Timeline of History
Major Events in the Relatively Recent Past



Normans invade England
1066 		Columbus discovers America
1492 		Declaration of Independance
1776		 French Revolution
1792
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1508-1512
Michelangelo paints
the Sistine Chapel		 1610
Galileo discovers
Jupiter's moons		 1969
Man lands
on the moon



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1900s
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US		 Dust
Bowl		 Great
Depression		 WW2 WW2
USA		 Baby
Boom		 Korea Viet Nam
Teddy Roosevelt Taft Wilson Harding Coolidge Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford Carter Reagan Bush Clinton W Bush
Industrial Revolution Prohibition New Deal Cold War Domestic Terrorism
Sufferage Gangsters Holocaust McCarthyism Civil Rights Movement ERA Affirmative Action
Pneumonia Tuberculosis Polio Small Pox Herpes AIDS
Opium Cocaine Heroin Moonshine Opium Marijuana LSD Cocaine Heroin Crack Ecstacy
Ragtime Jazz Big Band Rock and Roll Folk Cultural Revolution Pop Disco Metal M-TV Rap Grunge Rave
Newspapers Radio TV Cable Sat TV Internet Video Phones Flying Cars

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Dec. 17
1903
Wright
Brothers
1st Flight

1913
Ford introduces
The Assembly Line
Mass Production
Industrial Revolution



1925
John Scopes
Monkey Trials
Evolution in
the classroom



'36 - '39
Spanish
Civil War

1947 - 1949
Israeli War for
Independence
Korean War
June 25, 1950
- July 27, 1953


Political Assassinations
Nov. 23, 1963 - John F. Kennedy
February 21, 1965 - Malcom X
April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King
June 5, 1968 - Bobby Kennedy
April 29, 1975
US troops
pull out of
Viet Nam



April - June 1989
Tiananmen Square
one million protest
1000s massacred




February 26, 1993
World Trade Center
Bombing - kills six
injures over 1000
September 11, 2001
911 Terrorist Attack
hijacked jets crash
into Pentagon and
World Trade Center
- thousands killed -
WW3 begins ???

2001-2002
US invades
Afghanistan,
ousts Taliban
2003 - ???
US / Iraq War
Ford Autos
Model A - 1903
Model T - 1908
January 16, 1919
18th Ammendment
US bans alcohol
Prohibition begins
October 24, 1929
"Black Thursday"
Stock Market Crash
Great Depression
officially begins


Dec. 5, 1933
Prohibition
is repealed
Dec 1, 1955
Rosa Parks
arrested for
refusing to
leave seat
1956
bus boycott
lasts 381 days
1974
Watergate
Nixon
resigns
Nov '79 - Jan '81
Iran Hostage Crisis
52 Americans
held 444 days
August 26th, 1920
19th Amendment
Suffrage ends
Women gain vote
February 1930
Gandhi launches
The Civil
Disobedience
Movement
Iran - 1979
Ayatollah
Khomeini
ousts Shah
Feb. 11, 1990
South Africa
Mandela freed
signaling end
of Apartheid
Jan. 15, 1991
"Desert Storm"
US invades Iraq
Gulf War begins
July 7, 1937
Japan invades China
1st battle World War II
250,000 soldiers lost
Dec. 1937 - Jan. 1938
The Rape of Nanjing
over 300,000 killed
80,000 women raped
September 1-3, 1939
Germans invade Poland
- Britain and France thus
declare war on Germany
World War II begins
December
7th, 1941
- Day of -
- Infamy -
Empire
of Japan
attacks
Pearl
Harbor
US enters
- WW2 - 		August 1945
USA drops two
nuclear bombs
on Japanese
cities of
Hiroshima
& Nagasaki
120,000 dead
- WW2 ends -
Nuclear Age
begins
August 28, 1963
over 250,000 people
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have a dream" speech
March 7, 1965
Selma, Alabama
Bloody Sunday
August 6, 1965
Voting Rights Act
signed into law
1978 - Camp
David Summit
- US President
Jimmy Carter
brokers peace
treaty between
Israel & Egypt
1990 - Walesa elected
president of Poland


1979 - 1989
The Soviet Union
invasion of Afghanistan

April-May 1992
Rodney King Riots
- in Los Angeles
& other US cities
Fall 2001
Anthrax Scare
tainted mail kills 5
many hospitalized
January 1905
First Russian
Revolution
140,000 workers
demonstrate at
Tsar's residence
Winter Palace
1000 killed
5000 injured
July 17, 1918
Czar Nicholas II and
family assassinated
Anastasia escapes,
flees to Europe


May 4, 1970
National Guardsmen
kill four, wound nine
student protesters at
Kent State University

Poland 1980
Solidarnosc
Lech Walesa
leads workers in
union movement
1993 - Waco, TX
51-day seige
April 19, 1995
Oklahoma City
Federal Building
July 27, 96
Atlanta, GA
Olympic Park
Bombing
Oct. 2-22 2002
DC Sniper Scare
father-son team
kill 10, wound 3
Train Bombings
3/11/ 04 - Madrid
7/7/05 - London
Feb - Nov 1917
Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin installed as
new Russian leader

Dec. 30, 1922
Soviet Union forms
unites Russia with
surrounding states
Fall 1936
- Axis formed -
Nazi Germany,
Italy & Japan

March 21, 1960
South Africa Apartheid
Sharpeville Massacre
police fire on 20,000
69 killed, 178 wounded



Spring 1973
US troops hold
Lakota Souix
under siege at
Wounded Knee



June 30, 1982
deadline expires
for ratification of
Equal Rights
Ammendment





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August 22, 1910
Empire of Japan
annexes Korea


World War I
Summer 1914
Nov. 11, 1918


December 6, 1921
Anglo-Irish Treaty
establishes Ireland
as a Free State

June 6, 1944 - D-Day
May 8, 1945 - V-E Day
Aug 14, 1945 - V-J Day


Jan. 8, 1959
Castro leads
Communists
Cuban Civil War

October 16-28, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
WW3 nearly begins over
Soviet missiles in Cuba


1974 - IRA
bombings
England,
Ireland

1982 - 1983
Israeli troops
invade Lebanon



Nov 95 - Jan 96
Budget Disputes
twice shut down
US Government
June 26, 2003
Sodomy Laws ruled
unconstitutional by
US Supreme Court
China - 1900
Boxer Rebellion
Oct 1911 - Feb 1912
Chinese Revolution
Manchu Dynasty to
Republic of China
August 10, 1920
Treaty of Sevres
- Allies & Turkey -
Ottoman Empire ends
Jan 10, '46
UN General
Assembly
1st session
October 1, 1949
Chinese Civil War ends
People's Republic of China
formed by Communists and
Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
1972 - Nixon
visits China
1973
Middle East oil embargo
U.S. energy crisis begins
1992 - MTV's
"Rock the Vote"
rallies 18-25
demographic
January 29, 1993
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Clinton lifts ban on
"gays in military"
Nov. - Dec. 2000
Presidential Election
Fla. Recount Scandal
February 14, 1919
League of Nations
formed - predecessor
of United Nations 		Feb 25, 1933 - Japan
Oct 14, 1933 - Germany
- future Axis powers split
from League of Nations
1948
South Africa
Apartheid begins
1961 - Soviet Union builds Berlin Wall
dividing Europe into East & West Blocs 		November 9, 1989 - Berlin Wall falls
ending the Eastern Communist Bloc
Amelia Earhart
1932 - 1st woman 2nd person
to fly solo across the Atlantic
- first to fly the Atlantic twice
January 11, 1935
1rst person to fly solo
from Hawaii to California
July 2, 1937
disappeared over S Pacific
near Howland Island
in round world attempt
Oct. 6-24, 1973
Yom Kippur War
Isreal vs Egypt & Syria
RU-486 - Mifepristone - "The Abortion Pill"
1980 - antiprogestins invented in France
September 2000 - approved by the US FDA


2001
Mad Cow Disease
Britain and Europe
1930 - MIT develops
first Modern Computer
"Differential Analyser"
1972
Munich Olympics
PLO murders 11
Israeli athletes
March
28, '79
Three
Mile
Island
nuclear
accident
May 18, 1980
Mt. St. Helens
volcanic eruption
2000 - DNA sequencing
Human Genome Project


2001
Power crisis
& blackouts
in California
Oct '99 - April '02
Second Boer War
British South Africa

Great Floods of '27
Mississippi Valley,
Galicia, Poland &
Kiu-Siu Is. Japan

1956-57 - Suez Crisis
Egypt, USSR vs Isreal,
UK, France, US & UN

June 5-10, 1967
Six Day War
Isreal vs Egypt




April 26, 1986
Chernobyl USSR
nuclear accident
1995
Chicago
Heat Wave
800 dead

Dec. '04 - Jan '05
El Nino causes
California landslides


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Earthquakes
April 18, 1906
San Francisco
Dec. 28, 1908
Messina, Sicily
April 14-15, 1912
Titanic strikes iceberg
on maiden voyage
- over 1500 lost -


1928 - 1935
Hoover Dam
construction
May 6, 1937
Hindenburgh
disaster