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Timeline Of Modern History

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1. Beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Great Purge begins under Stalin. Edward VIII becomes King of the British Commonwealth and Emperor ofIndia - before abdicating and handing the throne to his brother - George VI. Hoover Dam is completed. Arab Revolt






2. Earthquakes in San Francisco - California (death toll 3000) and Valpara






3. Niels Bohr formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus - and in the process paves the way to quantum mechanics. Balkan Wars end. George I of Greece is assassinated.






4. Beginning of the 1984






5. Battle of Stalingrad ends with retreat of the German Army. Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Green Revolution begins.






6. Independence of Kenya; creation of Malaysia; Martin Luther King delivers his 'I have a Dream' speech. Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Launch of the first geostationary satellite. Paul VI becomes Pope






7. Munich agreement hands Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. Great Purge ends after nearly 700000 executions. Kristallnacht in Germany - while Time Magazine declares Adolf Hitler as Man of the Year. DC Comics hero Superman has its first appearance.






8. Cuban missile crisis; Algerian war ends with the independence of Algeria; The Beatles' first record.Indonesia






9. Boxer Rebellion ends. Death of Queen Victoria. Platt Amendment limits the autonomy of Cuba in exchange for withdrawal of US troops.






10. Turkish occupation of Cyprus. Carnation Revolution in Portugal begins transition to democracy.First close-up images of Mercury. Discovery of 'Lucy' (Australopithecus afarensis) in Ethiopia's Olduvai Gorge. World population reaches 4 billion.






11. 2002 Bali bombings. Chechen rebels seize theatre in Moscow. America demands Iraq allow unfettered access to weapons inspectors. Guantanamo Bay detention camp is established. Algerian Civil War ends. Rose Revolution in Georgia.Independence of East Tim






12. Deaths of Winston Churchill and Malcolm X. Anti-Communist purge inIndonesia kills up to 500000 people. SecondIndo-Pakistani War.






13. Anti-government protests in Myanmar crushed by ruling junta. Spike in food prices and subprime crisis help trigger the Great Recession. Assassination of Benazir Bhutto






14. Independence of Montenegro. Second invasion of Lebanon. Mumbai bombings. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes President of Liberia - and thus Africa's first elected female head of state. Saddam Hussein is executed in Iraq. The Baiji - the Yangtze river dolp






15. Osama Bin Laden publishes a fatwa against the West. Kenya and Tanzania bombings. Second Congo War begins. Good Friday Agreement brings an end to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. North Korean famine kills an estimated 2.5 million people by this point






16. Cuban Revolution; independence of Cyprus and Singapore; admission of Alaska and Hawaii into the United States; Dalai Lama exiled from Tibet; first documented AIDS cases; beginning of the Vietnam War; first images of the far side of the Moon. By this






17. First commercial radio transmissions. TheFord Motor Company invents the assembly line. Boy Scouts founded.First commercial Middle-Eastern oilfield established - at Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia. The Tunguska event (later conjectured to be a m






18. Beginning of the Korean War. Lhamo Dondrub becomes the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.






19. Death of Vladimir Lenin. The U.S. Federal Bureau ofInvestigation founded under J. Edgar Hoover. The August Uprising in Georgia against Soviet rule. George Gershwin composes RhapsodyIn Blue. U.S. Immigration Act of 1924 significantly restricts immigra






20. Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday;First Sudanese Civil War ends. Martial law declared in the Philippines by President Ferdinand E. Marcos.






21. End of Monarchy in Nepal. Barack Obama is elected President of the United States. Cyclone Nargis kills 133000 in Myanmar. Gaza War begins. 2008 South Ossetia war. Kosovo declares independence - to mixed reaction. Battle of Basra - Iraqi forces crack






22. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web. Reunification of Germany. Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Gulf War begins. Contra War ends. Myanmar ArmedForces place Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.






23. Launch of Sputnik 1 and the beginning of the Space Age; independence of Ghana; Treaty of Rome - which would eventually lead to the European Union; Harold Macmillan become British Prime Minister; first prescription of the combined oral contraceptive p






24. First Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Falklands War. Hama massacre in Syria leads to more than 10000 deaths.






25. Euro is introduced. Kosovo War ends the Yugoslav Wars. Hugo Chavez becomes President of Venezuela. Second Chechen War and Second Liberian Civil War begin. FourthIndo-Pakistani War. Crisis in East Timor leads to 1400 deaths. Columbine High School mass






26. End of World War I; Spanish flu pandemic. Murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Poland - Ukraine and Belarus are among a number of states to declare independence from Russia. Finnish Civil War. Mehmed VI becomes last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire






27. David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 2010 Moscow Metro bombings. 2010 Kyrgyzstani revolution. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills 230000. Flooding in Pakistan kills nearly 2000 and leaves roughly a million homeless. Threa






28. End of 1982 Lebanon War. GPS becomes available for civilian use.Independence of Brunei. End of dictatorship in Argentina. Second Sudanese Civil War begins.Invasion of Grenada by the United States.






29. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web. Reunification of Germany. Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Gulf War begins. Contra War ends. Myanmar ArmedForces place Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.






30. Signing of the Warsaw Pact.First Sudanese Civil War begins. Antimatter first produced.






31. Roald Amundsen first reaches the South Pole. New Delhi becomes the capital of BritishIndia. Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic nucleus. The BritishIndian Province of Bengal is reunified






32. The RMS Lusitania is sunk. The United States occupation of Haiti begins. Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.






33. Second Italo-Abyssinian War concludes with the exile of Haile Selassie and the conquest of Abyssinia by Benito Mussolini. Persia becomes Iran. William Lyon Mackenzie King is elected Prime Minister of Canada.






34. Invention of artificial insulin; discovery of Pluto's moon Charon.Independence of Tuvalu. Birth of the first test-tube baby. Cambodian-Vietnamese War begins. Afghan Civil War begins. Deng Xiaoping commences Economic reform in the People's Republic of






35. Velvet divorce between Czech Republic and Slovakia.Independence of Eritrea. Oslo accords end FirstIntifada between Israel and Palestine.






36. First outbreak of the Ebola virus. Death of Mao Zedong. End of Cultural Revolution. Steve Jobs finishes his first significant invention - Apple I.






37. Bombing of Dresden. Battle of Berlin. End of World War II. The Holocaust ends after ~12 million deaths - including 6 million Jews. Deaths of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Creation of the atomic bomb - and the bombing






38. Independence of Montenegro. Second invasion of Lebanon. Mumbai bombings. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes President of Liberia - and thus Africa's first elected female head of state. Saddam Hussein is executed in Iraq. The Baiji - the Yangtze river dolp






39. Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from UK to China. Lottery Uprising in Albania. Diana - Princess of Wales is killed in a car accident in Paris.






40. End of Monarchy in Nepal. Barack Obama is elected President of the United States. Cyclone Nargis kills 133000 in Myanmar. Gaza War begins. 2008 South Ossetia war. Kosovo declares independence - to mixed reaction. Battle of Basra - Iraqi forces crack






41. Operation Reinhard commences the main phase of the Holocaust. Bombing of Pearl Harbor - which leads to the USA joining World War II. Hitler commences the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union






42. Independence of Cambodia. Discovery of DNA.First ascent of Mount Everest; Mohammed Mossadeq deposed in Iran; end of the Korean War. Death of Joseph Stalin. Elvis Presley's musical career is launched.






43. Beginning of the Watergate scandal. The Supreme Court of the United States decides Roe v. Wade. Death of Pablo Picasso.First close-up images of Jupiter






44. Moon landings; Woodstock festival; creation of ARPANET - the earliest incarnation of theInternet. Libyan took independence day by Muammer Gadaffi






45. Herero and Namaqua Genocide ends. A peasants' revolt in Romania kills roughly 11000. TheIndian National Congress splits into two factions at its Surat session - presided by Rash Behari Bose.






46. The Jazz Singer - the first 'talkie' - is released. Joseph Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union. World population reaches 2 billion. Australian Parliament convenes in Canberra for the first time. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland o






47. The Italian reconquest of Libya begins. The union of Costa Rica - Guatemala - Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved. Egypt gains independence. March on Rome brings Benito Mussolini to power in Italy. Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamen's tomb. The Ir






48. Maastricht Treaty creates the European Union. Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States. End of dictatorship in Albania and South Korea. End of Salvadorian Civil War






49. Independence of Jordan. Nuremberg trials end. FirstIndochina War begins.First images taken of the Earth from space.






50. Nazis invade France - the Netherlands - Denmark and Norway. Katyn massacre in Poland. Winter War between Soviet Union and Finland. Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Battle of Britain as the British Empire fights alone ag







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