General knowledge-world history timewise CE(Common Era) events

General knowledge-world history timewise CE(Common Era) events:

The below given table shows the major World History Events of CE (Common Era) along with respective details −

Common Era (CE)         World History Events
1789–1799 CE	French Revolution
2015 CE	United States and Cuba resumed diplomatic relations.
2013 CE	Deaths of Hugo Chávez, Nelson Mandela, and Margaret Thatcher.
2011 CE	Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kim Jong-Il were killed.
2011 CE	Iraq War ended.
2010	The largest oil spill in US history occurred in the Gulf of Mexico.
2009 CE	The world's tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa (in Dubai), has been built.
2008 CE	Stock markets plunge across the world.
2008 CE	Monarchy system terminated in Nepal.
2006 CE	Ellen Johnson Sir leaf became the President of Liberia. She was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
2006 CE	Execution of Saddam Hussein.
2005 CE	Angela Merkel became Germany's first woman Chancellor.
2003 CE	Iraq War began that triggered worldwide protests.
2003 CE	The space shuttle, Columbia, collapsed (while landing) nearby Texas (USA); all the seven astronauts (including Indian astronaut Kalpana Chawla) died in the accident.
2001 CE	Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City and damaged the Pentagon in Washington, DC
2001 CE	Wikipedia founded.
1999 CE	Euro is introduced
1998 CE	Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
1997 CE	Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from UK to China
1997 CE	Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident in Paris, France
1995 CE	Establishment of the World Trade Organization
1994 CE	End of apartheid in South Africa and subsequent election of Nelson Mandela the great leader
1994 CE	Opening of the Channel Tunnel
1993 CE	Velvet divorce between Czech Republic and Slovakia
1992 CE	Maastricht Treaty created the European Union
1991 CE	Gulf War ended after US withdrawal and failed uprising
1991 CE	Dissolution of the Soviet Union and subsequent independence of 15 former Soviet republics
1991 CE	Boris Yeltsin became the first President of the Russian Federation
1991 CE	The first Website has been put online and made available to the public
1990 CE	Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW)
1990 CE	Gulf War began
1990 CE	After 27 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela released
1989 CE	Fall of the Berlin Wall
1986 CE	Chernobyl disasters
1985 CE	Mikhail Gorbachev became Premier of the Soviet Union
1985 CE	First use of DNA fingerprinting
1979 CE	Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of the UK
1978 CE	Birth of the first test-tube baby
1976 CE	First outbreak of the Ebola virus
1975 CE	First Cricket World Cup hosted
1973 CE	First space station, Skylab, was launched
1969 CE	Muammar Gaddafi overthrew King Idris of Libya in a Coup d'état and established the Libyan Arab Republic
1968 CE	Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated while the Poor People's Campaign
1965 CE	Deaths of Winston Churchill
1963 CE	Assassination of John F Kennedy
1962 CE	Cuban missile crisis
1962 CE	Sino-Indian War
1959 CE	Cuban Revolution
1958 CE	NASA, the US Federal Aviation Authority and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) established
1957 CE	Beginning of the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik I
1955 CE	Warsaw Pact signed
1954 CE	First time, the Soviet Union generated the electricity by nuclear power
1953 CE	Stalin died
1952 CE	Egyptian Revolution under Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk and terminated British occupation
1951 CE	Treaty of San Francisco terminated the Occupation of Japan and formally concluded hostilities between Japan and the US
1949 CE	Creation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
1949 CE	Germany partitioned as the Soviet socialist German Democratic Republic and the NATO-backed Federal Republic of Germany
1949 CE	Establishment of the People's Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Zedong
1948 CE	Beginning of apartheid in South Africa
1948 CE	Division of North and South Korea
1946 CE	First images had been taken of the Earth from space
1945 CE	Battle of Berlin
1945 CE	Yalta Conference
1945 CE	Atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan)
1945 CE	End of World War II in Europe. The Holocaust ends after (about) 12 million deaths
1945 CE	Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini
1945 CE	Potsdam Conference (World War II) divided Europe into Western and Soviet blocs
1945 CE	United Nations founded
1944 CE	Chechen insurgency ended with deportation of the entire Chechen population.
1944 CE	First operational electronic computer, Colossus, introduced
1944 CE	D Day (Military terms associated with Invasion of Normandy)
1943 CE	Battle of Stalingrad ended with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German Army
1943 CE	Tehran Conference participated by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin; all agreed to launch Operation Overlord.
1943 CE	Green Revolution began.
1941 CE	Attack on Pearl Harbor that forced the USA to join World War II
1941 CE	Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
1940 CE	Nazis invaded France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway
1940 CE	Soviet Union annexes the Baltic states
1940 CE	Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1939 CE	Nazi invasion of Poland that triggered the beginning of World War II
1938 CE	Munich agreement that handed over Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany
1937 CE	Japanese invaded China
1937 CE	The Irish Republican Army attempted to assassinate King George VI of the UK
1935 CE	Persia became Iran
1933 CE	Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany
1932 CE	Franklin D Roosevelt is elected President of the United States
1932 CE	The Nazi party became the largest single party in the German parliament
1931 CE	Construction of the Empire State Building
1931 CE	Statute of Westminster created the British Commonwealth of Nations
1931 CE	Japan invaded Manchuria (China) and occupied it until the end of World War II
1930 CE	First FIFA World Cup hosted
1929 CE	Wall Street crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression
1929 CE	Vatican City has given the status of a sovereign State.
1929 CE	Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
1928 CE	Mickey Mouse was created at the Walt Disney Studio.
1927 CE	Joseph Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union.
1927 CE	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland officially became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1927 CE	The BBC was granted a Royal Charter in the United Kingdom.
1925 CE	Benito Mussolini gains dictatorial powers in Italy and adopted the title of ‘Duce’.
1925 CE	Mein Kampf (an autobiography of the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler) was published.
1924 CE	Death of Vladimir Lenin (of Russia); rise of Stalin.
1924 CE	The Caliphate was abolished by Kemal Atatürk.
1924 CE	The US Federal Bureau of Investigation established under J Edgar Hoover.
1923 CE	Time Magazine was published first time
1923 CE	Turkish War of Independence ended and Kemal Atatürk became the first President of the newly established Republic of Turkey. Capital was moved from Istanbul to Ankara
1922 CE	The Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished Ottoman Sultanate.
1921 CE	Adolf Hitler became Führer (guide, leader) of the Nazi Party.
1920 CE	Greece restores its monarchy after a referendum.
1920 CE	International Court of Justice founded at Hague in the Netherlands.
1919 CE	Treaty of Versailles redrew European borders.
1919 CE	League of Nations founded in Paris.
1918 CE	End of World War I
1918 CE	Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus declared their independence from Russia.
1917 CE	Russian Revolution ended the Russian Empire
1917 CE	The United States joined the Allies (countries) for the last 17 months of World War I
1916 CE	The implementation of daylight saving time system
1915 CE	First use of poison gas at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and Second Battle of Ypres
1914 CE	Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo that triggered the World War I
1914 CE	Panama Canal opened
1913 CE	Second Balkan War and Treaty of Bucharest too place
1912 CE	End of the Chinese Empire and Republic of China established
1912 CE	First Balkan War began
1912 CE	Woodrow Wilson elected as the 28th President of the United States
1911 CE	Xinhai Revolution in China overthrows the Qing Dynasty
1908 CE	First commercial radio transmissions
1905 CE	Albert Einstein's formulation of relativity
1904 CE	Russian Japanese War
1901 CE	In Stockholm (Sweden), the first Nobel Prize ceremony was held
1901 CE	Theodore Roosevelt become the youngest President of the United States
1900 CE	Hawaii became an official USA territory
1898 CE	Britain obtained a 99-year lease of Hong Kong from China
1896 CE	Olympic Games revived in Athens, Greece
1894 CE	First commercial film was released by Jean Aimé Le Roy
1893 CE	New Zealand became the first country to enact women's suffrage
1892 CE	For the first time, Fingerprinting was officially adopted.
1891 CE	The German government initiated the first public old-age pension scheme
1889 CE	Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris
1887 CE	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story, ‘A Study in Scarlet’
1886 CE	Burma was presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift
1886 CE	Karl Benz sold the first commercial automobile
1872 CE	The first National Park i.e. Yellowstone National Park, is established
1871 CE	Royal Albert Hall opened in London
1869 CE	Dmitri Mendeleev created Periodic table
1869 CE	The Suez Canal route opened that linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
1868 CE	Michael Barrett was the last person to be publicly hanged in England
1865 CE	President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
1862 CE	The first paper money was issued in the United States
1861 CE	Russia abolished serfdom
1859 CE	The first successful oil well was drilled in northern Pennsylvania (USA)
1859 CE	John Tyndall, the British scientist, described the concept that the carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor trapping heat in the atmosphere. Further, he suggested that the changing in the concentration of gases could bring climate change
1856 CE	World's first oil refinery founded in Romania
1854 CE	Crimean War (fought between Russia and Turkey)
1849 CE	Roman Republic's constitutional law became the first to abolish capital punishment
1848 CE	Karl Marx wrote Communist Manifesto
1842 CE	First time Anaesthesia was used
1841 CE	Richard Owen, first time, used the word "dinosaur"
1840 CE	New Zealand is established, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed between the Māori and British
1838 CE	Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolutionary selection and specialization
1835 CE	Vaccination became mandatory in Britain
1833 CE	Slavery Abolition Act banned slavery throughout the British Empire
1825 CE	The two railway station at Stockton and Darlington (the first public railway in the world) was opened
1823 CE	Monroe Doctrine was declared by US President James Monroe
1821 CE	Napoleon Bonaparte died (at Saint Helena Island, where he was exiled)
1820 CE	Discovery of Antarctica
1815 CE	Napoleon escaped; however, he was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo (in June) and exiled to Saint Helena Island
1814 CE	Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to Elba.
1805 CE	In Milan (Italy), Napoleon was crowned as the King of Italy
1805 CE	In the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon decisively defeated an Austrian-Russian army
1804 CE	Haiti attained its independence from France and became the first black republic
1801 CE	Napoleon (of France) defeated Austria
1797 CE	Napoleon's invasion and partition of the Republic of Venice ended over 1,000 years of independence of the Serene Republic
1845-49 CE	The Irish Potato Famine that lead to the Irish diaspora
1861-65 CE	American Civil War, took place between the Union and seceding Confederacy
1795 CE	The first graphite pencils were used
1848-58 CE	California Gold Rush
1859-69 CE	Suez Canal constructed
1787 CE	The United States Constitution is written in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for ratification
1787 CE	The slaves freed from London established Freetown (West Africa) i.e. present-day Sierra Leone
1785 CE	Napoleon Bonaparte became a lieutenant in the French artillery
1783 CE	In USA, King George declared the thirteen colonies as "free and independent”
1783 CE	In USA, based on the state's 1780 constitution, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled slavery illegal
1781 CE	The Spanish settlers founded the city of Los Angeles
1776 CE	In USA, second Continental Congress meeting and declaration of independence July 4)
1765 CE	In France, a twenty-eight volume of encyclopedia was completed
1724 CE	Japan began successful forest management reform and subsequently timber cutting was reduced
1710 CE	The world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Statute of Anne (also known as Copyright Act 1709), took effect
1697 CE	The earliest known first-class cricket match had taken place in Sussex
1694 CE	The Bank of England is established
1687 CE	Isaac Newton published “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”
1683 CE	China conquered the Kingdom of Tungning and annexes Taiwan
1666 CE	The Great Fire of London
1652 CE	Dutch East India Company founded the city Cape Town in South Africa
1636 CE	Harvard University is established in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1632 CE	The city of Boston is founded
1506 CE	Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain
1503 CE	Leonardo da Vinci started making the painting of Mona Lisa; however, completed after three years
1498 CE	Vasco da Gama arrived India
1492 CE	Christopher Columbus discovered a route going to the New World (i.e. Caribbean Islands and America)
1461 CE	King Loius XI of France started postal service
1397 CE	The Medici bank was established in Florence
1389 CE	Battle of Kosovo (in Serbia)
1347 CE	The Black Death withered Europe for the first (of many times). In the first year, an estimated 20 to 40% of the population was thought to have perished.
1299 CE	Osman I established the Ottoman Empire
1298 CE	Marco Polo published his itinerary of China, along with Rustichello da Pisa.
1215 CE	John of England sealed the “Magna Carta”
1209 CE	The University of Cambridge is established
1199 CE	Europeans first used compasses
1150 CE	The University of Paris is established
1117 CE	The University of Oxford is established
1077 CE	Construction of the London Tower began
1050 CE	An ancient tool of navigation namely The astrolabe” was first used in Europe
800 CE	Gunpowder was invented
793 CE	Scandinavians approached the island of Lindisfarne, Scotland by boat and they attacked monks and robbed their monastery. It is the first recorded raid by the Vikings
660 CE	The Quran, the holy book, was published for the first time
632 CE	Muhammad died
622 CE	Muhammad Migrated from Mecca to Medina
613 CE	Muhammad had commenced preaching publicly in his hometown, Mecca
581 CE	Sui Dynasty came in China
570 CE	Prophet Mohammed (the founder of Muslim religion) born
378 CE	The Germanic tribes defeated Roman army in the battle of Adrianople
220 CE	After the fall of Han Dynasty, three Kingdoms period begins in China
79 CE	Mount Vesuvius erupted and destructed Pompeii and other towns (in Italy)
78 CE	Origin of Saka Era in India
70 CE	The armies of Titus destructed Jerusalem
29 CE	Jesus Christ crucified
623 CE	Muhammad abandoned Saturday as the Sabbath and made Friday as special day of the week