modern world history timeline

  • Oct 31, 1517

    95 thesis

    95 thesis
    Martin Luther posts the 95 thesis on the door of the church at wittenburg. this starts the protestant reformation.
  • English civil war

    English civil war
    The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over, principally, the manner of England's government.
  • The First Gulf War

    The First Gulf War
    The Gulf War, code named Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition
  • World Trade Center Bombing

    World Trade Center Bombing
    The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, carried out on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
  • Oklahoma City Bombing

    Oklahoma City Bombing
    The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Hurrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995.
  • United States involvement in Serbia

    United States involvement in Serbia
    The Serbs, led by Slobbed Milosevic, had decided on a campaign of ethnic cleansing and en dash; to rid Kosovo of all Albanian Muslims. By 1998, the US and NATO stepped in to stop the genocide. ... The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is most commonly known as Serbia and Montenegro.
  • The attack on the USS Cole

    The attack on the USS Cole
    The USS Cole bombing was a terrorist attack against the United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole on 12 October 2000, while it was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
  • Invasion of Afghanistan

    Invasion of Afghanistan
    The United States invasion of Afghanistan occurred after the September 11 attacks in late 2001, supported by close allies. The conflict is also known as the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
  • Invasion of Iraq

    Invasion of Iraq
    The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 20 March to 1 May 2003 and signaled the start of the Iraq War, which the United States dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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