Modern Era Timeline (1901-1945) E4 P3

By amypatrick

  • Edward VII Becomes King

    Queen Vitoria dies; Edward VII bedomes king of England

  • Australia

    The Commonwealth of Australia is formed

  • Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad published Heart of Darkness.

  • Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Republic of China

    Xinhai Revolution established the Republic of China.

  • Titanic

    Titanic collides with iceburg and sinks.

  • Tarzan

    Edgar Rice Boroughs published Tarzan of the Apes.

  • Easter Rising

    Irish Republicans attempt to win independence from British.

  • Russian Revolution

    Vladimir Lenin leads the Bolsheviks in the world's first communist revolution.

  • End of WWI

    Treaty of Versailles officially ends WWI.

  • Hitler

    Adolf Hitler becomes chairman of Nazi Party.

  • King Tut

    King Tut discovered British archeologist Howard Carter.

  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini became Prime Minster of Italy.

  • Ulysses

    James Joyce publishes Ulysses.

  • W. B. Yeats

    W. B. Yeats awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.

  • Mrs. Dalloway

    Mrs. Dalloway published by Virginia Woolf.

  • George Bernard Shaw

    George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize for literature.

  • Women Vote

    Women win the right to vote in Britian.

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression began after the New York stock market crashed.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin begins the great purge in Soviet Russia.

  • The Hobbit

    J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit.

  • Hindenburg

    Hindenburg explodes killing 36 passengers.

  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England.

  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz concentration camp established; over next 5 years millions are excuted.

  • Virginia Woolf's Death

    Virginia Woolf dies

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor causing US to enter WWII.

  • C. S. Lewis

    C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters.

  • D-Day

    Allied troops land on Normady, France.

  • Animal Farm

    George Orwell publishes Animal Farm.

  • Post-War Arrangements

    Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin convene at the Yalta Conference to determine post-war arrangements.

  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler commits suicide, with Eva Braun.

  • The Atomic Bomb

    US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

  • The Atomic Bomb

    US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki.