| Event | Left (L) or Right (R) | Event |
| Birth of playwright William Shakespeare | |
| Star Wars released | |
| Radium discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie | |
| John Lennon shot dead in NY | |
| Rudyard Kipling received Nobel Prize in literature | |
| John F Kennedy assassinated | |
| Alfred Nobel patented dynamite | |
| Britain's first automated traffic lights launched | |
| First manned hot-air balloon flight | |
| First UK parliament formed | |
| Birth of playwright William Shakespeare | |
| Star Wars released | |
| Radium discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie | |
| John Lennon shot dead in NY | |
| Rudyard Kipling received Nobel Prize in literature | |
| John F Kennedy assassinated | |
| Alfred Nobel patented dynamite | |
| Britain's first automated traffic lights launched | |
| First manned hot-air balloon flight | |
| First UK parliament formed | |