User:Brunnock/20th century events

Events

1901: Federation of Australia
1901: William McKinley is assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
1901: First Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1902: Second Boer War ends when the British Empire defeats the Transvaal Boers.
1903: Panama declares independence from Colombia with the support of the United States which gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
1904: The Entente Cordiale ends centuries of conflict between France and England.
1904-07: Herero Wars between Hereros and German colonists in Namibia
1905: Japan defeats Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.
1905: Norway declares independence from Sweden.
1908: Petroleum is discovered in the Middle East at Masjed Soleyman.
1908: Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire
1908: Young Turks lead a successful rebellion against the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and rule it until 1918.
1909: NAACP founded.

1910: Union of South Africa
1910: Japan annexes Korea.
1910: Portugese Republican Revolution
1910-28: Mexican Revolution
1910: Henry Ford begins mass producing Model T automobiles.
1911-12: Xinhai Revolution results in the end of the Qing Dynasty and the formation of the Republic of China.
1912: International Opium Convention- first international agreement to curb the drug trade
1912: France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
1912: The RMS Titanic sinks.
1912-13: Balkan Wars
1912: African National Congress formed in South Africa.
1914-19: World War I results in the dissolutions of the German, Austrian, Russian and Ottoman empires.
1914: Panama Canal opens.
1917: Russian Revolution
1918-19: Spanish flu pandemic
1918-19: German Revolution leads to the Weimar Republic.

1973 oil crisis
1975-79: The Khmer Rouge kill over 25% of the population of Cambodia (2 million people).
1979: Iranian Revolution