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1. The Agricultural Revolution: Humans Domesticate Plants and Animals: c. 11,000-4,000 BCE. — c. 20,000 BCE: Earliest evidence of humans exerting some control over wild grain (Israel) — c. 11,000 BCE: Planned cultivation and trait selection of rye (Syria); evidence of domestication of lentils, vetch, pistachios and almonds (Greece)
- Assassination of An Austrian Archduke
- World War I
- The Spanish Flu
- Russian Revolution
- The 1919 Treaty of Versailles
- 1929 Stock Market Crash
- Germany’s Invasion of Poland
- World War II
- 1941 Pearl Harbour Attack
- August 1945 Atomic Bombing
The European nation was not on good terms in the early 1900s with various nations wanting to show their superiority in various aspects. By 1914, Europe became a tinderbox for tension and military rivalry between various nations. A single event was being waited for a war to spark and throw the world in the dark and under the mercies of the superior ...
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife led to the first-ever War which involved several countries that formed different alliances. World War I started in 1914 and lasted for four years. The four years were the darkest moments the world has ever experienced as millions of people from various corners of the world lost the...
Towards the end of World War I, a major pandemic, the Spanish Flu or the Great Influenza epidemic erupted. The Spanish Flu pandemic which swept across the world from 1918 to 1920 also made a great impact on the world. The earliest case of Spanish Flu was recorded in Kansas, United States of America, and spread like wildfire across the world. Two ye...
Sporadic Communist revolutions broke out since the publication of Marx’s Communist Manifesto which never succeeded. In October 1917, the Bolshevik revolution led by Lenin brought up radically new forms of government which spread across the world. Communist Russia quickly led to the division of the world after Lenin implemented his version of a ‘dic...
After World War I, former American President Woodrow Wilson came up with the idealistic 14 points and created a new ‘League of Nations’ to prevent another war. This was not embraced fully as the American Senate never wanted to join the League of Nations as France and Britain wanted reparations from the defeated allies. French troops occupied German...
The stock market was booming from the early 1920s until later in that decade. In October 1929, the shares of Wall Street made a sharp drop which was not expected. The fall of the stock market led to a prolonged fall in share which precipitated the global great depression. The unemployment rate rose to twenty-five percent and trade started falling a...
On the first day of September 1939, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany made a huge military decision of invading Poland. This act was to redress the imbalances of the Treaty of Versailles. The invasion was to show his military superiority but the allies made up of Great Britain and France were irked. The intention of Hitler to occupy more of Europe made t...
World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945 with a lot of incidents happening across the world which led to several changes. After the Poland invasion by Hitler’s Nazi German armies, World War II led to the formation of great power fronts that included the Allies who fought against Axis powers. During this world war, several personnel presumably over 100...
As World War II persisted, the Axis powers held supremacy in Europe and several parts of Asia. However, Great Britain was not defeated but was on the verge of a turnover due to the overpowering enemy. In 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbour escalated the world war into the Pacific arena which also brought Americans into the war against Japan and Germ...
World War II escalated and there was the need to end it or there could be more losses than what was being witnessed. On the morning of 9th August 1945, the worst happened in Asia. The United States dropped the atomic bombs and devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which were flattened. After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history.
1 day ago · History provides a chronological, statistical, and cultural record of the events, people, and movements that have made an impact on humankind and the world at large throughout the ages.
Major events that changed the world. Start of World War I – June 1914. Russian Revolution – October 1917. Start of World War II – September 1939. Pearl Harbour – and entry of the US into WWII – Dec. 1941. Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Aug 1945. Indian Independence – Aug 1947.
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