World History 20th Century By Mariya Kemp Period: 1819 to 1901 Queen Victoria Period: 1835 to 1910 Mark Twain Period: 1843 to 1901 President William Mckinley Period: 1847 to 1931 Thomas Alva Edison Period: 1848 to 1903 Paul Gauguin Period: 1850 to 1916 British War Secretary Horatio Kitchener Period: 1857 to 1924 Joseph Conrad Period: 1857 to 1929 Thorstein Veblen Period: 1859 to 1920 Mexico's President Carranza Period: 1859 to 1930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Period: 1863 to 1951 William Radolph Hearst Period: 1865 to 1923 President Warren Harding Period: 1865 to 1936 King George V Period: 1866 to 1925 Sun Yat-sen Period: 1867 to 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright Period: 1869 to 1948 Mohandas Gandhi Period: 1869 to 1954 Henri Matisse Period: 1870 to 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Period: 1870 to 1952 Dr. Maria Montessori Period: 1874 to 1926 Harry Houdini Period: 1874 to 1965 Sir Winston Churchill Period: 1879 to 1955 Albert Einstein Period: 1881 to 1959 Cecil B. DeMille Period: 1881 to 1973 Pablo Picasso Period: 1882 to 1941 James Joyce Period: 1882 to 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Period: 1883 to 1945 Benito Mussolini Period: 1883 to 1946 John Maynard Keynes Period: 1884 to 1948 President Benes Period: 1887 to 1965 Le Corbusier Period: 1889 to 1945 Adolf Hitler Period: 1889 to 1977 Charlie Chaplin Period: 1890 to 1922 Michael Collins Period: 1890 to 1970 Charles de Gaulle Period: 1891 to 1944 Erwin Rommel Period: 1892 to 1934 Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss Period: 1892 to 1975 Francisco Franco Period: 1892 to 1976 J. Paul Getty Period: 1893 to 1976 Mao Tse-tung Period: 1893 to 1987 Andres Segovia Period: 1895 to 1974 Juan Peron Period: 1895 to 1952 King George VI Period: 1897 to 1937 Amelia Earhart 1899 Boer War begins late 1899 Period: 1899 to 1957 Humprey Bogart Period: 1899 to 1980 Alfred Hitchcock 1900 Second modern Olympics held held in Paris 1900 Zeppelins first flight 1900 Boxer Rebellion begins in China 1901 Peking Treaty ends Boxer Rebellion 1901 First Nobel prizes awarded Period: 1901 to 1966 Walt Disney 1902 Boer War ends 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright's first flight 1903 Pierre and Marie Curie win Noble Prize 1904 Russia and Japan at war 1904 Russia's Tans-Siberian railroad completed 1904 Teddy Roosevelt elected president 1905 Bloody Sunday 1905 Russia and Japan agree to a treaty Period: 1905 to 1976 Howard Hughes Period: 1905 to 1983 Arthur Koestler 1906 American troops land in Cuba Period: 1906 to 1982 Leonid Brezhner 1907 Stock Market crashes Period: 1908 to 1957 Joseph McCarthy 1909 William Howard Taft becomes president of the U.S. 1911 George V (1865-1936) coronated King of England Period: 1911 to 1985 Konstantin Chernenko 1912 Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) elected U.S. president Period: 1914 to 1953 Dylan Thomas Period: 1917 to 1963 John F. Kennedy Period: 1918 to 1970 Gamal Abdel Nasser Period: 1919 to 1952 Eva Peron Period: 1925 to 1968 Robert F. Kennedy Period: 1926 to 1962 Marilyn Monroe 1928 Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) flies over the Atlantic Ocean Period: 1929 to 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. Period: 1935 to 1977 Elvis Presley Period: 1939 to 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald Period: 1940 to 1980 John Lennon Period: 1942 to 1970 Jimi Hendrix Period: 1943 to 1970 Janis Joplin
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