In history, year 2009 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 2009.
Top Historical Events of the Year 2009:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|---|
| 01 january | Slovakia replaced it's national currency, the Slovak Karuna with the Euro. |
| 01 january | A nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand, killed 66 patrons celebrating the new year. |
| 03 january | Israel launched an invasion of the Gaza strip. |
| 07 january | The prime minister of Russia Vladimir Putin endorses Russia's decision to turn off the gas suppliers to Europe through Ukraine. |
| 13 january | Ethiopian military forces start pulling out of Somalia after a continuous try of two years. |
| 15 january | All 155 passengers survived in the US airways plane when it get ditched in the Hudson River. |
| 15 january | After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from New York City, Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. |
| 17 january | Israel has declared a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza War which was effectively on January 18th. AND Hamas too declared a ceasefire but of his own. |
| 20 january | Barack Obama sworn in as the 44th President of U.S. |
| 20 january | In Washington, D.C., over 1 million people attended the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States. |
| 24 january | Klaus, the most damaging storm since Lothar and Martin in December 1999, made landfall near Bordeaux, France. |
| 26 january | Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking apolitical crisis that led to deposing of President Marc Ravalomanana. |
| 29 january | The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people whodid not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions arealso eligible to receive government identity documents. |
| 01 february | Partriarch Kirill of Moscow was enthroned by the Russian Orthodox Church as Partriarch of The Russian Orthodox Church. |
| 01 february | Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became Iceland's first female Prime Minister and the world's first openly gay head of government of the modern era. |
| 02 february | The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the Zimbabwean dollar for the third and final time, making Z$1 trillionnow only Z$1 of the new currency. |
| 05 february | The United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal ran aground on a coral reef off the island of Oahu. |
| 07 february | Sparking the deadliest bushfire in Australia history, Australia records highest ever temperature in Melbourne. |
| 07 february | A series of 400 individual bushfires ignited across the Australian state of Victoria on Black Saturday, eventually resulting in173 total deaths, the highest ever loss of life from a bushfire in Australia. |
| 10 february | Due to the collision of a Russian and American official satellite, a large amount of space debris was created over Siberia. |
| 10 february | The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit took place when Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collided and destroyed each other. |
| 11 february | Morgan Tsvangirai becomes the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after an agreement signed staking that they will share power with the president Robert Mugabe. |
| 12 february | Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe |
| 12 february | Just before it was scheduled to land at Buffalo NiagaraInternational Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house inClarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49people on board the aircraft. |
| 20 february | The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft packed withC-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shotdown before they reached their targets. |
| 25 february | Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutinied at its headquartersin Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths. |
| 26 february | During the Kosovo war, former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crisis. |
| 02 march | President of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vierira was killed during an armed attack on his house in Bissau. |
| 03 march | The building housing the Historical Archive of the City ofCologne, one of the the largest communal archives in Europe, collapsed. |
| 04 march | Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, Pakistan. Eight people are killed and several people are injured. |