2007 Timeline

Vladinit Putin man of the year chosen by Time Magazine and other December 2007 events

Russian President Vladimir Putin was chosen the Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year on December 18, 2007. Charismatic Russian leader became the acting President on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin and was sworn in as President of Russia following the elections on May 7, 2000. On March 14, 2004, Putin was re-elected for a second term with 71 percent of the vote. On February 1, 2007, Putin rejected the speculations over his candidacy for the third term and later announced that he would run as first on the list for United Russia and might consider becoming Prime Minister of Russia.

Timeline of December 2007 events

December 1
- Zhang Zilin from the People's Republic of China won the Miss World.

December 2
- Referendum on a series of far-reaching constitutional changes sought by President Hugo Chavez failed.
- Vladimir Putin's United Russia won the Russian Parliamentary Elections.

December 3
- The United Nations Climate Change Conference began at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia.

December 5
- 8 people were shot death and 5 more injured in the Westroads Mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska.

December 6
- Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis resigned after the mass protests over his attempted sacking of the anti-corruption chief.

December 8
- The 2007 Africa-EU Summit took place.

December 9
- Rajko Kuzmanovic was elected President of the Bosnian Serb republic.

December 10
- Russian president Vladimir Putin supported candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev for the President of Russia in 2008.

December 11
- Over 60 people, including 11 UN staff, were killed in two bombs explosions near UN office and the Algerian Supreme Court in Algiers, Algeria.

December 12
- Russia formally suspended the CFE treaty.

December 13
- European Union leaders signed the Treaty of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal.

December 15
- President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf lifted the state of emergency.

December 16
- Ak-Zhol or Ak-Zhol Eldik Partiyasy ("Bright Path Popular Party") won the Kyrgyzstani Parliamentary Elections.

December 17
- Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the possibility of becoming a future prime minister.

December 18
- The Ukraine's parliament (Verkhovna Rada) elected Yulia Tymoshenko as the new Ukraine Prime Minister.

December 19
- Russian President Vladimir Putin was chosen the Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year.

December 21
- The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the Schengen border-free zone.
- Queen Elizabeth II became the oldest-ever Monarch of the United Kingdom.

December 24
- The Nepalese government announced the abolishment of monarchy and establishment of republic.

December 25
- A suspension bridge collapsed near Nepalgunj, Nepal, killing at least 15 people.
- At least 80 people were killed or reported missing after floods triggered landslides in the central Java region of Indonesia.

December 26
- A court in Chad has sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of hard labour for attempted child-kidnapping.

December 27
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. At least 20 others were killed by a suicide bomber.

December 28
- Six French aid workers who were jailed in Chad arrived in France.

December 30
- Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal took over the leadership of People's Party.

December 31
- Over 100 people were killed in Kenya due to riots over the results of the Kenyan Presidential Elections.