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 Short Timeline for World Events in the 20th Century

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WORLD Events (20th Century)



1901
Marconi sends first transatlantic radio message from Britain
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1901
Death of Queen Victoria
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1901
Edward VII comes to English throne
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1901
Commonwealth of Australia established
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1902
Death of Emile Zola (writer)
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1902
Eruption of Mount Pelée, Martinique (40,000 killed)
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1902
Boers surrender to British forces in South Africa
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1903
Wright Brothers make first controlled flight in aeroplane
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1903
Henry Ford designs first mass-produced cars
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1903
Bolshevik Party established in Russia
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1904
Russo-Japanese War
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1904
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov wins Nobel Prize for work on animal behaviour
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1905

Norway separates from Sweden
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1905
Trans-Siberian Railway completed
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1905
"Bloody Sunday" massace of protestors in St Petersburg
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1905
Sir Albert Einstein develops special theory of relativity
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1905
Sinn Fein, Irish nationalist (Republican) movement, founded
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1906
Movement for Women's Suffrage becomes active in Britain
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1906
Liberal landslide government in Britain

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1906
Norwegian Roald Amundsen navigates North-West Passage
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1907
Entente Cordiale between Russia, Britain and France
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1908
Herbert Asquith becomes Liberal Prime Minister
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1908
Lord Baden-Powell founds Boy Scouts and Girl Guides
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1908
"Young Turk" Revolution establishes constitution in Turkey
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1908
Bulgaria liberated from Turkish rule by Russia
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1909
American Robert Peary first to reach North Pole
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1909
Union of South Africa established
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1909
Arnold Schoenberg explores musical atonality
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1909
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque develop Cubism
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1910
First Post-Impressionist art exhibition (Cezanne/Van Gogh/Gauguin) in
London
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1910
Death of Florence Nightingale (nurse and hospital reformer)
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1910
George V succedes to British throne
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1910
Portuguese monarchy abolished in favour of republic
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1910
Mexican Revolution under Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa leads to
civil war
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1910
Futurist Manifesto (modern art movement) published in Italy
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1911
Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes first to reach South Pole
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1911
Vasily Kandinsky experiments with abstract expressionism
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1911
Chinese Revolution - Sun Yat-Sen establishes Republic
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1912
African National Congress (ANC) formed in South Africa to fight
apartheid
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1913
Rabindranath Tagore receives Nobel Prize for Literature
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1913
Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" causes uproar
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1913
Nijinsky and Pavlova perfoming Fokine and Diaghilev's ballets
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1914
First World War - Germany/Austria vs Britain/France/Russia
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1914
Panama Canal opened
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1914
Charlie Chaplin makes his first silent movies
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1915
Albert Einstein publishes General Theory of Relativity
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1916
Inconclusive battles at Verdun and Somme in France
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1916
Grigory Rasputin murdered by nobles of Nicholas II's court
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1916
Unsuccessful Easter Rising by Irish Republicans
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1916
Tristan Tzara develops Dada art movement
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1917
Democratic constition established in Mexico
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1917
Chicago takes over from New Orleans as capital of jazz
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1917
US enters First World War - balance tips in Allies' favour
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1917
Bolshevik Revolution under Vladimir Ilych Lenin and Leon Trotsky
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1918

Lawrence of Arabia aids British forces in Middle East
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1918
Tsar Nicholas II killed
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1918
Bolsheviks end Russian involvment in First World War
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1918
End of First World War (25m killed) - Versailles Conference
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1918
Women over 30 granted right to vote in Britain
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1918
Earnest Rutherford splits the atom
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1918
Jewish League formed by David Ben Gurion
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1919
Start of "Indianization" of civil service
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1919
Amritsar Massacre - beginning of limited self-rule
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1919
Death of Adelina Patti (opera singer)
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1919
Irish Republican Army (IRA) formed as radical military wing of Sinn
Fein
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1919
Treaty of Versailles - Germany loses annexed lands and colonies
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1919
Germany proclaimed a republic
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1919
Bauhaus art movement developed by architect Walter Gropius
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1919
Prohibition of alcohol in North America
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1919
Kemal Atatürk leads Turkish nationlist resistance
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1919
Jewish Zionists start immigration into Palestine
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1919
Poland recognized as independent state after First World War
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1919
League of Nations formed
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1920
Russo-Polish War
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1921
Chinese Communist Party founded
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1921
Economic collapse and famine in Russia - 5 million die
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1921
Modern Persian state created by Resa Khan
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1921
Greece declares war on Turkey
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1922
TS Eliot writes "The Waste Land"
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1922
Dane Niels Bohr wins Nobel Prize for work on atomic theory
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1922
Fascist Benito Mussolini siezes power as dictator in Italy
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1922
James Joyce writes "Ulysses"
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1922
Ireland partitioned into Ulster (North) and Irish Free State (South)
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1922
Republic of Turkey declared under Kemal Pasha
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1922
Britain grants independence to Egypt
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1923
Arnold Schoenberg develops 12-tone system of music
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1924
First Labour Government under Ramsay MacDonald voted in Britain
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1924
André Breton publishes first Surrealist Manifesto
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1924
Joseph Stalin becomes Premiere of Russia after Death of Lenin
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1924
Greece declares itself a republic
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1925
France Kafka writes "The Trial"
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1925
Art Deco movement at its height
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1926
General Strike in Britain
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1926
Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
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1926
Antonio Salazar leads military coup in Portugal
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1927
Werner Heisenberg publishes treatise on Uncertainty Principle
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1927
Charles Lindburgh makes first solo flight of Atlantic
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1927
First "talkie" movie - "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson
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1927
Leon Trotsky expelled from Communist Party
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1928
Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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1928
Equal adult suffrage established in Britain
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1928
Kuomintang under Chang Kai-Shek subdues Chinese warlords
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1928
Walt Disney introduces character of Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie"
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1928
Bessie Smith recording first Blues songs
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1929
Kurt Weill writes "Threepenny Opera"
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1929
Valentines Day Massacre - Al Capone gains control of Chicago
underworld
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1929
US Stock Market Crash
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1929
Massive collectivization push in Russia under Stalin

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1930
Mahatma Ghandi leads Salt March in India
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1930
Civil War in China between Nationalists and Communists
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1930
Pluto (last planet) discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
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1930
Coup in Brazil, start of Vargas dictatorship
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1930
Heile Selassie becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
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1931
National Coalition Government in Britain
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1931
Japanese invade Manchuria
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1931
Spain proclaimed a republic under Communist rule
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1932
Eamonn de Valera becomes Republican Fianna Fail leader
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1933
Adolph Hitler becomes dictator after coup
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1933
End of Prohibition of alcohol
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1933
FD Roosevelt becomes US President
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1934
Long March by Chinese communists under Mao Tse-Tung
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1934
Bonnie Parke and Clyde Barrow ("Bonnie and Clyde") killed in Louisiana
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1934
Social Realism art movement encouraged in Russia
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1935
Benito Mussolini invades Abyssinia
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1935
France concludes pact of mutual assistance with Russia
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1935
Germany under Hitler begins persecution of Jews (6m killed)
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1935
Count Basie leads his Big Band Orchestra
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1936
King George V dies - Edward VIII abdicates - George VI accedes
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1936
Popular Front government in France under Léon Blum
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1936
Joe Louis becomes heavyweight boxing champion
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1936
Great purge of Russian political parties by Stalin
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1936
Spanish Civil War starts
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1936
Assassination of Federico Garcيa Lorca (Spanish poet)
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1937
Neville Chamberlaine's government appeases Germany and Italy
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1937
Japanese advance into Northern China and Mongolia
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1937
Eire (Southern Ireland) declares itself completely independent state
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1937
German bombing of Guernica, Northern Spain
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1938
Enrico Fermi wins Nobel Prize for work on atomic energy
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1938
Hitler siezes Austria (Anschluss) and Czechoslovakia
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1939
Russia signs non-agression pact with Hitler's Germany
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1939
Britain and France enter Second World War after Hitler invades Poland
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1939
Fascists under Francisco Franco triumph in Spanish Civil War
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1940
Sir Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister
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1940
Battle of Britain - Germany defeated in air
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1940
Marshal Pétain agrees armistice with Hitler - France occupied
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1940
Japan occupies Indo-China

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1941
Germany invades Russia - Russia enters Second World War
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1941
Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbour brings US into Second World War
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1941
Josip Broz Tito leads coommunist revolution in Yugoslavia
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1942
British army under Montgomery drives Germans out of Egypt
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1942
Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus develop Existentialism
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1942
Manhattan Project established to develop atomic bomb
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1943
Mussolini overthrown and Fascist Party dissolved
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1944
D-Day - Allies make crucial push into France
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1944
Charles de Gaulle organizes provisional government after Paris
liberated
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1945
Germany surrenders - end of Second World War (45m killed)
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1945
US drops first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Japan
surrenders
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1945
Clement Attlee becomes Labour Prime Minister of Britain
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1945
Jackson Pollock pioneers action painting
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1945
ENIAC considered to be first functional computer
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1945
Russian intransigence after Potsdam conference starts "Cold War"
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1945
Death of King Zog of Albania
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1945
United Nations (UN) formed
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1946
Italy votes to become a republic
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1946
Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal
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1946
League of Nations formally abandoned
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1947
British withdraw from India - Partition of India and Pakistan
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1947
"Iron Curtain" effectively drawn around Soviet-controlled countries
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1947
US Marshall Plan aid spurs European economic recovery
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1948
George Orwell writes "1984"
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1948
British pull out of Palestine - state of Israel established
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1948
Enver Hoxha leads Albania as independent Stalinist state
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1948
Organization of American States (OAS) formed
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1948
Afrikaaner National Party comes to power in South Africa - apartheid
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1948
Korea divided into North and South Republics
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1948
Mahatma Ghandi assassinated
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1949
People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-Tung
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1949
West Germany declared a republic - Konrad Adenauer is Chanceller
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1949
Comecon setablished to coordinate Soviet block economies
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1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed
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1949
Council of Europe formed
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1949
Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
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1949
William Faulkner wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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1950
Bertrand Russell receives Nobel Prize for Literature
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1950
Korean War starts - Communist North vs Capitalist South
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1950
US becomes involved in Korean War
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1951
ANZUS Pact signed by Australia, New Zealand and USA
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1951
American post-war occupation of Japan ends
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1952
George VI dies - Elizabeth II takes British throne
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1952
Bolivian Revolution
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1952
Coup deposes King Farouk of Egypt
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1952
Death of Eva Perَn ("Evita") in Argentina
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1952
Huge collectivization push in rural China
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1952
Samuel Beckett develops Theatre of the Absurd - "Waiting for Godot"
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1952
Dwight Eisenhower becomes US President
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1953
New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary first to reach summit of Everest
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1953
Death of Josef Stalin - Nikita Khruschev becomes Premiere
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1953
Soviets successfully test hydrogen bomb
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1953
Mau Mau Rebellion breaks out in Kenya
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1953
Korean War ends after involving China, US and several other countries
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1954
Vietnam divided - Laos and Cambodia recognized as independent
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1954
Rock'n'Roll music becomes popular - Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, etc
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1954
Anti-Communist McCarthyism censured in US
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1955
Coup deposes dictator Juan Perَn in Argentina
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1955
Warsaw Pact signed by USSR, Poland, Romania, Hungary,
Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Albania
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1956
Suez Crisis - Britain and France invade Egypt
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1956
Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes President of Egyptian Republic
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1956
Hungarian revolt brutally suppressed by Soviets
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1956
"My Fair Lady" popular musical
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1957
Sir Harold MacMillan becomes British Prime Minister
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1957
Russian Sputnik sattelite launched
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1957
European Economic Comunity (EEC) established
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1957
Ghana first African colony to gain independence from Britain
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1957
India claims state of Kashmir
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1958
Dalai Lama flees Tibet from Chinese persecution
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1958
Charles de Gaulle given extensive powers in France
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1958
Ayub Khan becomes military leader of Pakistan
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1958
Oral contraceptive pill becomes available
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1959
Fidel Castro establishes communist dictatorship in Cuba
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1960
Construction of Aswan High Dam in Egypt begins
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1960
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) established
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1960
Congo gains independence from Belgium
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1960
Communist North Vietnam starts war against Capitalist South
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1961
Cuban Missile Crisis after US-backed anti-Castro invasion fails
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1961
Berlin Wall built between East and West Germany
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1961
Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space
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1961
South Africa declares republic and leaves British Commonwealth
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1961
Portugal loses its territories in Goa, India
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1962
Georges Pompidou takes over after vote against Charles de Gaulle
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1962
Yemenese Civil War
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1963
The Beatles rise to popularity
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1963
US President John F Kennedy shot
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1964
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) formed
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1964
Nelson Mandela jailed for campaigning against apartheid in South
Africa
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1964
Kenya becomes republic under Jomo Kenyatta
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1964
Indian Prime Minister Jahawarlal Nehru dies
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1964
Military dictatorship established in Brazil
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1964
Civil Rights Act passed in US
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1964
US becomes involved in Vietnam War
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1965
White government declares independence in Southern Rhodesia
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1965
Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of Philippines
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1966
Cultural Revolution begins in China
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1967
Sir Francis Chichester first to sail around world single-handed
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1967
Che Guevara, Cuban revolutionary leader, killed in Bolivia
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1967
First Arab-Israeli (6-Day) War
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1967
General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade (GATT) formulated
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1967
Nigerian Civil War - Biafra famine
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1967
First human heart transplant performed in South Africa
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1967
"Flower Power" at its height in California
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1968
C Day Lewis becomes British Poet Laureate
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1968
Albania withdraws from Warsaw Pact for ideological reasons
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1968
Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia crushed by Soviets
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1968
Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada
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1968
Black rights campaigner Martin Luther King assassinated
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1969
British supersonic aircraft Concorde makes maiden flight
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1969
Border disputes between China and Russia
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1969
Provisional IRA, terrorist offshoot of IRA, formed
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1969
Catholic vs Protestant "Troubles" resume in Ireland
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1969
Willi Brandt becomes German Chanceller
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1969
Moammar al-Qaddafi (Gadafi) leads military coup in Libya
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1969
Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on Moon
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1969
US involvement in Vietnam War peaks
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1970
Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path") Maoist guerrilla group founded in
Peru
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1971
Revolution in Ethiopia overthrows Haile Selassie
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1971
Indira Ghandi becomes Prime Minister of India
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1971
Indo-Pakistan War - Bangladesh declared independent republic
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1971
Rapprochement between US and China - Richard Nixon's visit
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1972
"Bloody Sunday" massacre in Ireland
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1972
British impose direct rule on Northern Ireland
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1972
Treaty recognizes East and West Germany as sovereign states
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1972
"Detente" - Strategic Ams Pact between Russia and the West
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1972
European Free Trade Agreement
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1972
President Idi Amin expels Asians from Uganda
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1972
Ceylon becomes independent Republic of Sri Lanka
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1973
Britain joins European Economic Community
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1973
General Augusto Pinochet ousts democratic Allende government in Chile
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1973
Second Arab-Israeli (Yom Kippur) War
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1973
Saudi Arabia leads huge oil price increases - world economy slows
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1973
US launches Pioneer II to explore outer planets
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1973
Henry Kissinger becomes US Secretary of State
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1974
Alexander Solzhenitsyn deported to the West
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1974
Turkey intervenes in Cyprus
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1974
PLO under Yasser Arafat recognized as representing Palestine
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1974
Portugal overthrows dictatorship - Antَnio de Spinola President
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1974
Portugal grants independence to Mozambique, Angola and other colonies
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1974
South Africa voted out of UN for apartheid policies
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1974
India explodes first nuclear device
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1974
Watergate Scandal - Richard Nixon quits as President
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1975
Birmingham Pub Bombings by IRA
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1975
Christian vs Muslim war in Lebanon
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1975
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated
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1975
Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after Franco's death
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1975
Civil war breaks out in Angola
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1975
US pulls out of Vietnam War
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1975
Communists finally triumph in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
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1976
Punk (rebel muusic cult) develops - Sex Pistols, Clash, etc
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1976
Mao Tse-Tung dies - Gang of Four arrested
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1976
Giulio Andreotti leads minority government in Italy
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1976
Baader-Meinhof Gang (leftist terrorists) active in Germany
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1976
Free elections re-established in Spain
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1977
Israel under Menachem Begin starts West Bank settlements
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1977
Activist Steve Biko dies in custody in South Africa
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1977
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto executed after coup in Pakistan
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1978
Aldo Moro assassinated by leftist Red Brigade terrorists
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1978
ETA (Basque seperatist group) active in Spain
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1978
Radical reorganization of Cambodia by cruel Pol-Pot regime
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1978
Muhammed Zia Ul-Haq becomes hard-line Muslim President of Pakistan
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1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister
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1979
Military coup in Bolivia
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1979
Somoza regime in Nicaragua ousted by leftist Sandinistas
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1979
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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1979
Iranian Revolution - Ayatollah Khomeini proclaims Islamic Republic
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1979
Camp David Agreement brokers peace between Israel and Egypt
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1979
Idi Amin forced out of Uganda
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1979
"Boat People" start to flee Communist regime in Vietnam
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1979
President Park Chung Hee of South Korea assassinated
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1979
Three Mile Island nuclear reactor incident in US
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1980
Robert Mugabe leads first black government in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
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1980
John Lennon (singer) shot
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1980
Social Democratic Party formed
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1980
Deng Xiao-Ping becomes Chairman of China
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1980
Relations between East and West Germany deteriorate
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1980
Military coup in Turkey under Kenan Evren
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1980
Iran-Iraq War begins
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1980
Gdansk Shipyard Strike in Poland - Lech Walesa forms Solidarity
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1980
Tito dies - Yugoslavia's six states begin to argue
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1980
Iranian Hostage Crisis - hostages held in US Embassy in Tehran
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1980
Eruption of Mount St Helens (60 killed)
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1980
Ronald Reagan becomes US President
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1981
Black youths riot in British cities
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1981
IRA prisoners go on hunger strike - 10 die
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1981
François Mitterrand becomes first Socialist President of France
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1981
President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt assassinated by Muslim fundamentalists
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1981
Greece votes in Socialist Andreas Papandreou
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1981
AIDS becomes major health threat throughout world
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1982
Britain regain Falklands Islands (Malvinas) after Argentinian
occupation
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1982
Israel invades Lebanon - Israel-Lebanon War
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1982
Martial law in Poland ended by Solidarity action
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1983
Bettino Craxi leads coalition government
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1983
Helmut Kohl becomes German Chancellor
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1983
End of Israel-Lebanon War
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1983
Socialist government headed by Mلrio Soares in Portugal
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1983
Coloureds and Asians allowed vote in South Africa
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1983
Philippino opposition leader Benigno Aquino assassinated
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1984
Miners' Strike in Britain
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1984
Drought and famine in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan
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1984
Indira Ghandi assassinated by Sikhs - violence erupts in India
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1985
Brazil returns to democratic civilian rule
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1985
Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia claims 25,000 lives
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1985
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Russian Premiere - "Glasnost" and
"Perestroika"
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1985
Enver Hoxha dies - Albania gradually relaxes foreign relations
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1985
Pro-Solidarity Father Jerzy Popieluzsko assassinated in Poland
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1985
Tamil separatist resurgence in Sri Lanka
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1986
Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister
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1986
Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, contaminating most of Europe
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1986
Marcos flees country and Corazon Aquino takes power in Philippines
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1987
Russia and West sign first of several treaties to reduce nuclear arms
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1987
Iran-Contra Affair - arms for aid scandal
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1987
Intifada - Palestinian opposition to Israeli occupation of Gaza and
West Bank
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1988
End of Iran-Iraq War
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1988
US and Canada sign free trade agreement
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1989
Pro-democracy protest in Tianenmen Square, Beijing, brutally crushed
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1989
Akihito succedes his father Hirohito as Emperor of Japan
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1989
Russians pull out of costly war in Afghanistan
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1989
Berlin Wall demolished
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1989
European Monetary System (EMS) established - move towards single
currency
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1989
Exxon Valdez oil-spill in Alaska
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1990
Margaret Thatcher resigns - John Major takes over as British PM
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1990
Alberto Fujimori elected President in Peru
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1990
East and West Germany unite as Federal Republic of Germany
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1990
Civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina starts
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1990
Neslon Mandela released - end of apartheid in South Africa
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1990
Hubble Space Telescope launched
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1990
Iraq invades Kuwait
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1991
Persian Gulf War starts
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1991
USSR breaks up into constituent countries - end of Soviet era
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1991
Ethiopian Civil War ends - Eritrea becomes independent
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1991
Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi killed by Tamil suicide bomber
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1993
Salvatore Riina, reputed Mafia leader, arrested
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1993
European Union (EU) formed by former EEC members
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1994
"Chunnel", rail tunnel between England and France, inaugurated
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1994
IRA announce unconditional cease-fire - lasts until 1996
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1994
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) established
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1994
Nelson Mandela becomes first black President of South Africa
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1994
Sovereignty of Quebec narrowly defeated in referendum




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