What big events happened from 1900s to 1950s?

Answer 1

1901

Death of Queen Victoria

1901

Edward VII comes to English throne

1901

Marconi sends first transatlantic radio message from Britain

1901

Commonwealth of Australia established

1902

Eruption of Mount Pelée, Martinique (40,000 killed)

1902

Boers surrender to British forces in South Africa

1903

Wright Brothers make first controlled flight in aeroplane

1903

Henry Ford designs first mass-produced cars

1903

Bolshevik Party established in Russia

1905

Norway separates from Sweden

1905

Trans-Siberian Railway completed

1905

"Bloody Sunday" massace of protestors in St Petersburg

1905

Albert Einstein develops special theory of relativity

1906

Movement for Women's Suffrage becomes active in Britain

1906

Norwegian Roald Amundsen navigates North-West Passage

1907

Death of Edvard Grieg (Norwegian composer)

1908

Lord Baden-Powell founds Boy Scouts and Girl Guides

1908

Bulgaria liberated from Turkish rule by Russia

1909

American Robert Peary first to reach North Pole

1909

Union of South Africa established

1910

Death of Florence Nightingale (nurse and hospital reformer)

1910

George V succedes to British throne

1910

Portuguese monarchy abolished in favour of republic

1910

Mexican Revolution under Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa leads to civil war

1910

Death of Leo Tolstoy (writer)

1911

Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes first to reach South Pole

1911

Chinese Revolution - Sun Yat-Sen establishes Republic

1911

Death of Gustav Mahler (composer)

1912

African National Congress (ANC) formed in South Africa to fight apartheid

1913

Nijinsky and Pavlova perfoming Fokine and Diaghilev's ballets

1914

First World War - Germany/Austria vs Britain/France/Russia

1914

Panama Canal opened

1914

Charlie Chaplin makes his first silent movies

1916

Albert Einstein publishes General Theory of Relativity

1916

Grigory Rasputin murdered by nobles of Nicholas II's court

1916

Unsuccessful Easter Rising by Irish Republicans

1917

Death of Buffalo Bill Cody (showman)

1917

Chicago takes over from New Orleans as capital of jazz

1917

US enters First World War - balance tips in Allies' favour

1917

Bolshevik Revolution under Vladimir Ilych Lenin and Leon Trotsky

1918

Lawrence of Arabia aids British forces in Middle East

1918

Tsar Nicholas II killed

1918

End of First World War (25m killed) - Versailles Conference

1918

Women over 30 granted right to vote in Britain

1918

Earnest Rutherford splits the atom

1918

Death of Claude Debussy (composer)

1918

Jewish League formed by David Ben Gurion

1918

Spanish influenza pandemic (50 to 100 million killed worldwide)

1919

Start of "Indianization" of civil service

1919

Irish Republican Army (IRA) formed as radical military wing of Sinn Fein

1919

Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (artist)

1919

Treaty of Versailles - Germany loses annexed lands and colonies

1919

Germany proclaimed a republic

1919

Prohibition of alcohol in North America

1919

Kemal Atatürk leads Turkish nationlist resistance

1919

Jewish Zionists start immigration into Palestine

1919

Poland recognized as independent state after First World War

1919

League of Nations formed

1921

Chinese Communist Party founded

1921

Death of Enrico Caruso (opera singer)

1921

Economic collapse and famine in Russia - 5 million die

1921

Greece declares war on Turkey

1922

TS Eliot writes "The Waste Land"

1922

Dane Niels Bohr wins Nobel Prize for work on atomic theory

1922

Fascist Benito Mussolini siezes power as dictator in Italy

1922

James Joyce writes "Ulysses"

1922

Ireland partitioned into Ulster (North) and Irish Free State (South)

1922

Republic of Turkey declared under Kemal Pasha

1922

Britain grants independence to Egypt

1923

Arnold Schoenberg develops 12-tone system of music

1924

First Labour Government under Ramsay MacDonald voted in Britain

1924

Death of Giaccomo Puccini (composer)

1924

Joseph Stalin becomes Premiere of Russia after Death of Lenin

1924

Greece declares itself a republic

1925

Art Deco movement at its height

1926

German physicist Werner Heisenberg develops his uncertainty principle

1926

General Strike in Britain

1926

Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan

1926

Death of Rainer Maria Rilke (poet)

1926

Antonio Salazar leads military coup in Portugal

1927

Charles Lindburgh makes first solo flight of Atlantic

1927

First "talkie" movie - "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson

1927

Leon Trotsky expelled from Communist Party

1928

Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1928

Equal adult suffrage established in Britain

1928

Walt Disney introduces character of Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie"

1928

Bessie Smith recording first Blues songs

1929

Kurt Weill writes "Threepenny Opera"

1929

Valentines Day Massacre - Al Capone gains control of Chicago underworld

1929

Astronomer Edwin Hubble shows that the universe is expanding

1929

US Stock Market Crash

1930

Death of DH Lawrence (writer)

1930

Mahatma Ghandi leads Salt March in India

1930

Civil War in China between Nationalists and Communists

1930

Pluto (last planet) discovered by Clyde Tombaugh

1930

Heile Selassie becomes Emperor of Ethiopia

1931

Japanese invade Manchuria

1931

Spain proclaimed a republic

1931

Floods in Central China kill up to 4 million

1932

Aldous Huxley writes "Brave New World"

1933

Adolph Hitler becomes dictator after coup

1933

End of Prohibition of alcohol

1933

FD Roosevelt becomes US President

1934

Death of Sir Edward Elgar (composer)

1934

Long March by Chinese communists under Mao Tse-Tung

1934

Bonnie Parke and Clyde Barrow ("Bonnie and Clyde") killed in Louisiana

1935

Benito Mussolini invades Abyssinia

1935

Germany under Hitler begins persecution of Jews (6m killed)

1935

Count Basie leads his Big Band Orchestra

1936

King George V dies - Edward VIII abdicates - George VI accedes

1936

Joe Louis becomes heavyweight boxing champion

1936

Great purge of Russian political parties by Stalin

1936

Spanish Civil War starts

1936

Assassination of Federico García Lorca (Spanish poet)

1937

Neville Chamberlaine's government appeases Germany and Italy

1937

Japanese advance into Northern China and Mongolia

1937

Eire (Southern Ireland) declares itself completely independent state

1937

Death of Maurice Ravel (composer)

1938

Enrico Fermi wins Nobel Prize for work on atomic energy

1938

Hitler siezes Austria (Anschluss) and Czechoslovakia

1939

Russia signs non-agression pact with Hitler's Germany

1939

"Wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind" movies released

1939

Britain and France enter Second World War after Hitler invades Poland

1939

Discovery of nuclear fission by German physicists Hahn, Meitner, Strassmann and Frisch

1940

Sir Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister

1940

Battle of Britain - Germany defeated in air

1940

Marshal Pétain agrees armistice with Hitler - France occupied

1940

Japan occupies Indo-China

1941

Germany invades Russia - Russia enters Second World War

1941

Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbour brings US into Second World War

1941

Josip Broz Tito leads coommunist revolution in Yugoslavia

1942

British army under Montgomery drives Germans out of Egypt

1942

Manhattan Project established to develop atomic bomb

1943

Mussolini overthrown and Fascist Party dissolved

1944

Iceland declares independence from Denmark

1944

D-Day - Allies make crucial push into France

1944

International Monetary Fund (IMF) established

1944

Charles de Gaulle organizes provisional government after Paris liberated

1945

Germany surrenders - end of Second World War (45m killed)

1945

US drops first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Japan surrenders

1945

Clement Attlee becomes Labour Prime Minister of Britain

1945

ENIAC considered to be first functional computer

1945

Russian intransigence after Potsdam conference starts "Cold War"

1945

Death of Bela Bartok (Hungarian composer)

1945

United Nations (UN) formed

1946

Italy votes to become a republic

1946

Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal

1946

Start of First Indochina War for independence from French rule

1946

League of Nations formally abandoned

1946

General Juan Perón elected president of Argentina

1947

British withdraw from India - Partition of India and Pakistan

1947

"Iron Curtain" effectively drawn around Soviet-controlled countries

1947

US Marshall Plan aid spurs European economic recovery

1948

George Orwell writes "1984"

1948

British pull out of Palestine - state of Israel established

1948

Enver Hoxha leads Albania as independent Stalinist state

1948

Organization of American States (OAS) formed

1948

Korea divided into North and South Republics

1948

Mahatma Ghandi assassinated

1949

People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-Tung

1949

West Germany declared a republic - Konrad Adenauer becomes Chanceller

1949

Comecon setablished to coordinate Soviet block economies

1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed

1949

Council of Europe formed

1949

William Faulkner wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1950

Death of George Bernard Shaw (dramatist)

1950

Bertrand Russell receives Nobel Prize for Literature

1950

Korean War starts - Communist North vs Capitalist South

1950

US becomes involved in Korean War

Hope there is enough here for you from the history of the world ?

Answer 2

1901

Death of Queen Victoria

1901

Edward VII comes to English throne

1901

Marconi sends first transatlantic radio message from Britain

1901

Commonwealth of Australia established

1902

Eruption of Mount Pelée, Martinique (40,000 killed)

1902

Boers surrender to British forces in South Africa

1903

Wright Brothers make first controlled flight in aeroplane

1903

Henry Ford designs first mass-produced cars

1903

Bolshevik Party established in Russia

1905

Norway separates from Sweden

1905

Trans-Siberian Railway completed

1905

"Bloody Sunday" massace of protestors in St Petersburg

1905

Albert Einstein develops special theory of relativity

1906

Movement for Women's Suffrage becomes active in Britain

1906

Norwegian Roald Amundsen navigates North-West Passage

1907

Death of Edvard Grieg (Norwegian composer)

1908

Lord Baden-Powell founds Boy Scouts and Girl Guides

1908

Bulgaria liberated from Turkish rule by Russia

1909

American Robert Peary first to reach North Pole

1909

Union of South Africa established

1910

Death of Florence Nightingale (nurse and hospital reformer)

1910

George V succedes to British throne

1910

Portuguese monarchy abolished in favour of republic

1910

Mexican Revolution under Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa leads to civil war

1910

Death of Leo Tolstoy (writer)

1911

Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes first to reach South Pole

1911

Chinese Revolution - Sun Yat-Sen establishes Republic

1911

Death of Gustav Mahler (composer)

1912

African National Congress (ANC) formed in South Africa to fight apartheid

1913

Nijinsky and Pavlova perfoming Fokine and Diaghilev's ballets

1914

First World War - Germany/Austria vs Britain/France/Russia

1914

Panama Canal opened

1914

Charlie Chaplin makes his first silent movies

1916

Albert Einstein publishes General Theory of Relativity

1916

Grigory Rasputin murdered by nobles of Nicholas II's court

1916

Unsuccessful Easter Rising by Irish Republicans

1917

Death of Buffalo Bill Cody (showman)

1917

Chicago takes over from New Orleans as capital of jazz

1917

US enters First World War - balance tips in Allies' favour

1917

Bolshevik Revolution under Vladimir Ilych Lenin and Leon Trotsky

1918

Lawrence of Arabia aids British forces in Middle East

1918

Tsar Nicholas II killed

1918

End of First World War (25m killed) - Versailles Conference

1918

Women over 30 granted right to vote in Britain

1918

Earnest Rutherford splits the atom

1918

Death of Claude Debussy (composer)

1918

Jewish League formed by David Ben Gurion

1918

Spanish influenza pandemic (50 to 100 million killed worldwide)

1919

Start of "Indianization" of civil service

1919

Irish Republican Army (IRA) formed as radical military wing of Sinn Fein

1919

Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (artist)

1919

Treaty of Versailles - Germany loses annexed lands and colonies

1919

Germany proclaimed a republic

1919

Prohibition of alcohol in North America

1919

Kemal Atatürk leads Turkish nationlist resistance

1919

Jewish Zionists start immigration into Palestine

1919

Poland recognized as independent state after First World War

1919

League of Nations formed

1921

Chinese Communist Party founded

1921

Death of Enrico Caruso (opera singer)

1921

Economic collapse and famine in Russia - 5 million die

1921

Greece declares war on Turkey

1922

TS Eliot writes "The Waste Land"

1922

Dane Niels Bohr wins Nobel Prize for work on atomic theory

1922

Fascist Benito Mussolini siezes power as dictator in Italy

1922

James Joyce writes "Ulysses"

1922

Ireland partitioned into Ulster (North) and Irish Free State (South)

1922

Republic of Turkey declared under Kemal Pasha

1922

Britain grants independence to Egypt

1923

Arnold Schoenberg develops 12-tone system of music

1924

First Labour Government under Ramsay MacDonald voted in Britain

1924

Death of Giaccomo Puccini (composer)

1924

Joseph Stalin becomes Premiere of Russia after Death of Lenin

1924

Greece declares itself a republic

1925

Art Deco movement at its height

1926

German physicist Werner Heisenberg develops his uncertainty principle

1926

General Strike in Britain

1926

Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan

1926

Death of Rainer Maria Rilke (poet)

1926

Antonio Salazar leads military coup in Portugal

1927

Charles Lindburgh makes first solo flight of Atlantic

1927

First "talkie" movie - "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson

1927

Leon Trotsky expelled from Communist Party

1928

Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1928

Equal adult suffrage established in Britain

1928

Walt Disney introduces character of Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie"

1928

Bessie Smith recording first Blues songs

1929

Kurt Weill writes "Threepenny Opera"

1929

Valentines Day Massacre - Al Capone gains control of Chicago underworld

1929

Astronomer Edwin Hubble shows that the universe is expanding

1929

US Stock Market Crash

1930

Death of DH Lawrence (writer)

1930

Mahatma Ghandi leads Salt March in India

1930

Civil War in China between Nationalists and Communists

1930

Pluto (last planet) discovered by Clyde Tombaugh

1930

Heile Selassie becomes Emperor of Ethiopia

1931

Japanese invade Manchuria

1931

Spain proclaimed a republic

1931

Floods in Central China kill up to 4 million

1932

Aldous Huxley writes "Brave New World"

1933

Adolph Hitler becomes dictator after coup

1933

End of Prohibition of alcohol

1933

FD Roosevelt becomes US President

1934

Death of Sir Edward Elgar (composer)

1934

Long March by Chinese communists under Mao Tse-Tung

1934

Bonnie Parke and Clyde Barrow ("Bonnie and Clyde") killed in Louisiana

1935

Benito Mussolini invades Abyssinia

1935

Germany under Hitler begins persecution of Jews (6m killed)

1935

Count Basie leads his Big Band Orchestra

1936

King George V dies - Edward VIII abdicates - George VI accedes

1936

Joe Louis becomes heavyweight boxing champion

1936

Great purge of Russian political parties by Stalin

1936

Spanish Civil War starts

1936

Assassination of Federico García Lorca (Spanish poet)

1937

Neville Chamberlaine's government appeases Germany and Italy

1937

Japanese advance into Northern China and Mongolia

1937

Eire (Southern Ireland) declares itself completely independent state

1937

Death of Maurice Ravel (composer)

1938

Enrico Fermi wins Nobel Prize for work on atomic energy

1938

Hitler siezes Austria (Anschluss) and Czechoslovakia

1939

Russia signs non-agression pact with Hitler's Germany

1939

"Wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind" movies released

1939

Britain and France enter Second World War after Hitler invades Poland

1939

Discovery of nuclear fission by German physicists Hahn, Meitner, Strassmann and Frisch

1940

Sir Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister

1940

Battle of Britain - Germany defeated in air

1940

Marshal Pétain agrees armistice with Hitler - France occupied

1940

Japan occupies Indo-China

1941

Germany invades Russia - Russia enters Second World War

1941

Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbour brings US into Second World War

1941

Josip Broz Tito leads coommunist revolution in Yugoslavia

1942

British army under Montgomery drives Germans out of Egypt

1942

Manhattan Project established to develop atomic bomb

1943

Mussolini overthrown and Fascist Party dissolved

1944

Iceland declares independence from Denmark

1944

D-Day - Allies make crucial push into France

1944

International Monetary Fund (IMF) established

1944

Charles de Gaulle organizes provisional government after Paris liberated

1945

Germany surrenders - end of Second World War (45m killed)

1945

US drops first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Japan surrenders

1945

Clement Attlee becomes Labour Prime Minister of Britain

1945

ENIAC considered to be first functional computer

1945

Russian intransigence after Potsdam conference starts "Cold War"

1945

Death of Bela Bartok (Hungarian composer)

1945

United Nations (UN) formed

1946

Italy votes to become a republic

1946

Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal

1946

Start of First Indochina War for independence from French rule

1946

League of Nations formally abandoned

1946

General Juan Perón elected president of Argentina

1947

British withdraw from India - Partition of India and Pakistan

1947

"Iron Curtain" effectively drawn around Soviet-controlled countries

1947

US Marshall Plan aid spurs European economic recovery

1948

George Orwell writes "1984"

1948

British pull out of Palestine - state of Israel established

1948

Enver Hoxha leads Albania as independent Stalinist state

1948

Organization of American States (OAS) formed

1948

Korea divided into North and South Republics

1948

Mahatma Ghandi assassinated

1949

People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-Tung

1949

West Germany declared a republic - Konrad Adenauer becomes Chanceller

1949

Comecon setablished to coordinate Soviet block economies

1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed

1949

Council of Europe formed

1949

William Faulkner wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1950

Death of George Bernard Shaw (dramatist)

1950

Bertrand Russell receives Nobel Prize for Literature

1950

Korean War starts - Communist North vs Capitalist South

1950

US becomes involved in Korean War

Hope there is enough here for you from the history of the world ?