"HISTORY CANNOT GIVE US A PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE, BUT IT CAN GIVE US A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES, AND OF OUR COMMON HUMANITY, SO THAT WE CAN BETTER FACE THE FUTURE."

1901

• January 1:      The Australian colonies federate.[1]
• January      22: Edward VII became King of England and India      after Queen Victoria's death.
• March 2:      The Platt Amendment provides for Cuban      independence in exchange for the withdrawal of American troops.
• June: Emily      Hobhouse reports on the poor conditions in 45 British internment      camps for Boer women      and children in South Africa.
• September      6: The assassination of William McKinley ushered in office Vice      President Theodore Roosevelt after McKinley's      death on September 14.
• September      7: The Eight-Nation Alliance defeats      the Boxer Rebellion, and imposes heavy financial      penalties on China.
• December      10: First Nobel Prizes awarded.
• December      12: Guglielmo Marconi received the first      transatlantic radio signal.

1902

• January      13: The Unification of Saudi Arabia begins.
• May 20: Cuba given      independence by the United States.
• May 31: Second Boer War ends in British victory.
• July 12: Arthur      Balfour becomes Prime Minister of the United      Kingdom.
• July 17: Willis      Carrier invents the first modern electrical air conditioning unit.
• Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903,      in which Britain, Germany and Italy impose a naval blockade on Venezuela in      order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims.

1903

• February      15: The first teddy bear is invented.
• June 11:      King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife      Queen Draga are assassinated in a military coup.
• July 1: The      first Tour de France is held.[2]
• July–August:      In Russia the Bolsheviks and      the Mensheviks form from the breakup of the Russian Social Democratic      Labour Party.
• August 4: Pius      X becomes Pope.
• November      18: Independence of Panama, the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is      signed by the United States and Panama.
• December      17: First controlled heavier-than-air flight of the Wright brothers.
• The Ottoman      Empire and the German      Empire sign an agreement to build the Berlin–Baghdad railway.[3]

1904

• February      8: A Japanese surprise attack on Port      Arthur (Lushun) starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• April 8: Entente Cordiale signed between Britain      and France.
• May: U.S. begins      construction of the Panama      Canal and eradication of yellow      fever.
• June 21: Trans-Siberian Railway is      completed.
• Herero and Nama genocide, the first      genocide of the 20th century, begins in German South West Africa.[4]
• Roger      Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in      the Congo Free State.

1905

• January      22: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia      erupts.
• March 31:      The First Moroccan Crisis begins, going      until April 1906.[5]
• June 7: The      Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved,      and Norway achieves full independence.
• September      5: The Russo-Japanese War ends in Japanese      victory.
• September      26: Albert Einstein's formulation of special relativity.
• October      16: The British Indian Province of Bengal, partitioned by the Viceroy of India, Lord      Curzon, despite strong opposition.
• December      5: Liberal Henry Campbell-Bannerman becomes      Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• Schlieffen Plan proposed in Berlin to      defeat France.
• The Persian Constitutional      Revolution begins.[6]

1906

• April 18:      An earthquake in San Francisco,      California, magnitude 7.9, kills 3,000.
• July 13: Alfred      Dreyfus is exonerated and reinstated as a major in the French      Army; the Dreyfus affair ends.
• August 16:      An earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile,      magnitude 8.2, kills 20,000.
• September      28: The US begins the Second Occupation of Cuba.
• October      23: Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off and      flies his 14-bis to a crowd in Paris.
• December      30: The Muslim League is formed by Nawab Salimullah Khan of Dacca.
• The Stolypin reform in Russia creates a new      class of affluent kulaks.

1907

• February–April: A peasants' revolt in Romania kills      roughly 11,000.
• March 15–16: Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first      in the world with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in      Europe where universal suffrage is applied.[7]
• July 24: Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907.
• August 31:      The Anglo-Russian Convention bring      an end to the Great Game in Central      Asia.[8]
• The Indian National Congress splits      into two factions at its Surat session, presided by Rash Behari Bose.
• Persian Constitutional      Revolution ends with the establishment of a parliament.
• Bakelite,      the world's first fully synthetic plastic, invented in New York by Leo      Baekeland, who coins the term "plastics".

1908

• April 8:      Liberal H. H. Asquith becomes Prime Minister of the      United Kingdom.
• May 26:      First commercial Middle Eastern oilfield established, at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia.
• June 30:      The Tunguska event devastates thousands of      square kilometres of Siberia.
• July: Young Turk Revolution in the      Ottoman Empire.
• July 26:      Founding of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI)
• October 1:      The Ford Motor Company invents the Model      T.
• early October: Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, triggering      the Bosnian Crisis.
• October 5: Bulgarian Declaration of      Independence.[9]
• December      2: Puyi,      the last Emperor of China, assumes the throne.
• December      28: The 1908 Messina earthquake in      southern Italy, magnitude 7.1, kills 70,000 people.
• Herero and Nama genocide ends.
• First      commercial radio transmissions.
• The      coldest year since 1880 according to NASA.

1909

• March 4: William Howard Taft is inaugurated as      President of the United States; deep divisions in his Republican Party      over tariffs.
• March 10: Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 signed      (effective on July 9).
• March 12: Indian Councils Act passed.
• April 6: Robert      Peary claims to have reached the North      Pole though the claim is subsequently heavily contested.
• April 13: A countercoup fails in the Ottoman      Empire.
• July 16:      A revolution forces Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Persian Shah of the Qajar      dynasty to abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
• Japan and China sign      the Jiandao/Gando Treaty.
• United      States troops leave Cuba.

1910s

1910

• February      8: Boy Scouts of America is founded.
• April: Halley's Comet returns.
• May–July: Albanian revolt of 1910.
• May 6: George V becomes      King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India      upon the death of Edward VII.
• May 31: Union of South Africa is created.
• August 28: Kingdom of Montenegro is proclaimed      independent.
• August 29: Imperial Japan annexes Korea.
• October 5:      The 5 October 1910 revolution in Portugal and      proclamation of the First Portuguese Republic.
• November      20: Beginning of the Mexican Revolution (Plan of San Luis Potosí).

1911

• January      18: Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of      the USS Pennsylvania stationed      in San Francisco harbor, marking the first      time an aircraft lands on a ship.
• March 25: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in      New York City results in the deaths of 146 workers and leads to sweeping      workplace safety reforms.
• April–November: Agadir      Crisis.
• September      29: The Italo-Turkish war which led to the      capture of Libya by Italy, begins.
• October      10: 1911 Revolution, which overthrew the Qing      dynasty of China, begins.
• November      3: Swiss race car driver and automotive engineer Louis Chevrolet co-founds the Chevrolet      Motor Company in Detroit with      his brother Arthur Chevrolet, William C. Durant and others.
• December      12: New Delhi becomes the capital of British      India.
• December      14: Roald Amundsen first reaches the South      Pole.
• Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic      nucleus.

1912

• February      8: The African National Congress is      founded.
• February      12: End of the Chinese Empire. Republic of China established.
• February      14: Arizona becomes the last state to be admitted to      the continental Union.
• March 6: Oreo (/ˈɔːrioʊ/ ⓘ;      stylized in all caps) is an American brand of sandwich cookie consisting of two cocoa      biscuits with a sweet fondant[3] filling.      Oreos were introduced in 1912 by Nabisco,[4] and      the brand has been owned by Mondelez International since      its acquisition of Nabisco in 2012.
• late March: Captain Scott and his companions die      in a blizzard on their way back from the South Pole.
• March 30: Morocco becomes      a protectorate of France.
• April 15: Sinking of the RMS Titanic.
• July 30: Emperor      Meiji dies, ending the Meiji era;      his son, the Emperor Taishō, becomes Emperor of Japan.
• August 25:      The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is      founded.
• October 8:      The First Balkan War begins.
• Banana      Wars: United States occupation of      Nicaragua begins.

1913

• January      23: In the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état, Ismail      Enver comes to power.
• February      9 – 19: Ten Tragic Days in Mexico      City.
• March 4: Woodrow      Wilson is inaugurated as President of the United States.
• May 29: Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring infamously      premiers in Paris which causes a riot.[10]
• May 30: Treaty of London.
• June – August: Second Balkan War.
• August 10: Treaty of Bucharest.
• October 7: Ford Motor Company introduces the      first moving assembly line.
• December 21:  Arthur      Wynne, a journalist born in Liverpool,      England, published a "word-cross" puzzle in the New      York World that embodied most of the features of the modern      genre.
• December      23: The Federal Reserve System is created.
• Yuan      Shikai uses military force to dissolve China's parliament and rules as      a dictator.
• Niels      Bohr formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus, and      in the process paves the way to quantum mechanics.

1914

• June 28: Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of      Austria in Sarajevo, triggering the start of World      War I that day.
• August 15: Panama      Canal opens.
• August 26–30: Battle of Tannenberg.
• September      1: Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies.
• September      3: Benedict XV becomes Pope.
• September      6 – 12: First Battle of the Marne.
• September – October:      The Race to the Sea leaves Germany and the      Allies entrenched along the Western Front.
• December      19: The United Kingdom establishes the Sultanate of Egypt as a protectorate.
• December      25: The Christmas truce is celebrated by the      Germans and the British along the Western Front.

1915

• Dada (/ˈdɑːdɑː/) or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art      movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and      the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism      included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had spread to      New York City and a variety of artistic centers in Europe and Asia.
• April 22: Second Battle of Ypres begins,      first widespread use of poison gas.
• April 24:      The deportation      of Armenian leaders and notables in Constantinople signals the      onset of the Armenian genocide.[11]
• May 7: Sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
• July 28:      In the Banana Wars, the United States occupation of      Haiti begins.
• The      first large scale use of poison gas by both sides in World War I occurs,      first by the Germans at the Battle of Humin-Bolimów on the      eastern front, and at the Second Battle of Ypres on the      western front, and then by the British at the Battle      of Loos.

1916

• January 9:      The Allies' Gallipoli campaign ends in failure;      heavy losses of Australian troops.
• February – December: Battle of Verdun.
• March 7:      Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, later to become BMW, is founded in      Germany.
• April 24–30: Easter      Rising in Ireland.
• April 30:      The first nationwide implementation of daylight saving time in the German      Empire and Austria-Hungary.
• June – September: Brusilov offensive by Russia.
• June 6:      The Warlord Era begins in China after the death      of Yuan Shikai.
• June 10:      The Arab Revolt begins.
• July–November: Battle of the Somme on Western Front;      massive casualties.
• September      15–22: First use of tanks at      the Battle of Flers–Courcelette.
• December:      The Pact is agreed upon by both the Congress and the Muslim League at the Indian city      of Lucknow.
• December      6: Liberal David Lloyd George becomes Prime      Minister of the United Kingdom.
• December      30: Grigori Rasputin is assassinated in      Russia.
• Market Square, one of      the earliest shopping malls, opens in the Chicago metropolitan area.[12]

1917

• March 8: Russian Revolution ends the Russian      Empire; beginning of Russian Civil War.
• April 6:      USA joins the Entente for the last 17 months of World War I.
• May – October:      Apparitions of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fátima, Portugal.
• June 4: The      first Pulitzer Prizes announced.
• July–November: Battle of Passchendaele.
• October–November: Battle of Caporetto.
• November      1–2:      The Third Battle of Gaza ends in British      victory.
• November      7 (O.S. October      25): October Revolution in the Russian Republic.
• November      8: The Ukrainian–Soviet War begins.
• November      26: The National Hockey League is formed      in Montreal, Canada.
• December      6: Independence of Finland.
• The      first known sale of Girl Scout Cookies begins.[13]

1918

• January – May: Finnish Civil War.
• January      22: Ukraine declares independence from Russia.
• March      11: Beginning of the Spanish      flu pandemic, which lasts until April 1920 and kills tens of millions.
• March–July: The German spring offensive.
• March 25: Belarus declares      independence from Russia.
• March 30:      The Armenian–Azerbaijani War begins.
• May 28: Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declared.
• July 4: Mehmed VI becomes      the last Sultan of      the Ottoman Empire and the last Caliph.
• July 16–17: Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and      his family.
• August 8–12: Battle of Amiens.
• August–November:      The Hundred Days Offensive sends Germany into      defeat.
• October:      the State of Slovenes, Croats and      Serbs is established.
• October      29: German Revolution begins.
• October      30:
  • The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen founded.
  • The Partition of the Ottoman Empire begins.
• November      1:
  • Independence       declared in the West Ukrainian People's Republic.
  • The Polish–Ukrainian War begins.
• November      9: Abdication of Wilhelm      II.
• November      11:
  • The Armistice of 11 November 1918 ends World       War I.
  • Poland declares       independence from Russia.
• December      1: The Kingdom of Iceland, a personal      union with Denmark, is formed.
• The      British occupy Palestine.

1919

• Paris Peace Conference writes Treaty of Versailles that punishes      Germany.
• January      21: The First Red Scare in the United      States. Irish War of Independence begins.
• February      14: Polish–Soviet War begins.
• March 2: Communist International established      in the Kremlin to coordinate Communist parties worldwide.
• April 11:      The International Labour      Organization is established.
• April 13:      The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in      northern India: Acting Brigadier-General Reginald      Dyer orders troops of the British Indian Army to fire their      rifles into a crowd of unarmed Indian civilians, killing from 379 to 1,000      people and injuring another 1,500.
• May 19: Turkish War of Independence begins.
• June 28:      The Treaty of Versailles redraws      European borders.
• July: The 1919 Egyptian revolution erupts.
• July 18:      End of Polish–Ukrainian War.
• August 11: German Revolution ends      with the collapse of the German      Empire and the establishment of the Weimar Republic.
• November      19: Release date of Feline      Follies, the first appearance of Felix      the Cat (then known as Master Tom).
• First      experimental evidence for the General theory of relativity obtained      by Arthur Eddington.
• Ernest Rutherford discovers the proton.

• A booming stock market
• Speakeasies
• Short Skirts
• The Charleston
• Jazz
• 19th Amendment - Woman got to vote
• Archaeology - discovery of King Tut's Tomb
• First Talking Film
• Babe Ruth hits 60 HR's in a season
• First Mickey Mouse cartoon

• Great Depression
• Nazi come to power in Germany
• Open first concentration camp and persecution of Jews
• Invade Poland starting World War II
• Disappearance of Amelia Earhart over the Pacific
• Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow go on a crime spree
• Al Capone - imprisoned for tax evasion

• World War II continues until 1945
• Start of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union
• Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
• Beginning of Apartheid in South Africa

• Invention of the color television
• Polio vaccine is discovered
• Disneyland opens in California
• Elvis Presley - gyrates his hips on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
• Space Race heats up between the United States and the Soviet Union
• Segregation ruled illegal in the United States
• Beginning of the Civil Rights movement

• Vietnam War
• Woodstock Concert
• Hippies
• Drugs
• Protests
• Rock 'n Roll
• Stonewall Riots
• Beginning of the gay rights and the Women's Lib movement
• Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr - makes his "I Have a Dream" speech
• The Beatles become popular
• The Berlin Wall is built
• Soviet Union launch the first man into space
• Apollo 11 - Landing on the Moon
• Assassinations - President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy

• Vietnam War continued
• Peru - deadliest earthquake 
• The Jonestown massacre
• The Munich Olympics massacre
• Taking of American hostages in Iran
• Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island
• Disco becomes popular
• M*A*S*H* premiers on TV
• Star Wars hit theaters
• Roe v. Wade - made abortion legal
• Watergate - President Richard Nixon resigns

• Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev's policies begin the end of the Cold War
• The Berlin Wall is torn down
• Eruption of Mount St. Helens
• The oil spill of the Exxon Valdez
• Ethiopian famine
• Live Aid concert - last performance of Freddy Mercury
• Farm Aid concert - raise money for family farmers in the US
• Poison gas leak in Bhopal
• AIDS epidemic
• Rubik's Cube
• Pac-Man video game
• Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video
• CNN debuts - first 24-hour cable news network
• Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland
• Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Tiananmen Square protests in the People's Republic of China
• Canada,, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Australia gain official independence from the United Kingdom
• The Ronald Reagan Administration declares the War on Drugs through the Just Say No campaign featuring First Lady Nancy Reagan
• The Loma Prieta earthquake strikes the San Francisco area during Game 3 of the World Series
• El Nino brings destructive weather to most of the world
• The Chernobyl disaster - nuclear meltwon in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
• The Hillsborough disaster occurs during a FA Cup Semi-Final in Sheffield, England crushing football fans
• John Lennon was assassinated in NYC
• Ronald Reagan and his press secretary James Brady were shot by John Hinckley
• First surrogate pregnancy of an unrelated child took place
• Genetically modified crops, tobacco plants are grown in China
• The Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 7800 System, Genesis are introduced
• The World Wide Web and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) were propsed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee
• The Space Shuttle Challenger including teacher Christa McAuliffe explodes in the air

• Nelson Mandela released from prison
• The internet changes life
• Oklahoma City bombing
• The Columbine High School massacre
• Genocide in Rwanda
• The Yugoslav Wars - breakup of Yugoslavia after the republics of Croatia and Slovenia declare independence
• Oka Crisis - armed standoff between the people of the Mohawk nation and the Canadian military
• The Los Angeles riots occur - results of the acquittal of the police officers in the Rodney King case
• The World Trade Center bombing
• AMIA bombing at their headquarters in Buenos Aires
• IRA sets off bomb in Manchester, England
• Namibia gains independence from South Africa
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - allows free trade zone between Canada, USA and Mexico
• Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal
• California passes Proposition 215 to legalize cannabis for medicinal purposes
• North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen
• Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister
• Pablo Escobar "The King of Cocaine" is killed in  Medellin, Columbia
• Tejano pop singer Selena is shot by fan club president Yolanda Saldivar
• Popular rap artists Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. are shot dead in Las Vegas and Los Angeles
• Gianni Versace was assassinated by Andrew Cunanan
• Personal computers and cell phones owned by the wealthy
• Y2K spread fear as the decade came to a close
• E-Commerce websites pop up - Amazon.com, eBay, AOL and Yahoo!
• Dolly the sheep becomes the first cloned mammal
• Hubble Space Telescope was launched
• The Global Positioning System (GPS) becomes fully operational
• Construction started on the International Space Station
• Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al-Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris
• Mother Teresa dies at the age of 87
• The O.J. Simpson murder case
• John F. Kennedy Jr, his wife Carolyn Bessette and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash
• Michigan doctor, Jack Kevorkian, charged with multiple counts of homicide of his terminally ill patients
• Jonbenet Ramsey murder case - still unsolved 
• Lorena Bobbitt - charged for cutting off her husbands John Bobbitt's penis
• Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Jeff Gillooly, husband of Tonya Harding

• 9/11 Terrorist Attack
• U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
• War in Darfur
• Suddham Hussein is overthrown
• Mars exploration Rovers launched
• Hurricane Katrina
• Train bomb in Mumbai
• Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet
• Start of the Great Recession
• Barack Obama is election President of the United States
• DVD replaces the VCR as the most popular prerecorded device
• Avatar - released and becomes the world's highest grossing film
• Ipod  and the IPhone are introduced
• Crash of American Airlines Flight 587
• Earthquake in Gujarat, India on Republic Day
• African Union is founded
• Bali bombing
• Euro enters circulation
• Steve Fossett - first to fly solo around the world
• SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk
• East Timor gains independence
• The First Ivorian Civil War begins
• Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates upon reentry
• The Station nightclub fire
• The Human Genome Project is completed
• The Second Congo War and Second Liberian Civil Wars end
• Final flight of the SST (Supersonic Transport) Concorde
• Facebook, YouTube, Reddit and Twitter are founded
• Madrid train bombing
• The Second Battle of Fallujah occurs
• Disappearnce of Madeleine McCann
• Boxing day Tsunami occurs in Indian Ocean
• 7/7 attacks on London Underground
• Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first female Chancellor
• Virginia Tech shooting
• Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide
• Tesla Roadster launched - first mass production of lithium-ion battery electric cars
• Death of Michael Jackson
• Bitcoin is launched
• Swine flu pandemic begins in North America

• European sovereign debt crisis - Greece and Republic of Ireland's financial crisis
• FIFA World Cup held in Africa for the first time
• President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski - killed in airplane crash
• Burj Khalifa in Dubai becomes tallest structure in the world at 829.8m (2,722ft)
• iPad is introduced
• Instagram and Snapchat are launched
• Osama bin Laden is killed
• Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
• Occupy movement inspires worldwide protests
• 9.0 earthquake in Japan triggers a tsunami and the meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
• The Danyang-Kushan Grand Bridge, the world's longest, opens in China
• Space Shuttle program is officially ended
• Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia for the third time
• US rover, Curiosity, takes a selfie on Mars and finds evidence of an ancient streambed of water
• Sandy Hook Elementary School and Aurora, Colorado shootings
• Shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida
• Pope Benedict XVI resigns, Pope Francis is elected - first from Latin America
• Terrorist attacks occur in Boston and Nairobi
• Edward Snowden releases classified documents
• President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is deposed by the military in a coup d'état.
• Croatia becomes a member of the European Union
• Nelson Mandela death
• Uruguay becomes the first country to fully legalize cannabis
• Ebola epidemic in West Africa
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur
• ISIS begins its offensive in northern Iraq
• Shooting of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray by police leads to violent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland
• Terrorist attacks in Paris
• China ends the One-child policy after 35 years
• El Chapo is recaptured after escaping from a high-security prison in Mexico
• The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel is completed
• Pokémon Go is released
• Supreme Court of the United States determines that same-sex couples can marry
• The people of the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union
• Donald Trump becomes President of the United States
• Shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida
• Chicago Cubs win the World Series
• Women's March - response to inauguration of Donald Trump
• Terrorist Bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England
• Far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for the removal of Confederate statues in the US
• Mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas
• Allegations of sexual abuse against film producer Harvey Weinstein
• Solar eclipse passes throughout the contiguous United States
• March for Our Lives occurs in 900 locations worldwide in response to Parkland shooting
• Saudi Arabi allows women to drive
• Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
• Event Horizon Telescope takes the first ever image of a black hole
• Wildfires spike in Brazil and Australia
• Fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
• Avengers: Endgame released - becomes highest grossing film
• US President Donald Trump is impeached 
• Covid-19 pandemic begins in Wuhan, China

• Covid-19 pandemic continues - Omicron varient is prevalent
• Donald Trump is acquitted by the US Senate in first impeachment trial
• Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
• Killing of George Floyd sparks protests worldwide
• Joe Biden becomes the 46th President of the United States
• Kamala Harris becomes the first female and first black VP of the United States
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at the age of 87
• Civil rights icon John Lewis dies 
• Kobe Bryant and eight others are killed in a helicopter crash.  
• Harry and Meghan said goodbye to royal life.
• Korean-language film "Parasite" won a historic Best Picture Oscar.
• Harvey Weinstein is convicted of criminal sexual act and rape in the third degree
• Celebrity Deaths: Chadwick Boseman, Eddie Van Halen, Sean Connery, Little Richard, Alex Trebek, Diego Maradona, Ray Liotta, Sidney Poitier, Guy Lafleur, Pele, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI
• Brushfires devastated Australia
• Antarctica saw its highest temperature on record of 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit.  
• Wildfires burned more than 8.2 million acres in American West.
• SpaceX began a new era of spaceflight.
• Astroworld Festival Tragedy
•  Hideki Matsuyama wins the 2021 Masters Tournament, becoming the first man from Japan to win a major golf championship 
•   A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti, killing more than 2,100 people 
•  The 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in Tokyo, Japan
•   El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as an official currency
•  The World Health Organization endorses the first malaria vaccination
• Facebook changes its name to Meta
• 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Major global brands halt sales in Russia (McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Visa, Mastercard)
• Gabriel Broic is sworn in as President of Chile.
• The first known dinosaur fossil linked to the very day of the Chicxulub impact is reported by paleontologists.  
• Inflation at an all-time high
• Monkeypox outbreak: first case reported in London, UK
• Roe vs. Wade overturned by 6-3 vote by U.S. Supreme Court
• Hurricane Ian
• Aaron Judge hits 62 HR's in a season - new AL record
• 2022 World Cup in Qatar - first in an Asian country (Winner:  Argentina)
• Death of Queen Elizabeth II at age of 96.  Prince Charles III becomes King.
• Elon Musk complestes his $44 billion acquisiton of Twitter
• 158 people killed and another 197 injured in a crowd crush during Halloween festivites in Seoul, South Korea
• The collapse of suspension bridge in Gujarat, India leaves at least 141 dead
• The world population hits 8 billion
• Spain wins the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
• Wildfires on Maui destroy the town of Lahaina
• Tropical Storm Hilary makes landfall in California
• Lionel Messi signs with Inter Miami of the MLS.
• Israel and Hamas conflict