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Edward VII Becomes King after Queen Victoria dies.
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The Commonwealth of Australia is formed.
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Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
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Republic of China established by the Xinhai Revolution.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
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RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg and sinks.
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ArchDuke Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, leading the United Kingdom into WWI.
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Easter Rising: Irish Republicans attempt to win independence from the British.
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Treat of Versaillies offically ends WWI.
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Adolf Hitler becomes chairman of Gernamy's Nazi Party.
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James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
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British archeologiest discover King Tut's tomb.
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W. B. Yeats wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway.
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Women earn the right to vote in Britian.
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The Great Depression: The New York stock exchange crashes and the Great Depression begins.
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Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World.
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Joseph Stalin begins purge of Soviet Russia expelling more than 400,000 party members.
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Dylan Thomas publishes Twenty-five Poems.
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J. R. R. Tolken publishes The Hobbit.
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Hindenburg explodes killing 36 passengers.
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WWII Began. United Kingdom declared war on Germany; Nazis invade Poland.
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Winston Churchill become Prime Minister of Britian.
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Auschwitz concentration camp is established.
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She dies in 1941.
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Japanize attach Pearl Harbor and the US enters WWII.
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Germany Surrenders
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C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters.
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George Orwell publishes Animal Farm.
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Adolf Hitler committs suicide.
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US drops two nuclear bombs on Japan ending WWII. (August 6 and 9)