投地震
深化国防和军队改革
September — The Shanghai Free-Trade Zone was established.EN
月3日，吉林寶源豐禽業公司因液氨泄漏發生火災，造成121人死亡，77人受傷。
月5日-17日，在第十二届全国人民代表大会第一次会议上，习近平当选中华人民共和国主席，李克强当选中华人民共和国国务院总理。
月16日，辽宁抚顺“8·16”特大洪灾，共造成76人死亡、88人失踪。
月7日，廈門BRT快1線發生公車起火事故，造成47人死亡、34人受傷，事故原因認定為自殺式縱火襲擊。
月25日，中国共产党总书记习近平在北京会见中国国民党荣誉主席连战及随访的台湾各界人士，是首次“习连会”。
月20日，四川省芦山“4·20”7.0级强烈地震（雅安大地震），造成196人死亡。
4月20日芦山地震。洪仲丘事件。臺紐經濟合作協定（ANZTEC）、臺星經濟合作協定（ASTEP）簽訂。
月28日，第十二届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第六次会议通过《关于废止有关劳动教养法律规定的决定》，劳教制度正式废止。

20112011年缅甸地震
20112011年錫金地震
20112011年盈江地震
2011月29日，“天宫一号”实验性空间站发射升空，后于2018年4月结束任务、落入大气层。
2011烏坎事件
2011月1日，“神舟八号”无人飞船顺利发射升空，与天宫一号对接，并于11月17日返回地球。
20112011年喀什暴力恐怖袭击事件
20112011年和田市“7·18”暴力恐怖袭击事件
2011October — The 100th Anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution and Republic of China was commemorated.
2011Central Tibetan Administration general election
2011月，中国红十字会爆发重大丑闻“郭美美事件 ”。
2011月14日，大连市爆发上万人参加的反对PX项目游行。
2011月，内蒙古抗议示威事件。
2011月，深圳举办“2011年世界大学生夏季运动会”。
2011月，微博实行实名制。
2011月起，中国南方水灾，至少105人死亡，63人失踪。
2011月，北斗二号导航系统开始为中国及周边地区用户提供服务。
2011月23日，甬台温铁路列车追尾事故，造成40人死亡、上百人受伤。
2011月起，中国秋季洪涝灾害，共造成97人死亡、21人失踪。
20111月1日中俄原油管道投入运行。中國國內生產總值超越日本成為全球第二大經濟體。蓬莱19-3油田溢油事故。深圳举办世界大学生夏季运动会。10月10日，中華民國100年國慶。
2012July — The Three Gorges Dam went into operation.
2012月25日，中国第一艘航空母舰“辽宁号”正式交付使用。
2012月11日，莫言获得诺贝尔文学奖，成为首位获此殊荣的中国籍作家。
2012月16日，“神舟九号”载人飞船搭载景海鹏、刘旺、刘洋三位航天员发射升空，与天宫一号对接，于6月29日返回地球。
2012Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances
20122012年彝良地震
2012August — 2012 China anti-Japanese demonstrations: Anti-Japanese protests took place in China due to the Senkaku Islands dispute.
2012月8日-14日，中国共产党第十八次全国代表大会在北京召开，习近平在11月15日召开的中共十八届一中全会上当选中共中央总书记，其他当选的中共中央政治局常委包括李克强、张德江、俞正声、刘云山、王岐山、张高丽（参见：中国共产党第十八届中央委员会）。此后，大规模反腐败运动展开，但外界对此也有“清洗政治对手”、“选择性反腐”的质疑。
20122012年扬州地震
20122012年啟豐二號船員登上釣魚島事件
2012月6日，原重庆市公安局局长王立军私自进入美国驻成都总领事馆（“王立军事件”），引发中国巨大政治变动，后续事件包括薄熙来事件和周永康案。
2012馬英九當選第13任總統。第8屆立委選舉。薄熙来、周永康等被捕。11月15日，習近平當選中國共產黨中央委員會總書記及中國共產黨中央軍事委員會主席。
2012月，湖南衡阳发生大规模贿选案件。
2012月，北京特大暴雨造成79人死亡、160.2万人受灾，经济损失116.4亿元。
20142014年鲁甸地震
20142014年昆明火车站暴力恐怖袭击事件
2014March — Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan, students occupy the Legislative Yuan force to halt the enforcement of Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement.
2014月3日，云南昭通市鲁甸县发生6.5级地震，617人死亡。
20142014年盈江地震
20142014年5月6日广州火车站暴力袭击事件
2014月2日，江苏昆山中荣工厂爆炸事故造成146人死亡。
20142014年康定地震
20142014年于田地震
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。
20152月4日復興航空235號班機空難。纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年大会。8月12日2015年天津港危化品仓库爆炸事故。11月7日两岸领导人会面。12月20日深圳滑坡事故。
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.
2015바셴하이안 폭발 사고
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.
2015Aksu 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。

Minamata Convention on MercuryEN
2013年淡路島地震
July — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election at the first time.EN
2013年北海道地震
September — During the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Japan is awarded the rights to host 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games for the first time since the Reiwa period. Istanbul and Madrid were other contenders.EN
December — The State Secrecy Law passes the National Diet.EN
June to October — 2013 Japanese heatwave, according to Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare official confirmed report, 1,077 people lost their lives to heatwave, caused by heat stroke, second worst heatwave disaster in Japan.EN
January — Abenomics and Japanese policies are enacted to handle the consequences of the Lost Decade. Japanese aging population has begun to decrease since July 2010.EN

20112011年4月福島地震
20112011年靜岡地震
2011榮村地震
2011March — Japan gets hit with the (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, etc.), which claimed the lives of 20,000 people.
2011March — Japan Self-Defense Force Base was established in Djibouti.
2011January and March — The Tokyo Skytree 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) became the third tallest tower in the world, which opened in 2012.
2012December — Shinzo Abe is inaugurated as the 98th Prime Minister of Japan.
20122012年啟豐二號船員登上釣魚島事件
2012Fantastic Babys
2012December — Shinzo Abe wins the general election for the first time.
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年长野地震
2014December — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the general election for the second time.
2014伊予灘地震
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.
2015January — Japan–Australia Economic Partnership Agreement enters into force.
2015수상 관저 무인기 추락 사건
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.
2015한·일 일본군 위안부 협상 타결
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.

서아프리카 에볼라 유행EN
Black Lives Matter emerges as a political movement, protesting against widespread racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.EN
Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency.EN
The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history burns nearly 16,000 acres and kills two people.EN
A tornado devastates suburbs near Oklahoma City, killing 24.EN
The Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal recognition of same-sex marriages and refused to recognize the legal standing of proponents of Proposition 8, which resulted in the re-legalization of same-sex marriage in California.EN
Terrorists attack the Boston Marathon by detonating two bombs at the finishing line of the race, killing three and injuring 283 runners and spectators. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev then led Boston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after.EN
Christopher Dorner murders three people in Southern California, starting the largest manhunt in Los Angeles history. His spree ends in Big Bear Lake, California where he barricades himself in a cabin, kills a second officer, before committing suicide.EN

2011Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs.
2011Virginia earthquake
2011Joplin tornado
2011STS-135: The Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.
2011A tornado devastates Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 and injuring over 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting
2011The ATF gunwalking scandal emerged, wherein thousands of guns were allowed to "walk" through interdiction to Mexico, supposedly to aid in the capture of criminals.
2011Oklahoma earthquake
2011Colorado earthquake
2011A series of tornadoes cause heavy damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina.
2011Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt when a gunman went on a shooting spree, killing federal judge John Roll and five other people, and wounding at least 13 others, at an event Giffords was hosting in suburban Tucson, Arizona.
2011Flooding devastates the Mississippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.
2011Casey Marie Anthony is acquitted of all charges related to the death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served.
2012Hurricane Sandy strikes the Eastern Seaboard.
2012A gunman kills 12 and injures 70 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
2012California Proposition 39
2012U.S. presidential election, 2012: Barack Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president.
2012Killing of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams
2012U.S. Virgin Islands Republican presidential caucuses
2012Northern Mariana Islands Republican presidential caucuses
2012American Samoa Republican presidential caucuses
2012campaign
2012January 20, 2013 – President Obama and Vice President Biden begin their second terms.
20142014年南納帕地震
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.
2015Curtis Culwell Center attack
2015Gold King Mine waste water spill
2015attack 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.