Modern British From 1900 - 2003

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1900

Back 1

1. Max Planck - quantum theory

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1901

Back 2

1. First wireless communication across the Atlantic

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1901-1910

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1. Reign of Edward VII

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1902

Back 4

1. End of the Anglo-Boer War

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1903

Back 5

1. Henry Ford introduces the first mass-produced car
2. Wright Brothers make the first successful airplane flight

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1905

Back 6

1. Albert Einstein - theory of special relativity
2. Impressionist exhibition, London

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1910

Back 7

1. Bernard Shaw - "Pygmalion"
2. Postimpressionist exhibition, London

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1910-1936

Back 8

1. Reign of George V

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1913

Back 9

1. Ezra Pound, "A few Don'ts by an Imagiste"

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1914

Back 10

1. James Joyce - "Dubliners"
2. Thomas Hardy - "Satires of Circumstance
3. World War One begins

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1914-1915

Back 11

1. "Blast"

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1916

Back 12

1. Joyce - "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
2. Easter Rising in Dublin

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1917

Back 13

1. T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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1918

Back 14

1. Gerard Manley Hopkins - "Poems"
2. Armistice (end of WWI)
3. Franchise Act grants vote to women thirty and over

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1920

Back 15

1. D.H. Lawrence - "Women in Love"
2. Wilfred Owen - "Poems"
3. Treaty of Versailles
4. League of Nations formed

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1921

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1. William Butler Yeats - "Michael Robartes and the Dancer"

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1921-1922

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1. Formation of Irish Free State with Northern Ireland (Ulster) remaining part of Great Britain

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1922

Back 18

1. Katherine Mansfield - "The Garden Party and Other Stories"
2. Joyce - "Ulysses"
3. Eliot - "The Waste Land"

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1924

Back 19

1. Forster - "A Passage to India"

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1927

Back 20

1. Virginia Woolf - "To the Lighthouse"

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1928

Back 21

1. Yeats - "The Tower"
2. Women twenty-one and over granted voting rights

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1929

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1. Woolf - "A room of One's Own
2. Robert Graves - "Goodbye to All That"
3. Stock market crash
4. Great Depression begins

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1933

Back 23

1. Hitler comes to power in Germany

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1935

Back 24

1. Eliot - "Murder in the Cathedral"

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1936-1939

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1. Spanish Civil War

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1936

Back 26

1. Edward VIII succeeds George V, but abdicates in favor of his brother, crowned as George VI

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1937

Back 27

1. David Jones - "In Parenthesis"

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1939

Back 28

1. Joyce - "Finnegans Wake"
2. Yeats - "Last Poems and Two Plays"
3. WWII Begins

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1940

Back 29

1. W.H. Auden - "Another Time"
2. Fall of France
3. Battle of Britain

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1941-1945

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1. Holocaust

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1943

Back 31

1. Eliot - "Four Quartets"

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1945

Back 32

1. Auden - "Collected Poems
2. George - "Animal Farm"
3. First atomic bombs dropped, on Japan

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1946

Back 33

1. Dylan Thomas - "Deaths and Entrances"

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1947

Back 34

1. India and Pakistan become independent nations

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1948

Back 35

1. "Empire Windrush" brings West Indians to U.K.

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1949

Back 36

1. Orwell - "Nineteen-Eighty-Four"

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1950

Back 37

1. Apartheid laws passed in South Africa

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1953

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1. Premiere of Samuel Beckett's - "Waiting for Godot"

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1956

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1. Suez Crisis

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1957

Back 40

1. Ghana becomes independent

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1958

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1. Chinua Achebe - "Things Fall Apart"

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1960

Back 42

1. Nigeria becomes independent

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1961

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1. Berlin Wall erected

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1962

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1. Doris Lessing - "The Golden Notebook"
2. Cuban missile crisis
3. Uganda, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago become independent

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1964

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1. Philip Larkin - "The Whitsun Weddings"

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1965

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1. U.S. troops land in South Vietnam

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1966

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1. Nadine Gordimer - "The Late Bourgeois World"
2. Tom Stoppard - "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
3. Jean Rhys - "Wide Sargasso Sea"
4. Barbados and Guyana become independent

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1971

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1. V.S. Naipaul - "In a Free State"
2. Indo-Pakistan War, leading to the creation of Bangladesh

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1969

Back 49

1. Apollo moon landing

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1972

Back 50

1. Britain enters European Common Market

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1973

Back 51

1. U.S. troops leave Vietnam

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1975

Back 52

1. Seamus Heaney - "North"

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1979

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1. Caryl Churchill - "Cloud 9"
2. Islamic Revolution in Iran; the Shah flees
3. Soviets invade Afghanistan

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1979-1990

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1. Margaret Thatcher is British prime minister

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1980

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1. J.M. Coetzee - "Waiting for the Barbarians"

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1980-1988

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1. Iran-Iraq War

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1981

Back 57

1. Salman Rushdie - "Midnight's Children"
2. Brian Friel - "Translations"

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1982

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1. Falklands War

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1985

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1. Production of Hanif Kureishi's - "My Beautiful Laundrette"

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1988

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1. Salman Rushdie - "The Satanic Verses"

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1989

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1. Kazuo Ishiguro - "The Remains of the Day"
2. Fall of the Berlin Wall
3. Tianamen Square, Beijing, demonstration and massacre

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1990

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1. Derek Walcott - "Omeros"

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1991

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1. collapse of the Soviet Union

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1992

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1. Thom Gunn - "The Man with Night Sweats"

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1993

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1. Tom Stoppard - "Arcadia"

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1997

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1. Arundhati Roy - "The God of Small Things
2. Labour Party victory in the U.K. ends eighteen years of Conservative government

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1994

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1. Democracy comes to South Africa

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1998

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1. British Handover of Hong Kong to China
2. Northern Ireland Assembly established

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1999

Back 69

1. Carol Ann Duffy - "The World's Wife"

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2000

Back 70

1. Zadie Smith - "White Teeth"

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2001

Back 71

1. September 11 attacks destroy World Trade Center

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2002

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1. Paul Muldoon - "Moy Sand and Gravel"
2. Euro becomes sole currency in most European Union

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2003

Back 73

1. Invasion of Iraq led by U.S. and U.K.