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Timeline Of Modern History
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1. Boxer Rebellion ends. Death of Queen Victoria. Platt Amendment limits the autonomy of Cuba in exchange for withdrawal of US troops.
1907
1975
1901
1976
2. Establishment of the World Trade Organization. Srebrenica massacre; NATO bombing raids in Bosnia; Dayton Accords signed. Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. North Korean famine begins.
1974
1995
1947
1931
3. 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.
1987
1908
1953
1933
4. Supreme Court of the United States decides Brown v. Board of Education - ordering an end to racial segregation in public schools. Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets - brings rock and roll to the American mainstream. The Soviet Union g
1905
1954
1965
1968
5. Gulf War ends. Dissolution of the Soviet Union and independence of 15 former Soviet republics. Boris Yeltsin becomes the first President of the Russian Federation. Ten-Day War in Slovenia begins the Yugoslav Wars. Beginning of the Somali - Sierra Leo
1971
1995
1991
1980
6. 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.
1981
1913
1962
1907
7. 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
2008
1922
2004
2001
8. End of the Vietnam War; deaths of Francisco Franco and Dmitri Shostakovich. Cambodian Civil War ends with victory for the Khmer Rouge. The Killing Fields murders begin.
1909
1921
1975
1945
9. Dictatorships begin in Brazil and Bolivia. Mao Zedong begins the Long March. United States occupation of Haiti ends. United States grants more autonomy to the Philippines. Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany.
1934
1913
1976
1949
10. 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
1977
1906
2002
2003
11. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Revolution and Iran hostage crisis; Shah Reza Pahlavi forced into exile. Arrival of Pope John Paul II in Poland - eventually sparking the Solidarity movement.First space station - Skylab - is launched.First clo
1979
1981
1923
2004
12. Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Prague Spring. May 1968 protests in France. The Troubles begin in Northern Ireland.
2005
1926
1968
1959
13. Independence of Malta - Malawi and Tanzania; Civil Rights Act of 1964 abolishes segregation in the USA. Colombian armed conflict begins.First close-up images of Mars
1964
2008
1968
1946
14. End of Israeli occupation of Lebanon. SecondIntifada begins. George W. Bush is elected President of the United States. Vincente Fox becomes the first opposition President of Mexico. Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia. British Army launch Oper
1931
1961
2001
2000
15. End of apartheid in South Africa and election of Nelson Mandela. Establishment of NAFTA.First Chechen War begins. Assassination of Juv
1934
1941
2011
1994
16. First controlled heavier-than-air flight of the Wright Brothers. Herero and Namaqua Genocide - the first genocide of the 20th century - begins in German South-West Africa.In Russia the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks form from the breakup of the Russia
1986
2004
1903
1930
17. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Revolution and Iran hostage crisis; Shah Reza Pahlavi forced into exile. Arrival of Pope John Paul II in Poland - eventually sparking the Solidarity movement.First space station - Skylab - is launched.First clo
1905
1979
1978
1974
18. Treaty of Versailles redraws European borders and establishes the Weimar Republic in Germany. Victory for Estonia in the Estonian War ofIndependence. League of Nations founded in Paris. Polish-Soviet War begins. The Italian National Fascist Party is
1945
1962
1993
1919
19. Earthquakes in San Francisco - California (death toll 3000) and Valpara
1998
1981
1985
1906
20. Beginning of the Korean War. Lhamo Dondrub becomes the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
2006
1950
1961
1976
21. 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
1953
2003
1938
1963
22. Signing of the Warsaw Pact.First Sudanese Civil War begins. Antimatter first produced.
1939
1980
1955
1934
23. 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
1997
1910
2010
1953
24. Independence of Palau.First orbital flight of the Space Shuttle.
1909
1937
1945
1981
25. Independence of Sudan and Tunisia and full independence of Pakistan. The Hungarian Uprising; the Suez crisis. Brasilia constructed.
1913
1956
1900
1925
26. Independence of Jordan. Nuremberg trials end. FirstIndochina War begins.First images taken of the Earth from space.
1942
1946
1925
2008
27. 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
2001
1922
1911
1926
28. Benito Mussolini gains dictatorial powers in Italy. Mein Kampf is published.First televisual image created by John Logie Baird. Locarno Treaties are signed.
2008
1936
1916
1925
29. Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Polish 1970 protests. Cambodian Civil War begins. Ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Containerisation adopted globally - massively boosting global trade. Maiden flight of t
1904
1929
1970
1995
30. Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic ends with the introduction of the Rentenmark. Time Magazine is first published. Irish Civil War ends. The Beer Hall Putsch - an attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic - ends in failure and brief imprisonment fo
1923
1963
1970
1931
31. Introduction of the first mass-produced personal computers; launch of the Voyager spacecraft - currently the most distant man-made objects in the universe. Queen Alia of Jordan is killed in helicopter crash.
1956
1932
1977
2004
32. Aided by the Great Depression - the Nazi Party increases its share of the vote from 2.6% to 18.3%. Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. Salt March by Mohandas Gandhi and the official start of civil disobedience in BritishIndia. Military coups replace gove
1970
1937
1909
1930
33. Stock market crash of 1987. FirstIntifada between Israel and Palestine begins. World population reaches 5 billion
1971
1987
1986
1929
34. Gavrilo Princip assassinates the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo - triggering World War I. Panama Canal opens. Benedict XV becomes Pope. Martha - last known passenger pigeon - dies.
1976
1941
1914
1972
35. Boxer Rebellion ends. Death of Queen Victoria. Platt Amendment limits the autonomy of Cuba in exchange for withdrawal of US troops.
1933
1976
1955
1901
36. 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
1998
2006
1978
1940
37. Perestroika begins. End of the Iran-Iraq War. End of dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Pan Am Flight 103 falls over Lockerbie - Scotland. Myanmar ArmedForces launch a military coup. Construction of the Channel Tunnel begins.
1945
1988
1962
1904
38. Discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming. Warlord Era ends in China. Malta becomes a British Dominion. King Zog I is crowned in Albania. The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris. TheInternational Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is establish
2009
1950
1911
1928
39. Independence of Panama. United States troops leave Cuba.
1991
1966
1954
1909
40. Irish Free State is established - while the Province of Northern Ireland is created within The United Kingdom. Adolf Hitler becomes F
1908
1969
1921
1955
41. Live Aid. Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.First use of DNA fingerprinting. End of dictatorship in Brazil
1980
1985
1999
1983
42. 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
1901
1936
1904
2006
43. Beginning of the 1984
1940
1984
1980
1941
44. 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
1980
1959
1937
1983
45. Floods in China kill up to 2.5 million people.Independence of South Africa. Construction of the Empire State Building. 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is adopted as the United States's national anthem. The Second Spanish Republic is declared. The Chinese
1999
1931
1915
1966
46. 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
1972
1957
1964
1919
47. 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
2001
1959
1966
1948
48. Great LeapForward begins in China. NASA - the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) founded. CND's symbol - the peace sign - is first used.Invention of the optical disc and the cassette tape.
1938
1910
2005
1958
49. Velvet divorce between Czech Republic and Slovakia.Independence of Eritrea. Oslo accords end FirstIntifada between Israel and Palestine.
1983
1934
1917
1993
50. Live Aid. Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.First use of DNA fingerprinting. End of dictatorship in Brazil
1962
1985
1950
1978
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