1900 – The beginning of the twentieth century

1903 – The first flight of an airplane by the wright brothers

1912 – The sinking of rms titanic

1914 – The assassination of Franz Ferdinand

1914 – The beginning of World War I

1914 – Wilfred Owen wrote 1914

1915 – The sinking of rms Lusitania

1917 – The October revolution

1918 – Siegfried Sassoon published suicide in the trenches

1919 – Wilfred Owen published strange meeting

1919 – The end of World War I (The treaty of Versailles)

1920 – ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was published by Owen Wilfred

1920 - Anthem for Doomed Youth

1922 – The discovery of king tut’s tomb

1928 – The discovery of penicillin

1928 - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Sassoon

1929 – St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1929 – Stock market crash of 1929(The start of the great depression)

1930 - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Sassoon

1935 – Vigils by Sassoon

1936 – King Edward viii’s abdication

1937 – Hindenburg disaster

1937 – J.r.r Tolkien publishes the hobbit

1938 – The night of broken glass

1939 – The end of the great depression

1939 – The beginning of World War II

1940 – The assassination of Leon Trotsky

1941 – The attack on pearl harbor

1944 – D-day

1945 – The bombing of Hiroshima

1945 – The end of World War II

1946 – Winston Churchill’s iron curtain speech

1947 – The creation of Israel as a Jewish state

1948 – Harry Truman declared president

1950 – First modern credit card introduced

1950 – c.s. Lewis published The chronicles of Narnia

1953 – Norgay and Hillary climb Mount Everest

1954 – Segregation ruled illegal in U.S

1954 – j.r.r. Tolkien publishes The lord of The rings

1955 – Disneyland opens for the first time

1957 – The Beatles was formed

1957 – Laika The dog goes to space

1959 – The start of The Vietnam War

1961 – The berlin wall was built

1968 – The assassination of martin Luther king jr.

1969 – The moon landing

1969 – Maya Angelou publishes ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’

1970 – The Beatles disband

1970 – Kent state shootings

1972 – Munich Olympics massacre

1975 – The end of The Vietnam War

1976 – Tangshan earthquake

1978 – The birth of the first test tube baby

1978 – The Jonestown massacre

1989 – The fall of the berlin wall

1993 – Maya Angelou recites “On the Pulse of Morning”

1997 – Princess Diana dies in car crash

1997 – Maya Angelou publishes Even the Stars Look Lonesome

2000 – The end of the twentieth century