Timeline of Events

Year 1900 1901 1902 Events Boxer Rebellion in China President McKinley of the US is assassinated Boer War Ends US Passes the Chinese Exclusion Act The First powered flight by the Wright Brothers Russo-Japanese War Begins Bloody Sunday takes place as a step in the Russian Revolution Fun fact Event Sigmund Freud publishes his book Interpretation of Dreams First Nobel Prize Awarded Teddy Bear introduced

1903 1904 1905

First silent movie NY subways open Einsteins theory of relativity and Freuds theory of Sexuality are both published The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published Ford introduced the first model-T car Plastic is invented Robert Peary is the first to reach the North Pole

1906 1907 1908 1909

Turks revolt in the Ottoman Empire

1910 1911 1912 1913 1914

Chinese Revolution takes place The Titanic sinks Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated, the battle of the Marne happens and both lead to World War I beginning Armenian Genocide Poison gas first use as a weapon by the Germans World War I rages on Russian Revolution US Enters into WWI Russias Czar, Nicholas II, and his family, are killed Treaty of Versailles is signed and Ends WWI Prohibition begins in the United States

Structure of an atom is discovered by Rutherford Oreos created Charlie Chaplins first appearance The Birth of a Nation is released

1915

1916 1917

1918 1919 1920

Spanish Influenza pandemic begins

First commercial radio broadcast aired

Women are granted suffrage in the US 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 Mussolini marches on Rome in Italy Hitler is jailed after his first failed coup Lenin dies Hitler publishes Mein Kampf from jail First assassination attempt on Mussolini Lindbergh flies solo across Atlantic Stock Market Crash in the US Gahdhi has a salt march Stalin begins the Collectivization of Agriculture in the USSR 1931 1932 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany Attempted Assassination of FDR First Nazi Concentration Camp established The Dust Bowl Mao Zedong begins the Long March in China Nuremberg Laws instituted in Germany (anti-Semitism) Spanish Civil War Begins Japan invades China Hitler annexed Austria Kristallnacht Start of WWII German-Soviet Non-Aggression pact signed

Harlem Renaissance begins

Insulin is discovered Talking films are invented J. Edgar Hoover appointed FBI Director in the US

Winnie the Pooh is published Jazz Singer is the first talking movie Penicillin Discovered

Empire State Building completed in NY

1933

Prohibition ends in the US

1934

Bonnie and Clyde are killed by Police in the US

1935 1936 1937 1938

1939

Nazi Olympics in Berlin Hindenburg Disaster Broadcast of War of the Worlds causes panic scares in the US Helicopter invented