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Period: to
20th century
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AUSTRALIA BECOMES INDEPENDENT
The independence of Australia was a staggered process that began in 1901, when six colonies, which are now states, formed the "Commonwealth of Australia". -
EINSTEIN´S THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS PUBLISHED
Described the physics of movement within the framework of a flat spacetime. -
THE NORTH POLE IS REACHED BY PEARY
Peary left on July 6, 1908, in New York City, along with 23 men. They left for the North Pole on March 1, 1909. -
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION
The Mexican Revolution was an armed conflict that was under the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. -
THE SOUTH POLE IS REACHED BY AMUNDSEN
The Amundsen expedition was the first expedition to reach the South Pole, led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He, along with four of the members who made up the expedition, arrived at the Pole on December 14, 1911. -
THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC
The Titanic collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. -
FIRST WORLD WAR.
It was the first of the great war conflicts worldwide. -
THE PANAMA CANAL IS INOUGURATED
The Panama Canal is an interoceanic waterway between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean that traverses the Isthmus of Panama at its narrowest point. -
BOLCHEVIQUE REVOLUTION
The Bolsheviks defended a government managed by the lower classes of citizenship, based on the political and social ideas of the ideologist Karl Marx. -
THE WORD WAR 1st IS FINISHED
On November 11, 1918 marked the German surrender after 4 long years in which the fighting of trenches prevailed. -
CHARLES LINDBERGH FLIES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to cross flying the Atlantic Ocean on a non-stop flight. -
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET CRASHES
On Thursday, October 24, 1929, thereafter called Black Thursday, there was one of the biggest falls in this stock market, which would produce the most important economic recession in the United States in the twentieth century, the "Great Depression" . -
HITLER BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR
He led a totalitarian regime during the period known as the Third Reich or Nazi Germany. In addition, he was the one who led Germany during World War II. -
SPANISH CIVIL WAR IS FINISHED
The war had many facets, as it included class struggle, war of religion, confrontation of opposing nationalisms, struggle between military dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, between fascism and communism. -
WORLD WAR II IS FINISHED
Exactly 6 years and a day later, the most damaging world conflict so far put an end to it. -
VIETNAM WAR IS FINISHED
The war of Vietnam also called Second War of Indochina or War against the United States for the Vietnamese, was a warlike conflict. -
BERLIN WALL FALLS
The Berlin Wall, which split the current German capital in two and became the symbol of the division of the German people during the Cold War, fell after 29 years of being built. -
NELSON MANDELA BECOMES PRESIDENT
He was a lawyer, activist, politician and South African philanthropist who presided over his country from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black chief executive who headed the Executive Power, and the first to be elected by universal suffrage in his country.