1901–2000
Modern Era
World wars, cold war, and the splitting of the atom.
621 events across 100 years
Turning points
1903North AmericaTechnology
Wright brothers fly at Kitty Hawk
December 17, 1903Modern Era
1905East AsiaWar
Togo annihilates Russians at Tsushima
May 27, 1905Modern Era
1905EuropeScience
Einstein's miracle year
1905Modern Era
1907EuropeCulture
Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1907Modern Era
1908North AmericaTechnology
Ford rolls out the Model T
October 1, 1908Modern Era
1915Middle EastWar
Armenian genocide begins
April 24, 1915Modern Era
1915EuropeScience
Einstein presents general relativity
November 25, 1915Modern Era
1917EuropePolitics
Bolsheviks seize Petrograd
November 7, 1917Modern Era
1918North AmericaDisaster
Spanish Flu Pandemic Begins
March 1918Modern Era
1923East AsiaDisaster
Great Kantō Earthquake
September 1, 1923Modern Era
1930South AsiaPolitics
Gandhi's Salt March
March 12, 1930Modern Era
1939EuropeWar
Germany invades Poland
September 1, 1939Modern Era
1942OceaniaWar
Midway turns the Pacific war
June 4, 1942Modern Era
1945North AmericaScience
Trinity test lights the New Mexico desert
July 16, 1945Modern Era
1947South AsiaPolitics
India and Pakistan gain independence
August 15, 1947Modern Era
1947North AmericaTechnology
Transistor invented at Bell Labs
December 23, 1947Modern Era
1948Middle EastPolitics
State of Israel declared
May 14, 1948Modern Era
1960South AmericaDisaster
Great Chilean Earthquake
May 22, 1960Modern Era
1960AfricaPolitics
Year of Africa
1960Modern Era
1961Central AsiaScience
Gagarin orbits the Earth
April 12, 1961Modern Era
1969North AmericaExploration
Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
July 20, 1969Modern Era
1975Southeast AsiaPolitics
Khmer Rouge take Phnom Penh
April 17, 1975Modern Era
1975Southeast AsiaWar
Fall of Saigon
April 30, 1975Modern Era
1976East AsiaDisaster
Tangshan Earthquake
July 28, 1976Modern Era
1979Middle EastPolitics
Khomeini returns to Iran
February 1, 1979Modern Era
1979Central AsiaWar
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
December 24, 1979Modern Era
1984South AsiaDisaster
Bhopal Gas Disaster
December 3, 1984Modern Era
1989EuropeTechnology
Berners-Lee proposes the Web
March 12, 1989Modern Era
1991Southeast AsiaDisaster
Mount Pinatubo Erupts
June 15, 1991Modern Era
1994AfricaWar
Rwandan genocide begins
April 6, 1994Modern Era
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