PastEvents.org is a structured, searchable archive of Wikipedia's "Current Events" portal. It contains more than 90,000 events spanning 20 years, and is updated daily.
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PastEvents.org is made with 💔 by Philipp Emanuel Weidmann.
The search function ignores capitalization and automatically finds singular, plural, and other derived forms of the search terms.
When multiple search terms are given, the search finds events containing all of the terms, in any order.
If terms are separated by the word OR, the search finds events containing any of the terms, in any order.
If a search term is immediately preceded by a minus sign (-), the search finds events that do not contain that term.
Multiple terms enclosed in double quotes (") must appear in the exact order given.
Find events mentioning both Canada and Mexico:
canada mexico
Find events mentioning either Canada or Mexico:
canada OR mexico
Find events mentioning both Canada and Mexico, but
not the United States:
canada mexico -"united states"
PastEvents.org is built entirely using Free and Open Source Software and Free Content.
The code of this website, of the backend powering it, and of the system that downloads and parses event data from Wikipedia is available on GitHub and may be used freely in accordance with the GNU Affero General Public License.
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