Discovery of ultraviolet rays
Volta invents voltaic pile |
1800 | David, Madame
Recamier
Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans |
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1801 | |||
Napoleon made Consul for life | 1802 | Chateaubriand, Génie due Christianisme | |
1803 | |||
Napoleon crowned Emperor
Lewis and Clark expedition |
1804 | Schiller, William Tell | |
Battle of Trafalgar | 1805 | Ludwig Arnim and Clemes Brentano, Des Knaben Wunderhorn | |
Formal dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
Lewis and Clark reach Pacific |
1806 | ||
Fulton builds the first commercial steamboat
Lond streets lighted by gas |
1807 | Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit
Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality |
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1808 | Goethe, Faust, Part I | ||
1809 | |||
1810 | Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake | ||
1811 | Goethe, Dichtung und Wahrheit | ||
Napoleon retreats from Moscow | 1812 | Goerge Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Kinder and Hausmärchen |
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Napoleon abdicates | 1813 | Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice | |
Napoleon to Elba
Congress of Vienna |
1814 | Scott, Waverly
Francisco Goya, King Ferdinand VII |
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Battle of Waterloo
The Holy Alliance |
1815 | Goya, Witch's Sabbath | |
1816 | Percy Shelley, Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude | ||
1817 | David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
John Keats, Endymion Byron, Manfred |
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1818 | |||
First steamship crosses Atlantic
Florida purchased from Spain |
1819 | Scott, Ivanhoe | |
1820-1829 | Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Niépce, first positive-image photographs (France) Audubon, Birds of America (USA) |
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1820 | Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
Blake, Jerusalem Alphone Lamartine Méditations Poétiques |
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Faraday's electric motor and generator | 1821 | John Constable, The Hay Wain | |
1822 | |||
Monroe doctrine | 1823 | ||
Charles X of France crowned | 1824 | ||
Erie Canal opened
Ludwig I of Bavaria crowned |
1825 | Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi
Alexander Pushkin, Boris Gudunov |
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1826 | James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans | ||
Mormon church founded | 1827 | Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder | |
1828 | First performance of Goethe's Faust | ||
Independence of Greece | 1829 | Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie Humaine
Victor Hugo, Les Orientales James Mill, Analysis of the Mind |
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1830-1839 | Hokusai, Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Japan)
Cole, The Oxbow (USA) Houses of Parliament Redesigned (England) |
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First railroad, Liverpool to Manchester
July Revolution in France |
1830 | Lamartine, Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Hugo, Hernani Stenndhal, Le Rouge et le Noir |
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William Lloyd Garrison found the Liberator
Beginning of anti-slavery movement |
1831 | Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris | |
1832 | |||
Slavery outlawed in British Empire | 1833 | Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus | |
McCormick patents mechanical reaper | 1834 | Edward Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii | |
1835 | |||
Independence of Texas | 1836 | Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Sir Charles Barry designs Houses of Parliament, London |
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Mount Holyoke College founded |
1837 | Carlisle, The French Revolution | |
Daguerre takes first photographs | 1838 | Ferdinand Delacroix, The Capture of Constantinople | |
1839 | Joseph Turner, The fighting Temeraire
Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Stendahl, The Charterhouse of Parms |
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Revolt in Paris establishes French Second Republic
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1840-1849 | Talbot publishes first book illustrated with photographs (England)
Labrouste, Biblioth&egrav;que Sainte-Genevi&egrav;ve (France) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood established in England Courbet, A Burial ay Ornans |
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First incandescent electric bulb | 1840 | ||
1841 | Punch founded | ||
1842 | |||
1843 | Sören Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling | ||
First telegraph message transmitted | 1844 | Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers | |
1845 | Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo | ||
First use of ether as an anesthetic
Howe's sewing machine patented Smithsonian Institution founded |
1846 | ||
1847 | |||
Potato famine in Ireland
Gold rush in California First Women's Rights Convention (Seneca Falls, NY) Revolutionary uprisings in Europe |
1848 | Thomas Macaulay, History of England
William Thackeray, Vanity Fair Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto (Germany) |
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1849 | Gustave Courbet,
The Stone Breaker
Dickens, David Copperfield |
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South African Republic established | 1850-1859 | Paxton, Crystal Palace (England)
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (England) |
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1850 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Dante Rossetti, The Annunciation Theodor Storm, Immensee Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline |
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First submarine telegraph cable | 1851 | Melville, Moby Dick
Millet, The Gleaners (France) |
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Second Empire under Napoleon III | 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (USA) | |
Crimean War
Commodore Perry opens Japan to the West first rail connection New York-Chicago |
1853 | ||
1854 | Thoreau, Walden (USA) | ||
Charge of the Light Brigade | 1855 | Whitman, Leaves of Grass | |
1856 | |||
Dred Scott decision | 1857 | Flaubert, Madame Bovary (France)
Currier and Ives publish prints Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal |
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Covent Garden opera house opens | 1858 | ||
Darwin, Origin of Species (England)
John Brown raids Harper's Ferry |
1859 | Millet, The
Angelus
Tennyson, Idylls of the King |
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Dominion of Canada formed
Meiji Restoration of emperor (Japan) Revolution in Spain |
1860-1869 | Hugo, Les Misérables (France)
Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe and Olympia (France) Brooklyn Bridge begun (USA) |
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1860 | |||
Serfs emancipated in Russia
Unification of Italy Civil War in America (till 1865) |
1861 | George Elliott, Silas Marner | |
Bismark chancellor of Prussia | 1862 | Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
Daumier, Third Class Carriage |
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Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation |
1863 | Manet, Olympia | |
First International founded by Karl Marx
First qascent of the Matterhorn First successful transatlantic cable |
1864 | Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Tolstoy, War and Peace (Russia) |
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Lincoln assassinated
Thirteen Amendment ratified, outlawing slavery |
1865 | ||
Christian Science founded by Mary Baker Eddy | 1866 | Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (Russia) | |
Purchase of Alaska
Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary (til 1916) |
1867 | Ibsen, Peer Gynt
Marx, Das Kapitol |
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1868 | Browning, The Ring and the Book
Dostoyevsky, The Idiot |
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Suez Canal opened
First American transcontinental railroad |
1869 | Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | |
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1870-1879 | First Impressionistart exhibition (France)
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Russia) Renoir, Moulin de la Galette (France) William Morris promotes Arts and Crafts Movement (Englamd) Muybridge, motion photography (USA) |
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Schliemann excavates the site of Troy
Rome becomes the capital of Italy Franco-Prussian War Vatican Council proclaims papal infallibility |
1870 | ||
Bismark chancellor of Germany
Paris Commune Third Republic in France |
1871 | Emerson, Essays
Darwin, Descent of Man |
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1872 | Eliot, Middlemarch
Whistler, Portrait of Miss Alexander Daudet, Tartarin de Tarascon Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy |
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1873 | Degas, Place de la Concorde | ||
1874 | |||
1875 | Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina |
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Telephone invented by Bell | 1876 | Mallarmé, L'Après-midi d'un Faune
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Renoir, Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette |
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Edison invents the phonograph | 1877 | Monet, Gare Saint-Lazare | |
1878 | |||
Edison invents an improved incandescent electric light | 1879 | George, Progress and Poverty
Ibsen, The Doll's House Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov |
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Major European colonization of Africa begins
Hertz discovers and produces radio waves (Germany) Eastman's box camera (USA) Steel first used in building construction (USA) |
1880-1890 | Neo-Impressionists emerge (France)
Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (France) Art Nouveau emerges (France) Van Gogh, The Starry Night (France) |
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Irish insurrection
Pavlov's experiments on conditioned reflexes |
1880 | Zola, Nana | |
Tsar Alexander Ii assassinated
President Garfield shot Panama Canal built |
1881 | Renoir, Luncheon
of the Boating Party
James, Portrait of a Lady |
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Koch discovers tuberculosis germs
Triple Alliance |
1882 | Manet, The Bar at the Folies Bergères | |
Daimler patents automobile motor | 1883 | Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarasthustra
Stevenson, Treasure Island |
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Pasteur innoculates against rabies
Mean solar day adopted as unit of universal time |
1884 | Rodin, The
Burghers of Calais (France)
Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on Grande Jatte Twain, Huckleberry Finn |
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First American electric street railway
Brooklyn Bridge built |
1885 | Richardson designs Marshall Field warehouse
Guy de Maupassant, Contes et Nouvelles Cézanne, Mont St. Victoire Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham |
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American Federation of Labor organized
Statue of Liberty unveiled in New York Harbor |
1886 | Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böaut;se
Loti, Pêcheur d'Islande Rousseau, Un Soir de carnaval |
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1887 | Strindberg, Der Vater | ||
Kaiser Wilhelm II crowned (till 1918) | 1888 | Van Gogh, The Sunflowers | |
Paris World's Fair opened
Brazil expels emperor, becomes republic |
1889 | Eiffel Tower completed
Adams, History of theUnited States Rodin, The Thinker |
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Sino-Japanese War
X rays discovered (Germany) Olympic Games reestablished (Greece) Aspirin is invented |
1890-1899 | James, The Principles of Psychology (USA)
Riis, How the Other Half Lives (USA) Roman School of classicists (France) Sullivan, Wainwright Building (USA) McKim, Mead, and White, Boston Public Library Horta, Tassel House (Belgium) Antiacademic Secession movement begins in France Hunt, Biltmore Estate (USA) World of Art group forms in St. Petersburg (Russia) Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Austria) and advent of psychoanalysis |
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1890 | Ibsen, Hedda Gabler | ||
1891 | Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Saint-Gaudens, Adams Memorial |
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1892 | Cézanne,
The Card Players
Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge |
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1893 | Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Wilde, Salome Sullivan, Transportation Building at World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
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Nicholas II crowned; last Czar of Russia
Dreyfus Affair (till 1905) |
1894 | Kipling, Jungle Book
Shaw, Candida |
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Roentgen discovers X-rays | 1895 | Homer, Northeaster | |
1896 | Gaughin, Materity
Housman, A Shropshire Lad |
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1897 | |||
Spanish-American War | 1898 | Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac | |
1899 | |||
1900-1909 | Stieglitz organizes Photo-Secession group, later known as 291 (USA)
Fauves named (France) Die Brüaut;cke forms (Germany) Golden Fleece group forms in Moscow (Russia) Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (France) Braque, Houses at L'Estaque inspires term Cubism (France) Ashcan School forms (USA) Braque and Picasso develop Analytic Cubism (France) Futurism emerges (Italy) |
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Boxer Rebellion
Zeppelin constructs first dirigible Freud,The Interpretatio of Dreams Hopkins, first studies of vitamins |
1900
R |
Conrad, Lord Jim
Sargent, The Windham Sisters Tolstoy, Resurrection |
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Edward VII King of England (till 1910)
Marconi transmits wireless telegraph signals across the Atlantic Planck developes quantum theory |
1901 | Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
Mann, Buddenbrooks |
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Discovery of radium by Albert & Marie Curie | 1902 | Gorky, Tales
Monet, Waterloo Bridge |
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Wright brothers, first successful powered airplane flight
Pope Pius X, Encyclical, Moto proprio Twsett, studies in absorption chromatography |
1903 | Shaw, Man and Superman | |
Russo-Japanese War | 1904 | Chekov, The Cherry Orchard
Barrie, Peter Pan Rolland, Jean Christophe |
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Norway separates from Sweden
First Russian Revolution Einstein, special relativity theory Wilstaetter, first chemical investigations in photosynthesis |
1905 | ||
San Francisco eathquake and fire | 1906 | Derain, London Bridge | |
Second Hague Conference
Triple Entente |
1907 | Synge, The Playboy of the Western World
James,Pragmatism Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
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Model "T" Ford produced | 1908 | Rilke, Neue Gedichte | |
Peary reaches North Pole | 1909 | Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Chicago
Monár,Liliom |
|
Union of South Africa Forms
Worldwide influenza epidemic kills 20 million people League of Nations |
1910-1919 | Kandinsky organizes Der Blaue Reiter (Germany)
Braque and Picasso evolve Synthetic Cubism (France) Cubo-Futurism emerges (Russia) Gilbert, Woolworth Building (USA) Armory Show launches modernism in USA Sant'Elia, Manifesto of Futurist Architecture (Italy) Malevich, Suprematist Painting (Russia) Dada movement begins in Switzerland De Stijl emerges in the Netherlands Purism emerges (France) Gropius establishes Bauhaus (Germany) |
|
Discovery of protons and electrons
George V King of England (till 1936) |
1910 | Russell and Whitehead, Principia Mathematica
Masefield,The Tragedy of Pompey the Great |
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Amundsen reaches South Pole | 1911 | Wharton, Ethan Frome
de Chirico, La Nostalgie de l'infini |
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Titanic Disaster
Balkan wars |
1912 | Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase
Kandinsky, Improvisation |
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1913 | Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
Mann, Death in Venice Sloane, Women Drying their Hair Braque, Musical Forms Proust, Remembrance of Things Past |
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First World War (till 1918)
Panama Canal opened |
1914
R R |
Frost, North of Boston
Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems Griffith, The Birth of a Nation de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street |
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Bragg, X-Rays and Crystal Structure
Morgan, Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity (theory of the gene) |
1915 | Maugham, Of Human Bondage | |
Einstein, general relativity theory
Bolshevik revolution in Russia Battle of Verdun |
1916 | Wright, Imperial Hotel in Tokyo | |
US enters World War I | 1917
R |
Rouault, Three Clowns
Yeats, Wild Swans at Coole |
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1918 | Cather, My Antonia
Spengler, Decline of the West |
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1919 | |||
Census shows more people living in urban than rural
United States
Women citizens granted the right to vote in the United States John Scopes convicted of teaching evolution in public school (USA) Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed by 62 nations, attempts to end war |
1920-1929 | Harlem Renaissance (USA)
Constructivist movement (Russia) Leger, Three Women (France) Le Corbusier, design for a Contemporary City of Three Million Inhabitants (France) Breton, "Manifesto of Surrealism" (France) Lang, film, Metropolis (Germany) Rietveld, Schröaut;der House (Netherlands Hitler, Mein Kampf (Germany) Morgan, San Simeon estate (USA) American Scene Painting emerges Eisenstein, film, October (Russia) Mead, book, Coming of Age in Samoa (USA) Rivera, murals for Mexico City Ministry of Education Woolf, essay, A Room of One's Own (England) The Museum of Modern Art founded (USA) |
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1920
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1921 | Picasso,Three
Musicians
Mondriaan, Painting No. 1 Chaplin, The Kid |
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Fascist revolution in Italy
Discovery of insulin |
1922 | Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
Eliot, The Waste Land (England) Joyce, Ulysses (Ireland) Rilke, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus |
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Hitler, Ludendorff Putsch in Munich | 1923 | Klee, At the Mountain of the Bull | |
Stalin becomes dictator in Russia | 1924 | Shaw, Saint Joan
Mann, The Magic Mountain Kafka, The Trial |
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Keilin, discovery of cytochromes and beginning of molecular biology | 1925 | Dreiser, An American Tragedy
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby |
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1926 | Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (USA)
First all-sound films |
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Lindberg makes first solo trans-Atlantic flight (USA)
First television transmission Heisenberg and others propound "uncertainty principle" in quantum physics |
1927 | Epstein, Madonna and child
Woolf, To the Lighthouse O'Neill, Strange Interlude |
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Dirigible Graf Zeppelin circles globe (Germany)
First radio broadcast of New York Philharmonic |
1928 | Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover
Huxley, Point Counter Point Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body |
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New York stock marked crash
beginning of world-wide depression |
1929 | van der Rohe, German pavilion
Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38 Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury |
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Socialist Realism in art instituted by Stalin (Russia)
Hitler takes dictatorial power in Germany Roosevelt establishes Federal Arts Project (USA) Spanish Civil War Carlson invents xerography (USA) Nazis launch anti-Jewish campaign throughout Germany |
1930-1939 | Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow (Netherlands)
Regionalist painters emerge (USA) Huxley, novel, Brave New World (England) Malraux, novel, Man's Fate Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (USA) Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California photographed for Farm Securities Administration (USA) Mitchell, novel, Gone with the Wind (USA) American Abstract Artists group forms Renoir, film, The Grand Illusion (France) Miller, novel, Tropic of Capricorn (USA) Steinbeck, novel, Grapes of Wrath (USA) Kahlo, Two Fridas (Mexico) Krasner, Red, White, Blue, Yelllow, Black (USA) |
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1930 | Mondriaan,
Fox Trot
Hopper, Early Sunday Morning Grant Wood, American Gothic Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses Hart Crane, The Bridge |
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Japan invades Manchuria | 1931 | O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra | |
Discovery of the neutron | 1932 | Stein, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein | |
F. D. Roosevelt, President of US
Hitler, Chancellor of Germany |
1933 | Miró, Composition
Toynbee, A Study of History Malraux, La Condition humaine |
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Adrian, studies in the electric nature of nerve impulses
Joliot, discovery of induced radioactivity |
1934 | Mann, Joseph and His Brothers | |
Italy invades Ethiopia | 1935 | Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
Orozco, Man in Four Aspects |
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Spanish Civil War | 1936 | Dos Passos, U.S.A. | |
Japan invades China
Andersson, discovery of positive electrons and mesons Krebs, metabolic pathways Hill, demonstration of chloroplast reaction in plants |
1937 | Picasso,
Guernica
Marquand, The Late George Apley |
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Bethe, Energy Production in Stars
Discovery of nuclear fission Development of penicillin |
1938 | Dufy, Regatta | |
World War II (till 1945) | 1939 | Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath |
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First radio broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera
Roosevelt elected to third term First commercial electron microscope Microwave radar |
1940 | Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls | |
U.S. enters war
Atlantic Charter |
1941 | ||
United Nations Alliance | 1942 | ||
1943 | Chagall, Crucifixion | ||
Roosevelt elected to fourth term
Allied armies invade Germany |
1944 | ||
Surrender of Germany
Atomic bomb used against Japan New York chosen as seat of United Nations Radio astronomy Jet planes and rockets |
1945 | ||
First Assembly of United Nations
Nuremberg trials |
1946 | Le Corbusier, Unité d'Habitation, Marseilles
Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances |
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Marshall Plan
Independence of India Perutz, X-ray studies on crystalline proteins |
1947 | Tennessee Williams, Streetcar Named Desire | |
1948 | |||
North Atlantic Defense Pact
Communist government in China |
1949 | Orwell, 1984
Miller, Death of a Salesman |
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Korean War
Hydrogen bomb |
1950 | Eliot, The Coctail Party | |
NATO formed from North Atlantic Pact | 1951 | Lipchitz, Birth of Venus | |
1952 | Calder, Giraffe
Camus, L'Homme revolté Eliot, Complete Plays and Poems |
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Malenkov succeeds Stalin in Russia
Watson-Crick model of DNA molecule |
1953 | Churchill, History of the Second World War
Beckett, Waiting for Godot |
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Gordon, Zeiger, and Townes, molecular amplification by stimulated emission
of radiation
U. S. Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation |
1954 | e. e. cummings, Poems, 1923-1954
Thomas, Under Milk Wood |
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E.R. Andrew, Nuclear Magnetic Renonance | 1955 | Auden, The Shield of Achilles | |
Revolt in Hungary | 1956 | ||
First Sputnik launched
International Geophysical Year begins T.D. Lee and C.N.Yang awarded Nobel Prize for discovery of principle of non-conservation of parity |
1957 | ||
Explorer I (U.S. satellite)
Voyage of the Nautilus Khrushchev becomes Premier of U.S.S.R. |
1958 | ||
First moon rockets
Studies in the structure of viruses |
1959 | ||
25 artificial satellites now in orbit
Pioneer V launched First working laser |
1960 | ||
Peace Corps established
Berlin Wall erected First manned space flights |
1961 | Oldenburg, "Store"
"Art of Assemblage" show at Museum of Modern Art David Smith, "Cubi" sculptures |
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Vatican Council II convenes
Cuban missile crisis |
1962 | Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
President Kennedy assassinated
Increasing U.S. involvement in Vietnam |
1963 | Carson, Silent Spring | |
Kosygin becomes Premier of U.S.S.R. | 1964 | ||
Gemini space vehicles
Civil Rights march in Alabama |
1965 | Autobiography of Malcolm X
Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat (Marat-Sade) Hofmann paints Renate series |
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1966 | Pinter, The Homecoming | ||
Israeli-Arab Six-Day War
Development of astrophysics Burbidge, Quasi-Stellar Objects ("quasars") Lilly, The Mind of the Dolphin Length of one second of time now determinable within limit of error of 1-2 parts in 1010 |
1967 | ||
Soviet invasion of Czechosolvakia
Student uprisings in France Massive anti-war protests in U.S.A. Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert f. Kennedy |
1968 | ||
First men on the moon | 1969 | ||
1970 | Tofler, Future Shock
Reich, The Greening of America |
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Indo-Pakistani war
Independence of Bangladesh |
1971 | ||
Watergate
Black September terrorist killings at Munich Olympics Pioneer 10 launched |
1972 | ||
End of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam | 1973 | Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago | |
Hearst kidnapping
U.S.S.R. deports Solzhenitsyn President Nixon resigns |
1974 | Opening of Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. | |
War in Cambodia ends
International Women's Year Suez Canal reopens |
1975 | ||
U.S. Bicentennial celebrations
Earthquake in Guatemala kills an estimated 25,000 people Death of Mao Tse Tsung Carter elected president |
1976 | Centenary of Bayreuth Festival | |
Detection of rings around the planet Uranus
Blackouts in New York City Attrocities in Uganda under Amin regime Orient Express makes last run between Paris and Istanbul Panama Canal Treaty signed |
1977 | ||
First test-tube baby
Discovery of Pluto's moon "Charon" Pope John Paul II elected |
1978 | Opening of East Wing of National Gallery, Washington, D.C. | |
Khomeini leads revolution in Iran | 1979 |