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The Modern Era Begins
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Queen Victoria dies and is succeeded by son Edward VIII
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James Joyce begins writing the controversial novel Ulysses.
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World War 1 begins when Archduke Francis Feedinad is assissnated.
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Britain joins WWI
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Global depression makes the unemployment rate 23 percent.
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Depression and despair drove the writer Virginia Woolf to suicide.
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At the end of World War II, British military and civilian losses total at 360,000 people.
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The United Nations is formed
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Cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union begins
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Cold War
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George Orwell publishes the book 1984, which shows a future totalitarian version of England.
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Elizabeth II takes the throne in England
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Soviets launched Sputnik I, the first space satellite
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The first practical home computer, the Apple 2, was released
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The Berlin Wall falls
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England joins the European Union
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins the Nobel Prize in literature
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Britian's Princess Diana dies in a Paris auto accident
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The Euro is introduced
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First Iphone comes out
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Barack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States
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Brexit
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Theresa May becomes the most recent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
