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Timeline Of Modern History

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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






8. Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday;First Sudanese Civil War ends. Martial law declared in the Philippines by President Ferdinand E. Marcos.






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






10. 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






11. Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan. Coups in Greece - Poland and Portugal install new dictatorships.






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






13. Niels Bohr formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus - and in the process paves the way to quantum mechanics. Balkan Wars end. George I of Greece is assassinated.






14. 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.






15. 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






16. D-Day landings. Baltic states are annexed by the Soviet Union.First operational electronic computer - Colossus - comes online






17. 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.






18. Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan. Coups in Greece - Poland and Portugal install new dictatorships.






19. 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






20. Niels Bohr formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus - and in the process paves the way to quantum mechanics. Balkan Wars end. George I of Greece is assassinated.






21. 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






22. End of World War I; Spanish flu pandemic. Murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Poland - Ukraine and Belarus are among a number of states to declare independence from Russia. Finnish Civil War. Mehmed VI becomes last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire






23. 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






24. Second Boer War ends. Philippine






25. 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






26. 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.






27. Live Aid. Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.First use of DNA fingerprinting. End of dictatorship in Brazil






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. Second Boer War ends. Philippine






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. Independence ofIndia and Pakistan and beginning of FirstIndo-Pakistani War. Breaking of the sound barrier. Creation of the U.S. CentralIntelligence Agency.






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. Osama Bin Laden publishes a fatwa against the West. Kenya and Tanzania bombings. Second Congo War begins. Good Friday Agreement brings an end to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. North Korean famine kills an estimated 2.5 million people by this point






49. The RMS Lusitania is sunk. The United States occupation of Haiti begins. Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.






50. 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