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May 2025 will be the fifth month of the current common year. The month, which will begin on a Thursday, will end on a Saturday after 31 days.

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Avian flu outbreak
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Canadian economic crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• German economic crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• United States tariff policy

• United States–China trade war

Protests and strikes

• French far-right protests
• Georgian protests and political crisis
• Gaza war protests
• Indonesian anti-government protests
• Serbian anti-corruption protests
• Turkish anti-government protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• April

• 12: Gabon, President
• 13: Ecuador, President (2nd)

Upcoming

• 25: Marshall Islands, Constitutional referendum
• 28: Canada, House of Commons
• 28: Trinidad and Tobago, House of Representatives
• 30: Cayman Islands, Parliament, Referendum

• May

• 03: Australia, Senate, House of Representatives
• 03: Singapore, Parliament
• 04: Romania, President (1st)

Trials

Recently concluded

• South Korea:0Yoon Suk Yeol

Ongoing

• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Upcoming

• United States:0Sean Combs

Sports

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2024–25 Premier League
• 2024–25 Serie A
• 2024–25 La Liga
• 2024–25 Bundesliga
• 2024–25 Ligue 1
• 2025 Major League Soccer season
• 2025 National Women's Soccer League season

• Australian rules football

• 2025 AFL season

• Baseball

• 2025 MLB season

• Basketball

• 2025 NBA playoffs
• 2024–25 EuroLeague

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship
• 2025 IPL season

• Golf

• 2025 PGA Tour
• 2025 LIV Golf League
• 2025 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs
• 2024–25 PWHL season

• Motorsport

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
• 2025 MotoGP World Championship
• 2025 NASCAR Cup Series
• 2025 IndyCar Series

• Rugby league

• 2025 NRL season
• 2025 Super League season

• Rugby union

• 2024–25 SVNS
• 2024–25 European Rugby Champions Cup
• 2024–25 Premiership Rugby
• 2024–25 United Rugby Championship
• 2025 Super Rugby Pacific season

• Tennis

• 2025 ATP Tour
• 2025 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

April

• 21: Pope Francis
• 18: Clodagh Rodgers
• 17: Joe Thompson
• 16: Nora Aunor
• 15: Wink Martindale
• 14: Elaine Wynn
• 14: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
• 13: Richard Armitage
• 13: Mario Vargas Llosa
• 13: Jean Marsh
• 12: Pilita Corrales
• 11: Mike Berry
• 11: Max Romeo
• 10: Leo Beenhakker
• 10: Ted Kotcheff
• 09: Ray Shero
• 09: Kim Shin-jo
• 08: Octavio Dotel
• 08: Nicky Katt
• 07: William Finn
• 07: Greg Millen
• 06: Clem Burke
• 06: Jay North
• 04: Manoj Kumar
• 03: Theodore McCarrick
• 03: Mick O'Dwyer
• 02: Khamtai Siphandone
• 01: Val Kilmer
• 01: Michael Hurley
• 01: Johnny Tillotson

March

• 31: Sian Barbara Allen
• 31: Betty Webb
• 29: Richard Chamberlain
• 28: Richard Norton
• 27: Christina McKelvie
• 25: Terry Manning
• 24: Dick Carlson
• 23: Max Frankel
• 23: Mia Love
• 22: Jessica Aber
• 21: Kitty Dukakis
• 21: George Foreman

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda

• Kivu conflict

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Haiti

• Gang war

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Israel

• Gaza war

• Israeli invasion of Lebanon

• Syria

• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2025 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain