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Ongoing events

Disasters and humanitarian

• Cuban crisis
• Gaza genocide
• Ukrainian energy crisis
• Sudanese famine

Economics

• Global memory supply shortage
• Iranian economic and internal crisis
• United States tariff policy

• United States–Canada–Mexico trade war

Politics and diplomacy

• China–Japan diplomatic crisis
• Epstein files release
• Gaza peace plan
• Greenland crisis
• Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
• Slovak–Ukraine oil dispute
• United States federal forces deployments

Protests and strikes

• Gen Z protests
• Georgian protests and political crisis
• Iranian domestic and diaspora protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• February

• 22: Laos, National Assembly
• 22: North Korea, General Secretary of the WPK (indirect)

• March

• 05: Nepal, House of Representatives
• 05: Kosovo, President (indirect)

Upcoming

• 08: Switzerland, Referendums
• 08: Colombia, Senate, House of Representatives
• 15: North Korea, Supreme People's Assembly
• 15: Vietnam, National Assembly
• 15: Kazakhstan, Constitutional referendum
• 15: Congo, President

Sports

• Association football

• 2025–26 UEFA Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Europa League
• 2025–26 UEFA Conference League
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2025–26 UEFA Women's Europa Cup
• 2025–26 Premier League
• 2025–26 La Liga
• 2025–26 Serie A
• 2025–26 Bundesliga
• 2026 Copa Libertadores
• 2025–26 Ligue 1
• 2026 Major League Soccer season
• 2025–26 Women's Super League

• Baseball

• 2026 NCAA Division I baseball season
• 2026 World Baseball Classic

• Basketball

• 2025–26 EuroLeague
• 2025–26 NBA season
• 2025–26 EuroLeague Women
• 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's season
• 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's season

• International cricket

• 2025–27 ICC World Test Championship
• 2026 Men's T20 World Cup

• Golf

• 2026 PGA Tour
• 2026 European Tour
• 2026 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2025–26 NHL season
• 2025–26 PWHL season

• Motorsport

• 2026 Formula One World Championship
• 2026 NASCAR Cup Series
• 2026 MotoGP World Championship
• 2026 IndyCar Series
• 2026 World Rally Championship

• Rugby union

• 2026 Six Nations Championship
• 2026 Super Rugby Pacific

• Tennis

• 2026 ATP Tour
• 2026 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

March / February

• 04: Lou Holtz
• 03: Andrew Watson
• 01: Davíð Oddsson
• 28: Senior Iranian officials
• 28: Ali Khamenei
• 28: Lorraine Bayly
• 28: John P. Hammond
• 27: Bo Gritz
• 27: Neil Sedaka
• 25: Jeff Galloway
• 25: Ludwig Scotty
• 25: Antonio Tejero
• 23: Robert Carradine
• 23: Oliver Grant
• 22: El Mencho
• 21: Kara Braxton
• 21: Willie Colón
• 21: Rondale Moore
• 21: Dan Simmons
• 20: Bill Mazeroski
• 19: Eric Dane
• 18: Leila Shahid
• 18: Jan Timman
• 17: Anna dePeyster
• 17: Jesse Jackson
• 17: Doug Moe
• 17: Shinya
• 16: Semyon Gluzman
• 16: Billy Steinberg
• 16: Frederick Wiseman
• 15: Robert Duvall
• 14: Tom Noonan
• 12: Roy Face
• 12: Palmerston
• 11: Bud Cort
• 11: Jung Eun-woo
• 11: Cees Nooteboom
• 11: James Van Der Beek
• 10: Andrew Ranken
• 10: Jose de Venecia Jr.
• 09: Philippe Gaulier
• 08: Matti Caspi
• 07: Brad Arnold
• 07: Jeane Freeman
• 06: Terrance Gore
• 06: Sonny Jurgensen
• 05: Greg Brown
• 05: Fred Smith
• 04: Mickey Lolich
• 04: John Virgo

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda

• M23 campaign

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Ethiopia

• Fano insurgency

• Sahel

• Burkina Faso
• Chad Basin

• Mali
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Darfur campaign

• Kordofan campaign

Americas

• Colombia

• Colombian conflict

• Haiti

• Gang war

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

• Venezuela

• United States intervention

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban

• Republican insurgency

• Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Myanmar

• Civil war

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russo-Ukrainian war

Middle East

• Iran

• Iran conflict

• Israel

• Hezbollah–Israel conflict

• Gaza war

• Syria

• Post-Assad conflict

• Yemen

• Civil war

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2026 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

By place

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Angola
• Antarctica
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• The Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Cape Verde
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Comoros
• Congo
• DR Congo
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Eswatini
• Equatorial Guinea
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Ivory Coast
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Liechtenstein
• Libya
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macau
• Madagascar
• Marshall Islands
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nauru
• Namibia
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Korea
• North Macedonia
• Norway
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palau
• Palestine
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Solomon Islands
• South Korea
• South Sudan
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

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• Works entering the public domain