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Colorado National Guardsmen respond to the
2013 Colorado floods in
Boulder County
- The
2013 Colorado floods struck the northeastern
Front Range region beginning September 11, 2013, causing extensive flood damage.
- On June 8, 2002, a
U.S. Forest Service technician accidentally started the
Hayman Fire which became the most extensive wild fire in Colorado history.
-
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Gale Norton signed an order elevating the
national monument to
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve on September 13, 2004.
-
President
George W. Bush defeated Colorado native
John Kerry in the November 2, 2004 election for
President of the United States.
-
Senator
Barack Obama accepted the nomination of the
Democratic National Convention for
President of the United States in
Denver on August 28, 2008.
- The population of Colorado first exceeded five million in 2009.
- Workers uncovered a trove of
mammoth,
mastodon, and other
Pleistocene
fossils near
Snowmass Village on October 14, 2010.
-
President
Barack Obama issued a proclamation creating
Chimney Rock National Monument on September 21, 2012.
- The
Black Forest fire began on June 11, 2013, destroying 486 homes, the most in Colorado history
- Colorado became the first state to legalize
cannabis for recreational use on January 1, 2014.
-
President
Barack Obama issued a proclamation creating
Browns Canyon National Monument on February 19, 2015.
