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1859 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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1863 Creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross
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1865 End of the american civil war
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1867 Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital
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1872 Claude Monet, impressionism is born
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1879 Thomas Edison invents the first commercial light bulb
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1884 Scramble for Africa
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1897 The construction of the Eiffel Tower begins
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1900 Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis (The Interpretation of Dreams)
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1900 The parisian metro is inaugurated. Hector Guimard designs the entrance
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1901 The first set of Nobel Prizes are awarded
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1903 Taking flight with the Wright brothers
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1905 Albert Einstein develops his theory of special relativity
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1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire
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1907 Les demoiselles d´avignon : Picasso's first Cubism painting
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1908 The modern car is born : the Ford T
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1911 Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole
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1912 The Wreck of RMS Titanic
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1913 Igor Stravisnsky's Rite of Spring causes a scandal
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1914 The Opening of the Panama Canal
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1916 The Battle of Verdun during World War I.
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1917 The October Revolution, Lenin, the communism
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1917 Jazz in New Orleans
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1919 the Treaty of Versailles ends the war
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1920 Al Capone, prohibition and organized crime
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1921 Un perfume for the century : Chanel N° 5
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1922 Benito Mussolini walks to Rome
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1922 Russia becomes USSR
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1922 Discover of Tutankhamen's tomb
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1927 Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic
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1928 Walt Disney draws Mickey
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1929 Black Thursday on Wall Street
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1930 Gandhi begins Salt March
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1930 Discover of Pluto
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1931 The Empire State Building is opened
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1931 Colonial Exhibition
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1933 Adolf Hitler begins chancellor of Germany
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1937 The bombardment of Guernica by german forces kills 1800 people
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1938 Mars attacks ! announces Orson Wells
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1939 invasion of Poland by the German army
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1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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1942 Planning the final solution, the concentration camps
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1944 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy
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1945 Hiroshima atomic mushroom cloud
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1946 U.N.O. is created
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1947 the transistor contributes to the miniaturization
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1948 Foundation of the State of Israel
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1949 Mao leads the People's Republic of China
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1950 The Beginning of the Korean War
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1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquer mount Everest
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1953 Jim Watson et Francis Crick solves the puzzle of the structure of DNA
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1953 For 4 dollars Elvis Presley makes his first record
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1955 the first Mac Donald
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1957 Launch of the first artificial satellite : Spoutnik
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1959 Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Guggenheim Museum
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1959 The Dalai Lama leaves Tibet
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1961 The soviet Gagarine is the first man in space
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1961 Fidel Castro faces US : the Bay of Pigs
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1961 Berlin Wall
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1962 Four English guys to form a band called Beatles
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1963 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick
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1965 Vietnam War begins...
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1969 Jimmy Hendrix's triumph at Woodstock
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1969 An american Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon
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1972 Bloody sunday in Northern Ireland. The begining of the civil war
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1973 Kippour war and the first oil crisis
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1976 Microsoft and Apple corporations are founded
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1977 Charlie Chaplin's death
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1978 the oil spill of the tanker Amoco Cadiz
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1978 First test tube baby
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1978 John Paul II the polish pope
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1979 Ayatollah Khomeiny formes the Islamic Republic of Iran
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1981 The Columbia shuttle
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1983 Discover of AIDS virus
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1985 Mikhaïl Gorbatchev General Secretary of the Communist Party in USSR. Glasnost and Perestroika
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1986 Nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, USSR
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1987 In Gaza PLO launched the first Intifada
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1989 The fall of the Berlin wall
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1989 The World Wide Web is born
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1989 Students protest on Tien An men Square
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1990 Nelson Mandela's freedom and relaxation of apartheid laws.
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1990 Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
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1991 Desert storm in Irak
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1992 Bombardment of Sarajevo
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1994 800 000 people murdered in the rwanda genocide
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1997 Live from mars with Pathfinder robot
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1998 The first clone is a sheep : Dolly
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1999 6 billion people share the blue planet
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2001 September 11 attacks
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2002 Euro European Currency
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2003 Darfur genocide
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2005 Kyoto protocol enters into force
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2007 Apple iPhone multimedia smartphone
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2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
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2008 World financial crisis
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2009 Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
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