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Queen Victoria dies; Edward VII becomes king.
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Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness.
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Rudyard Kipling awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Xinhai Revolution establishes the Republic of China.
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Edgar Rick Boroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
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Titanic collides with iceburg and sinks.
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Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated leading the United Kingdom into WWI.
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Irish Republicans attempt to win independence from the British during the Easter Rising.
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Vladimir Lenin leads teh Bolshevicks in the world's first communist revolution.
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The Treaty of Versailles offically ends WWI.
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Adolf Hiter becomes chairman of Germany's Nazi Party.
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James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
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British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers tomb of King Tut in Egypt.
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W. B. Yeats awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway.
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Women win the right to vote in Britian.
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The New York stock exchange crashes and begins the Great Depression in America.
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Joseph Stalin begins the Great Purge in Soviet Russia, expelling 400,000 party members.
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Dylan Thomas publishes Twenty-Five Poems.
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The Hindenburg explodes, killing 36 passengers.
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J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit.
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Auschwitz concentration camp is established. Over the next 5 years, millions will be executed.
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Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
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Virginia Woolf dies.
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Japan attacks Peral Harbor. The US enters WWII.
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Hitler invades Russia violating Germany's non-agression pack with that country.
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C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters.
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Allied troops land at Normandy, France, which later becomes known as D-Day.
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Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin convene at the Yalta Conference to determine post-war arrangements.
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George Orwell publisher Animal Farm.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders.
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August 6th and 9th: US drops two bombs on Japan, bringing about Japan's surrender and officially ending WWII.
