The Boers defeat the British at the battle of Spion Kop during the Second Boer War Arthur Evans rediscovers the bronze age city of Knossos in Crete A hurricane ravages Galveston Texas
Death of Queen Victoria Assassination of William McKinley The Boxer Rebellion ends in China
Cuba gains independence from the United States First Rose Bowl Game played Second Anglo-Boer War ends
Wright brothers flight First Tour de France First modern World Series: Boston Red Sox defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates
Russo-Japanese War begins The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France Third Summer Olympic Games held in St. Louis
First Russian Revolution: 'Bloody Sunday' occurs in St. Petersburg The Trans-Siberian Railway officially opens The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France
San Francisco earthquake Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples Finland becomes first European country to give women the vote
Oklahoma becomes the 46th State Russia, France and the UK sign the Triple Entente Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scouts
Herbert Henry Asquith becomes PM of the UK Mysterious Siberian explosion levels hundreds of square miles of forest Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia
Louis Blériot flies the English Channel Robert Peary claims to have reached the North Pole Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole begins
Mexican Revolution begins George V becomes King of the UK Korea comes under Japanese rule via the Japan–Korea Treaty
Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu in Peru First Indianapolis 500 automobile race held
RMS Titanic sinks Arizona and New Mexico become the 47th and 48th States Former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by John Schrank
T. Woodrow Wilson inaugerated as US President Henry Ford develops the first moving assembly line Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' premiers in Paris
Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia Panama Canal is officially opened
RMS Lusitania torpedoed Gallipoli Campaign begins An alleged 1.5 million Armenians are massacred in Turkey
Battle of the Somme Easter Rising in Dublin Mystic Grigori Rasputin is murdered
October Revolution in Russia Battle of Passchendaele (3rd Ypres) Mata Hari executed
German Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family are murdered The Weimar Republic established in Germany
Treaty of Versailles League of Nations founded The Grand Canyon established as a National Park
Prohibition begins in the USA Nineteenth Amendment granting women's suffrage ratified Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to take her seat in the UK House of Commons
The Communist Party of China is founded The Irish Free State is created Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party
The USSR is established Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy Howard Carter unearths the tomb of Tutankhamun
President Warren Harding dies in San Francisco French forces occupy the Ruhr in Germany Adolf Hitler conducts the Beer Hall Putsch
Death of Vladimir Lenin J. Edgar Hoover appointed Director of the Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Summer Olympics are held in Paris
Paul von Hindenberg becomes President of Germany The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' held in Tennessee Charlie Chaplin's 'The Gold Rush' and 'Battleship Potemkin'are released
John Logie Baird demonstrates the first working television system UK general strike occurs Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
Charles Lindbergh flies the Atlantic solo non-stop First talking film 'The Jazz Singer' is released Chinese Civil War begins
Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war signed in Paris Mickey Mouse debuts in 'Steamboat Willie'
The Wall Street Crash The St. Valentines Day Massacre First Academy Awards presented
Gandhi's Salt March Uruguay win the first FIFA World Cup Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
Japan invades and occupies Manchuria, China The Empire State Building is officially opened Star-Spangled Banner adopted as the US National anthem
Amelia Earhart flies solo across the Atlantic non-stop The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is founded Iraq gains independence from the UK
Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugerated as US President for the first time Reichstag fire in Berlin Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
'The Night of the Long Knives' in Germany Mao Zedong's 'Long March' begins Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow and John Dillinger are killed
Antisemitic Nuremburg Laws introduced in Germany Italy under Mussolini invade Ethiopia Persia changes it's name to Iran
UK King Edward VIII abdicates The Luftwaffe bomb Guernica in Spain Summer Olympics are held in Berlin
Second Sino-Japanese War begins Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear during their round the world flight German Zeppelin 'Hindenburg' catches fire and is destroyed
Austria is annexed by Nazi Germany in the 'Anschluss' The Munich Agreement Howard Hughes flies round the world in record time
USSR attacks Finland: The 'Winter War' begins Spanish Civil War ends 'Gone with the Wind' and 'The Wizard of Oz' are released
Winston Churchill becomes PM of the UK Leon Trotsky is murdered in Mexico Italy declares war on France and the UK
Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese Nazi Germany invades the USSR Sculpting of Mount Rushmore completed
Singapore falls to the Japanese Battle of Midway Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo
Benito Mussolini is ousted from power in Italy Allies land in Salerno, Calabria and Taranto, Italy The Dam Busters raid in the Ruhr Germany
Operation Overlord Battle of Monte Cassino Operation Market Garden
Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt Adolf Hitler commits suicide United Nations founded
The Philippines gains independence from the United States Juan Peron becomes President of Argentina The Nuremburg trials end
India gains independence from the UK Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier Thor Heyerdahl's 'Kon-Tiki' expedition
Mohandas Gandhi assassinated The State of Israel is declared Berlin airlift begins
People's Republic of China founded NATO formed Konrad Adenauer becomes Chancellor of West Germany
The Korean War begins USA defeat England 1-0 in the fourth FIFA World Cup in Brazil Joseph R. McCarthy begins the 'Red Scare'
Libya gains Independence from Italy President Truman sacks General Douglas MacArthur 'The African Queen' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' are released
Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the UK Death of Eva Peron Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the US
Death of Joseph Stalin Hillary and Norgay climb Mount Everest Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage
Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Viet Minh defeat the French in Vietnam Bill Haley and His Comets release 'Rock Around the Clock' Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four minute mile
Jonas Salk discovers and develops the Salk polio vaccine Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat in Montgomery Alabama The Warsaw Pact created
The Suez Crisis The Hungarian Revolution Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco
Soviet Union launch first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier becomes President of Haiti Harold Macmillan becomes the PM of the UK
Charles de Gaulle becomes President of France The European Economic Community (Common Market) is founded . Manchester United Munich air disaster
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th States Fidel Castro becomes Prime Minister of Cuba Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P.'The Big Bopper' Richardson are killed in a plane crash
Civil Rights Act enacted by President Eisenhower American Gary Powers is shot down in a spy plane over the USSR Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Gabon, Republic of Congo and Chad gain independence from France
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space Bay of Pigs invasion Berlin Wall constructed
Cuban Missile Crisis Death of Marilyn Monroe Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann executed in Israel
John F. Kennedy assassinated Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space High-ranking member of British intelligence Kim Philby defects to the USSR
Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston and becomes World Heavyweight Champion
Malcolm X is assassinated Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his 'Great Society' Rhodesia makes Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the UK
The Cultural Revolution begins in China England win the FIFA World Cup Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union
Arab–Israeli Six Day War Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is executed in Bolivia Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I
Martin Luther King assassinated Robert Kennedy assassinated The Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon Charles Manson murders The El Salvador–Honduras 'Football War'
Apollo 13 moon mission The Beatles disband Brazil defeat Italy 4-1 to win the Ninth FIFA World Cup in Mexico
Idi Amin becomes President of Uganda East Pakistan becomes the separate state of Bangladesh 'Fight of the Century': Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden
Eleven Israeli athletes are murdered at the Munich Olympic Games Bobby Fischer becomes FIDE World Chess Champion Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Godfather' is released
Arab–Israeli War Yom Kippur War USA and North Vietnam sign the Paris Peace Treaty Pink Floyd release 'The Dark Side of the Moon'
Richard Nixon resigns the US Presidency Terracotta Army discovered in China Carnation Revolution restores democracy in Portugal
Death of Francisco Franco Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft Jimmy Hoffa disappears
Steve Jobs et al found Apple Inc. First commercial flight of the supersonic Concorde aircraft Israeli commandos free passengers and crew of hijacked French airliner at Entebbe, Uganda
South African activist Steve Biko dies in police custody Death of Elvis Presley Gary Gilmore executed by firing squad in Utah
Pope John Paul I dies after 33 days in office Israeli-Egyptian Camp David Accords Members of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown Guyana commit mass suicide
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan Ruhollah Khomeini becomes leader of Iran Margaret Thatcher becomes PM of the UK
The Iran–Iraq War begins John Lennon shot dead in New York SAS storm the Iranian Embassy in London
Pope John Paul II is shot by Mehmet Ali Ağca President Ronald Reagan is shot by John Hinckley, Jr Prince Charles marries Diana Spencer
UK–Argentina Falklands Conflict Michael Jackson releases 'Thriller' Lebanon War: Israel Defense Forces invade southern Lebanon
Sally Ride becomes first US woman astronaut aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle USA invades Grenada Ferdinand Marcos rival Benigno Aquino assassinated in Manila
Indira Gandhi assassinated Bob Geldof and Midge Ure launch Band Aid for Ethiopian famine Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is sunk in Auckland Harbour Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of freedom from the South African government
Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine Challenger Space Shuttle disaster Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.
Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall Black Monday: Stock market levels fall sharply around the world Imprisoned Nazi Rudolf Hess is found dead in Spandau Prison Berlin
Terrorist bomb explodes on Pan Am jet over Lockerbie Scotland Explosions destroy the Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea Benazir Bhutto becomes PM of Pakistan for the first time
Fall of the Berlin Wall Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing Timothy Berners-Lee founds the World Wide Web
Gulf War begins Lech Walesa becomes President of Poland Buster Douglas KO's Mike Tyson and becomes World Heavyweight Champion
Dissolution of the Soviet Union Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia Somali Civil War begins
Bosnian War begins Rodney King riots in Los Angeles Fire severely damages Windsor Castle in England
Bill Clinton inaugerated as US President Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czech Republic and Slovakia separate World Trade Center bombing in New York
Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa The Rwandan genocide: up to 1m Tutsi are slaughtered by the Hutsi Channel Tunnel opens
Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin assassinated O.J. Simpson murder trial Oklahoma City bombing
Madeleine Albright is appointed first female US Secretary of State Cloned Dolly the sheep is born Summer Olympics held in Atlanta
Death of Mother Teresa Death of Diana Princess of Wales The UK returns Hong Kong to China
Good Friday Agreement is signed in Belfast President Clinton is impeached 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski jailed for life
Creation of the European single currency (the Euro) Death of King Hussein of Jordan Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia
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