Events
edit- 1901: Federation of Australia
- 1901: William McKinley is assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
- 1901: First Nobel Prizes are awarded.
- 1902: Second Boer War ends when the British Empire defeats the Transvaal Boers.
- 1903: Panama declares independence from Colombia with the support of the United States which gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
- 1904: The Entente Cordiale ends centuries of conflict between France and England.
- 1904-07: Herero Wars between Hereros and German colonists in Namibia
- 1905: Japan defeats Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1905: Norway declares independence from Sweden.
- 1908: Petroleum is discovered in the Middle East at Masjed Soleyman.
- 1908: Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire
- 1908: Young Turks lead a successful rebellion against the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and rule it until 1918.
- 1909: NAACP founded.
- 1910: Union of South Africa
- 1910: Japan annexes Korea.
- 1910: Portugese Republican Revolution
- 1910-28: Mexican Revolution
- 1910: Henry Ford begins mass producing Model T automobiles.
- 1911-12: Xinhai Revolution results in the end of the Qing Dynasty and the formation of the Republic of China.
- 1912: International Opium Convention- first international agreement to curb the drug trade
- 1912: France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
- 1912: The RMS Titanic sinks.
- 1912-13: Balkan Wars
- 1912: African National Congress formed in South Africa.
- 1914-19: World War I results in the dissolutions of the German, Austrian, Russian and Ottoman empires.
- 1914: Panama Canal opens.
- 1917: Russian Revolution
- 1918-19: Spanish flu pandemic
- 1918-19: German Revolution leads to the Weimar Republic.
- 1945: United Nations established.
- 1947-91: Cold War
- 1947-79: Indochina Wars
- 1947-99: Indo-Pakistani Wars
- 1948: The 1948 Arab-Israeli War touched off the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict.
- 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated
- 1968: Riots followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the US. (see 1968 Washington, D.C. riots)
- 1969-76: Cultural Revolution in China
- 1973 oil crisis
- 1975-79: The Khmer Rouge kill over 25% of the population of Cambodia (2 million people).
- 1979: Iranian Revolution