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2011

2011 (MMXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2010s decade.

2011 saw the continued events of the Arab Spring, with Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain all becoming hotspots for protests, with some ending in regime change and others devolving into prolonged civil wars. The spring itself additionally incited the rise of the Islamic State, which would grow to become a major enemy of most nations in the following years.

Disasters

2011 ravaged the world with man-made and natural disasters. While this year's North Indian Ocean cyclone season and 2011 Pacific hurricane season were both below average, the Pacific typhoon season destroy Southeast and East Asia, with Typhoon Songda in particular hitting the Philippines with lesser intensity weather hitting Taiwan and Japan. The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season saw 4 major hurricanes ravage the American East Coast and the Caribbean, causing $17.39 billion USD of damages. 2011 was also a year with heaving-hitting earthquakes; some of the year's strongest were the 6.3 magnitude Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, a 7.2 magnitude Van earthquake in Turkey, and the 9.1 magnitude Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the latter of which also causing the most devastating nuclear accident of the century. Tornadoes saw 2011 as one of their most active years, with a majority of them hitting the United States' Tornado Alley. A total of 6 tornadoes with an EF5 rating hit in the year.