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Timeline Of Modern History

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1. Second Boer War ends. Philippine






2. 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.






3. 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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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






8. Second Boer War ends. Philippine






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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






12. 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






13. End of Israeli occupation of Lebanon. SecondIntifada begins. George W. Bush is elected President of the United States. Vincente Fox becomes the first opposition President of Mexico. Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia. British Army launch Oper






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. Independence of Sudan and Tunisia and full independence of Pakistan. The Hungarian Uprising; the Suez crisis. Brasilia constructed.






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






32. Second Italo-Abyssinian War concludes with the exile of Haile Selassie and the conquest of Abyssinia by Benito Mussolini. Persia becomes Iran. William Lyon Mackenzie King is elected Prime Minister of Canada.






33. 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.






34. 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






35. 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.






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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Mexican Revolution ends. Greece restores its monarchy after a referendum.






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






49. 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






50. 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.