1900 – The beginning of the twentieth century 1903 – The first flight of an airplane by the wright brothers 1912 – The sinking of rms titanic 1914 – The assassination of Franz Ferdinand 1914 – The beginning of World War I 1914 – Wilfred Owen wrote 1914 1915 – The sinking of rms Lusitania 1917 – The October revolution 1918 – Siegfried Sassoon published suicide in the trenches
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1900 – The beginning of the twentieth century
1903 – The first flight of an airplane by the wright brothers
1912 – The sinking of rms titanic
1914 – The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
1914 – The beginning of World War I
1914 – Wilfred Owen wrote 1914
1915 – The sinking of rms Lusitania
1917 – The October revolution
1918 – Siegfried Sassoon published suicide in the trenches
1919 – Wilfred Owen published strange meeting
1919 – The end of World War I (The treaty of Versailles)
1920 – ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was published by Owen Wilfred
1920 - Anthem for Doomed Youth
1922 – The discovery of king tut’s tomb
1928 – The discovery of penicillin
1928 - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Sassoon
1929 – St. Valentine’s Day massacre
1929 – Stock market crash of 1929(The start of the great depression)
1930 - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Sassoon
1935 – Vigils by Sassoon
1936 – King Edward viii’s abdication
1937 – Hindenburg disaster
1937 – J.r.r Tolkien publishes the hobbit
1938 – The night of broken glass
1939 – The end of the great depression
1939 – The beginning of World War II
1940 – The assassination of Leon Trotsky
1941 – The attack on pearl harbor
1944 – D-day
1945 – The bombing of Hiroshima
1945 – The end of World War II
1946 – Winston Churchill’s iron curtain speech
1947 – The creation of Israel as a Jewish state
1948 – Harry Truman declared president
1950 – First modern credit card introduced
1950 – c.s. Lewis published The chronicles of Narnia
1953 – Norgay and Hillary climb Mount Everest
1954 – Segregation ruled illegal in U.S
1954 – j.r.r. Tolkien publishes The lord of The rings
1955 – Disneyland opens for the first time
1957 – The Beatles was formed
1957 – Laika The dog goes to space
1959 – The start of The Vietnam War
1961 – The berlin wall was built
1968 – The assassination of martin Luther king jr.