Editing 2010s (section)

====Americas====
{{Further|Category:2010s in North America|Category:2010s in South America}}
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| [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 23 March 2010
| President [[Barack Obama]] signs the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]] into law, marking a major reform of the [[Health insurance in the United States|U.S. health insurance]] and [[Health care in the United States|health care systems]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/health/policy/24health.html |title=Obama Signs Health Care Overhaul into Law |last1=Stolberg |first1=Sheryl Gay |date=23 March 2010 |last2=Pear |first2=Robert |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=13 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513160854/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/health/policy/24health.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2010 Brazilian presidential election]]
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| 31 October 2010
| [[Dilma Rousseff]] was elected as the first female [[President of Brazil]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-11662623 |title=Brazil elects Dilma Rousseff as first female president |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117021800/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-11662623 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2010 United States elections|2010 Midterm elections]] and [[Tea Party movement]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 2 November 2010
| [[Republican Party (United States)|The Republicans]] become the dominant party with a majority of the seats in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and gain seats in the [[U.S. Senate]]. This was seen as due to a tide of [[Libertarian]] support amongst the U.S. populace exemplified in the Tea Party.
|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/elections/tea-party-movement-2010-midterm-elections/ |title=Impact of the Tea Party movement on the 2010 election |date=6 July 2011 |access-date=27 May 2019 |archive-date=9 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809225219/https://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/elections/tea-party-movement-2010-midterm-elections/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2011 Canadian federal election]]
| {{flag|Canada}}
| 2 May 2011
| [[Stephen Harper]], leader of the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative Party]], is re-elected in Canada's federal election, with a majority government.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/03/canadian-election-conservatives-win-majority-stephen-harper |title=Canada's Conservatives in crushing election victory |website=The Guardian |access-date=3 May 2011}}</ref>
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| [[2011 Argentine general election]]
| {{flag|Argentina}}
| 23 October 2011
| [[Front for Victory]] candidate and President [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] wins a second term as [[President of Argentina]], defeating Socialist candidate [[Hermes Binner]] by 54% of votes.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/45006572 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717154154/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45006572 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 July 2020 |title=Argentine president wins landslide re-election |work=NBC News}}</ref>
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| [[Impeachment of Fernando Lugo]]
| {{flag|Paraguay}}
| 22 June 2012
| On 21 June the [[Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay|Chamber of Deputies]] voted 76 to 1 to impeach Lugo, and the [[Senate of Paraguay|Senate]] removed him from office the following day, by 39 votes to 4, resulting in Vice President [[Federico Franco]], who had broken with Lugo, becoming president.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paraguay-lugo/paraguays-lugo-says-only-miracle-can-reinstate-him-idUSBRE85P1BQ20120626 |title=Paraguay's Lugo says only miracle can reinstate him |last=Desantis |first=Daniela |publisher=Reuters |access-date=26 June 2018 |archive-date=6 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106181445/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paraguay-lugo/paraguays-lugo-says-only-miracle-can-reinstate-him-idUSBRE85P1BQ20120626 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2012 Mexican general election]]
| {{flag|Mexico}}
| 1 July 2012
| [[Enrique Peña Nieto]] won the Mexican general election, bringing the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] back to prominence for the first time since 2000.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-jul-02-la-fg-mexico-presidential-election-20120702-story.html |title=Enrique Peña Nieto wins Mexico's presidency, early results show |last1=Ellingwood |first1=Ken |date=2 July 2012 |last2=Wilkinson |first2=Tracy |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=28 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728001140/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-jul-02-la-fg-mexico-presidential-election-20120702-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2012 United States presidential election]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 6 November 2012
| [[Barack Obama]] was re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican nominee [[Mitt Romney]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/after-grueling-campaign-polls-open-for-election-day-2012/2012/11/06/d1c24c98-2802-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html |title=Obama reelected as president |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=17 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417162701/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/after-grueling-campaign-polls-open-for-election-day-2012/2012/11/06/d1c24c98-2802-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Death of Hugo Chávez]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 5 March 2013
| [[Venezuela]]n President [[Hugo Chávez]] died at the age of 58 after governing the country for 14 years.
|<ref>{{cite news |first=Simon |last=Romero |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/world/americas/hugo-chavez-venezuelas-polarizing-leader-dies-at-58.html |title=Hugo Chávez, 1954–2013: A Polarising Figure Who Led a Movement |date=6 March 2014 |author-link=Simon Romero}}</ref>
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| ''[[Obergefell v. Hodges]]''
| {{flag|United States}}
| 26 June 2015
| [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Same-sex marriage]] was legalised in all 50 U.S. states due to a landmark decision by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html |title=Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide |last=Liptak |first=Adam |date=26 June 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=16 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516211629/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2015 Canadian federal election]]
| {{flag|Canada}}
| 19 October 2015
| The [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]], led by [[Justin Trudeau]], won Canada's federal election, defeating the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative Party]] in the country's longest election in a century.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/canadian-election-2015-liberals-jump-to-early-lead-as-polls-close-in-newfoundland-and-labrador |title=Canadian election 2015 hands Justin Trudeau and the Liberals a majority government |website=National Post |date=20 October 2015 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=21 October 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20151021190747/http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/canadian-election-2015-liberals-jump-to-early-lead-as-polls-close-in-newfoundland-and-labrador |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2015 Argentine general election]]
| {{flag|Argentina}}
| 22 November 2015
| [[Juntos por el Cambio|Cambiemos]] candidate and Buenos Aires Mayor [[Mauricio Macri]] became the [[President of Argentina]], defeating [[Front for Victory]] candidate [[Daniel Scioli]] via ballotage by 51% of votes
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| [[2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 6 December 2015
| The [[Democratic Unity Roundtable]] (MUD) won majority seats of the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|Venezuelan National Assembly]], defeating the ruling [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV) and its wider alliance, the [[Great Patriotic Pole]] (GPP) for the first time since 1999.
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dreier |first1=Hannah |title=Venezuela's Opposition Wins Control of National Assembly |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuelas-opposition-wins-control-national-assembly-35616983 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=7 December 2015 |access-date=7 December 2015 |archive-date=20 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220205248/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuelas-opposition-wins-control-national-assembly-35616983 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff]]
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| 12 May 2016
| The [[Senate of Brazil|Brazilian Senate]] votes to open the impeachment process against [[President of Brazil|President]] [[Dilma Rousseff]] and suspend her from office while the trial takes place, as the [[Vice President of Brazil|Vice President]], [[Michel Temer]], assumes the presidential powers and duties as Acting President of [[Brazil]].
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Brazil's Dilma Rousseff to face impeachment trial |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36273916 |work=BBC News |access-date=12 May 2016 |archive-date=13 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113235031/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36273916 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2016 United States presidential election]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 8 November 2016
| Republican nominee [[Donald Trump]] was elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic nominee [[Hillary Clinton]]. He became the first President without prior diplomatic or military experience.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/4563685/donald-trump-wins/ |title=Donald Trump Wins the 2016 Election |magazine=Time |access-date=9 November 2016 |archive-date=24 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224084854/https://time.com/4563685/donald-trump-wins/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Stephen |last=Collinson |title=Trump becomes 45th President of the United States |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/donald-trump-inauguration-highlights/index.html |work=CNN |access-date=16 December 2018 |archive-date=12 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412043240/https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/donald-trump-inauguration-highlights/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| Death of [[Fidel Castro]]
| {{flag|Cuba}}
| 25 November 2016
| Former [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba]] and revolutionary leader [[Fidel Castro]] died at the age of 90.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953 |title=Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90 |work=BBC News |access-date=21 July 2018 |archive-date=14 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114053634/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 29 March 2017
| The [[Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)|Supreme Tribunal of Justice]] of [[Venezuela]] took over legislative powers of the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] and removed its members' immunity, most of whom belonged to [[Democratic Unity Roundtable|the opposition]]. The decision was reversed a few days later following domestic and international condemnation of the court's actions. 
|<ref>{{cite news |title=As Venezuela unrest spreads, Maduro presses on with plans to rewrite charter |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN18J320 |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=24 May 2017 |access-date=24 May 2017 |archive-date=24 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524160706/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN18J320 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[2017–present Peruvian political crisis]]
| {{flag|Peru}}
| 15 September 2017–present
| Peruvian President [[Pedro Pablo Kuczynski]] was [[First impeachment of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski|impeached]] and later resigned. His successor Martín Vizcarra was removed by congress and appointed Vice President [[Mercedes Aráoz]] as interim president, moves that were largely seen as illegitimate.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/01/perus-president-dissolves-congress-to-push-through-anti-corruption-reforms |title=Peru's president dissolves Congress to push through anti-corruption reforms |date=1 October 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=1 October 2019 |archive-date=7 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207120024/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/01/perus-president-dissolves-congress-to-push-through-anti-corruption-reforms |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| Inauguration of [[Miguel Díaz-Canel]]
| {{flag|Cuba}}
| 19 April 2018
| [[Miguel Díaz-Canel]] is sworn in as President of the [[Council of State (Cuba)|State Council of Cuba]], marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba has had a [[Prime Minister of Cuba|prime minister]] or a [[President of Cuba|president]] other than [[Fidel Castro|Fidel]] or [[Raúl Castro]].
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| [[2018 Mexican general election]]
| {{flag|Mexico}}
| 1 July 2018
| [[Andrés Manuel López Obrador]] won the historic Mexican general election, bringing the [[National Regeneration Movement]] for new prominence for the first time without any political rule like [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] and [[National Action Party (Mexico)|National Action Party]].
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| [[2018 Brazilian general election]]
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| 28 October 2018
| [[Jair Bolsonaro]] was elected [[President of Brazil]], marking the first time that the country is ruled by the right since the start of the [[History of Brazil since 1985|New Republic]] in 1985. The election also interrupted 4 victories of the [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|Workers' Party]] in a row.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Jair Bolsonaro é eleito presidente e interrompe série de vitórias do PT |url=https://g1.globo.com/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticia/2018/10/28/jair-bolsonaro-e-eleito-presidente-e-interrompe-serie-de-vitorias-do-pt.ghtml |date=28 October 2018 |work=Eleições 2018 |language=pt-BR |access-date=29 November 2019 |archive-date=29 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029020150/https://g1.globo.com/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticia/2018/10/28/jair-bolsonaro-e-eleito-presidente-e-interrompe-serie-de-vitorias-do-pt.ghtml |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Death of George H. W. Bush]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 30 November 2018
| [[George H. W. Bush]], former president of United States from 1989 to 1993 and former vice president, from 1981 to 1989, dies at the age of 94.
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|[[Venezuelan presidential crisis]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 10 January 2019
| On 10 January 2019, the opposition-majority [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] declared that incumbent [[Nicolás Maduro]]'s [[2018 Venezuelan presidential election|2018 reelection]] was invalid and declared its president, [[Juan Guaidó]], to be [[acting president]] of the nation. Maduro's government states that the crisis is a "''[[coup d'état]]'' led by the [[United States]] to topple him and control [[Oil reserves in Venezuela|the country's oil reserves]]."
|{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
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| [[2019 Canadian federal election]]
| {{flag|Canada}}
| 21 October 2019
| [[Justin Trudeau]], leader of the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]], is re-elected in Canada's federal election, albeit with a minority government.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/canada-elections-justin-trudeau-wins-narrow-victory-to-form-minority-government |title=Canada elections: Trudeau wins narrow victory to form minority government |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 November 2019}}</ref>
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| [[2019 Argentine general election]]
| {{flag|Argentina}}
| 27 October 2019
| Peronist candidate [[Alberto Fernández]] of [[Frente de Todos (2019 coalition)|Frente de Todos]] is elected President of Argentina, defeating President [[Mauricio Macri]] of [[Juntos por el Cambio]] by 48% of votes.
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| [[2019 Bolivian political crisis]]
| {{flag|Bolivia}}
| 10 November 2019
| Bolivian president [[Evo Morales]] resigns following 19 days of protests after the disputed [[2019 Bolivian general election]] and following calls for his resignation by the military.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Bolivian President Evo Morales resigns amid election protests |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50370013 |work=BBC News |access-date=12 November 2019 |archive-date=25 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191125054606/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50370013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[First impeachment of Donald Trump|First Impeachment of Donald Trump]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 18 December 2019
| United States president [[Donald Trump]] is impeached by the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] on charges of [[abuse of power]] and [[Contempt of Congress|obstruction of Congress]].
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas |last2=Shear |first2=Michael D. |title=Trump Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress – Voting nearly along party lines, the House approved two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him the third president in history to face removal by the Senate. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/trump-impeached.html |date=18 December 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=18 December 2019 |archive-date=18 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218190005/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/trump-impeached.html |url-status=live}}</ref> 
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|[[File:Miguel Díaz-Canel and Narendra Modi.jpg|thumb|[[Miguel Díaz-Canel]] (left) with [[Prime Minister of India|Indian Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]] in March 2015. Díaz-Canel became the first [[President of Cuba|president]] of [[Cuba]] not to be of the [[History of Cuba#Castro's Cuba (1959 - 2006)|Castro family]] since [[Osvaldo Dorticós]]]]
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|[[File:Donald Trump star Hollywood Walk of Fame.JPG|thumb|[[Donald Trump]], [[Media career of Donald Trump|a celebrity]] ([[Donald Trump filmography|filmography]]) and [[Business career of Donald Trump|businessman]], became president of the United States in 2017. Trump was the first U.S. president without prior military or government experience. Had Hillary Clinton been elected in 2016, she would have been the United States' first female president. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, but did not win the electoral college.]]
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