History Timeline

1901 - 1925 AD

1901 Birth of Enrico Fermi
   New York Yankees baseball team founded (as Baltimore Orioles)
   Birth of Hirohito
   End of Victorian era
1902 Birth of Langston Hughes
   Birth of Paul Dirac
   Birth of Ansel Adams - photographer and conservationist
   Frederick Werner invents radio receiving and transmitting systems
1903 Wright brothers make first flight
   Birth of Mark Rothko
   Birth of Evelyn Waugh
   Birth of George Orwell
   Arthur Korn invents the fax machine
1904 Russia goes to war with Japan, Japan wins
   Norweigan Carl Anton Larsen establishes the first whaling station on Antarctica
   Birth of Willem de Kooning
   Birth of J. Robert Oppenheimer
   Birth of Deng Xiaoping
1905 Norweigan independence from Sweden
   Birth of Ayn Rand
   Birth of Sartre
   Birth of Barnett Newman
1906 Birth of Roberto Rossellini
   Existence of vitamins suggested
   Birth of Thomas Beckett
   Fred Albee pioneers the techniques of bone grafting
1907 Birth of Rachel Carson
1908 Birth of Simone de Beauvoir
   Birth of Joseph McCarthy
   Birth of Claude Levi Strauss
   Birth of Lin Biao
   Henry Ford produces first model-t car
1909 Foundation of the NAACP
1910 Birth of Mother Theresa
   Birth of Akira Kurosawa
1911 Birth of Ronald Reagan
   Birth of Tennessee Williams
   Birth of Robert Johnson
   Xinhai revolution in China
1912 Roald Amundsen is the first to reach the South Pole
   Birth of John Cage
   Birth of Jackson Pollock
   Birth of Woody Guthrie
   Pangaea is proposed as an idea
   Fred Albee invents machine tools for orthopedic uses
1912 - 1913 Balkan wars
1913 Albert Camus is born
   Birth of Richard Nixon
   Death of Harriet Tubman
   Birth of Phillip Abelson - co-founder of the element 'neptunium'
1914 - 1918 World War I
   Allies: U.K., France, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, Russian Empire, Japan, Italy, United States
   Axis: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
1914 Panama Canal is built
   Birth of William S. Borroughs
   Birth of Ralph Ellison
   Birth of Octavio Paz
   Birth of Jiang Qing
   Assasination of Francis Ferdinand - begins World War I
1915 Birth of Augusto Pinochet
   Birth of Robert Motherwell
   Birth of Roland Barthes
   Birth of Thomas Merton
1917 Russian revolution, Romanov dynasty overthrown - communists take over
   Birth of John F. Kennedy
   Birth of I.M. Pei
   Birth of Indira Gandhi
1918 Birth of Nelson Mandela
   Birth of Anwar al-Sadat
1919 Treaty of Versailles
   Irish Republican Army (IRA) founded
1920 Women gain the right to vote in the United States
   Founding of Lebanon republic
1920 - 1930 Art Deco architecture style in vogue
1920 - 1933 Prohibition against sale of alcohol in United States
1920 - 1946 League of Nations
1921 Denmark lays claim to Greenland
   First Transatlantic radio contact made
1922 USSR founded by Bolsheviks
   Mussolini's fascists rise in Italy
   Birth of Jack Kerouac
   First portable radio in US
1923 Birth of Henry Kissinger
1924 Death of Lenin, Stalin grabs power in Russia
1925 Birth of Margaret Thatcher
   Birth of Pol Pot
   Birth of Malcolm X
   Birth of Robert Kennedy