2015
- Civil service in remembrance of the November Paris attacks;
- Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, killing all 150 people on board;
- The Gorkha earthquake in Nepal kills 8,964 people;
- World leaders pose for a picture during COP21, which would lead to the Paris Agreement the following year;
- An airstrike in Sana'a during the Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen;
- Refugees of the Syrian civil war come ashore in Greece amidst a migrant crisis in Europe;
- FIFA president Sepp Blatter is forced to resign in the wake of a corruption case;
- New Horizons makes a flyby and takes the first images of Pluto.
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2015 (MMXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.
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2015 was designated by the United Nations as: