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Timeline Of Modern History
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1. 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
1969
1926
1928
1983
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
1918
2009
1991
1974
3. 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
1912
1902
1948
1988
4. Irish Free State is established - while the Province of Northern Ireland is created within The United Kingdom. Adolf Hitler becomes F
1921
1945
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1910
5. Establishment of the World Trade Organization. Srebrenica massacre; NATO bombing raids in Bosnia; Dayton Accords signed. Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. North Korean famine begins.
1955
2006
1944
1995
6. 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
1910
1929
1935
1981
7. Galveston Hurricane kills 8000 people.Indian famine ends.
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1985
1967
1915
8. Mexican Revolution ends. Greece restores its monarchy after a referendum.
1961
1957
1920
1997
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.
1978
2009
1975
1936
10. 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.
1907
1958
1967
1934
11. 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
1922
1949
1997
1914
12. American terrorist Timmothy McVeigh bombs the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.First Congo War begins.First Chechen War ends.First Liberian Civil War ends. End of dictatorship in Taiwan. Dolly the sheep becomes the first successful
1996
1952
1958
1916
13. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. New Deal begins in America. Japan and Germany announce they are going to leave the League of Nations.
1956
1992
1933
2002
14. 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
1995
2007
1992
1999
15. 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
1999
1958
1948
1982
16. 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.
1943
1971
1996
1980
17. Independence of Panama. United States troops leave Cuba.
1909
1929
1912
1971
18. End of apartheid in South Africa and election of Nelson Mandela. Establishment of NAFTA.First Chechen War begins. Assassination of Juv
1961
1994
1953
1938
19. 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.
1967
1956
1932
1974
20. 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
2006
1915
1902
1939
21. 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
1950
1945
1904
1997
22. 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
1900
1944
1919
1931
23. Stock market crash of 1987. FirstIntifada between Israel and Palestine begins. World population reaches 5 billion
1978
1911
2010
1987
24. 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
1973
1957
2006
1906
25. 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
1933
1914
1982
1930
26. Live Aid. Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.First use of DNA fingerprinting. End of dictatorship in Brazil
1929
1913
1920
1985
27. Mexican Revolution ends. Greece restores its monarchy after a referendum.
1985
1920
1998
2000
28. End of Spanish Civil War; Francisco Franco becomes dictator of Spain. Molotov
1921
1907
1922
1939
29. 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.
1988
1987
1968
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30. 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.
1991
1942
1999
2005
31. 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
1970
1983
1971
1978
32. 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.
1982
1996
1937
1977
33. 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.
1965
1986
1977
1963
34. 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
1914
1905
1927
1989
35. D-Day landings. Baltic states are annexed by the Soviet Union.First operational electronic computer - Colossus - comes online
1944
1932
1904
1908
36. 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
1900
1903
2011
1986
37. 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
2008
1905
1936
2002
38. 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
1950
1940
1919
1901
39. 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
1982
1914
1923
1967
40. 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
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1931
1954
2002
41. 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.
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1975
1997
1937
42. 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
1946
1915
1991
2005
43. 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.
1955
1923
1931
1914
44. Velvet divorce between Czech Republic and Slovakia.Independence of Eritrea. Oslo accords end FirstIntifada between Israel and Palestine.
1993
1984
2000
1928
45. 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
2002
1987
2003
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46. Colombo Plan comes into effect.
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2004
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47. Indonesia
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1988
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48. Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan. Coups in Greece - Poland and Portugal install new dictatorships.
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49. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
1928
1916
1927
1932
50. Earthquakes in San Francisco - California (death toll 3000) and Valpara
2003
1953
1903
1906
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