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Timeline Of Modern History

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1. Fall of the Berlin Wall; 1989 revolution and collapse of the Soviet Bloc in Europe. Tiannanmen Square Massacre in China. End of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. End of dictatorship in Paraguay and first direct Presidential election in Brazil since






2. 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.






3. Irish Free State is established - while the Province of Northern Ireland is created within The United Kingdom. Adolf Hitler becomes F






4. 9/11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York - damage the Pentagon in Washington - DC. War on Terror declared. Afghan War begins. Wikipedia founded. President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines impeached.






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






8. Japanese invasion of China - and the beginning of World War II in the Far East. Rape of Nanking. Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Irish Republican Army attempts to assassinate King George VI of the United Kingdom.






9. Mexican Revolution ends. Greece restores its monarchy after a referendum.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Galveston Hurricane kills 8000 people.Indian famine ends.






13. 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






14. 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






15. Beginning of the 1984






16. Indonesia






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






18. End of apartheid in South Africa and election of Nelson Mandela. Establishment of NAFTA.First Chechen War begins. Assassination of Juv






19. 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






20. Irish Free State is established - while the Province of Northern Ireland is created within The United Kingdom. Adolf Hitler becomes F






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






22. 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






23. 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






24. Japanese invasion of China - and the beginning of World War II in the Far East. Rape of Nanking. Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Irish Republican Army attempts to assassinate King George VI of the United Kingdom.






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. 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






33. Battle of Midway. Battle of the Coral Sea.First and second Battles of El Alamein. Battle of Stalingrad. Guadalcanal Campaign begins.Internment of Japanese-American citizens in the US begins. Manhattan Project begins.






34. 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






35. Independence of Zimbabwe and Vanuatu. Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States. Beginning of the Iran-Iraq War - Salvadorian Civil War and Contra War. Death of John Lennon.






36. 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.






37. Stock market crash of 1987. FirstIntifada between Israel and Palestine begins. World population reaches 5 billion






38. Second Boer War ends. Philippine






39. Beginning of the 1984






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. 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






48. Summer of Love; Six Day War






49. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. New Deal begins in America. Japan and Germany announce they are going to leave the League of Nations.






50. 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.