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Timeline Of Modern History
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1. 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
1924
1950
1955
1987
2. Gaza War ends; Gaza blockade continues. Election protests begin in Iran. Second Chechen War ends. Death of Michael Jackson. Burj Khalifa in Dubai - the world's tallest skyscraper - is completed. Great Recession officially ends.Formation of BRICS econ
2009
1955
1915
1933
3. 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
1941
1958
1988
1927
4. Beginning of the Mexican Revolution. George V becomes King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor ofIndia. Union of South Africa created. Portugal abolishes its Monarchy. Imperial Japan annexes Korea.
1959
1909
1910
1996
5. 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
1975
2002
1934
1951
6. Great LeapForward ends in China after the deaths of roughly 20 million people. Building of the Berlin Wall; first human spaceflight
2008
1961
1965
1902
7. 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
1981
1968
1980
1954
8. Entente cordiale signed between Britain and France. Russo-Japanese War begins. Trans-Siberian railway is completed. Construction of the Panama Canal begins. Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State.
1993
1980
1988
1904
9. 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.
1947
1962
1975
1951
10. 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
2004
1915
1922
1947
11. Russian Revolution; beginning of Russian Civil War. USA join the Allies for the last 17 months of World War I.Independence of Poland recognised. The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.
1909
1912
1917
1960
12. Velvet divorce between Czech Republic and Slovakia.Independence of Eritrea. Oslo accords end FirstIntifada between Israel and Palestine.
1996
1918
1908
1993
13. 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.
1902
1923
1922
1914
14. Bangladesh Liberation War ends in independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan and precipitates ThirdIndo-Pakistani War.Internment begins in Northern Ireland.Invention of the microchip. Idi Amin comes to power in Uganda
1903
1931
1971
1956
15. Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday;First Sudanese Civil War ends. Martial law declared in the Philippines by President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
1972
1917
2011
1909
16. Wall Street crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression.First people sent to the gulag in the Soviet Union. Pope Pius XI signs the Lateran Treaty with Italian leader Benito Mussolini. Vatican City is recognised as a sovereign state. The f
1998
1933
1929
1916
17. First Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Falklands War. Hama massacre in Syria leads to more than 10000 deaths.
1965
1952
1982
1921
18. Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan. Coups in Greece - Poland and Portugal install new dictatorships.
1963
1968
1926
1908
19. Deaths of Winston Churchill and Malcolm X. Anti-Communist purge inIndonesia kills up to 500000 people. SecondIndo-Pakistani War.
1989
1943
1926
1965
20. 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.
1915
1907
1905
1990
21. Easter Rising in Ireland. The implementation of daylight saving time. Warlord Era begins in China. David Lloyd George becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Gallipoli Campaign fails. Battle of the Somme. Grigory Rasputin is assassinate
1962
1916
1948
1967
22. D-Day landings. Baltic states are annexed by the Soviet Union.First operational electronic computer - Colossus - comes online
1933
1914
1969
1944
23. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
1932
1968
1982
1922
24. Second Boer War ends. Philippine
1937
1902
1982
1934
25. Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Prague Spring. May 1968 protests in France. The Troubles begin in Northern Ireland.
1940
2008
1940
1968
26. 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.
1936
2002
2007
1975
27. 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
1976
1995
1930
1945
28. 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
1924
1977
1933
1922
29. 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.
1997
1958
1903
1984
30. Challenger and Chernobyl disasters. Launch of the space station Mir.First close up images of the planet Uranus. End of dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.Corazon Aquino succeed to presidency. Iran-Contra becomes public.
1919
1986
1996
2011
31. 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
2011
1953
1988
1978
32. 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
1974
2010
1924
1944
33. Independence of South Sudan. Arab Spring - revolutions in Tunisia - Egypt and Libya follow - as well as uprisings in Yemen - Syria and Bahrain - and protests in several other Arab countries. Occupy movement inspires worldwide protests - bringing econ
2011
1981
1960
1916
34. Deaths of Winston Churchill and Malcolm X. Anti-Communist purge inIndonesia kills up to 500000 people. SecondIndo-Pakistani War.
2011
1945
1965
1946
35. 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
1936
1977
1996
1947
36. 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
1911
1945
2009
2006
37. Beginning of the Mexican Revolution. George V becomes King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor ofIndia. Union of South Africa created. Portugal abolishes its Monarchy. Imperial Japan annexes Korea.
1921
2006
1910
1991
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
1999
1928
1914
1963
39. Iraq War begins - triggering worldwide protests. War in Darfur begins. The Human Genome Project is completed. Second Congo War ends with more than 5 million dead. Second Liberian Civil War ends. Space Shuttle Columbia is destroyed on re-entry.
2003
1963
1949
1961
40. Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Prague Spring. May 1968 protests in France. The Troubles begin in Northern Ireland.
1968
1927
1935
2004
41. 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.
1935
1998
1968
1969
42. 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.
2002
1944
1918
1907
43. 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
1908
1976
1959
1954
44. 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
1991
1929
1911
1942
45. End of Spanish Civil War; Francisco Franco becomes dictator of Spain. Molotov
1939
2000
1915
1949
46. Galveston Hurricane kills 8000 people.Indian famine ends.
1950
1923
1976
1900
47. Independence of Panama. United States troops leave Cuba.
1947
1944
1937
1909
48. Establishment of the World Trade Organization. Srebrenica massacre; NATO bombing raids in Bosnia; Dayton Accords signed. Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. North Korean famine begins.
1921
1912
1933
1995
49. 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
1960
1919
1930
1952
50. 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
1932
1922
1928
1955