The counting game :D

[Neko92]

2011...

Kreatious was Born

[AmericanCrafter]

2012...

THE PRETTY SCARY UPDATE was released October 25, 2012

Also, the Mayan end of the world occurred on December 21, 2012.

Also, Gangnam Style was a thing >.>

[ShadyVale]

2013...

Jan 23rd - Previously-valued $2 billion video game company THQ sells most of its assets for $72 million after last month filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
Jan 25th - At 23:30:26 UTC, the largest known prime number containing 17,425,170 digits was discovered by GIMPS.
Feb 15th - A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489-1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.
Feb 20th - Sony officially announced the PlayStation 4, a replacement for the PS3 gaming console.
Feb 21st - American scientists use a 3D printer to create a living lab-grown ear from collagen and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped that similar ears could be grown to order as transplants for human patients suffering from ear trauma or amputation.
Mar 27th - Canada becomes the first country to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
Apr 3rd - Thirty-five teachers and administrators from Atlanta, Georgia are indicted on fraud charges for allegedly facilitating cheating on standardized tests dating back to 2001.
Apr 3rd - Disney announces that it is shutting down its LucasArts computer game making division.
Apr 15th - Two pressure cooker bombs explode at 2:49pm near the finish line during the Boston Marathon. Three people are killed and another 264 people are injured.
May 5th - The world's first gun produced by Defense Distributed using a 3-D printer is fired successfully in Austin, Texas. Security officials worry that such plastic weapons could evade detection at airport screenings.
May 20th - A massive EF-5 tornado hits Moore, Oklahoma, destroying the town including an elementary school and killing 23 people and injuring hundreds of others.
May 20th - Yahoo! announced it would purchase Tumblr for $1.1billion.
May 21st - Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, a new gaming console to replace the Xbox 360.
Nov 5th - The unmanned Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launchpad in Sriharikota.
Nov 12th - Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.
Nov 15th - Sony releases the PS4.
Nov 22nd - Microsoft releases the Xbox One.
Nov 30th - Actor Paul Walker is killed in a car crash.
Dec 13th - Google acquires the engineering and robotics company Boston Dynamics.
Dec 14th - Chinese unmanned spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.
? - Acer, Asus, and others announce they have no intentions of making any new versions of netbooks, officially killing the netbook computer.

[AmericanCrafter]

2014

January 5 – A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV Mk.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic rocket engine.
January 19 – 2014 Bannu bombing: a Taliban vehicle bomb attack on a Pakistani military convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.
February – The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa begins, infecting at least 28,616 people and killing at least 11,310 people, the most severe both in terms of numbers of infections and casualties.
February 7–23 – The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia. Slopestyle events are introduced for the first time.
March 5 – Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, severs diplomatic and political ties with Panama, accusing Panama of being involved in a conspiracy against the Venezuelan government.
March 8 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 airliner en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.
April 14 – An estimated 276 girls and women are abducted and held hostage from a school in Nigeria. #freeourgirls
April 16 – Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo shift, killing 304 people, mostly high school students.
June 5 – A Sunni militant group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as the ISIS or ISIL) begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
June 12 – July 13 – The 2014 FIFA World Cup is held in Brazil, and is won by Germany.
June 13 – The military intervention against ISIL begins.
June 29 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declares itself a caliphate.
July 8 – August 26 – Amid growing tensions between Israel and Hamas following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in July, Israel launches Operation Protective Edge against Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip starting with numerous missile strikes, followed by a ground offensive a week later. In seven weeks of fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed.
July 17 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes in eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a missile.
All 298 people on board are killed.
August 7 – Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are found guilty of crimes against humanity and are sentenced to life imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
August 9 – The shooting of Michael Brown occurs in Ferguson, Missouri.
September 18 – Scotland holds a referendum on whether to leave the United Kingdom, and a majority votes to remain part of the union.
November 12 – The unmanned Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P, the first time in history that a spacecraft has landed on such an object.
December 16 – The Pakistani Taliban carry out a mass shooting at an army school in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing at least 145 people, mostly schoolchildren.
December 17 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces the resumption of normal relations between the U.S. and Cuba.

[ShadyVale]

2015...

Jan 7th - Two gunmen belonging to Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch kill 12 people and injure 11 more at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, prompting an anti-terrorism demonstration attended by over a million people and more than 40 world leaders.
Jan 9th - Mozilla released version 1.0.0 alpha of the Rust programming language.
Jan 15th - The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets.
Feb 6th - RadioShack filed for bankruptcy.
Feb 12th - The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2199 to combat terrorism.
Mar 6th - NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.
Mar 12th - Google announced it discontinued Google Code. Thousands of the Google open source products were moved to GitHub.
Apr 29th - The World Health Organization (WHO) declares that rubella has been eradicated from the Americas.
May 11th-12th - Version O of Les Femmes d'Alger by Pablo Picasso sells for US$179.3 million at Christie's auction in New York, while the sculpture L'Homme au doigt by Alberto Giacometti sells for US$141.3 million, setting a new world record for a painting and for a sculpture, respectively.
Jun 23rd - Verizon announced it had completed the acquisition of AOL for $4.4 Billion.
Jun 30th - Cuba becomes the first country in the world to eradicate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
Jul 1st - Greece becomes the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund in the 71-year history of the IMF.
Jul 14th - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performs a close flyby of Pluto, becoming the first spacecraft in history to visit the distant world.
Jul 17th - A drone from Flirtey made a medical delivery, and became the first government-approved drone delivery.
Jul 24th - AT&T completed its acquisition of DirecTV for $49 billion.
Jul 25th - China ended its gaming console ban after 15 years.
Jul 29th - Microsoft releases Windows 10.
Aug 10th - Google split into two companies. The new company known as Alphabet is now responsible for Google, Nest, Google Capital, Fiber, Calico, Google X, Sidewalk Labs, and Google Ventures.
Sep 10th - Scientists announce the discovery of Homo naledi, a previously unknown species of early human in South Africa.
Sep 11th - Queen Elizabeth II, having been on the throne for 63 years, 217 days, became the longest-reigning British monarch in history and the longest-serving head of state of any nation in modern history, surpassing Queen Victoria who had reigned for 63 years, 216 days upon her death on Jan. 22nd, 1901.
Sep 14th - First observation of gravitational waves: Gravitational waves are detected for the first time, by LIGO. This is not announced until Feb. 11th, 2016.
Sep 28th - NASA announces that liquid water has been found on Mars.
Oct 3rd - A U.S. airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Afghanistan accidentally kills an estimated 20 people.
Oct 12th - Dell announced that it had agreed to acquire EMC for approximately $67 billion.
Oct 15th - Tesla announced that qualifying Tesla Model S cars would be receiving the Autopilot update that allows the Tesla cars to assist the driver.
Nov 2nd - Blizzard Entertainment announced that it purchased King Digital (makers of Candy Crush) for $5.9 billion.
Nov 20th - The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) is held in Paris, attended by leaders from 147 nations.
Dec 3rd - After seven years of development PHP 7.0.0 was released.
Dec 12th - A global climate change pact is agreed at the COP 21 summit, committing all countries to reduce carbon emissions for the first time.
Dec 22nd - SpaceX lands an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket, the first reusable rocket to successfully enter orbital space and return. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANv5UfZsvZQ

[AmericanCrafter]

2016

Google Zeitgeist
(much better way to explain the years)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIViy7L_lo8

YouTube Rewind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GuOjXYl5ew

[ShadyVale]

2017...

Jan 11th - Norway became the first country to start switching off FM Radio and switching to DAB, a digital broadcasting technology.
Jan 20th - Donald J, Trump is sworn in as 45th President of the U.S. Trump is the first person to be elected Pres. of the U.S. who was neither a political office holder or a military general.
Mar 30th - SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
May 12th - Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack, which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.
Jun 12th - American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.
Jun 16th - Amazon announced it had entered a definitive merger agreement with Whole Foods Market, Inc. for $13.7 billion.
Jul 11th - Microsoft announced the immediate end of support for Windows Phone.
Aug 11th - OpenAI became the first AI to defeat the world's best Dota 2 player Danil "Dendi" Ishutin in a 1v1 game. Even more impressive is that the AI was able to learn to play the game by playing itself in less than a month with a little coaching from humans.
Aug 17th - The first observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817) is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected. Data from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold.
Aug 21st - A total solar eclipse (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse") is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.
Aug 25th-30th - Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion (2017 USD), making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history, tied with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Sep 6th-10th - The Caribbean and United States are struck by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane that is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The storm causes at least 146 deaths and $64.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
Sep 7th - Equifax announced that it had a security breach in July and that up to 143 million Americans accounts were stolen. The stolen information included social security numbers, credit card information, and other personal information.
Sep 15th - Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere.
Sep 19th-20th - Just two weeks after Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria strikes similar areas, making landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. Maria caused at least 3,000 deaths and damages estimated in excess of $91.6 billion (2017 USD).
Nov 2nd - A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the first great ape to be described for almost a century.
Nov 7th - Twitter officially expands everyone's character limit from 140 characters to 280 characters.
Nov 15th - A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US$450 million at Christie's in New York, a new record price for any work of art.
Dec 14th - The Walt Disney Company announces that it will acquire most of 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox film studio, for $66 billion.

[AmericanCrafter]

2018

January 20 – Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announces the beginning of a military offensive to capture a portion of northern Syria from Kurdish forces, amidst the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict.
January 20–22 – The United States government enters a federal government shutdown as a result of a dispute over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
January 24 – Scientists in China report in the journal Cell the creation of the first monkey clones using somatic cell nuclear transfer, named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.
January 31 – A total lunar eclipse takes place. The Moon appears as supermoon, with perigee being on January 30. It is also the first blue moon eclipse since 1983. It was also referred to as the super blue blood moon.
February 6 – SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden flight of its most powerful rocket to date, the Falcon Heavy, from LC39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
February 9–25 – The 2018 Winter Olympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They are followed by the Paralympics from March 9–18.
February 10 – Kay Goldsworthy becomes the first female archbishop in the Anglican Communion on her installation in the Anglican Diocese of Perth, Western Australia.
February 11 – Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes shortly after take-off from Moscow, killing 71 people on board.
February 14 - A school shooting occurs at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17.
February 18 – Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Zagros Mountains, en route from Tehran to Yasuj. All 65 passengers and crew members perish.
March 4 – Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia are poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England. UK counter-terrorism police investigate amid speculation the Kremlin was behind the incident.
March 9–18 – The 2018 Winter Paralympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
March 9 – President of the United States Donald Trump accepts an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a meeting in May to discuss the denuclearisation of North Korea.
March 11 – China's government approves a constitutional change that removes term limits for its leaders, granting Xi Jinping the status of "President for Life". Xi is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (paramount leader).
March 12 – Flight BS211 crashes in Nepal, killing 51 on board.
March 14 – In response to gun violence in the United States, and particularly triggered by the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, thousands of high school students across the country participate in an organized protest they called the National School Walkout.
March 18 – In the Russian presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term.
March 19 – The world's last male northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making the subspecies functionally extinct.
March 23 – An Islamic terrorist attack in Carcassonne and Trèbes, France, kills five people, including the perpetrator.
March 24 – In over 900 cities internationally, people participate in demonstrations against gun violence and mass shootings, calling for stronger gun control in the "March for Our Lives".
March 25 - Qantas launches direct non-stop Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights between Perth Airport and Heathrow Airport, making it the first commercially non-stop service between Australia and the United Kingdom.
March 26 – More than 100 Russian diplomats are expelled by more than 20 countries in the wake of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
March 28 - North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un meets Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping, leaving the country for the first time since assuming office in 2011.
April 4–15 – The 2018 Commonwealth Games are held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
April 5 – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is given an arrest warrant after a vote by the Supreme Court voted 6–5 in favor of denying his habeas corpus, due to corruption and other scandals.
April 6 – A semi-truck collides with a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos ice hockey junior team in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 and injuring 13 people.
April 8 – At least 70 people are reported to have died, with hundreds suffering injuries, after a sarin chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held town in Syria's Eastern Ghouta.
April 11 – 257 people are killed after an Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashes near Algiers.
April 14 – The United States, the United Kingdom and France order the bombing of Syrian military bases, in response to the sarin attack allegedly by the Bashar al-Assad regime on civilians in Ghouta.
April 18 - In Nicaragua, protests begin against announced reforms of Social Security which would decrease retirement pension benefits. An estimated number of 34 protesters are killed by police.
Cinemas open in Saudi Arabia for the first time since 1983, with the American film Black Panther chosen as the first to be screened.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launched.
April 19 – Miguel Díaz-Canel is sworn in as President of Cuba, marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba has had a president other than Fidel or Raúl Castro.
April 23 – A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
April 27 – Kim Jong-un crosses into South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in, becoming the first North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953.
April 30 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran of not holding up its end of the Iran nuclear deal after presenting a cache of over 100,000 documents detailing the extent of Iran's nuclear program. Iran denounces Netanyahu's presentation as "propaganda".
May 3 - The separatist group ETA officially announces its final dissolution after 40 years of conflict and more than 800 deaths in Spain.
The 2018 lower Puna eruption causes destruction of structures and forces many citizens of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the land.
May 5 – NASA's unmanned spaceprobe InSight is launched. It is expected to land on Mars in November and use a drill to conduct geological science.
May 8 – U.S. President Donald Trump announces his intention to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement. In a statement, former U.S. President Barack Obama calls the move "a serious mistake".
May 8–12 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 is held in Lisbon, Portugal, and is won by Israeli entrant Netta Barzilai with the song Toy.
May 9 – The opposition-led Pakatan Harapan coalition, led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, secures a parliamentary majority in the Malaysian Parliament, ending the 61-year rule of the Barisan Nasional coalition since independence in 1957.
May 16 – The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V, pardons Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and is immediately released.
May 18 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes shortly after take-off near José Martí International Airport in Havana, killing 112 and leaving only one survivor.
May 19 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, England, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.
May 24 – Foreign journalists report that tunnels in the Punggye-ri nuclear test site have been destroyed by the North Korean government in a move to reduce regional tensions.
May 25 - The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, imposing strict privacy controls for European citizens worldwide.
A constitutional referendum on whether to repeal the ban on abortion in Ireland takes place,[53] with a landslide win of 66.4% to 33.6% for the repeal side.
May 31 – The U.S. announces that it will extend its tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminium (10%) to include the EU, Mexico and Canada, starting at midnight.
June 3 – At least 109 people are killed and hundreds wounded by the eruption of Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala's deadliest volcano for over a century.
June 8–9 – The 44th G7 summit is held in Canada. President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination of tariffs.
June 12 - The 2018 North Korea–United States summit is held in Singapore. It is the first summit between a United States President and the North Korean leader.
Greece and the Republic of Macedonia reach a deal to end a 27-year naming dispute between both countries, which would result in Macedonia being officially renamed the Republic of North Macedonia.
June 13 – FIFA awards hosting rights for the 2026 World Cup to a joint bid from Canada, Mexico and the United States.
June 14–July 15 – The 2018 FIFA World Cup is held in Russia, and is won by France.
June 16 – Seventeen people die in Caracas, Venezuela following the El Paraíso stampede after a tear gas canister is detonated in a crowded club.
June 19 - The United States announces it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Canada becomes the first major industrialised country to legalise cannabis for recreational use. The Bill which legalises cannabis will take effect on October 17.
June 22–July 1 – The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain.
June 24 – Saudi Arabia allows women to drive.
July 5 - Lithuania becomes the 36th member of the OECD.
The 2018 North American heat wave takes place, killing 33 people in the Canadian province of Quebec.
July 6 - Former Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six other main members of Aum Shinrikyo, who led the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, are executed by hanging.
U.S. tariffs on U$ 34 billion of Chinese goods come into effect, as President Trump suggests the final total could reach $550bn. China accuses the U.S. of starting the "largest trade war in economic history" and announces immediate retaliatory tariffs.
July 9 – Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to their twenty-year conflict.
July 10 – Twelve boys and their football coach are successfully rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand, following a 17-day ordeal that gained worldwide attention.
July 11–12 – The 2018 Brussels NATO summit is held in Belgium.
July 17 – The EU–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement is signed, the world's largest bilateral free trade deal, creating an open trade zone covering nearly one-third of global GDP.
July 25 – Scientists report the presence of a subglacial lake on Mars, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) below the southern polar ice cap and extending sideways about 20 km (12 mi), the first known body of water on the planet.
July 26 - Heavy wildfires in Greece leave 87 dead and more than a hundred buildings destroyed.
The share price of Facebook drops by almost 20 percent after the company warns investors that user growth has slowed following the data leak scandal. Over $109bn is wiped from its market value, the largest single day loss in corporate history.
July 27 – The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs and Mars makes its closest approach to Earth since 2003.
August 2 – Apple Inc. becomes the world's first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion.
August 7 – The United States reimposes sanctions on Iran.
August 10–20 – Heavy rainfall causes severe floods in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the worst flood to hit the state in a century.
August 12
The five littoral states – Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan – sign the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, ending the 20-year long dispute over the Caspian Sea's legal status.
NASA launches the unmanned Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind.
August 14 – Part of the Morandi Bridge collapses after a violent storm in Genoa, Italy, causing 43 fatalities. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and transport minister Danilo Toninelli blame private company Autostrade per l'Italia.
August 18–September 2 – The 2018 Asian Games are held in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.
August 24 – Scott Morrison succeeds Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister of Australia following a Liberal Party leadership ballot. Morrison is sworn in as Prime Minister later that evening.
August 31 - September 19 - Hurricane Florence strikes the East Coast of the United States killing 48 people and causing over $38 billion in damages to the United States.
September 2 – A fire destroys the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
September 6 – The Supreme Court of India decriminalizes homosexuality.
September 20 – The MV Nyerere capsizes on Lake Victoria, killing at least 227 passengers.
September 22 – An attack at a military parade kills at least 29 people in Ahvaz, Iran.
September 28 – A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 832 people and injures more than 540 others.
Predicted and scheduled events
October 19 – Unmanned European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft is scheduled to be launched to Mercury.
October 26 – The people of Ireland will vote to choose their next president.
October 28 – Georgians will vote to choose their next president.
November 4 – New Caledonia will hold an independence referendum.
November 28 – December 16 – The 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup is scheduled to be held at Bhubaneswar, India.
The U.S. missile defense complex in Poland is expected to be operational

[ShadyVale]

2019

[AmericanCrafter]

2020

Predicted and scheduled events
May 17 – Dominican Republic presidential election.
July 24 – August 9 – The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.
October 20 – The 2020 World Expo will open in Dubai.
November 3 – United States presidential election.
December 31 – The Brexit transition period will expire.

Dates Unknown
ESA's ExoMars Rover launches from Earth.
Planned initial observations by the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.
Planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars and prepare for future human missions.
Planned launch of the unmanned Euclid spaceprobe to study dark energy.
The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository was scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.
Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
Estimated completion date for the Compass navigation system.
Liberia will become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid – Norway will pay the impoverished country $150m to stop deforestation by 2020.
According to UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres, 2020 is a critical year to limit climate change and avoid irreversible effects.
The Large Hadron Collider will be substantially upgraded.
Estimated completion date for the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, which is expected to become the tallest building in the world and the first to reach 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) in height.
Estimated completion of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Poland.
According to Indian government report, 21 cities' groundwater will run out by 2020.
Starbucks is working to remove all plastic straws from their stores worldwide by 2020.