Timeline: History Timeline

Jan 1, 1895

Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signal

Jan 1, 1898

Spanish-American war

Dec 17, 1903

Wright Brothers, first manned and gas-powered airplane

Jan 1, 1912

Alfred Wegener; Continental drift

Apr 15, 1912

Titanic sinks

Period: May 1, 1914 to May 1, 1918

World War I

Jan 1, 1917

Russian revolutions give way for communism

Nov 11, 1918

World War I Ends

Apr 28, 1919

League of Nations founded

The League of Nation's task was simply to ensure that war never broke out again

Jun 28, 1919

Treaty of Versailles signed

Mar 4, 1921

Warren G. Harding elected

Jun 29, 1921

Adolf Hitler becomes Leader of Nazi Party

Aug 2, 1923

Calvin Coolidge elected

Jan 1, 1924

Edwin Hubble discovers that the Milky Way galaxy is not alone

Jul 10, 1925

Scopes Monkey Trial begins

Sep 8, 1927

Georges Lemaitre; the Big Bang

Jan 1, 1931

Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll build first electron microscope

Nov 8, 1932

FDR elected President

Jan 27, 1933

German Reichstag burns down

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany

Aug 19, 1934

Hitler elected Fuhrer of Germany

Sep 15, 1935

Numerberg Race Laws implemented in Germany

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcudlm6tPa0

Oct 30, 1938

War of the Worlds radio broadcast creates nationwide panic

Period: May 1, 1939 to May 1, 1945

World War II

Dec 1, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

Feb 1, 1945

Battle of Iwo Jima

Aug 6, 1945

“Little Boy” atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDFLLKSkUg&t=2m51s

Aug 9, 1945

“Fat Man” atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

Oct 8, 1945

First microwave oven patented, based on Percy Spencer’s design

Nov 21, 1945

Nuremberg Trials begin

Period: May 1, 1950 to May 1, 1953

Korean War

Jan 1, 1953

James D. Watson and Francis Crick discover the helical structure of DNA

Jan 20, 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower elected

Period: May 1, 1960 to May 1, 1975

Vietnam War

Jan 1, 1961

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Jan 20, 1961

Dwight D. Eisenhower elected

Jan 20, 1961

John F. Kennedy elected

Nov 22, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson elected

Nov 22, 1963

JFK assassinated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEVfKKjODBg&t=2m39s

Jan 1, 1965

James Russell invents the compact disc

Jan 20, 1967

Richard Nixon elected

Jun 20, 1969

Humans walk on the surface of the moon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

Jan 1, 1989

US invasion of Panama

Apr 15, 1989

Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signal

Spanish-American war

Wright Brothers, first manned and gas-powered airplane

Alfred Wegener; Continental drift

Titanic sinks

World War I

Russian revolutions give way for communism

World War I Ends

League of Nations founded

Treaty of Versailles signed

Warren G. Harding elected

Adolf Hitler becomes Leader of Nazi Party

Calvin Coolidge elected

Edwin Hubble discovers that the Milky Way galaxy is not alone

Scopes Monkey Trial begins

Georges Lemaitre; the Big Bang

Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll build first electron microscope

FDR elected President

German Reichstag burns down

Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany

Hitler elected Fuhrer of Germany

Numerberg Race Laws implemented in Germany

War of the Worlds radio broadcast creates nationwide panic

World War II

Battle of the Bulge

Battle of Iwo Jima

“Little Boy” atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

“Fat Man” atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

First microwave oven patented, based on Percy Spencer’s design

Nuremberg Trials begin

Korean War

James D. Watson and Francis Crick discover the helical structure of DNA

Dwight D. Eisenhower elected

Vietnam War

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Dwight D. Eisenhower elected

John F. Kennedy elected

Lyndon B. Johnson elected

JFK assassinated

James Russell invents the compact disc

Richard Nixon elected

Humans walk on the surface of the moon

US invasion of Panama

Tiananmen Square protests

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