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Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Biennio Rosso 1919 - 1920
Irish War of Independence 1919-01-21 - 1921-07-11
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11
Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09
Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Battle of Warsaw (1920) 1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 1920-08-18
Tambov Rebellion 1920-08-19
Non-cooperation movement 1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12
Siege of Perekop (1920) 1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17
First Battle of İnönü 1921-01-06 - 1921-01-11
Kronstadt rebellion 1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18
Second Battle of İnönü 1921-03-26 - 1921-03-31
Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir 1921-07-10 - 1921-07-24
Battle of the Sakarya 1921-08-23 - 1921-09-13
Washington Naval Conference 1921-11-12 - 1922-02-06
Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921-12-06
Irish Civil War 1922-06-28 - 1923-05-24
Battle of Dumlupınar 1922-08-26 - 1922-08-30
Burning of Smyrna 1922-09-13 - 1922-09-22
March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30
Treaty of Lausanne 1923-07-24
1923 Great Kantō earthquake 1923-09-01
Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey 1923-10-29
Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin 1924-01-21 - 1924-01-27
Abolition of the Ottoman caliphate 1924-03-03
Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18
Locarno Treaties 1925-12-01
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Shanghai massacre 1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
Autumn Harvest Uprising 1927-09-07
Kellogg–Briand Pact 1928-08-27
Discovery of penicillin 1928-09-28
First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Salt March 1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
1930 FIFA World Cup 1930-07-13 - 1930-07-30
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
1931 China floods 1931-06 - 1931-08
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident 1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Statute of Westminster 1931 1931-12-11
Holodomor 1932 - 1933
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power 1933-01-30
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-06-30 - 1934-07-02
Long March 1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference 1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
Government of India Act 1935 1935-08-02
Nuremberg Laws enacted 1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936-03-07
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Siege of the Alcázar 1936-07-21 - 1936-09-27
Campaign of Gipuzkoa 1936-07-25 - 1936-09-13
1936 Summer Olympics 1936-08-01 - 1936-08-16
Battle of Badajoz (1936) 1936-08-12 - 1936-08-14
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Abdication of Edward VIII 1936-11-16 - 1936-12-11
Xi'an Incident 1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Battle of Málaga (1937) 1937-02-03 - 1937-02-08
Battle of Jarama 1937-02-06 - 1937-02-27
Battle of Guadalajara 1937-03-08 - 1937-03-23
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Bombing of Guernica 1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Hindenburg disaster 1937-05-06
Battle of Brunete 1937-07-06 - 1937-07-25
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Belchite (1937) 1937-08-24 - 1937-09-07
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Battle of Teruel 1937-12-15 - 1938-02-22
Battle of Cape Palos (1938) 1938-03-05 - 1938-03-06
Aragon Offensive 1938-03-07 - 1938-04-19
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Levante Offensive 1938-04-23 - 1938-07-24
Battle of Wuhan 1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro 1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Catalonia Offensive 1938-12-23 - 1939-02-10
Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War 1939-03-26 - 1939-03-31
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939-08-23
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29
Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Vienna offensive 1945-04-02 - 1945-04-13
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11
Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Yan'an 1947-03-13 - 1947-03-19
Menglianggu Campaign 1947-05-13 - 1947-05-16
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Battle of Badgam 1947-11-03 - 1947-11-03
Battle of Shalateng 1947-11-07 - 1947-11-07
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi 1948-01-30
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Operation Hiram 1948-10-29 - 1948-10-31
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10
Operation Horev 1948-12-22 - 1949-01-07
Operation Uvda 1949-03-05 - 1949-03-10
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China 1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Battle of Guningtou 1949-10-25 - 1949-10-27
Battle of Dengbu Island 1949-11-03 - 1949-11-05
Chengdu Campaign 1949-12-11 - 1949-12-27
Landing Operation on Hainan Island 1950-03-05 - 1950-05-01
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of the Pusan Perimeter 1950-08-04 - 1950-09-18
Battle of Inchon 1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
Battle of Route Coloniale 4 1950-09-16 - 1950-10-18
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River 1950-11-25 - 1950-12-02
Battle of Chosin Reservoir 1950-11-27 - 1950-12-13
Treaty of Paris (1951) 1951-04-18
Battle of Hòa Bình 1951-11-10 - 1952-02-25
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin 1953-03-05 - 1953-03-09
Discovery of the structure of DNA 1953-04-25
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Korean Armistice Agreement 1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état 1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état 1954-02-01
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Khrushchev's Secret Speech 1956-02-25
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 1956-10-23 - 1956-11-10
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba 1961-01-17
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961-08-13
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War 1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963-08-05
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22
Zanzibar Revolution 1964-01-12
Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964 1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
Operation Grand Slam 1965-09-01 - 1965-09-06
Battle of Phillora 1965-09-07 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Asal Uttar 1965-09-08 - 1965-09-10
Battle of Burki 1965-09-10 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Chawinda 1965-09-14 - 1965-09-19
Battle of Ia Drang 1965-11-14 - 1965-11-18
1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Battle of Long Tan 1966-08-18 - 1966-08-18
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Battle of Ammunition Hill 1967-06-06 - 1967-06-06
Battle of Tel Faher 1967-06-09 - 1967-06-09
Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots 1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot 1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
Battle of Dak To 1967-11-03 - 1967-11-23
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02
Orangeburg massacre 1968-02-08
Mỹ Lai massacre 1968-03-16
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968-04-04
Fair Housing Act 1968-04-11
May 68 1968-05-02 - 1968-06-23
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 1968-07-01
Tlatelolco massacre 1968-10-02
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Battle of Hamburger Hill 1969-05-10 - 1969-05-20
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Garibpur 1971-11-20 - 1971-11-21
Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
Bloody Sunday (1972) 1972-01-30
Nixon's visit to China 1972-02-21 - 1972-02-28
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16
Munich massacre 1972-09-05 - 1972-09-06
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
Third Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-21 - 1973-10-22
Carnation Revolution 1974-04-25
Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1974-07-20 - 1974-08-18
1975 spring offensive 1974-12-13 - 1975-04-30
Battle of Xuân Lộc 1975-04-09 - 1975-04-21
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Fall of Saigon 1975-04-30 - 1975-04-30
Helsinki Accords 1975-08-01
Green March 1975-11-06
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
Chinese economic reform 1978-12-18
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16
Egypt–Israel peace treaty 1979-03-26
Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27
Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08
Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
IBM Personal Computer 1981-08-12
Assassination of Anwar Sadat 1981-10-06
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
Invasion of South Georgia 1982-04-03 - 1982-04-03
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Paraquet 1982-04-25 - 1982-04-25
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02
Battle of San Carlos (1982) 1982-05-21 - 1982-05-25
Battle of Goose Green 1982-05-28 - 1982-05-29
Bluff Cove air attacks 1982-06-08 - 1982-06-08
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-12-15
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31
Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
Live Aid 1985-07-13
Plaza Accord 1985-09-22
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
First Battle of al-Faw 1986-02-11 - 1986-03-10
Second Battle of Zhawar 1986-02-28 - 1986-04-19
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Operation Karbala-5 1987-01-08 - 1987-02-26
1987 Lieyu massacre 1987-03-07 - 1987-03-08
Battle of Jaji 1987-04-17 - 1987-06-13
Black Monday (1987) 1987-10-19
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987-12-08
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
1988 Chilean presidential referendum 1988-10-05
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
Baltic Way 1989-08-23
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
Romanian Revolution 1989-12-16 - 1989-12-27
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Release of Nelson Mandela 1990-02-11
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope 1990-04-24
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
German reunification 1990-10-03
Air campaign of the Gulf War 1991-01-17 - 1991-02-23
Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01
Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of Medina Ridge 1991-02-27 - 1991-02-27
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Vukovar 1991-08-25 - 1991-11-18
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
Earth Summit 1992-06-03 - 1992-06-14
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia 1993-01-01
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
Battle of Mogadishu (1993) 1993-10-03 - 1993-10-04
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Marrakesh Agreement 1994-04-15
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29
First Chechen War 1994-12-11 - 1996-08-31
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Oklahoma City bombing 1995-04-19
Operation Flash 1995-05-01 - 1995-05-04
Srebrenica massacre 1995-07-11 - 1995-07-22
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1995-07-21 - 1996-03-23
Operation Storm 1995-08-04 - 1995-08-07
Operation Deliberate Force 1995-08-30 - 1995-09-20
Dayton Agreement 1995-11-21
Cloning of Dolly the sheep 1996-07-05
Handover of Hong Kong 1997-07-01
1997 Asian financial crisis 1997-07-02 - 1998
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997-08-31
Kyoto Protocol 1997-12-11
Kosovo War 1998-02-28 - 1999-06-11
Good Friday Agreement 1998-04-10
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998-07-17
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Launch of the International Space Station 1998-11-20
Introduction of the euro 1999-01-01
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia 1999-03-24 - 1999-06-10
Battle of Košare 1999-04-09 - 1999-06-10
Kargil War 1999-05-03 - 1999-07-26
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Battle of Tiger Hill 1999-07-03 - 1999-07-08
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
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2002 Bali bombings 2002-10-12
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 2003-02-01
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Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
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Operation Northern Delay 2003-03-26 - 2003-03-26
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Launch of Facebook 2004-02-04
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Orange Revolution 2004-11-22 - 2005-01-23
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Launch of the iPhone 2007-01-09
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Treaty of Lisbon 2007-12-13
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