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Note: I do't really know why i set this page up but i like to collect data. Collecting historic data is interesting but major, it take lots of reading [which i hate] an lots of time [which i "seem" to be short off]. Time flies, ducumenting and reviewing it crawls.
If you search for more lists on the web then be carefull with US-Centric visions!
This can be tricky. Should there always be people involved? Should they actually be recognised "monuments"? Should it be tangible? Damn, this could get big, maybe the title is wrong?
a start...
1337-1453 w - 100 year war between england and france 1488-1580 e - great sea explorations (Vasco Da Gama - Francis Drake) 1800-1815 w - napoleonic wars 1861-1865 w - american civil war 1878 e - first commercial electric light bulb (commercialized but NOT invented by Thomas Edison), https://www.bulbs.com/learning/history.aspx 1879-1955 p - albert einstein 1903 e - first "modern" flight by wright brothers 1914-1918 w - world war 1 1939-1945 w - world war 2 1946 e - eniac computer 1947 e - first supersonic flight (X-1-1) 1948 e - transistor (pantented) 1951 e - name computer bug established 1953 e - dna discovered 1957 e - first satellite transmission (sputnik beeps), 1 year before US 1958 e - first IC 1960 e - pdp1 computer is out 1961-1975 w - vietnam war 1969 e - man on the moon 1969 e - birth of unix 1972 e - the game of pong 1975 e - first ibm portable computer 1980 e - computers like altair, trs-80, appleII, lisa and pdp11 are out 1981 s - first ibm pc 1988 e - internet worm (morris) jams 6000 military computers 1988 e - foundation of CERT (computer security incident response and coordination) 1989 e - creation www by Tim Berners Lee (weaving the web) 1990-1991 w - gulf war 2000 e - dna sequencing of human genome completed w = war (period) p = person e = event http://pw2.netcom.com/~rogermw/index.html http://www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/ http://www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/century.html
Wars, alliances and modern day status.
1500-1800-1914-1945-1966 Many wars/conflicts were preceded by European expansionism/colonialism (FR,UK,NL,BE,SP,...). PS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism#/media/File:Colonial_empires_in_1800.svg PS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism#/media/File:World_1914_empires_colonies_territory.PNG Many events like this were leading-up to World War I. 1882-1914 Triple Alliance (trigger: German expansionism, secret agreement between Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary) PS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Triple_Alliance.png 1907 Anglo-Russian Entente & Triple Entente (UK & RU and later FR) 1914-1918 World War I (Allies / Triple Entente VS. Central Powers) (Russian Empire, French Third Republic, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland vs. Germany, Austria-Hungary and later Italy). 1920–1946 League of Nations (goal: prevent future wars, precursor of UN) 1939-1945 World War II (trigger: Unresolved WWI rivalries contributed to the start) 1940–1945 Axis powers (trigger: Germany, Italy, and Japan expansionism) 1947–1991 Cold War (trigger: Soviet expansionism) PS: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980s triggered creation of Al-Qaeda in 1988. 1945-NOW United Nations (Global) 1949-NOW NATO (North Atlantic Alliance) 1990-1991 gulf war (trigger: US Imperialism/exceptionalism) 2001–NOW War on Terror (trigger: radical islamic Al-Qaeda 9/11) 2014-NOW Operation Inherent Resolve - Islamic State terrorism (trigger: radical islamic expansionism)