Events of 2018 by letter A-Z

This public company is the first one to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion

Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right populist politician, wins the presidential elections in this country

This country legalises cannabis for recreational use

Saudi Arabia is the last country in the world to allow women to do this

Swaziland changes its English name to the Kingdom of _______

This event held in Russia is won by France

This regulation aimed at data protection goes into effect in the EU

This English physicist and cosmologist who suffered from ALS dies on March 14

Homosexuality is decriminalised by the Supreme Court of this country

Brett Kavanaugh fights accusations of sexual assault as he is nominated for this position

The last male northern white rhinoceros dies in this country

This country becomes the 36th member of the OECD

On March 24, these student-led demonstrations against gun violence march in over 900 cities

Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are poisoned in Salisbury by this nerve agent

This Hungarian president's party wins the parliamentary elections with 2/3 majority and passes a lot of questionable laws, for example to "Stop Soros"

At the Katowice Climate Change Conference, nearly 200 nations agree on rules to implement this 2015 agreement

This Vietnamese President dies while in office

This country seizes three Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait

The Nobel Prize in Literature is not rewarded because of this

Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalist and dissident, is murdered in this country

This country extends its tariffs on many products, e.g. steel or aluminium, from the EU, China, Canada and Mexico

Nicolás Maduro is reelected as president in this country

Norway wins 39 medals in this event held in PyeongChang

This Chinese leader is granted the status of "President for Life"

This movement (in French gilets jaunes) leads mass protests and riots over taxes in France

After 9 years in power, this politician resigns as President of South Africa