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The Jews were emancipated in most of Europe
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Georges Haussmann redesigns Paris
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Henry Bessemer invents and parents the Bessemer Process of steel making
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The lifespan of Sigmund Freud
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Darwin's Origin of the Species is published
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Serfdom abolished in Russia
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Reforms made by Czar Alexander II of Russia
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Alexander II cancels land redemption payments for Russian peasants
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The lifespan of Henry Ford
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Pope Pius IX condemns the Syllabus of Errors
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The Dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy is founded
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The life of Nicholas II
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The Suez Canal is completed in Egypt
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An act that established English school boards
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The occurrence of the Second Revolution in Europe
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Darwin's Descent of Man is published
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The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy is established
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The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
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Italian fascist dictator that reformed Italy and brought it into WWII.
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Gottlieb Daimler patents the first combustion engine
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King Leopold II takes over the Congo
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The first petrol powered car is invented by Karl Benz
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The German chancellor and dictator's lifespan.
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The publication of Herzl's The Jewish State
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Nicholas II is crowned as Czar of Russia
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The publication of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
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The publication of Key's Century of the Child
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Britain and France sign the Entente Cordiale
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Annexation of Bosnia-Hezergovina to Austria-Hungary
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Balkan states fighting against the Ottoman Empire over land disputes
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, starting WWI
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The first World War between the Allies (US, Britain, etc., and the Central Powers (Germany, Ottomans, etc.). This war was a very bloody war, and destroyed much of Germany in the aftermath. This war introduced trench warfare and tanks, as well as aviation.
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The overthrow of the tsarist government in Russia and the takeover of the state by communism and the Bolshevik Faction. The Russian Revolution started the Eastern world on a path of communism that still lasts today. Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Revolution, brought Russia into a new state of being.
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America entered the war after the Zimmerman note to Mexico and a large amount of submarine warfar
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The Treaty that officially ended WWI and created peace throughout and new ways to rule Europe
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The creation of peace between the countries in WWI. Many treaties were signed
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The League of Nations (a pre-UN) brings countries across the globe together in a hope of everlasting peace.
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A final treaty in Paris officially dismembers the Empire
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After jail time for a failed coup, Hitler publishes his memoirs that explain his wants for future Germany.
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In both Europe and the Americas, the Great Depression of the 1930's hit very hard. Thousands lost jobs and died due to starvation from unemployment. The start of the Depression was the October 1929 New York Stock Market crash. The end came during World War II.
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The Great Purges of the USSR under Stalin cost thousands their lives, and many innocents were given unfair trials and killed. This was because of Stalin's new idea of collecting agriculture from the proletariat.
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Between the starting of his dictatorship and the end of World War II, millions of Jews were killed. This event is known as the Holocaust. Propoganda played a huge part in this, as many Aryans were led to believe that they were actually doing the right thing.
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Adolf Hitler takes over Germany as Nazist dictator. He is anti-communist and anti-Semetic. He blames these people, as well as the Treaty fo Versailles, for many things that are going wrong in the country.
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Dachau, Germany, is opened as the first concentration camp by Heinrich Himmler. Jews and other "undesirable" (disabled, homosexual, communist, etc.) people are taken there and to other camps in hopes of creating the only true Aryan race.
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On this date, the two superpowers of Italy and Germany "allied" together. This was a treaty of friendship and did not make them true allies.
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On this date, weeks after Germany's "alliance" with Itlay, Germany and Japan signed a friendship treaty in opposition of the USSR.
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Many Jewish shops are broken into and robbed by secret police of Nazi Germany and throughout central/eastern Europe. Many are killed and sent to concentration camps.
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Germany invades and occupies the state after re-militarizing a DMZ between France and Germany.
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The Axis (Germany, Italy,and Japan) fight the Allies (mainly US, Britain, and USSR) over ethical issues. Many millions are killed, especially Jews and those of other "undesirable" non-Aryan races. Victory in Europe Day is 8 May 1945, when Germany surrendered. The war ended when Japan finally surrendered later in 1945.
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Germnay invades Poland, and within days, has taken the country for its own. This is the official start of WWII.
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Japanese make surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, United States. This is the effective entrance of the US into WWII.
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The Cold War, a long, essentially-kind-of-ish-bloodless war between mainly the United States and Russia, lasted from the end of WWII until the Soviet Union's collapse. During this time, NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Truman Doctrine, and the Brezhnev Doctrine were created. The Cold War is not so much a war as it was a period of high stress and pressure leading to many wars. The Cold War itself did not directly cause deaths, yet wars (Vietnam and Korea) caused by the Cold War did.
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Hitler, his newlywed wife, and dog are found burnt in a bunker in Germany. The cause was suicide.
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Victory is declared in the European Theatre of WWII as Germany surrenders. Germnay accepted an unconditional surrender on this day. An international holiday was declared and celebrated.
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Japan surrenders after two atomic bombs are dropped on the industrial cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States rejoices, as it was the main power fighting Japan. Rejoicing occurs all over the world because all fighting has ceased.
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Representatives from 51 countries meet in San Francisco, United States, to sign a treaty and form the UN, a modern-day League of Nations. It's main goal is focusing on peace.
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Britain begins its long process of decolonization by letting go of India.
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The Truman Doctrine, allowing the US to send monetary and military aid to European allies, is passed.
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The creation of the NATO pact, including the contries of Norway, Iceland, Canada, the US, the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Portugal, and Denmark.
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A sub-war of the Cold War, the Korean War was fought between communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. Its main cause was the new communist government in China causing more Cold War tensions with the US.
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The Treaty of Paris created the European Coal and Steel Community, which eventually became the European Economic Community, which eventually became the Eureopean Union. France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg were the original members.
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The Warsaw Pact between many Soviet Communist countries is created. It includes many Eastern European states and some states in the caucuses.
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A sub-war of the Cold War, fought between communist North Vietnam and capitalist South Vietnam, occurred because France was late in decolonizing, and many conflicts were thus created in Asian communist areas.
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An intervention mainly between Britain and Egypt. Egypt wanted to nationalize the Suez Canal, though Britain wanted it to remain International Land. Neither the US nor the USSR took part in this because they didn't want to make tensions worse, yet it failed, and Britain realized the US had to be part of all major battles and plans henceforth.
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Ghana was the first sub-Saharan African colony to gain independence from Europe.
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The Treaty of Rome effectively made the ECSC into the European Economic Community out of the original ECSC members.
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The Brezhnev Era, otherwise known as the Era of Stagnation, was the era in which Leonid Brezhnev was the leader of the USSR.
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In South Africa, a revolutionary, Nelson Mandela, was arrested. But in 1990, he was released and eventually became South African president.
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The Brezhnev Doctrine is very similar to the Truman Doctrine, though it allowed the USSR to send aid to the Soviet Bloc and Warsaw Pact members.
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The Soviet-Afghan War, lasting almost ten years, took place towards the end of the Cold War. It is one of the main causes of the end of the USSR.
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The Gorbachev Era, when Mikhail Gorbachev ruled the Soviet Union, led to the end of both the Cold War and the communist USSR. The Soviet Union ended mainly because of Gorbachev's reforms. The Perestroika (restructuring) and Glasnost (allowance of criticism of the state) were major factors in the ending of the USSR.
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On this date, the Berlin Wall fell, opening the Iron Curtain. During this same year, revolution in Poland cause communism to begin to decline. Hungary and Austria opened their borders at the same time, allowing communism and capitalism to blend together.
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East Germany, run by the Soviets since WWII's end, and West Germany, run by the Allies since WWII's end, is reunited. The Berlin Wall's fall on 9 November, 1989 showed that this was possible and started the reunification.
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After the 1991 Coup, Gorbachev lost his power, and the USSR fell. Boris Yeltsin took over afterwards and led Russia from 1991 to 1999.
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The Treaty of Maastricht united the EEC together into the EU, and changed everything into a single economic and free trade area with one single currency - the Euro.
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Native Rwandan peoples are killed by larger native groups. Betwen 500,000 and a million natives are killed.
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levent, or ISIL, is founded. They have, since 1999, killed millions of Christains and non-Muslims in the Middle East.
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Radical Islams attack the US in multiple different areas by hijacking planes and flying them into major buildings, killing over 4000 Americans in the span of only a few hours.
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A genocide against natives of Darfur, Africa, takes place. It is still running as of this day, with thousands being killed each month.
