1. Queen Victoria's death
   The Civil War
2. WWII

The Wright brothers took flight in 1903. Queen Victoria died in 1901. See how this works?

1. American women getting the right to vote
   Hindenburg airship crash
2. The first sportscar

The Hindenburg airship crash took place in 1937, and Hitler annexed Austria in 1938. There were a lot of things going down in the '30s.

1. Pearl Harbor attack
   D-Day
2. Abolition of slavery in U.S.

The Fall of Stalingrad took place in 1943, and the D-Day landings took place in 1944. D-Day landings were the start of the final phase of WWII.

1. India/Pakistan Independence​
   The assassination of JFK
2. Winston Churchill's death

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place in 1945. India and Pakistan gained their independence from Britain in 1947.

1. Korean War
   Vietnam War
2. Mexican War

The Korean War began in 1950. Mao's communists took over China in 1949.

1. The Gold Rush
   Bobby Jones winning the Grand Slam
2. The fall of the Berlin Wall

Charles Lindbergh had his non-stop flight in 1927. Golfer Bobby Jones won the Grand Slam in 1930. This was in the final round of the US Open.

1. Death of Malcolm X
   The Treaty of Paris
2. The Labour Party dominates the UK

VE Day celebrations took place at the end of WWII in 1945. Despite Winston Churchill's popularity, the Labour Party had a landslide win in Britain in the same year.

1. LBJ becomes president
   Woodstock
2. Nixon resigns

Nixon resigned from office in shame in 1974, due to the Watergate scandal. The famous Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland took place in 1972.

1. End of WWII
   9-11
2. Flight of the Concorde

The Concorde flew for the first time in 1969. Also, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969.

1. Ethiopian famine
   Nelson Mandela is released from prison
2. Death of MLK

The dictator of Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, was overthrown in 1989. Also, Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990.

1. Vietnam
   Korean War
2. Operation Desert Storm

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Close upon its heels, the U.S. entered into the Gulf War with Operation Desert Storm in 1990.

1. 9/11
   Facebook founded
2. The first iPhone

Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. The horrific events of 9/11 took place in 2001.

1. End of WWII
   Building of the Eiffel Tower
2. Le Mans race disaster

Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile in 1954. Right on the heels of the that, the deadly Le Mans race disaster killed dozens of people in 1955.

1. The Big Three meet at Yalta
   Invention​ of the automobile
2. Bombing of West Africa

Paris was finally liberated in 1944. The Big Three - Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt - met in Yalta in 1945.

1. Trojan Horse
   Birth of Jesus
2. Julius Caesar

Homo Erectus walked the earth in 700,000 B.C. The Trojan War took place in 1250 BC. Julius Caesar led in 49 BC.

1. Storming the Bastille
   American Civil War
2. Fall of the Roman Empire

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue! The storming of the Bastille took place in 1789.

1. Modern nation​ of Israel founded
   Man walks on the moon
2. Blacks receive the right to vote in the U.S.

Germany invaded Poland in 1939, starting WWII. Also, the United Nations created Israel in 1948.

1. Television is invented
   Tsar Nikolas II abdicates
2. Slaves are set free

Emily Davison was the British suffragette that threw herself under the King's horse in 1913. The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II took place in 1917.

1. King Edward VIII abdicates
   UK General Strike
2. Apartheid​ begins

The Irish Free State Treaty was signed in 1921. The U.K. General Strike over the lowering of wages took place in 1926.

1. Pele's wins last World Cup
   Yankees win their first World Series
2. Armenian genocide

The launch of the first nuclear submarine took place in 1954. Pele's final World Cup performance took place in 1958.

1. Palestinian War
   Cuban​ Missle Crisis
2. Invention of the tank

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961, sealing off West Germany from East Germany. Also, the Cuban Missile Crisis took place in 1962.

1. JFK assassination​
   Woodstock
2. The Titanic

Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech occurred in 1963. That was the same year that JFK was assassinated.

1. Death of Elizabeth I of England
   Puritans land at Plymouth Rock
2. Birth​ of Shakespeare

Martin Luther penned his famous "The 95 Theses" in 1517. Shakespeare was born in 1564.

1. Charlemagne becomes Emporer of the West
   Jesus is born
2. The Plague of Europe

The Prophet Muhammed began preaching Islam in 610 A.D. Charlemagne became Emperor of the West in 800 A.D.

1. William the Conquerer takes power
   Napoleonic Wars
2. Gutenberg Bible published

Constantinope fell to the Turks in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire. The Gutenberg Bible was produced in 1455.

1. London Blitz
   Invention of the lightbulb
2. Custer's Last Stand

Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. The London Blitz began in 1940. The city was attacked 71 times.

1. The iPhone is invented
   The USSR collapses
2. Nelson Mandela is freed from jail

Britain returned Hong Kong to China in 1997. The USSR collapsed in 1991. The iPhone was unveiled in 2007.

1. Indian Ocean Tsunami
   President Trump elected
2. Tiananmen Square Massacre

Hurricane Katrina took place in 2005. The massive Tsunami in the Indian Ocean took place in 2004, killing 300,000 people.

1. Lasers are invented
   President Carter is elected
2. Challenger aircraft explodes

The horrifying Heysel Stadium disaster took place in 1985, during the European Cup final. The Challenger exploded in 1986.

1. Global financial crisis
   Chernobyl​ nuclear disaster
2. Death of Winston Churchill

The horrific Ethiopian famine took place in 1984. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster came about in 1986.

1. American independence​
   English defeat Spanish Armada
2. U.S. Civil War

Nicholas Copernicus published his theory stating that the sun is at the center of the universe in 1543. The British defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588.

1. Louis Pasteur's vaccine
   Elizabeth I's reign
2. The Great War

Karl Marx published Das Kapital in 1867. Louis Pasteur created a vaccine for anthrax in 1881.

1. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
   Roe v. Wade
2. Cuban Missile Crisis

The Six-Day War between Arab and Israeli forces was also known as the War of 1967. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution took place in 1964.

1. Elizabeth II becomes Queen
   Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster
2. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by terrorists in 1979. The Zeebrugge ferry disaster took place in 1987.

1. Barack Obama elected
   Facebook founded
2. Columbine​ massacre

Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003. Facebook was founded in 2004. Columbine occurred in 1999.