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Timeline Of Modern History
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1. 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
2000
1947
1903
1905
2. First outbreak of the Ebola virus. Death of Mao Zedong. End of Cultural Revolution. Steve Jobs finishes his first significant invention - Apple I.
1905
1936
1976
1963
3. Creation of NATO. Blockade of Berlin ends. Partition of Germany into the Soviet socialist German Democratic Republic and the NATO-backed Federal Republic of Germany. COMECON founded by USSR and the Eastern Bloc. Partition of Kashmir. End of the Chine
1923
1919
1946
1949
4. End of apartheid in South Africa and election of Nelson Mandela. Establishment of NAFTA.First Chechen War begins. Assassination of Juv
2007
1953
1950
1994
5. Second Boer War ends. Philippine
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1932
2001
1967
6. 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.
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7. 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.
1946
1974
1942
1917
8. 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
1946
1904
1957
1929
9. Creation of NATO. Blockade of Berlin ends. Partition of Germany into the Soviet socialist German Democratic Republic and the NATO-backed Federal Republic of Germany. COMECON founded by USSR and the Eastern Bloc. Partition of Kashmir. End of the Chine
1993
1922
1939
1949
10. 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
1963
1953
1923
1929
11. Summer of Love; Six Day War
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1980
1967
1920
12. European Defence Community formed; Queen Elizabeth II becomes Monarch of the Commonwealth realms. Bonn
1939
1952
1912
1933
13. End of apartheid in South Africa and election of Nelson Mandela. Establishment of NAFTA.First Chechen War begins. Assassination of Juv
1924
1994
1976
1910
14. 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.
1940
2008
1997
1913
15. 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.
1950
1928
1967
1990
16. 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.
1942
2010
1986
1943
17. 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
2005
1963
1992
1999
18. 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
1943
1950
1971
1954
19. 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
1999
1988
1989
1982
20. 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.
1975
1900
2007
1963
21. 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
1992
1937
1939
1960
22. D-Day landings. Baltic states are annexed by the Soviet Union.First operational electronic computer - Colossus - comes online
1944
1967
1938
1981
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
1970
1938
1950
1924
24. 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.
1947
1953
1927
1900
25. Boxer Rebellion ends. Death of Queen Victoria. Platt Amendment limits the autonomy of Cuba in exchange for withdrawal of US troops.
1901
1967
1993
1991
26. 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
1931
1901
1906
1923
27. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
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1977
1906
1932
28. Independence of Malta - Malawi and Tanzania; Civil Rights Act of 1964 abolishes segregation in the USA. Colombian armed conflict begins.First close-up images of Mars
1903
1990
1964
1920
29. 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
1970
1979
1945
1918
30. Dictatorships begin in Brazil and Bolivia. Mao Zedong begins the Long March. United States occupation of Haiti ends. United States grants more autonomy to the Philippines. Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany.
1919
1934
1966
1977
31. Cuban missile crisis; Algerian war ends with the independence of Algeria; The Beatles' first record.Indonesia
1935
1962
1971
1921
32. 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
1991
2006
1982
1909
33. Colombo Plan comes into effect.
1948
1918
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1951
34. Beginning of the Korean War. Lhamo Dondrub becomes the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
1950
1971
1938
1960
35. 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.
1987
1943
1990
1937
36. Benito Mussolini gains dictatorial powers in Italy. Mein Kampf is published.First televisual image created by John Logie Baird. Locarno Treaties are signed.
1919
1978
1925
1930
37. 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
1910
2007
1913
38. Enlargement of NATO and the European Union incorporates most of former Eastern Bloc. Madrid train bombings. Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Beslan school hostage crisis. Boxing Day Tsunami occurs inIndian Ocean - leading to the deaths of 230000.
1969
2004
1905
1900
39. 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
1997
2005
1942
1928
40. Signing of the Warsaw Pact.First Sudanese Civil War begins. Antimatter first produced.
1900
1907
1908
1955
41. 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
1968
1935
1960
1912
42. End of Monarchy in Nepal. Barack Obama is elected President of the United States. Cyclone Nargis kills 133000 in Myanmar. Gaza War begins. 2008 South Ossetia war. Kosovo declares independence - to mixed reaction. Battle of Basra - Iraqi forces crack
1977
2008
1943
1965
43. Irish Free State is established - while the Province of Northern Ireland is created within The United Kingdom. Adolf Hitler becomes F
1936
1930
1921
1979
44. 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.
1988
1997
1944
1943
45. Beginning of the 1984
1979
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1998
1984
46. 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
1969
1991
1960
1902
47. 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
1993
1986
1996
1969
48. Munich agreement hands Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. Great Purge ends after nearly 700000 executions. Kristallnacht in Germany - while Time Magazine declares Adolf Hitler as Man of the Year. DC Comics hero Superman has its first appearance.
1938
1911
1905
1986
49. 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
1916
1993
1905
1939
50. 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
1921
1963
1988
2004