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Thailand

1688 – 2023

Country in Southeast Asia

  1. 2006 Thai coup d'état

    19 September 2006

    The 2006 Thai coup d'état took place on 19 September 2006, when the Royal Thai Army staged a coup d'état against the elected caretaker government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The coup d'état, which was Thailand's first non-constitutional change of government in fifteen years since the 1991 Thai coup d'état, followed a year-long political crisis involving Thaksin, his allies, and political opponents and occurred less than a month before nationwide House elections were scheduled to be held.

  2. One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269

    16 September 2007

    One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 (OG269/OTG269) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand. On 16 September 2007, about 15:41 ICT, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating the flight crashed into an embankment beside runway 27 at Phuket International Airport (HKT) bursting into flames upon impact during an attempted go-around after an aborted landing, killing 90 of the 130 people on board (including one person who died of burn injuries several days after the crash).

  3. 2010 floods in Thailand and north Malaysia

    October 2010

    A series of flash floods hit different areas of Thailand and Malaysia in 2010. Separate but related floods began in Northeast and Central Thailand (per the six-region definition) in early October due to abnormally late monsoon moisture over the Bay of Bengal, overflowed the Chao Phraya where the rivers meet, and affected Bangkok, and in the South were triggered by a tropical depression about two weeks later, and were later aggravated by related La Niña monsoon rains.

  4. 2011 Tarlay earthquake

    24 March 2011

    The 2011 Shan earthquake occurred on 24 March in Shan State, Myanmar. The earthquake measured Mw 6.8 and had an epicenter northwest of the border between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos.

  5. 2011 Thailand floods

    31 July 2011 – December 2011

    Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon season in Thailand. The flooding began at the end of July triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten.

  6. Mekong River massacre

    5 October 2011

    The Mekong River massacre occurred on the morning of 5 October 2011, when two Chinese cargo ships were attacked on a stretch of the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle region on the borders of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand. All 13 crew members on both ships were killed and dumped in the river.

  7. 2013–14 Thai political crisis

    31 October 2013

    The 2013–2014 Thai political crisis was a period of political instability in Thailand. Anti-government protests took place between November 2013 and May 2014, organised by the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), a political pressure group led by former Democrat Party parliamentary representative (MP) Suthep Thaugsuban.

  8. 2014 Thai coup d'état

    22 May 2014

    On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in 1932, against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis. The military established a junta called the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to govern the nation.

  9. August 2016 Thailand bombings

    August 2016

    On 11 August 2016, two bombs exploded in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin. One person was killed and 23, many of them tourists, were injured.

  10. COVID-19 pandemic

    1 December 2019

    The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other parts of Asia and then worldwide in early 2020.

  11. 2020–2021 Thai protests

    February 2020 – December 2021

    In Thailand, protests began in early 2020 with demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. They later expanded to include the unprecedented demands for reform of the Thai monarchy.

  12. Sungai Kolok fireworks disaster

    29 July 2023

    The Sungai Kolok fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion that occurred at a warehouse on 29 July 2023 in Sungai Kolok, Thailand, killing at least 12 and injuring at least 118, and destroying at least 200 homes and businesses.