1901 Death of Queen Victoria 1903 Women's Suffragette movement begins

1914-1918 World War I 1917 Russian Revolution 1918 Women aged 30 and over granted the vote 1919 Nancy Astor elected first woman MP

1920 Russian civil war ends 1922 Establishment of Irish Free State 1926 The General Strike

1930s A selection of images from the Daily Herald archive 1932 Oswald Mosley founds British Union of Fascists 1935 Jubilee Day Celebrations 1936 Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War 1936 Jarrow march 1936 Edward VIII abdicates the throne 1938 Anglo-German appeasment 1939 Outbreak of World War II

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 End of World War II 1947 Independence of India

1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 1955 Suez crisis

1961 Berlin Wall erected 1963 President Kennedy assassinated 1963 Profumo scandal 1965 Vietnam War begins 1968 Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech

1970 IRA splits to form 'Provisionals' 1973 Britain joins EEC 1974 President Richard Nixon resigns after the Watergate hearings 1975 Cambodia falls to Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge 1979 Margaret Thatcher elected first woman Prime Minister

1981 IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands dies 1982 Falklands War 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall

1991 War breaks out in Yugoslavia 1991 Gulf War 1993 Treaty of Maastricht on European unification 1994 Nelson Mandela elected first black President of South Africa 1997 Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty 1999 Establishment of Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly

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