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Timeline Of Modern History

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 2010 Moscow Metro bombings. 2010 Kyrgyzstani revolution. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills 230000. Flooding in Pakistan kills nearly 2000 and leaves roughly a million homeless. Threa






12. 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






13. Velvet divorce between Czech Republic and Slovakia.Independence of Eritrea. Oslo accords end FirstIntifada between Israel and Palestine.






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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Beginning of the Korean War. Lhamo Dondrub becomes the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.






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21. 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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Revolution and Iran hostage crisis; Shah Reza Pahlavi forced into exile. Arrival of Pope John Paul II in Poland - eventually sparking the Solidarity movement.First space station - Skylab - is launched.First clo






28. Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Prague Spring. May 1968 protests in France. The Troubles begin in Northern Ireland.






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. Earthquakes in San Francisco - California (death toll 3000) and Valpara






37. 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.






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. Benito Mussolini gains dictatorial powers in Italy. Mein Kampf is published.First televisual image created by John Logie Baird. Locarno Treaties are signed.