2010 Apple released the first generation of the iPad.
2011 Millions tuned in to watch a royal wedding. Prince William of Wales married Catherine Middleton, and by the end of the decade they had three adorable royal children.
2012 South Korean musician Psy released a new song called Gangnam Style. The music video was a global hit, and became the first video ever to reach a billion views on YouTube.
2013 Malala Yousafzai, a campaigner for girls’ education from Pakistan, was shot by the Taliban, when she was just 14 years old. She survived, continued her work and became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
2014 The Ice Bucket Challenge went viral on social media. It promoted awareness about ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis).
2015 A series of terrorist attacks happened in Paris. Terrorists killed 130 people and wounded 494.
2016 Donald Trump won the election and became the 45th president of the United States.
2017 Catalonia wanted to gain independence from Spain. However, Spanish police forces responded very violently towards Catalan people trying to vote at the independence referendum.
2018 In Thailand, 12 boys of a football team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach entered a cave which got flooded. They couldn’t get out of the flooded cave. The miraculous cave rescue lasted 18 days.
2019 A big fire ruined large parts of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
