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Short Outline of World History Timeline: Modern 6.

1982 CE
First Israeli invasion of Lebanon, for the purpose of attacking the Palestine Liberation Organization.

1982 CE
Hama massacre.

1982 CE
On December 7, 1982, Texas became the first U.S. state and territory in the world to use lethal injection to carry out capital punishment.

1982 CE
Sony CDP-101 was released in 1982, the world's first commercially released compact disc player.

1982 CE
Princess Grace of Monaco (formerly known as Hollywood star Grace Kelly) died on September 14, 1982, the day after her car plunged off a mountain road.

1983 CE
End of dictatorship in Argentina. Second Sudanese Civil War begins. Invasion of Grenada by the United States. Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut.

1984 CE
In 1984, researchers identify the cause of AIDS, as the HIV virus.

1984 CE
The miners' strike of 1984–85 was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), to try to prevent colliery closures.

1984 CE
Assassination of Indira Gandhi.

1983–85 famine in Ethiopia.

1985 CE
Live Aid music-based fundraising initiative for the Ethiopian famine.

1986 CE
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on Tuesday, January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

1986 CE
In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian, exploded.
 This photo was taken from a helicopter on the day following the explosion. The destroyed Chernobyl reactor, one of four units operating at the site in Ukraine in 1986. IAEA Imagebank - 02790015
1986 CE
Return of Halley's Comet.

1986 CE
End of dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.

1987 CE
World population reaches 5 billion.

1987 CE
The antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) was introduced.

1987 CE
MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector on December 20, 1987. An estimated death toll of 4,386 people and only 25 survivors.

1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines.

1988 CE
Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social reform, Perestroika, begins.

1988 CE
End of dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

1988 CE
In 1988, a bomb downed a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Bombing Suspects, Libyans.

1988 CE
Burma became independent in 1948. Elected government overthrown 1962. Burma Armed Forces military coup 1988. Name change to Myanmar in the following year.

1988 CE
Eurotunnel began construction in 1988 and opened in 1994.

1989 CE
Fall of the Berlin Wall. And collapse of the Soviet Bloc in Europe.
People atop the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate on 9 November 1989
1989 CE
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 led to in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

1989 CE
First direct Presidential election in Brazil since 1960.

1989 CE
Fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie, after the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.

1989 CE
First close up pictures of Neptune.

1989 CE
Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu.

1989 CE
The United States invades Panama, by sea, air and land, in an attempt to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega.

1989 CE
British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990.

1990 CE
The reunification of Germany.

1990 CE
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Gulf War begins. Contra War ends.

1990 CE
Although scientists first identified carbon dioxide’s importance for climate in the 1850s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) First Assessment Report (FAR) was completed in 1990, stating with confidence that CO2 has been responsible for over half the enhanced greenhouse effect.

1991 CE
Boris Yeltsin becomes the first President of the Russia.

1991 CE
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence and insurgencies fought in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001, which led to the breakup of the Yugoslav state.

1991 CE
Beginning of the Somali, Sierra Leonian and Algerian Civil Wars.

1992 CE
Maastricht Treaty creates the European Union.

1992 CE
End of dictatorship in Albania and South Korea.

1992 CE
The Bosnian War was characterised by bitter fighting, indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns, ethnic cleansing and systematic mass rape, mainly perpetrated by Serb, and to a lesser extent, Croat and Bosniak forces.

1992 CE
Discovery of the Kuiper belt and the first extrasolar planets.

1993 CE
Independence of Eritrea.
 
1993 CE
World Trade Center bombing terrorist attack, carried out on February 26, 1993. The Islamic terrorists received financing from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  "the principal architect of the later 9/11 attacks".

1993 CE
The 1993 Waco siege between the government federal agents and cult leader David Koresh. Texas, US.

1994 CE
End of apartheid in South Africa and election of Nelson Mandela.
6th April 2000 Visit of Nelson Mandela to give a lecture at LSE on 'Africa and Its Position in the World.' Held at the Peacock Theatre.
1994 CE
Yemeni Civil War (1994). Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira triggers the Rwandan genocide.

1994 CE
MS Estonia, carrying 989 passengers between Tallinn and Stockholm, sank in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

1995 CE
Establishment of the World Trade Organization.

1995 CE
The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 people and injured over 680 others.

1995 CE
Srebrenica massacre. NATO bombing raids in Bosnia, end the Bosnian War.

1995 CE
The Tokyo subway sarin attack, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo.

1996 CE
First Congo War begins. Zaire becomes the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997.

1996 CE
End of dictatorship in Taiwan.

1996 CE
The Taliban takes control of Afghanistan.

1996 CE
The Port Arthur massacre of 28–29 April 1996 was a mass shooting in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Leads to gun regulations in Australia.

1997 CE
Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from UK to China.

1997 CE
Diana, Princess of Wales, died in hospital after being injured in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.

1997 CE
March 1997, all 39 members of the religious cult Heaven's Gate commit suicide.

1998 CE
Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa against the West.

1998 CE
Political sex scandal that involved 49-year-old, President Bill Clinton, and 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, consumed the news cycle.

1998 CE
Google founded.

1998 CE
Good Friday Agreement brings an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

1998 CE
Fall of Suharto, Indonesia.

The North Korean famine, a period of mass starvation together with a general economic crisis from 1994 to 1998 in North Korea.

1990 CE
Euro currency introduced.

1990 CE
End of the Yugoslav Wars. Second Chechen War and Second Liberian Civil War begin. Fourth Indo-Pakistani War. Crisis in East Timor leads to 1400 deaths.

1990 CE
Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, United States.

World population reaches 6 billion.  

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2000 CE
Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia.

2000 CE
British Army launch Operation Palliser which ends the Sierra Leone Civil War.

2000 CE
ASG a radical Islamic separatist group, attack a Malaysian dive resort on the island of Sipadan, seizing 21 hostages.

2000 CE
Multiple terrorist bombings in Metro Manila occurs on Rizal Day, killing 22 people and injuring more than 120 others. Various Islamic groups were implicated in the bombings.

2001 CE
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Afghanistan War begins.
Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, after a Boeing 767 hits each tower during the September 11 attacks. Michael Foran
2001 CE
Steve Jobs introduces the first iPod. Wikipedia is launched.

2001 CE
The Nepalese royal massacre. Twelve members of the royal family were killed in a mass shooting during a party. Crown Prince Dipendra named as perpetrator of the massacre.

2002 CE
Islamic terrorist bomb detonated inside Paddy's Nightclub in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities).

2002 CE
Construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier begins.

2002 CE
Establishment of the International Criminal Court.

2002 CE
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is established and America demands Iraq allow unfettered access to weapons inspectors.

2003 CE
The United States invades Iraq and topples Saddam Hussein.

2003 CE
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

2003 CE
Second Congo War ends with more than 5 million dead. Second Liberian Civil War ends.

2004 CE
Facebook, a social networking service, launched as TheFacebook.

2004 CE
Madrid train bombings killed 193 people and injured around 2,000.

2004 CE
The Beslan school siege, by Islamic militants, ended with the deaths of at least 334 people.

2004 CE
The Boxing Day Tsunami killed an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.

2004 CE
The 2004 SuperFerry 14 bombing by Islamic extremists, led to the death of 116 people.

2005 CE
London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated Islamic terrorist suicide attacks in London, England, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds.

2005 CE
Hurricane Katrina hit the United States, particularly in the city of New Orleans, and an estimated 1,833 people died.

2005 CE
80,000 are killed in an earthquake in Kashmir.

2006 CE
The 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War.

2006 CE
Execution of Saddam Hussein.

2006 CE
Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian agent, dies from poisoning in the UK.

2006 CE
A coup d'état in Thailand.

2007 CE
Virginia Tech student shot 49 people on campus, killing 32 and wounding 17.

2007 CE
The global financial crisis (GFC), was an economic disaster in markets and banking systems between mid 2007 and early 2009.

2008 CE
Cyclone Nargis kills 133,000 in Myanmar.

2008 CE
Gaza War, 2008 South Ossetia war.

2008 CE
The Mumbai Islamic terror attacks of 26 November 2008 left 166 people dead.

2008 CE
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, first started up on 10 September 2008.

2009 CE
The Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, when the jihadist group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria.

2010 CE
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills 230,000.

2010 CE
European Debt Crisis: Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

2010 CE
Burmese political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.

2010 CE
Moscow Metro bombings were suicide bombings carried out by two Islamic female terrorists during the morning rush hour of March 29, 2010, at two stations of the Moscow Metro (Lubyanka and Park Kultury), with roughly 40 minutes in between. At least 40 people were killed, and over 100 injured.

2010 CE
A series of anti-government protests and uprisings, called the Arab Spring.
Demonstrations in Al Bayda for support of Tripoli and Az Zawiyah. User:ليبي_صح
2010 CE
The Kyrgyz Revolution. Nigerian coup d'état. Manila hostage crisis.

2011 CE
Independence of South Sudan.

2011 CE
Christchurch earthquake kills 185 and injures 2,000.

2011 CE
A peaceful uprising against the president of Syria, President Bashar al-Assad, turned into a civil war.

2011 CE
Occupy Wall Street, a protest movement, began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, against economic inequality. It gave rise to the wider Occupy movement.

2011 CE
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake struck northeastern Japan, resulting in a massive tsunami. An estimated 20,000 people were dead or missing.

2011 CE
The London Riots, were a series of riots, between 6 and 11 August 2011, when thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across England, which saw looting, arson, and mass deployment of police, and resulted in the deaths of five people.

2011 CE
Osama bin Laden is shot dead by United States Navy SEALs in Pakistan.

2011 CE
22 July, right-wing Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik set off a bomb in Regjeringskvartalet and less than two hours later, at a summer camp, for the youth division of the ruling Norwegian Labour Party, opened fire at the participants, killing 69.

2011 CE
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

World population reaches 7 Billion.

2012 CE
The Higgs boson was discovered as a new particle.

2012 CE
Hurricane Sandy kills 209 people in North America, while Typhoon Bopha kills over 1,600 in the Philippines.

2012 CE
Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip.

2012 CE
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. 26 people lost their lives, including 20 children between six and seven years old, and six adult staff members.

2012 CE
A mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight.

2012 CE
On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground and overturned after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, resulting in 32 deaths.

2012 CE
A Pakistani Taliban gunman shot Malala Yousafzai, a 20-year-old girl, for promoting education for girls.

2013 CE
The Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, which housed five garment factories and killed at least 1,132 people and injured more than 2,500.

2013 CE
Edward Snowden copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and subcontractor.

2013 CE
More Than 300 Chemical Attacks Launched by Syrian officials during Syrian Civil War.

2014 CE
The Ebola epidemic of West Africa was of unprecedented scale and duration.

2014 CE
Russia's annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass.

2014 CE
Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappearance.

2014 CE
Coup d'état in Thailand.

2014 CE
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Java Sea, while Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Ukraine and Air Algérie Flight 5017 is downed in Mali.

2014 CE
Taliban kill more than 130 students in Pakistan.

2014 CE
Israel launches an assault on the Gaza Strip, leading to the deaths of 71 Israelis and 2,100 Palestinians.

2014 CE
ISIS controlled more than 34,000 square miles in Syria and Iraq.

2014 CE
The police shooting of African-American teenager, Michael Brown, leads to violent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.

2015 CE
Islamic Terror attacks in Paris killed 130 people and wounded 494.

Islamic State in West Africa massacre over 2000 people. 

Islamic Al-Shabaab mass shooting in Kenya kills 148.

Multiple atrocities perpetrated by Islamic State.

2015 CE
Earthquakes in the Himalayas kills over 10,000 people.

2015 CE
American white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015 in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

2016 CE
In November 2016, WHO announced the end of the Zika epidemic.

2016 CE
Multiple atrocities by Islamic State.

2016 CE
The people of the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union.

2016 CE
United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan after 15 years.

2016 CE
Failed coup d'état in Turkey and government purges.

2016 CE
Dhaka attack kills 29 people by Islamic terrorist operation.

2017 CE
UN sanctions on North Korea after the country tests a hydrogen bomb.

2017 CE
Islamic terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 500.

2017 CE
Myanmar's army accused of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.

2017 CE
Islamist group, Al-Shabaab, likely responsible for two truck bombings which took place in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, killing at least 587 people and injuring 316 others.

2017 CE
Hurricane Harvey kills 107 and becomes the costliest hurricane in US history, while Hurricane Irma kills 134, and Hurricane Maria kills 3,059.

2017 CE
Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. He killed 58 people and wounded 413. Motive undetermined.

2017 CE
Allegations of sexual crimes against film producer, Harvey Weinstein. Later sentenced to 23 years in prison.

2017 CE
Grenfell Tower fire in London kills 72 and injures 70.

2017 CE
Islamic State inspired gunman kills 36 people at Resorts World Manila.

2018 CE
Turkey invades northern Syria, while 70 die in a chemical attack, triggering a missile strike against Bashar al-Assad.

2018 CE
Four people poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury and Amesbury, UK. Russians suspected.

2018 CE
The yellow vests movement for economic justice began in France in October 2018.
A gilets jaunes demonstration in Paris on 8 December 2018, Olivier Ortelpa - https://www.flickr.com/photos/copivolta/46193754882/
2018 CE
Sunda strait tsunami kills 426 and injures 14,000. Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami kills 4,340 and injures 10,700.

2018 CE
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

2018 CE
China's National People's Congress votes to abolish presidential term limits, allowing Xi Jinping to rule for life.

2018 CE
12 boys exploring a cave in Thailand's Chiang Rai province with their football coach, who became trapped after the cave flooded, were successfully rescued.

2019 CE
Christchurch mosque shootings, by right-wing extremist, kill 51 people. While a suicide bombing in Iran kills 41, and a series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka kills 250.

2019 CE
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant loses the last of its territory.

2019 CE
Sudanese coup d'état.

2019 CE
First ever image of a black hole, at the core of galaxy Messier 87.

2019 CE
The extradition bill that ignited the Hong Kong protests declared "dead" but protesters still resisting China.

2019 CE
Fires in Brazil and Australia. Six million hectares destroyed in Australia and three million hectares burnt in Brazil.

2019 CE
Bone fragments found, Callao Cave in the Philippines, reveal a short-statured and distinct hominin species —which researchers named Homo luzonensis.

2019 CE
The United States Justice Department charged Huawei with a series of federal crimes.

2019 CE
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested in London.

2019 CE
A young Iranian woman set herself on fire to protest the threat of six months of jail time for watching a men's soccer game.

2019 CE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

2019 CE
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the Senate.

2019 CE
Coronavirus pandemic begins in Wuhan, China.

2020 CE
The government of New South Wales, Australia, declares a state of emergency. Whilst the government of Victoria, Australia declares a state of disaster amid large bushfires that have killed as many as 500 million animals.

2020 CE
U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

2020 CE
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iran's armed forces, killing all 176 people on board.

2020 CE
The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the coronavirus pandemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

2020 CE
The United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union.

2020 CE
Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war.

Short Outline of World History Timeline: Modern 5.

1949 CE
Partition of Germany into the Soviet socialist (East) and German Democratic Republic (West).

1949 CE
Partition of Kashmir.

1949 CE
People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong established.

1949 CE
The Republic of China relocates to Taiwan. The exodus of the remnants of the Kuomintang-ruled government of the Republic of China to the island of Taiwan in December 1949, at the end of the Chinese Civil War.

1949 CE
On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union secretly detonates its first atomic bomb.

1950 CE
North Korea invaded South Korea, June 1950. At least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The Korean War (1950-1953).

1951 CE
The Colombo Plan, a multilateral fund, to boost Asian economic and social development.

After Japan's surrender in 1945 and the end of World War II, Japan was occupied by the United States, between 1945 and 1952.

1952 CE
Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II, in 1952, at the age of 25.
Photo of Queen Elizabeth II in Royal Dress. c1953
1952 CE
A hydrogen bomb, a type of nuclear bomb, was detonated on November 1, 1952, by the United States.

1952 CE
First effective polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk.

1953 CE
DNA was first identified in the late 1860s by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher and many other scientists added to the information about the DNA molecule. James Watson and Francis Crick were able to use these findings to determine the three-dimensional double helix structure of DNA in 1953.
1953 CE
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, 29 May 1953.

1954 CE
Brown v. Board of Education decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.

1955 CE
Nikita Khrushchev in control of the Soviet Union.

1955 CE
The first antiprotons were created by Berkeley Lab's Bevatron in 1955, at the energy particle accelerator.

1955 CE
Warsaw Pact, a collective defense treaty was signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955.

1955 CE
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. The communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

1956 CE
The Hungarian Revolution.

1957 CE
Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, world's first artificial satellite.

1957 CE
The Treaty of Rome, officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (or EEC).

1958 CE
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) established in 1958.

1959 CE
The Great Chinese Famine, between the years 1959 and 1961.

1959 CE
Independence of Cyprus.

1959 CE
World population reaches 3 billion.

1960 CE
The combined oral contraceptive pill, first approved for contraceptive use in the United States, in 1960.
A combined oral contraceptive pill that includes a combination of Gestodene (79%) and Ethynylestradiol (21%).
1960 CE
The independence of seventeen African nations.

1960 CE
European Free Trade Association formed.

1960 CE
The Sino-Soviet split.

1961 CE
Mao's Great Leap ends after tens of millions of deaths, with estimates ranging between 18 million and 45 million deaths. 

1961 CE
Construction of the Berlin Wall. 

1962 CE
The Cuban Missile Crisis. A dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

1962 CE
Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962.

1963 CE
 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

1963 CE
Assassination of John F. Kennedy. 

1964 CE
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, USA. 

1964 CE
Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first close-up pictures of the Martian surface.

1965 CE
Joseph Mobutu becomes dictator of the Congo.

1965 CE
 Indonesia's anti-communist purge, kills hundreds of thousands of Indonesians.

1965 CE
Singapore separated from Malaysia, 9 August 1965, to become an independent and sovereign state.

1965 CE
Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines. He ruled as a dictator under martial law from 1972 until 1981.

1965 CE
The Indonesian army destroyed Indonesia’s Communist Party (PKI), after a group calling themselves the “30th September Movement”, kidnapped six generals in a mismanaged attempt to weaken the army.

1966 CE
The Cultural Revolution, in China under Mao, from 1966 until 1976; purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. The Guangxi Massacre (cannibalism also occurred) and many were persecuted or died during the Cultural Revolution. Chinese paintings were torn apart, and Chinese temples were desecrated.

1967 CE
A social phenomena, the summer of 1967, when thousands of young supporters of the counterculture flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.

1967 CE
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming at Cheviot Beach, Victoria.

1968 CE
Assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

1968 CE
Leonid Brezhnev sent a massive invasion force to crush the Prague Spring.

May 1968 protests in France.

1968 CE
The three-decade conflict between nationalists (mainly self-identified as Irish or Roman Catholic) and unionists (mainly self-identified as British or Protestant), called the Troubles begins in Ireland.

1969 CEApollo 11 landed humans on the Moon.

1969 CE
The Stonewall riots, a series of violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.

1969 CE
Muammar Gaddafi overthrows King Idris of Libya in a Coup d'état.

1969 CE
Woodstock music festival was held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York.

1969 CE
The Boeing 747 revolutionized air travel.

1968 CE
Followers of Charles Manson's cult kill five people in movie director Roman Polanski's Beverly Hills, California, home,

1970 CE
More than a million people died in Nigeria as a result of the civil war.

1970 CE
The Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing in neutral Cambodia by United States military forces.

1970 CE
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

1971 CE
Independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan. 

1971 CE
Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda. 

1972 CE
Mass shooting occur on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, dubbed Bloody Sunday, when British soldiers shoot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment, without trial.

1972 CE
First Sudanese Civil War.

1973 CE
Chilean coup d'état.

1973 CE
Arab–Israeli War.

1973 CE
Watergate break-in and coverup led to the impeachment of President Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress.

1973 CE
Skylab was the first space station operated by the United States.

1973 CE
Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.

1974 CE
Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Many Greek-Cypriots became internally displaced people.
Greek Cypriot prisoners taken to Adana camps in Turkey
1974 CE
Portugal begins transition to democracy. 

1974 CE
Discovery of "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis) in Tanzania.

World population reaches 4 billion in 1974.

1975 CE
The Fall of Saigon ends the Vietnam War.

1975 CE
Victory for the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. More than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime. Khmer Rouge regime overthrown, 1979.

1976 CE
First outbreak of the Ebola virus. 

1976 CE
Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I computer and sells it to Steve Jobs. In the following year, the introduction of the first mass-produced personal computers. 

1977 CE
Launch of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts,

1978
Artificial insulin is invented.

1978 CE
900 members of James Jones cult die in a mass murder-suicide by drinking cyanide-laced punch. 

1978 CE
First test-tube baby.

1978 CE
Cambodian-Vietnamese War begins. Uganda–Tanzania War begins. War in Afghanistan (1978–present).

1978 CE
China's leader, Deng Xiaoping, implemented a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms. In the following year, implementation of China's One-child policy.
Deng Xiaoping, 6 April 1976
1979 CE
Smallpox eradicated.

1979 CE
Soviet–Afghan War begins. 

1979 CE
The Iran hostage crisis, a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. 

1979 CE
A partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and radiation leak, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

1980 CE Rhodesia, becomes Zimbabwe and gains independance.

1980 CE
Iran–Iraq War.

1980 CE
Azaria Chamberlain goes missing from a tent in a campground near Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory, Australia.

1980 CE
John Lennon is fatally shot in front of his New York City home by crazed fan.

1981 CE
First orbital flight of the Space Shuttle.

1981 CE
The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place on Wednesday 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral in London, UK.
 
1981 CE
The AIDS epidemic officially begins.
 





 

Short Outline of World History Timeline: Modern 4


1901 CE
Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901. Six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.

1902 CE
Second Boer War ends.

1903 
The 1903 Wright airplane was the first successful heavier-than-air powered aircraft. It was designed and built by the Wright brothers.

1903 CE
The Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, factions of the Russian socialist movement emerged in 1903, following a dispute in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

1903 CE
The Teddy Bear was invented in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt.

1904 CE
The Russo-Japanese War was fought during 1904 and 1905 between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria.

1904 CE
President Theodore Roosevelt expanded the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, asserting the right of the United States to intervene to stabilize the economic affairs of states in the Caribbean and Central America, if they were unable to pay their international debts.

1905 CE
Albert Einstein's formulation of relativity.

1907 CE
A peasants' revolt in Romania. About 11,000 die.

1908 CE
The Ford Model T automobile (known as the Tin Lizzie, Leaping Lena, jitney or flivver) was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908.
1925 Ford Model T touring, built at Henry Ford’s Highland Park Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. This example now resides in Australia, owned by the founder of FordModelT.net, ModelTMitch
1908 CE
Messina earthquake kills over 70,000 people.

1910 CE
George V becomes King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India.

1910 CE
In 1910, the Earth was to pass through the tail of Halley's Comet, which caused extreme public panic, that the apocalypse was coming.

1911 CE
Xinhai Revolution in China overthrows the last imperial dynasty, Qing Dynasty.

1911 CE
Roald Amundsen first reaches the South Pole.

1911 CE
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on March 25, 1911, led to the deaths of 146 workers and the implementation of many workplace safety reforms.

1911 CE
Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic nucleus.

1912 CE
End of the Chinese Empire and Republic of China established.

1912 CE
Morocco becomes a protectorate of France.

1912 CE
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg.
RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912. F.G.O. Stuart
1912 CE
The Chinese nationalist party is founded. The Kuomintang.

The Balkan Wars consisted of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan Peninsula in 1912 and 1913.

1913 CE
Niels Bohr makes foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.

1913 CE
Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line enabling the mass production of an entire automobile.

1913 CE
Yuan Shikai tried to install himself as as the Hongxian Emperor of China.

1914 CE
Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, triggering the start of World War I.

1915 CE
The British ocean liner, RMS Lusitania, was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew.

1915 CE
The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and adjoining regions.

1916 CE
Easter Rising in Ireland.
Sackville (now O'Connell) Street, Dublin, after the 1916 Easter Rising.
1915 CE
Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Turkey, at dawn on 25 April 1915.
 WW1 Trench Warfare, 28 April 2016
1916 CE
Grigory Rasputin is assassinated.

1917 CE
Abolition of the monarchy in 1917 and beginning of Russian Revolution.

1917 CE
Independence of Poland and Finland.

1918 CE
The Hundred Days Offensive defeats Germany. Armistice of 11 November 1918 ends World War I.

1918 CE
Spanish flu pandemic.

1918 CE
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Empress Alexandra and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by communist revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.

1918 CE
The defeat of the Ottomans led to the subsequent partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.

1919 CE
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919; forced Germans to pay substantial financial penalties and Germany lost about 13% of its territory.

1919 CE
Establishment of the Weimar Republic after the collapse of the German Empire.

1919 CE
The League of Nations was established to maintain world peace.

1919 CE
The Italian National Fascist Party is established by Benito Mussolini.

1919 CE
Egyptian Revolution of 1919. Turkish War of Independence begins.

1919 CE
Ernest Rutherford discovers the proton.

1929 CE
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.
New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition
1920 CE
Mohandas Gandhi, an Indian lawyer, led a successful campaign for India's independence from the British.

1921 CE
Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party.

1922 CE
Irish Free State is established, ending the three-year Irish War of Independence. The Province of Northern Ireland is created within The United Kingdom.

1922 CE
Egypt gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1922 CE
Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb.
Harry Burton: Tutankhamun tomb photographs: c1922
1922 CE
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

1922 CE
The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 was signed by major nations to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction.

1925 CE
Benito Mussolini was the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945.

1923 CE
Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic caused considerable internal political instability.

1924 CE
After the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin won the leadership power battle. Trotsky was eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1929 and he spent the rest of his life in exile.

1924 CE
Kemal Atatürk abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state.

1925 CE
Mein Kampf is published.

1926 CE
Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrated the first working television system on 26 January 1926.

1926 CE
Hirohito became the 124th emperor of Japan and was the longest-lived and longest-reigning historical Japanese emperor and the second longest-reigning monarch in the world.

1927 CE
The Jazz Singer, a film released in 1927, was the first feature-length motion picture with a synchronized recorded music score and lip-synchronous singing and speech.

1927 CE
The provisional Parliament House, opened in 1927, served as the home for Australia's Federal Parliament until 1988.

1927 CE
Chinese Civil War begins.

1927 CE
World population reaches 2 billion.

1927 CE
Charles Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927.

1928 CE
Discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming.

1928 CE
The Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928 is an international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts.

1929 CE
The Wall Street Crash was a major stock market crash that occurred in 1929 and led to the Great Depression.
Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, February 1931
1931 CE
Floods in China kill up to 2.5 million people.

1931 CE
The 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, the Empire State Building, was built in 1931.

1931 CE
The Chinese Soviet Republic was established in November 1931, by future Communist Party of China leader, Mao Zedong.

1932 CE
Soviet famine of 1932–33.

1932 CE
BBC World Service, the world's largest international broadcaster, began broadcasting in 1932.

1933 CE
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany and in the following year, Hitler declares himself Fuhrer of Germany.

1935 CE
Conquest of Abyssinia by Benito Mussolini. In the following year, Italy annexes Ethiopia.

1936 CE
Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom from 20 January 1936, until his abdication on 11 December of that year.

1936 CE
The last known thylacine, dies in Hobart Zoo.
Thylacine (juvenile in foreground) pair in Hobart Zoo. c1921
1937 CE
Japanese invasion of China. The Nanking Massacre, committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China.

1937 CE
The Irish Republican Army attempts to assassinate King George VI.

1938 CE
Anschluss unifies Germany and Austria. Munich agreement hands Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. Great Purge ends after nearly 700,000 executions. Kristallnacht in Germany,

1939 CE
End of Spanish Civil War; Francisco Franco becomes dictator of Spain. Nazi invasion of Poland triggers the beginning of World War II in Europe.

1940 CE
Nazis invade France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.

1941 CE
Operation Reinhard begins the main phase of The Holocaust.

1941 CE
The attack on Pearl Harbor, a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day.

1941 CE
The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

1943 CE
Battle of Stalingrad ends with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German Army.

1944 CE
D-Day landings in Normandy. Liberation of Paris. The Siege of Leningrad ends with Soviet victory after over a million deaths.
British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944
Troops of 3rd Infantry Division on Queen Red beach, Sword area, circa 0845 hrs, 6 June 1944.
1944 CE
The world's first programmable electronic digital computer, Colossus, was invented by British codebreakers to aid the deciphering of German coded radio messages.
1945 CE
Allied bombing of Dresden. Battle of Berlin. Yalta Conference.

The end of the Second World War, 2 September 1945. About 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, from genocide, massacres, bombings, disease, and starvation.

1946 CE
Philippines independent from USA.

1947 CE
Independence of India and Pakistan and beginning of First Indo-Pakistani War.

1947 CE
The Truman Doctrine, to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War, was announced by President Harry S Truman. The Central Intelligence Agency was created on July 26, 1947.

1948 CE
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe.

1948 CE
Founding of the OECD and the World Health Organization (WHO).

1948 CE
Assassination of Mohandas Gandhi.

1949 CE
Creation of NATO.
 


Short Outline of World History Timeline: Modern 3.

1801 CE
Giuseppe Piazzi, an Italian Catholic priest established an observatory at Palermo and discovered the first dwarf planet, Ceres.

1801 CE
Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States.

1801 CE
The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.

1801 CE
The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII,

1802 CE
Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.

1803 CE
The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's claims in North America with the Louisiana Purchase. 

1804 CE
Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.

1804 CE
World population at 1 billion.

1804 CE
In the sixteenth century, laudanum, which was opium in an alcoholic solution, was used as a painkiller. Morphine first isolated in 1804.

1807 CE
The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.

1807 CE
Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.

1807 CE
Sir Humphry Davy, isolated, by using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry.
Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, by Thomas Phillips
18010-20s
The Latin American wars of independence.

1812-15
War of 1812 between the United States and Britain.

1813 CE
"Pride and Prejudice", by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813.

1814 CE
The first successful steam engine locomotive was built by the British Engineer George Stephenson called Blücher, in 1814.

1818 CE
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein.

1819 CE
Peterloo massacre in England. Cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people, who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.

1820 CE
Discovery of Antarctica.

1821-30 CE
Greek War of Independence and Greece breaks away from the Ottoman Empire.

1822 CE
The first rotating device driven by electromagnetism was built by the Englishman Peter Barlow in 1822.

1825 CE
The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives.

1826 CE
Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

1828 CE
Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
Truganini (c. 1812 – 8 May 1876) was a woman widely considered to have been the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian
1829 CE
Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service, with the Metropolitan Police Act, which set up the first disciplined police force, for the Greater London area.

1839 CE
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established.

1836 CE
HMS Beagle entered Sydney Harbour with the 26-year old Charles Darwin on board, HMS Beagle, January 12, 1836.

1837 CE
Samuel Morse independently developed and patented a recording electric telegraph in 1837.

1837-1901 CE
Queen Victoria's reign.

1839-1860 CE
The First and Second Opium Wars.

1840 CE
The Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Māori and British.

1844 CE
First publicly funded telegraph line in the world, between Baltimore and Washington.

1846 CE
The Lunacy Act's, of Great Britain, most important provision was a change in the status of mentally ill people to patients.

1845-49
The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.

1846 CE
Successful anaesthesia for surgery was first demonstrated in 1846.

1846-1847 CE
Mormon migration to Utah.

1846 CE
The Communist Manifesto published.

1848 CE
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855).

1850 CE
By 1850 a transatlantic cable had been laid between England and France, for telegraph communications.

1850 CE
The Taiping Rebellion, caused massive political and religious upheaval, lasting from 1850 to 1864, between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At least 20 million people died.

1851 CE
The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international World Fair.
The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851
1851 CE
Gold rush begins in Australia.

1853 CE
On July 8, 1853, commodore Matthew Perry, commander of the United, used “gunboat diplomacy” to force the Japanese to agree to open trade.

1853-56 CE
Crimean War between France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire and Russia.

1855 BC
Bessemer process enables steel to be mass-produced.

1857 CE
Indian Rebellion of 1857.

1858 CE
Invention of the phonautograph is the earliest known device for recording sound.

1859 CE
Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species".

1861 CE
The American Civil War, fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the northern United States (loyal to the Union) and the southern United States (that had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederacy).
Union soldiers entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia,
Created: 1 May 1863
1861 CE
Emperor Alexander II finally abolished Russian serfdom (serfs were unfree peasants ) in the emancipation reform of 1861.

1861 CE
James Clerk Maxwell publishes "On Physical Lines of Force". Maxwell's equations, describe how electric charges and electric currents create electric and magnetic fields.

1863 CE 
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation issued by United States President, Abraham Lincoln.

1863 CE
Formation of the International Red Cross is followed by the adoption of the First Geneva Convention in 1864.

1863 CE
On January 10, 1863, the London Underground, or the "Tube", opened to passengers.

1863 CE
The French scientist Paul-Jean Coulier developed a method to transfer latent fingerprints on surfaces to paper using iodine fuming in 1863. It allowed the London Scotland Yard to start fingerprinting individuals and identify criminals using fingerprints in 1901.

1865 CE
Gregor Mendel, by experimenting with pea plant breeding, developed three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits.

1866 CE
Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernisation.

1869 CE
First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States.

1871 CE
The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.

1874 CE
The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.
Irish political leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) addressing a meeting. Library of Congress
1875-1900
26 million Indians die in India due to famine.

1876-1879 CE
13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.

1870s CE
The Gilded Age was an era from the 1870s to about 1900 in the USA, when the country became more prosperous, with unprecedented growth in industry and technology.

1877 CE
Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, 1877. In 1879, Edison tests his first light bulb.

1880
The First Boer War (December 1880 to March 1881). The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902).

1881 Ce
Tsar Alexander II is assassinated.

1881 CE
Pogroms (anti-Semitic violence) begin in the Russian Empire.

1881 CE
Godalming, Surrey, England, became the first place in the world to have public electricity supply and electric street lighting.

1881 CE
Laws are passed in France establishing free, secular education.

1885 CE
First car with internal combustion engine is created by Karl Benz. Benz sells the first car in the following year.
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen, 1885
1886 CE
Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday present.

1890 CE
The last battle in the American Indian Wars, the Battle of Wounded Knee.

1893 CE
New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant all women the right to vote.

1894 CE
First gramophone record.

1895 CE
First commercial film is screened, on December 28, 1895, at the Grand Cafe in Paris.

1895 CE
Wilhelm Röntgen identifies x-rays.

1896 CE
Philippines free from Spanish rule.

1896 CE
Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.

1897 CE
The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, fought between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire, over Crete.

1898-1900 CE
The Boxer Rebellion, was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising in China. "Boxers” was the name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”).

1901 CE
On 1 January 1901, the six existing self-governing British colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.

Short Outline of World History Timeline: Modern 2.

1701-2 CE
The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post become the first daily newspapers in England.

1703 CE
Saint Petersburg is founded by Peter the Great; it is the Russian capital until 1918.

1705 CE
George Frideric Handel composed his first opera, Almira, when he was 19 years old.

1706 CE
The first English-language edition of the Arabian Nights is published.

1707 CE
The Acts of Union, passed by the English and Scottish Parliaments in 1707, led to the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

1707 CE
Mount Fuji erupts in Japan for the first time in 10000 years.
Mt.fuji from R469 in Yuno, Japan
1707 CE
The Mughal–Maratha Wars were fought between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire from 1680 to 1707 (India).

1708-9
Famine kills one-third of East Prussia's population.

1710 CE
The Statute of Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1710, is regulated by the government and courts, rather than by private parties.

1710-11
Ottoman Empire fights Russia. 

1714 CE
George I, Elector of Hanover becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland. Early in his reign, he appeared to be unable to speak English. 

The Jacobite risings, or the War of the British Succession, were a series of uprisings, rebellions, and wars in Great Britain and Ireland occurring between 1688 and 1746.

1716 CE
The Sikh Confederacy (from 1716-1799) was a collection of small to medium sized political Sikh states, governed by barons, along the present-day India-Pakistan border.

1720 CE
The economic bubble, a British stock market mania, which ruined thousands of investors, became known as the South Sea Bubble.

1722 CE
The Afghan conquest of Iran. Afghans ousted from Iran 1729.

1729
The Methodist revival began in England with a group of men, including John Wesley and his younger brother Charles, as a movement within the Church of England. 

1733 CE
Letters on the English, written by Voltaire, based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729, was published first in English in 1733.

1740-1
Famine in Ireland kills ten percent of the population.

1741 CE
Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery.

1742 CE
The first water-powered cotton mill, Marvel's Mill, begins operation in England.
"The Cotton Mill on the River Nen", from Noble and Butlin's 1746 map of Northampton - the earliest known pictorial representation of a cotton mill.
1744 CE
The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.

1750
The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period.

1754-1763 CE
The French and Indian War, is fought in colonial North America, mostly by the French and their allies against the English and their allies. 

1755 CE
Richard Cantillon, an Irish-French economist is credited with the discovery of economic theory and the first to consider the critical role of entrepreneurship in the economy. 

1756 CE
The Seven Years' War was a global war fought between 1756 and 1763. It involved all five European great powers of the time plus many of the middle powers and spanned five continents. 

1757 CE
The Battle of Plassey signals the beginning of formal British rule in India.  

1762-1796 CE
Reign of Catherine the Great of Russia.

1770 CE
In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain.

1770 CE
The Bengal famine of 1770 kills one-third of the Bengal population.

1769 CE
Mayer Rothschild and his five sons established an international banking dynasty from humble beginnings in Frankfurt, Germany and invented modern banking.

1771 CE
Richard Arkwright, the pioneer of the factory system, combined power, machinery, semi-skilled labour and the new raw material of cotton to create mass-produced yarn.

1776 CE
The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

1776 CE
Scottish moral philosopher, Adam Smith, publishes The Wealth of Nations, which described the industrialised capitalist system that was replacing the mercantilist system.

1778 CE
James Cook becomes the first European to land on the Hawaiian Islands. Cook is killed by Hawaiian natives at Kealakekua Bay in the following year.
Replica of the sailing ship Endeavor by James Cook, Dennis4trigger
7791879
Xhosa Wars between British and Boer settlers.

1783 CE
The French Montgolfier Brothers were the inventors of the first practical hot air balloon.

1783 CE
The Treaty of Paris, signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.

1776 CE
 English Bill of Rights, 1776

1787 CE
The United States Constitution is written.

1788 CE
The first settlement at Sydney, Australia, in 1788, consisted of about 850 convicts and their naval guards and officers, led by Governor Arthur Phillip.

1789 CE
George Washington is elected the first President of the United States.

1789 CE
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789. This human rights document emerged largely from the ideals of the Enlightenment.

1789 CE
The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies beginning in 1789 and ending in 1799.

1792 CE
 The New York Stock & Exchange Board is founded.

1803 CE
The French Revolutionary Wars lead into the Napoleonic Wars, which last from 1803–1815.

1793 CE
The last king of France, Louis XVI, before the French Revolution of 1789, was married to Marie Antoinette and both were executed for treason by guillotine in 1793.
Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria, 1775
1794 CE
Darug people of the Hawkesbury and Penrith, NSW, raid farms and murder settlers until Governor Macquarie dispatchs troops from the British Army 46th Regiment in 1816. The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars.
Aboriginal method of attack with boomerang under cover of shield, National Museum of Australia
1796 CE
English country doctor, Edward Jenner, introduced the vaccine for smallpox. Jenner called his new method "vaccination" after the Latin word for cow.

1799 CE
Napoleon stages a coup d'état and becomes First Consul of France.

1799 CE
In 1799, the 14th Tuʻi Kanokupolu, Tukuʻaho was murdered, which sent Tonga into a civil war for fifty years.