2024 – Sir Keir Starmer elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

2023 – King Charles coronation

2022 – Rishi Sunak elected Prime Minster of the United Kingdom

2020 – Brexit: England leaves the EU

2019 – COVID starts

2016 – Theresa May elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

2014 – Narendra Modhi elected Prime Minister of India

2013 – Do Black Lives Matter starts in USA

2013 – Justin Welby serves as Archbishop of Canterbury

2010 – David Cameron elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

2009 – Barack Obama elected President of the United States

2008 – China host the Summer Olympics

2007 – iPhone released by Apple

2007 – Gordon Brown elected Prime Minister of the U.K.

2006 – Muhammed Younis wins Nobel Peace Prize

2006 – Al Gore releases An Inconvenient Truth

2004 – Facebook started

2003-2011 – The Iraq War

2002 – Rowan Williams serves as Archbishop of Canterbury

2001 – Wikipedia started

2001-2021 – The Afghanistan War

11th September 2011 – 9/11 and the Twin Towers

2001 – Enron collapses

1999 – Y2K Bug fears

1997 – The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy wins Booker Prize

1997 – Tony Blair elected

1993 – Nelson Mandela shares Nobel Peace Prize with F W De Clerk

1991 – The Soviet Union collapsed

1991 – Nelson Mandela elected President of the ANC

1991 – Aung San Syu Ki wins Nobel Peace Prize

1990-1991 – The Gulf War

1990 – Poll Tax riots

1989 – The 14th Dalai Llama of Tibet wins the Nobel Peace Prize

1989 – Ayatollah Khomeini issues a Fatwa against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses

1988 – Noam Chomsky published Manufacturing Consent

1986 – Chernobyl disaster

1985 – The Handmaid’s Tale published by Margaret Atwood

1984 – Nike Air Jordan formed

1982 – The Colour Purple published by Alice Walker

1981 – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie wins Booker Prize

1979 – Margaret Thatcher elected

1978 – Louis Farrakhan becomes head of The Nation of Islam

1978 – Still I Rise published by Toni Morrison

1975 – Microsoft founded

1973 – Britain joins the EU

1969 – NASA and the Moon Landing

1969 – the Concorde takes its first flight

1968 – Martin Luther King Assassinated

1965 – Malcolm X Assassinated

1963 – JFK Assassinated

1963 – Martin Luther King delivers I Have a Dream Speech

1955-1975 – Vietnam War

1953 – Queen Elizabeth 2nd coronation

1951 – The Catcher in the Rye published by J D Salinger

1951 – The Tibetan Uprising

1948 – Gandhi assassinated

1947 – Invisible Man published by Ralph Ellison

1947 – The Partition of India

August 6 1945 – Hiroshima bombed

1939-1945 World War Two

1940 – Richard Wright published Native Son

1940 – McDonald’s formed

1925 – The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1914-1918 – World War One

1903 – Wright brothers invent the Airplane

1886 – Coca Cola formed

1884 – Mark Twain published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell patents the Telephone

1876 – Queen Victoria granted status of Empress of India

1871-1872 – George Eliot published Middlemarch

1861-1865 – American Civil War

1859 – Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species

1855 – Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass

1854 – Walden published by Henry David Thoreau

1851 – Moby Dick published by Herman Melville

1841-1844 – Ralph Waldo Emerson published Essays

1836 – Charles Dickens begins publishing novels

1813 – Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice

1789 – William Blake published Songs of Innocence and Experience

1776 – American Declaration of Independence

1667-1674 – John Milton published Paradise Lost

1653 – Oliver Cromwell ruled as Lord Protector

1649 – King Charles 1st executed

1623 – William Shakespeare publishes his First Folio

1611 – King James Bible written

1590 – The Faerie Queene is published by Edmund Spenser

1558 – 1603 – Queen Elizabeth 1st reigned

1517 – Martin Luther published his Thesis

1509 – 1547 Henry VIII reigned and founded Protestantism with the Reformation of Rome

1400 The Canterbury Tales published by Geoffrey Chaucer

1300 The Divine Comedy published by Dante

1066- 15th Centuries A.D. Middle English

5th-12th Centuries A.D. – Old English / Anglo Saxon

255-66 million years B.C. Dinosaurs alive