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1900-1945

  • Hawaii

    Hawaii
    Hawaii Islands become part of the territory of U.S.A
  • Olympic Games

    Olympic Games
    21 countries and 1077 players, were inaugurated in Paris the second Olympic games of the modern age.
  • Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde died in Paris, an important poet and novelist.
  • Queen Victoria

    Queen Victoria
    Queen Victoria of England died in her summer residence
  • Van Gogh

    Van Gogh
    In France, at the gallery of Bernheim-Jeune wer exposed for the first time the paintings of the Dutch painter Van Gogh.
  • Japanese Emperor Hirohito

    Japanese Emperor Hirohito
    Japanese Emperor Hirohito was born in Tokio, he would gobern Japan from 1926 to 1989, his reign includes the defeat of the Second World War
  • Pablo Picasso

    Pablo Picasso
    In Paris, at a gallery of the famous street Laffite, Pablo Picasso, exposed his paintings for the first time outside of Spain
  • Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

    Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
    Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died in Malromé, France. He was an important painter
  • Nobel Prizes

    Nobel Prizes
    5 yearts after the death of his creator, the prizes were celebrated at Sweden in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, medicine and peace.
  • Marie and Pierre Curie

    Marie and Pierre Curie
    Marie and Pierre Curie aachieved successfully isolate radio chloride that is a highly radioactive substance and very important to be used in medicine to produce Radon, that is used in cancer treatments
  • Eruption of Monte Pelado Volcano

    Eruption of Monte Pelado Volcano
    The volcano Monte pelado enters in a cataclysmic eruption that devastated the capital Saint Pierre, killing its 30,000 inhabitants from suffocation and incineration
  • Spain

    Spain
    Spain's first conservative government of Antonio Maura is formed.
  • FIFA

    FIFA
    In Paris, France, FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) was created
  • Olympic Games

    Olympic Games
    The third Olympic Games of the modern ages were celebrated in St. Louis (USA) with the participation of 12 countries and 639 athletes,
  • Deutscher Werkbund

    Deutscher Werkbund
    The Deutscher Werkbund was founded by Olbrich, Peter Behrens, Richard Riemerschmid, Bruno Paul and others in 1907
  • Olympic Games

    Olympic Games
    The third Olympic Games were inaugurated in London (UK) with the presence of 22 countries and 1,971 athletes
  • "T" model

    "T" model
    It goes on sale in the US market, the first model "T" Ford Motor Company, result of five years of efforts by Henry Ford and his engineers to manufacture a type of car reliable and cheap
  • World War I

    World War I
    Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia, bringing the conflict between Austro-Hungarians and Serbs, is transformed into a military confrontation at European level, starting the devastating World War I
  • World War I

    World War I
    Although World War I last four years more, many historians agree that it is on this day that the Germans lost the war, having to retreat across the French River Marne near Paris, before the unstoppable advance of Franco-British troops.
  • World War I

    World War I
    US President Woodrow Wilson Thomas proclaims in the US Congress, a list of 14 points for cessation of World War
  • World War I

    World War I
    Bolshevik Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers, abandoned the enormous wear WWI and providing independence to Poland and the Baltic territories of Ukraine and Finland.
  • World War II

    In the morning, German troops disguised as Polish "invade" Germany, which serves as a trigger pretext of German warmongers cravings. Two days after Germany invade Poland, without any prior warning or declaration of war, beginning World War II.
  • World War II

    World War II
    Folowing the orders of Nazi Adolf Hitler, one and half million German soldiers, part of five armies formed by infantry, tanks and cavalry, enter Polish territory by different fronts. after, German planes bomb the cities of Katowice, Krakow, Tczew and Tunel with firebombs.
  • Mussolini

    Mussolini
    the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other executed Fascists were loaded into a moving van and trucked south to Milan
  • World War II

    World War II
    Is signed in Reims (France), the end of the Second World War in Europe after more than five and a half years of horror and the unconditional surrender of Germany