Year | Primary Event | Secondary Event | Tertiary Event |
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1900 | Exposition Universelle | Boxer Rebellion | Zeppelin |
1901 | Assassination of William McKinley | Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria | Nobel Prize |
1902 | Anglo–Japanese Alliance | Moro Rebellion | Eruption of Mount Pelée |
1903 | Wright Flyer | Separation of Panama from Colombia | Iroquois Theatre fire |
1904 | Herero and Namaqua genocide | Russo-Japanese War | St. Louis Summer Olympics |
1905 | Russian Revolution | Battle of Tsushima | Annus mirabilis papers |
1906 | San Francisco earthquake | Bambatha Rebellion | Valparaíso earthquake |
1907 | Anglo-Russian Convention | Romanian peasants' revolt | Panic of 1907 |
1908 | Ford Model T | Young Turk Revolution | Messina earthquake |
1909 | North Pole Expedition | Adana massacre | Monterrey hurricane |
1910 | Death and state funeral of Edward VII | Mexican Revolution | 5 October revolution |
1911 | Agadir Crisis | Amundsen's South Pole expedition | 1911 Revolution |
1912 | Sinking of the Titanic | Stockholm Summer Olympics | Italo-Turkish War |
1913 | End of Moro Rebellion | Second Balkan War | Senghenydd colliery disaster |
1914 | First Battle of the Marne | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | RMS Empress of Ireland |
1915 | Gallipoli campaign | Armenian genocide | Sinking of the RMS Lusitania |
1916 | Battle of Verdun | Battle of the Somme | Brusilov offensive |
1917 | Zimmermann Telegram | Russian Revolution | 9 January German Crown Council meeting |
1918 | Spanish flu | Armistice of 11 November | Murder of the Romanov family |
1919 | Paris Peace Conference | Irish War of Independence | Greco-Turkish War |
1920 | Prohibition in the United States | Antwerp Summer Olympics | League of Nations |
1921 | Tulsa race riot | Russian famine | Persian coup d'état |
1922 | March on Rome | Washington Naval Treaty | Irish Civil War |
1923 | Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic | Beer Hall Putsch | Great Kantō earthquake |
1924 | Funeral of Vladimir Lenin | Paris Summer Olympics | Italian general election |
1925 | First working television system | Great Syrian Revolt | Tri-State tornado outbreak |
1926 | Cristero War | Northern Expedition | Goddard 1 |
1927 | Shanghai massacre | Nicaraguan Civil War | Spirit of St. Louis |
1928 | Discovery of penicillin | Amsterdam Summer Olympics | Kellogg–Briand Pact |
1929 | Great Depression | Lateran Treaty | Palestine riots |
1930 | Salt March | Brazilian Revolution | Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto |
1931 | Mukden incident | European banking crisis | China floods |
1932 | January 28 incident | Chaco War | Los Angeles Summer Olympics |
1933 | Soviet famine | Reichstag fire | USS Akron (ZRS-4) disaster |
1934 | Soviet invasion of Xinjiang | Night of the Long Knives | Austrian Civil War |
1935 | Nuremberg Laws | Second Italo-Ethiopian War | Hoover Dam |
1936 | Berlin Summer Olympics | Spanish Civil War | Remilitarisation of the Rhineland |
1937 | Hindenburg disaster | Great Purge | Nanjing Massacre |
1938 | Munich Agreement | Kristallnacht | Anschluss |
1939 | Invasion of Poland | Gone with the Wind | Italian invasion of Albania |
1940 | Battle of France | Dunkirk evacuation | Katyn massacre |
1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor | Operation Barbarossa | Babi Yar |
1942 | Battle of Stalingrad | Battle of Midway | Internment of Japanese Americans |
1943 | Battle of Kursk | Allied invasion of Sicily | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising |
1944 | Operation Overlord | Operation Bagration | San Juan earthquake |
1945 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Battle of Berlin | Battle of the Bulge |
1946 | Nuremberg trials | ENIAC | Dead Sea Scrolls |
1947 | Marshall Plan | Civil war in Mandatory Palestine | Partition of India |
1948 | Berlin Blockade | Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi | Declaration of State of Israel |
1949 | Proclamation of the People's Republic of China | EDSAC | Apartheid |
1950 | Korean War | Coronation of Bhumibol Adulyadej | Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China |
1951 | Eruption of Mount Lamington | Nepalese revolution | Treaty of Paris |
1952 | Death and state funeral of George VI | Ivy Mike | Great Smog of London |
1953 | North Sea flood | East German uprising | Mau Mau rebellion |
1954 | Polio vaccine | Castle Romeo | Battle of Dien Bien Phu |
1955 | Bandung Conference | Warsaw Pact | Battle of Yijiangshan Islands |
1956 | Hungarian Revolution | Suez Crisis | Grand Canyon mid-air collision |
1957 | Sputnik 1 | Influenza pandemic | Kyshtym disaster |
1958 | Sweden World Cup | Great Leap Forward | May crisis in France |
1959 | Kitchen Debate | Cuban Revolution | Typhoon Vera |
1960 | Year of Africa | Valdivia earthquake | Congo Crisis |
1961 | Berlin Crisis | Vostok 1 | Tsar Bomba |
1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Sino-Indian War | Chile World Cup |
1963 | Assassination of John F. Kennedy | Buddhist crisis | March on Washington |
1964 | British Invasion | Zanzibar Revolution | Tokyo Summer Olympics |
1965 | Battle of la Drang | Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill | Alexei Leonov's spacewalk |
1966 | Cultural Revolution | England World Cup | Aberfan disaster |
1967 | Six-Day War | Cambodian Civil War | Hong Kong riots |
1968 | Tet Offensive | Prague Spring | TEV Wahine |
1969 | Apollo 11 | Stonewall riots | Woodstock |
1970 | Bhola cyclone | Ancash earthquake | Apollo 13 |
1971 | Bangladesh genocide | Pentagon Papers | microprocessor |
1972 | Watergate scandal | Munich massacre | Magnavox Odyssey |
1973 | Oil crisis | Chilean coup d'état | Yom Kippur War |
1974 | Carnation Revolution | Resignation of Richard Nixon | Hurricane Fifi–Orlene |
1975 | Fall of Saigon | Cambodian genocide | Apollo-Soyuz |
1976 | Soweto Uprising | Tangshan earthquake | Argentine coup d'état |
1977 | Star Wars | Tenerife airport disaster | Atari 2600 |
1978 | Camp David Accords | Argentina World Cup | Jonestown |
1979 | Iranian Revolution | Iran hostage crisis | Soviet-Afghan War |
1980 | Eruption of Mount St. Helens | Iran-Iraq War | Saudia Flight 163 |
1981 | Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer | STS-1 | Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS |
1982 | Falklands War | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Spain World Cup |
1983 | Operation Urgent Fury | Video game crash of 1983 | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 |
1984 | Bhopal disaster | Los Angeles Summer Olympics | Diretas Já |
1985 | Live Aid | Mexico City earthquake | Armero tragedy |
1986 | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | Chernobyl disaster | Mexico World Cup |
1987 | "Tear down this wall!" | First Intifada | MV Doña Paz |
1988 | Pan Am Flight 103 | Seoul Summer Olympics | Armenian earthquake |
1989 | Tiananmen Square protets and massacre | Fall of the Berlin Wall | Exxon Valdez oil spill |
1990 | Hubble Space Telescope | German reunification | Italy World Cup |
1991 | Operation Desert Storm | Dissolution of the Soviet Union | Eruption of Mount Pinatubo |
1992 | Los Angeles riots | Somalia famine | Siege of Sarajevo |
1993 | Oslo I Accord | Waco siege | World Trade Center bombing |
1994 | Rwandan genocide | South African general election | Northridge earthquake |
1995 | Oklahoma City bombing | Srebrenica massacre | Murder trial of O. J. Simpson |
1996 | Dolly the Sheep | Atlanta Summer Olympics | Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision |
1997 | Death of Diana, Princess of Wales | Handover of Hong Kong | Titanic |
1998 | United States embassy bombings | Google | France World Cup |
1999 | Kosovo War | Y2K problem | Columbine High School massacre |
2000 | Millennium celebrations | Sydney Summer Olympics | Mozambique flood |
2001 | September 11 attacks | Operation Enduring Freedom | Nepali royal massacre |
2002 | Euro | Korea-Japan World Cup | Salt Lake City Winter Olympics |
2003 | Iraq War | Protests against the Iraq War | Space Shuttle Columbia disaster |
2004 | Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami | Athens Summer Olympics | Facebook |
2005 | Live 8 | Eris | Hurricane Katrina |
2006 | IAU definition of planet | Montenegrin independence referendum | Turin Winter Olympics |
2007 | Treaty of Lisbon | Subprime mortgage crisis | iPhone |
2008 | Kosovo declaration of independence | Sichuan earthquake | Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers |
2009 | Swine flu pandemic | US Airways Flight 1549 | Bitcoin |
2010 | Haiti earthquake | Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Chile earthquake |
2011 | Arab Spring | Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami | Operation Neptune Spear |
2012 | London Summer Olympics | Higgs boson | Curiosity Rover |
2013 | Papal conclave | Chelyabinsk meteor | Typhoon Haiyan |
2014 | Crimean crisis | Thai coup d'état | Western African Ebola virus epidemic |
2015 | New Horizons arrives to Pluto | Paris Agreement | November Paris attacks |
2016 | U.S. presidential election | Rio Summer Olympics | Turkish coup attempt |
2017 | Cassini retirement | North Korean missile tests | Las Vegas shooting |
2018 | Inter-Korean summits | Yellow vests protests | March for Our Lives |
2019 | First image of a black hole | Notre-Dame fire | Venezuelan presidential crisis |
2020 | COVID-19 pandemic | George Floyd protests | Beirut explosion |
2021 | Fall of Kabul | January 6 United States Capitol attack | Suez Canal obstruction |
2022 | Russian invasion of Ukraine | Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II | Qatar World Cup |
2023 | Israel-Hamas war | Turkey–Syria earthquakes | War in Sudan |
2024 | ??? | ??? | ??? |