Story of the Modern Age

By Sean Brittain

  • The East India Company was established

  • The Great game began

  • Argentina Became Independent

  • Brazil was Founded

  • Period: to

    The Opium Wars Occurred

  • Pedro II came to power

  • Period: to

    Albdul Hamid II ruled

  • Period: to

    The Great Famine took place

  • The Crystal Palace was built

  • The Great Expedition occurred

    Was the held in the Crystal Palace

  • Japan Opened its boarders

    Matthew Perry delivered the presidents letter to Japan

  • The Crimean War began

  • The Crimean War ended

  • The Sepoy Mutiny began

  • England took rule over India

  • The construction of the Suez canal was started

  • The construction of the Suez Canal was finished

  • The Civil War started

  • The Confederates took Fort Sumter

  • The 13th amendment was passed

  • The Civil War ended

  • John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln

  • The German States Unified

  • David Livingstone died

  • The Russo-Turkish War Occurred

  • Period: to

    The War of the Pacific took place

  • Ned Kelly was hung

  • Period: to

    Alexander III ruled

  • Brazil became a republic

  • Period: to

    Sino Japanese War Occurred

  • Italy tried to invade Ethiopia

  • Period: to

    The Macedonians Rebelled

  • Period: to

    The Spanish American War Occurred

  • Period: to

    The Boer War took place

  • Period: to

    The Boxer War Occurred

  • Australia became a commonwealth

  • Period: to

    The Russo-Japanese War Took Place

  • The Great Game ended

  • The Anglo-Russian Entente Was Desclared

  • Korea Became Part Of Japan

  • The Qing Dynasty ended

  • Porfirio Diaz Was Taken Out Of Office

  • Sun Yixian Became President Of China

    He made it a Democracy

  • The Rebels Invaded Mexico City

  • Period: to

    World War 1 Occurred

  • The Easter Rebellion Took Place

  • The Treaty of Versailles Was Signed

  • Russia Became Communist

  • Fu'ad I became the First King of Egypt.

  • Stalin Came To Power

  • Italy Became Fascist

  • Period: to

    The Great Depression

  • Period: to

    Franklin Roosevelt Was In Office

    During the Great Depression

  • The Long March Took Place

  • The Crystal Palace burnt down

  • Period: to

    The Spanish Civil War Took Place

  • Germany Invaded Poland

  • Germany Took France

  • Japan Allied with Germany

  • D Day Happened

  • The Battle Of The Bulge Happened

  • Korea Divided

  • Italy Became a Country

  • India became Independant

  • Pakistan Separated

  • India Became Free

  • The Marshall Plan Started

  • Israel Became A Nation

  • China Became Communist

  • China Became Communist

  • Nuclear Power was Invented

  • The Vietnamese Rebelled

  • Vietnam Divided

  • Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Her Seat

  • Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Her Seat

  • Period: to

    The Vietnam War Took Place

  • Period: to

    The Space Race Took Place

  • The Suez Crisis Took Place

  • The Congo Became Independent

  • South Africa Gained Independence

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis Happened

  • Kennedy Was Killed By Lee Harvey Oswald

  • Kennedy Was Assassinated By Lee Harvey Oswald

  • Period: to

    The 6 Day War Took Place In Israel

  • The Soviet Union Took Over Czechoslovakia

  • The Israelites Taken Hostage At The Olympics

  • Germany Runited

  • The Persian Golf War Started

  • The Cold War Ended

  • The Soviet Union Fell

  • South Africa Got its First Black President