Portal:Current events/January 2021/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession
• Gamestop short squeeze

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020–21 European windstorm season
• 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Armenian protests
• Belarusian protests
• Bulgarian protests
• East Mediterranean crisis
• Hong Kong protests
• Indian farmers protests
• Indonesia omnibus law protests
• Kashmir lock-down
• Libyan peace process
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Russian protests
• Second Arab Spring
• Sudanese protests
• Thai protests
• United States election protests
• United States racial unrest
• Venezuelan presidential crisis
• Yellow vests movement

Elections and referendums

Recent

• January
  • 24: Portugal, President

Upcoming

• February
  • 7: Ecuador, President (1st), National Assembly
  • 7: Liechtenstein, Landtag

Trials

Recently concluded

• France: Charlie Hebdo shooting
• Switzerland: Beny Steinmetz
• Vanuatu: Charlot Salwai

Ongoing

• Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
• France: Nicolas Sarkozy
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: 2017 Catalonia attacks
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Varsity Blues scandal
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Indonesia: Edhy Prabowo, Juliari Batubara, Muhammad Rizieq Shihab
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • 2020–21 Premier League
  • 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
  • 2020 Copa Libertadores
  • 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage
  • 2020–21 UEFA Europa League group stage
• Women's association football
  • 2020–21 Champions League
  • 2020–21 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2020–21 FA WSL
• American football
  • 2020 NFL season
  • 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
• Baseball
  • 2021 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2020–21 NBA season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• Golf
  • 2020–21 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020–21 KHL season
  • 2020–21 NHL season
• Rugby union
  • 2020–21 Premiership Rugby
  • 2020–21 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2020–21 international cricket season
  • 2020–21 snooker season
  • 2020–21 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

January 2021

• 30: Sophie
• 28: Paul J. Crutzen
• 28: Cicely Tyson
• 28: Lewis Wolpert
• 27: Juan del Río Martín
• 26: Cloris Leachman
• 26: Carlos Holmes Trujillo
• 24: George Armstrong
• 24: Arik Brauer
• 24: Sonny Fox
• 24: Bruce Kirby
• 24: Gunnel Lindblom
• 24: Joseph Sonnabend
• 23: Walter Bernstein
• 23: Tony Ferrer
• 23: Alberto Grimaldi
• 23: Larry King
• 23: Nilda Pedrosa
• 23: Robert Rowland
• 23: Roy Torrens
• 22: Hank Aaron
• 22: Juan Guzmán Tapia
• 22: José Rivera Pérez
• 21: Henry Chmielewski
• 20: Mira Furlan
• 20: Sibusiso Moyo
• 20: Peter Swan
• 20: Ted Thompson
• 19: V. Shanta
• 18: Jean-Pierre Bacri
• 18: Lubomir Kavalek
• 18: Jimmie Rodgers
• 18: Don Sutton
• 17: Nikolay Antoshkin
• 17: Sammy Nestico
• 16: Salleh Abas
• 16: Michael Bryce
• 16: Chris Murphy
• 16: Phil Spector
• 15: Benjamin de Rothschild
• 14: Peter Mark Richman
• 14: Joanne Rogers
• 13: Tim Bogert
• 13: Siegfried Fischbacher
• 13: Sylvain Sylvain
• 13: Philip Tartaglia
• 12: Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud
• 11: Sheldon Adelson
• 11: Eve Branson
• 11: Shashikumar Chitre
• 11: Don Miller
• 11: Prentice E. Sanders
• 11: Stacy Title
• 10: Nancy Walker Bush Ellis
• 10: Theo English
• 9: John Lutz
• 9: Ved Mehta
• 9: Ezra Nawi
• 9: John Reilly

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray conflict
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • 2020 Western Saharan clashes

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican War on Drugs
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan War
• China
  • Xinjiang conflict
• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
    • Border skirmishes
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion in the Philippines
  • Philippine Drug War
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russo-Ukrainian War

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Second Saudi–Yemeni War

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2021 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain