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Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia is formed. -
New Reign
Queen Victoria dies and Edward VII becomes King. -
Joseph Conrad
publishes Hear of Darkness -
Tarzan
Edgar Rice Boroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes. -
Titanic
RMS Titanic collides with iceburg and sinks. -
Easter Rising
Irish Republicans attempt to win independence from the British. -
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin lead the Bolsheviks in the world's fist communist revolution. -
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles offically ends WWI. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler becomes chairman of Germany's Nazi Party. -
King Tut
Howard Carter discovers tomb of King Tut in Egypt. -
Ulysses
James Joyce publishes Ulysses. -
W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats awarded Nobel Prize for Literature. -
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway. -
Voting Rights
Women win the vote to right in Britian. -
Stock Market Crash
The New York stock exchange crashes leading the US into The Great Depression. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin begins the Great Purge in Soviet Russia by expelling 400,000 party members. -
Hindenburg
Hindenburg explodes killing 36 passengers. -
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit. -
Declare War
United Kingdom declares war on Germany after the Nazis invade Poland, starting WWII. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp is established; over next 5 years millions executed. -
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Britian. -
Funeral
Virginia Woolf dies. -
Hitler Invasion
Hitler invades Russia, violating Germany's non-aggression pact. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor which brings US into WWII. -
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters. -
D-Day
Allied troops land at Normandy, France. -
George Orwell
George Orwell publishes Animal Farm. -
Hitler's Suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide. -
August 6th and 9th
US drops nuclear bombs on Japan ending WWII.