2 February 2007 - A UN expert team (IPCC) presents its report on global warming in Paris and identifies it as man's greatest challenge in the 21'st century.

6 May 2007 - Nicolas Sarkozy defeats Segolene Royal and is elected president of France.

2007 - IAEA officials complain that Irans nuclear program reports are unaccurate.

September 2007 - Anti-government protests lead by buddhist monks in Burma (Myanmar) are brutally put down.

27 December 2007 - Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is killed after the explosion of a suicide bombing in Pakistan.

A very difficult question, but I hope atleast one or two of them will be considered for your page.
Source(s):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/06/AR200705060...
http://chronik.geschichte-schweiz.ch/jahresruckblick-chronik-ereignisse-200...

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It is very difficult to mention just 5 events for a whole year.

Well apart from entertainment, sports, technology, internet, peoples and other news catagories world or local politics always grab most attention and look more significant to people. Most of the headlines always related to the politics.

but i choose these five events that were realy significant in year 2007.

January 9 - Ipod lauched :apple introduces the new technology iPhone which became a houshold item since then.

April 16 - Virginia tech massacare: 32 people were killed by a student in virginia state university

May 20 - Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai donated 7.41 billion euro makes it the largest single charitable donation in modern history.

July 22 - UK floods:were the worst in years affected thousands of people all over the country.

November 5 - Writers strike :The Writers Guild of America goes on a strike that effected the whole tv industry in US.

You can see all the headlines of 2007 in this page, there is no better place then this for a 2007 year review. Pick your own Top 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007
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February 26: The International Court of Justice declares that the killing of 8000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs in Srebrenica in 1995 was genocide.

March 6: Lewis "Scooter" Libby is convicted of lying to investigators concerning the public identification of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.

April 16: The deadliest shooting rampage in US history leaves 33 dead, including the gunman, and 15 wounded at Virginia Tech.

October 12: The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work in increasing public awareness of human-caused climate change.

December 27: Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is killed by a suicide bomber at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi.
Source(s):
http://www.infoplease.com/world/events/2007/

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You can pick any of these I suppose:
January 1 - South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.

February 13 - North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.[

March 6 - Mega Millions sets a new world record for the highest lottery jackpot of US $370 million.

April 16 - 32 people are killed in the Virginia Tech massacre on the premises of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.

May 10 - Tony Blair announces he will resign as British Prime Minister on 27 June triggering a Labour Party leadership election.

June 15 - Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right

July 16 - Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water.

August 15 - An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.

September 26 - First confirmed deaths resulting from the Myanmar military's crackdown on weeks long anti-government protests. Buddhist monks are arrested and Internet access is cut from the public.

October 2 - The second Inter-Korean Summit begins. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il meet in Pyongyang.

November 8 - The 8th annual Latin Grammy Awards were held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, U.S.

December 27 - Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, and at least 20 others are killed by a bomb blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
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Gideon Rachman cited most significant events (six events listed) to include the following:

1) January 10, 2007 - Iraq war troop surge
2) May 16, 2007 - Sarkozy elected as 23rd president of French Republic
3) June 27, 2007 - Blair steps down as British Prime Minister
4) November 5, 2007 - Flotation of PetroChina - becomes largest company in world by market cap, selected largely for symbolic reasons
5) Between 1 January and 11 October 2008 Sub-prime crisis (owners of stocks in U.S. corporations had suffered about $8 trillion in losses, as their holdings declined in value from $20 trillion to $12 trillion.)
6) June 14, 2007 - Hamas's seizure of Gaza

There are so many significant events that have happened so rapidly, it is hard to pick just five. This list could easily grow with more research. For five most significant Tech trends, check out http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/171617/The_Five_Most_Significant_Tech_Trends_of_2007.

Hopefully this helps to rebuild your timeline.
Source(s):
http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2007/12/five-biggest-ev.html/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,135438,00.html?ESRC=iraq.RSS
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYnHaBTIw6L4&re...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
http://www.answers.com/topic/hamas
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2007/rp07-060.pdf
http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/171617/The_Five_Most_Significant_Tech_T...

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