Potted History: 1900 to 2000ad

• 1900 (30.11) Oscar Wilde dies in Paris
• 1901 (1.1) Australia becomes a Federation. Before each state was seperate colony.
• 1901 Marconi sends S from Newfoundland to Cornwal.
• 1901 (21.1) Death of Queen Victoria-accession of Edward vii
• 1901 Picasso's 1st exhibition in Paris.
• 1902 (July) 1st Tour de France
• 1903 Wright brothers fly
• 1904 Puccini's opera Madam Butterfly premieres in Milan.
• 1905 Einstein theory of relativity.
• 1911 End of Chinese Empire.
• 1910 Chanel opens salon in Rue Cambon.
• 1912 Titanic sinks.
• 1913 Apolphe Pegond jumps from aircraft at 200m & becomes 1st to successfully use parachute.
• 1914 WW1
• Klimt
• 1916 1st battle of Somme. Lasted 5mths, 1million dead. Gained allies just 325 sq km.
• 1917 (oct) Tzar Nicholas of Russia executed.
• 1925 A.A. Milne writes Winnie-the-Pooh.
• 1928 Mickey Mouse debuts in Steamboat Willie.
• 1928 Philo Farnsworth invents electronic TV
• 1929 Stock market crash.
• End of Raj in India?
• 1929 Arthur Ransome writes Swallows and Amazons
• 1930? George Orwell writes 1984.
• 1939-45 WW2
• 1941 Orson Welles directs Citizen Kane.
• 1941 (7.12) Pearl Harbor
• 1941 (11.12) Hitler declares war on USA.
• 1944 Allied forces liberate Paris after 4yrs of Nazi occupation.
• 1945 (7.8) U.S. drops atom bombs on Hiroshima - 117 000 casualties.
• 1945 (30.4) Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
• 1947 Christian Dior introduces the New Look.
• 1950s Eniac 1st computer.
• 1951 Catholic church permits discussion of evolutionalist principles.
• 1952 Coronation of Elizabeth 2nd
• 1952 Edmond Hilary climbs Everest.
• 1953 (25.12) Tangiwai disaster kills 151.
• 1954 Roger Bannister 1st under 4min mile.
• 1957 USSR launches Sputnic satellite.
• 1959? Louis de Bernieres born.
• 1961 Oral contraceptive becomes available in UK on national health.
• 1961 (12.4) Uri Gagarin in space.
• 1961 (13.8) Berlin Wall erected.
• 1963 (28.8) Martin Luther King gives 'I have a dream' speach.
• 1963 (23.11)JFK shot in Dallas.
• 1965 First large unit of U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam.
• 1967 Dr Christiaan Barnhard preforms first heart transplant.
• 1968 Apollo 8 is launched on its way to man's 1st orbit of the moon.
• 1969 Neil Armstrong on moon.
• 1971 Coco Chanel died (b19.10.1883 Saumur, France)
• 1972? Stanley Kubrick makes 2001
• 1973 (8.4) Picasso dies age 92.
• 1974 Nixon resigns after Watergate.
• 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st female P.M. of Britian
• Berlin wall falls.
• 1980 John Lennon murdered in New York.
• 1984 Labour Government under David Lange defeated Muldoon's National government.
• 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombed in Auckland harbour.
• 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
• 1993 U.S.A. enters war in the Middle East.
• 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union - 11 of 12 former Republics proclaim birth of Commonwealth of Indep. States
• 1997 Britain hands over Hong Kong to the Chinese.
• 1999 (1.6) Estimated world popn. 6 billion.