WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 2011
Find out what all happened January to May 2011

An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. (11. March 2011)

The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang Dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore. (19. February 2011)

Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title. (19. April 2011)

The April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more. (27. April 2011)

An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people. (22. February 2011)

In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas. (6. April 2011)

The former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled his country to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for freedom, rights and democracy, considered as the anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring. (14. January 2011)

Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103). (24. February 2011)

The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests. (11. February 2011)

For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. (13. February 2011)

A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people. (31. January 2011)

An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. (22. May 2011)

Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the end of the world would occur on this day, a prophecy that would prove incorrect. (21. May 2011)

The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt. (25. January 2011)

As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'. (14. February 2011)

Libyan civil war: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya. (19. March 2011)

Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI. (1. May 2011)

Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show. (25. May 2011)

The Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton. (29. April 2011)

In the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan, two bombs explode, resulting in 98 deaths 140 wounded. (13. May 2011)