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Timeline Of Modern History

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1. European Defence Community formed; Queen Elizabeth II becomes Monarch of the Commonwealth realms. Bonn






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3. Independence of Palau.First orbital flight of the Space Shuttle.






4. Independence of Palau.First orbital flight of the Space Shuttle.






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. End of Spanish Civil War; Francisco Franco becomes dictator of Spain. Molotov






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






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. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






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. Republic of China established and ends the Chinese Empire. The African National Congress is founded. Morocco becomes a protectorate of France. Sinking of the RMS Titanic. Balkan Wars begin. Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th President of the United State






18. Arab-Israeli War. Berlin Airlift. Marshall Plan; founding of the OECD and the World Health Organization; assassination of Mohandas Gandhi; the independence of Burma. Beginning of apartheid in South Africa. Division of North and South Korea. FirstIndo






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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. 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






24. Establishment of the World Trade Organization. Srebrenica massacre; NATO bombing raids in Bosnia; Dayton Accords signed. Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. North Korean famine begins.






25. 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.






26. Independence of Panama. United States troops leave Cuba.






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






28. 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.






29. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.






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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. Russo-Japanese War ends; 1905 Revolution in Russia. Trans-Siberian Railway opened. Albert Einstein's formulation of relativity. Schlieffen Plan proposed. Las Vegas founded. The BritishIndian Province of Bengal - was partitioned by the Viceroy ofIndia






35. Russo-Japanese War ends; 1905 Revolution in Russia. Trans-Siberian Railway opened. Albert Einstein's formulation of relativity. Schlieffen Plan proposed. Las Vegas founded. The BritishIndian Province of Bengal - was partitioned by the Viceroy ofIndia






36. 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.






37. Great LeapForward ends in China after the deaths of roughly 20 million people. Building of the Berlin Wall; first human spaceflight






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. 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.






40. 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






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






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






43. IRA end military campaign in Northern Ireland. 7/7 attacks on London Underground. Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first woman Chancellor; Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan. SecondIntifada ends. Israel withdraws from Gaza; Cedar Revolution in Lebanon. Se






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. Year of Africa.Independence of Somalia - Togo and the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Congo Crisis. Mau Mau Uprising ends; first manned descent to the deepest point on Earth - the Mariana Trench; construction of the first la