Year |
Primary Event |
Secondary Event |
Tertiary Event
|
1900 |
Exposition Universelle |
Boxer Rebellion |
Zeppelin
|
1901 |
Assassination of William McKinley |
Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria |
Nobel Prize
|
1902 |
Anglo–Japanese Alliance |
Moro Rebellion |
Eruption of Mount Pelée
|
1903 |
Wright Flyer |
Separation of Panama from Colombia |
Iroquois Theatre fire
|
1904 |
Herero and Namaqua genocide |
Russo-Japanese War |
St. Louis Summer Olympics
|
1905 |
Russian Revolution |
Battle of Tsushima |
Annus mirabilis papers
|
1906 |
San Francisco earthquake |
Bambatha Rebellion |
Valparaíso earthquake
|
1907 |
Anglo-Russian Convention |
Romanian peasants' revolt |
Panic of 1907
|
1908 |
Ford Model T |
Young Turk Revolution |
Messina earthquake
|
1909 |
North Pole Expedition |
Adana massacre |
Monterrey hurricane
|
1910 |
Death and state funeral of Edward VII |
Mexican Revolution |
5 October revolution
|
1911 |
Agadir Crisis |
Amundsen's South Pole expedition |
1911 Revolution
|
1912 |
Sinking of the Titanic |
Stockholm Summer Olympics |
Italo-Turkish War
|
1913 |
End of Moro Rebellion |
Second Balkan War |
Senghenydd colliery disaster
|
1914 |
First Battle of the Marne |
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
RMS Empress of Ireland
|
1915 |
Gallipoli campaign |
Armenian genocide |
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
|
1916 |
Battle of Verdun |
Battle of the Somme |
Brusilov offensive
|
1917 |
Zimmermann Telegram |
Russian Revolution |
9 January German Crown Council meeting
|
1918 |
Spanish flu |
Armistice of 11 November |
Murder of the Romanov family
|
1919 |
Paris Peace Conference |
Irish War of Independence |
Greco-Turkish War
|
1920 |
Prohibition in the United States |
Antwerp Summer Olympics |
League of Nations
|
1921 |
Tulsa race riot |
Russian famine |
Persian coup d'état
|
1922 |
March on Rome |
Washington Naval Treaty |
Irish Civil War
|
1923 |
Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic |
Beer Hall Putsch |
Great Kantō earthquake
|
1924 |
Funeral of Vladimir Lenin |
Paris Summer Olympics |
Italian general election
|
1925 |
First working television system |
Great Syrian Revolt |
Tri-State tornado outbreak
|
1926 |
Cristero War |
Northern Expedition |
Goddard 1
|
1927 |
Shanghai massacre |
Nicaraguan Civil War |
Spirit of St. Louis
|
1928 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Amsterdam Summer Olympics |
Kellogg–Briand Pact
|
1929 |
Great Depression |
Lateran Treaty |
Palestine riots
|
1930 |
Salt March |
Brazilian Revolution |
Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
|
1931 |
Mukden incident |
European banking crisis |
China floods
|
1932 |
January 28 incident |
Chaco War |
Los Angeles Summer Olympics
|
1933 |
Soviet famine |
Reichstag fire |
USS Akron (ZRS-4) disaster
|
1934 |
Soviet invasion of Xinjiang |
Night of the Long Knives |
Austrian Civil War
|
1935 |
Nuremberg Laws |
Second Italo-Ethiopian War |
Hoover Dam
|
1936 |
Berlin Summer Olympics |
Spanish Civil War |
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
|
1937 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Great Purge |
Nanjing Massacre
|
1938 |
Munich Agreement |
Kristallnacht |
Anschluss
|
1939 |
Invasion of Poland |
Gone with the Wind |
Italian invasion of Albania
|
1940 |
Battle of France |
Dunkirk evacuation |
Katyn massacre
|
1941 |
Attack on Pearl Harbor |
Operation Barbarossa |
Babi Yar
|
1942 |
Battle of Stalingrad |
Battle of Midway |
Internment of Japanese Americans
|
1943 |
Battle of Kursk |
Allied invasion of Sicily |
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
|
1944 |
Operation Overlord |
Operation Bagration |
San Juan earthquake
|
1945 |
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Battle of Berlin |
Battle of the Bulge
|
1946 |
Nuremberg trials |
ENIAC |
Dead Sea Scrolls
|
1947 |
Marshall Plan |
Civil war in Mandatory Palestine |
Partition of India
|
1948 |
Berlin Blockade |
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi |
Declaration of State of Israel
|
1949 |
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China |
EDSAC |
Apartheid
|
1950 |
Korean War |
Coronation of Bhumibol Adulyadej |
Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China
|
1951 |
Eruption of Mount Lamington |
Nepalese revolution |
Treaty of Paris
|
1952 |
Death and state funeral of George VI |
Ivy Mike |
Great Smog of London
|
1953 |
North Sea flood |
East German uprising |
Mau Mau rebellion
|
1954 |
Polio vaccine |
Castle Romeo |
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
|
1955 |
Bandung Conference |
Warsaw Pact |
Battle of Yijiangshan Islands
|
1956 |
Hungarian Revolution |
Suez Crisis |
Grand Canyon mid-air collision
|
1957 |
Sputnik 1 |
Influenza pandemic |
Kyshtym disaster
|
1958 |
Sweden World Cup |
Great Leap Forward |
May crisis in France
|
1959 |
Kitchen Debate |
Cuban Revolution |
Typhoon Vera
|
1960 |
Year of Africa |
Valdivia earthquake |
Congo Crisis
|
1961 |
Berlin Crisis |
Vostok 1 |
Tsar Bomba
|
1962 |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
Sino-Indian War |
Chile World Cup
|
1963 |
Assassination of John F. Kennedy |
Buddhist crisis |
March on Washington
|
1964 |
British Invasion |
Zanzibar Revolution |
Tokyo Summer Olympics
|
1965 |
Battle of la Drang |
Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill |
Alexei Leonov's spacewalk
|
1966 |
Cultural Revolution |
England World Cup |
Aberfan disaster
|
1967 |
Six-Day War |
Cambodian Civil War |
Hong Kong riots
|
1968 |
Tet Offensive |
Prague Spring |
TEV Wahine
|
1969 |
Apollo 11 |
Stonewall riots |
Woodstock
|
1970 |
Bhola cyclone |
Ancash earthquake |
Apollo 13
|
1971 |
Bangladesh genocide |
Pentagon Papers |
microprocessor
|
1972 |
Watergate scandal |
Munich massacre |
Magnavox Odyssey
|
1973 |
Oil crisis |
Chilean coup d'état |
Yom Kippur War
|
1974 |
Carnation Revolution |
Resignation of Richard Nixon |
Hurricane Fifi–Orlene
|
1975 |
Fall of Saigon |
Cambodian genocide |
Apollo-Soyuz
|
1976 |
Soweto Uprising |
Tangshan earthquake |
Argentine coup d'état
|
1977 |
Star Wars |
Tenerife airport disaster |
Atari 2600
|
1978 |
Camp David Accords |
Argentina World Cup |
Jonestown
|
1979 |
Iranian Revolution |
Iran hostage crisis |
Soviet-Afghan War
|
1980 |
Eruption of Mount St. Helens |
Iran-Iraq War |
Saudia Flight 163
|
1981 |
Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer |
STS-1 |
Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
|
1982 |
Falklands War |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
Spain World Cup
|
1983 |
Operation Urgent Fury |
Video game crash of 1983 |
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
|
1984 |
Bhopal disaster |
Los Angeles Summer Olympics |
Diretas Já
|
1985 |
Live Aid |
Mexico City earthquake |
Armero tragedy
|
1986 |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster |
Chernobyl disaster |
Mexico World Cup
|
1987 |
"Tear down this wall!" |
First Intifada |
MV Doña Paz
|
1988 |
Pan Am Flight 103 |
Seoul Summer Olympics |
Armenian earthquake
|
1989 |
Tiananmen Square protets and massacre |
Fall of the Berlin Wall |
Exxon Valdez oil spill
|
1990 |
Hubble Space Telescope |
German reunification |
Italy World Cup
|
1991 |
Operation Desert Storm |
Dissolution of the Soviet Union |
Eruption of Mount Pinatubo
|
1992 |
Los Angeles riots |
Somalia famine |
Siege of Sarajevo
|
1993 |
Oslo I Accord |
Waco siege |
World Trade Center bombing
|
1994 |
Rwandan genocide |
South African general election |
Northridge earthquake
|
1995 |
Oklahoma City bombing |
Srebrenica massacre |
Murder trial of O. J. Simpson
|
1996 |
Dolly the Sheep |
Atlanta Summer Olympics |
Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision
|
1997 |
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales |
Handover of Hong Kong |
Titanic
|
1998 |
United States embassy bombings |
Google |
France World Cup
|
1999 |
Kosovo War |
Y2K problem |
Columbine High School massacre
|
2000 |
Millennium celebrations |
Sydney Summer Olympics |
Mozambique flood
|
2001 |
September 11 attacks |
Operation Enduring Freedom |
Nepali royal massacre
|
2002 |
Euro |
Korea-Japan World Cup |
Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
|
2003 |
Iraq War |
Protests against the Iraq War |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
|
2004 |
Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami |
Athens Summer Olympics |
Facebook
|
2005 |
Live 8 |
Eris |
Hurricane Katrina
|
2006 |
IAU definition of planet |
Montenegrin independence referendum |
Turin Winter Olympics
|
2007 |
Treaty of Lisbon |
Subprime mortgage crisis |
iPhone
|
2008 |
Kosovo declaration of independence |
Sichuan earthquake |
Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
|
2009 |
Swine flu pandemic |
US Airways Flight 1549 |
Bitcoin
|
2010 |
Haiti earthquake |
Deepwater Horizon oil spill |
Chile earthquake
|
2011 |
Arab Spring |
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami |
Operation Neptune Spear
|
2012 |
London Summer Olympics |
Higgs boson |
Curiosity Rover
|
2013 |
Papal conclave |
Chelyabinsk meteor |
Typhoon Haiyan
|
2014 |
Crimean crisis |
Thai coup d'état |
Western African Ebola virus epidemic
|
2015 |
New Horizons arrives to Pluto |
Paris Agreement |
November Paris attacks
|
2016 |
U.S. presidential election |
Rio Summer Olympics |
Turkish coup attempt
|
2017 |
Cassini retirement |
North Korean missile tests |
Las Vegas shooting
|
2018 |
Inter-Korean summits |
Yellow vests protests |
March for Our Lives
|
2019 |
First image of a black hole |
Notre-Dame fire |
Venezuelan presidential crisis
|
2020 |
COVID-19 pandemic |
George Floyd protests |
Beirut explosion
|
2021 |
Fall of Kabul |
January 6 United States Capitol attack |
Suez Canal obstruction
|
2022 |
Russian invasion of Ukraine |
Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II |
Qatar World Cup
|
2023 |
Israel-Hamas war |
Turkey–Syria earthquakes |
War in Sudan
|
2024 |
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