Web Timeline - The Wider World

1840 Penny Post introduced

1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine

1851 The Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, London

1854-1856 Crimean War

1857 Indian Mutiny

1859 Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of the Species'

1861-1865 American Civil War

1875 Invention of the telephone

1885 Invention of the motor car

1896 Marconi invents radio communications

1899-1902 Second Anglo-Boer War

1903 Wright brothers fly first aeroplane

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914-1918 World War One

1917 Russian Revolution

1926 John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television

1933 Adolf Hitler and the Nazis take power in Germany

1936-1939 Spanish Civil War

1938 Munich Treaty 'Peace in Our Time'

1939-1945 World War Two

1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister and Battle of Britain

1944 'Operation Overlord' - Allies invade France on D Day

1945 United Nations formed

1947 India gains independence from Britain

1948 Apartheid established in South Africa

1949 Mao Tse Tung and Chinese Communist Part come to power in China

1956 Suez Crisis in Egypt

1957 Sputnik - dawn of the space age and Ghana becomes independent - decolonization of Africa

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

1969 First man on the moon

1971 Britain goes decimal

1973 Britain joins the 'Common Market' (EEC)

1979 Margaret Thatcher, first woman British PM and Iranian Revolution

1982 Falklands War

1984-1985 Miners' Strike

1989 The Berlin Wall falls

1991 First Gulf War

1997 Tony Blair becomes PM and Wales votes narrowly for devolution

2000 Euro - new EU currency

2001 9/11 Al Qaeda terrorist attack on United States

2003 Second Gulf War

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