WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 2011
Find out what all happened February to April 2011

Beginning of the Syrian civil war. (15. March 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)

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)

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

Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday. (17. 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)

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

Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests. (22. February 2011)

After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers. (1. April 2011)

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

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

A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake. (12. March 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)

A explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. (11. April 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)

Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights. (9. 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)