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TIMELINE

The Modern Age

Literature, Events, Arts, Architecture, Science

1899

1899

W.B.Yeats

The Fiddler of Dooney

1900 - 1909

1900 - 1909

1900

Literature

Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

Events

Events

1901 - 1910

1901-1910

The new king is Queen Victoria's eldest son Edward VII.

1904

1904

The Entente Cordiale between England and France.

Arts, Architecture & Science

Arts, Architecture & Science

1900

1900

Sigmund Freud

Interpretation of Dreams

1905

1905

Albert Einstein's

Theory of Relativity

1907

1907

The first exhibition of Cubism in Paris

1909

Kandinsky

1909

The first manifest of the Futurists by Marinetti. Kandinsky and Mondrian signal the birth of abstract painting.

Mondrian

1910-1920

1910 - 1920

Literature

Literature

1914

D.H.Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

1915

James Joyce

The Dubliners

1917

Ezra Pound

Cantos

Events

Events

1914

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian - Hungarian throne, is assassinated at Sarajevo. This soon involves the major European powers in the World War I.

1916

Irish Easter Rising

1917

The United States enters the First World War.

1919

The treaty of Versailles ends the World War I.

Arts, Architecture & Science

1910-1912

1910-1912

Post - impressionists exhibition in Paris

1919

Gropius found the Bauhaus in Weimar.

1920-1930

1920-1930

Literature

Literature

1922

James Joyce

Ulysses

1922

T.S.Elliot

T.S.Elliot

The waste land

1925

F.S. Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

1927

Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

1929

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Events

Events

1921

The Irish Free State (Eire) is created.

1928

The Suffragettes

Women are enfranchised in Britain.

1929

The Great Depression in the USA and Roosevelt's New Deal.

1920

Arts, Architecture & Science

The era of cinema begins.

The birth of jazz with Lois Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

1930 - 1940

1930-1940

Literature

Literature

1930

1930

Wystan Hugh Auden's political poetry.

1932

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

1935

T.S.Elliot

Murder in the Cathedral

1939

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Events

Events

1931

The Commonwealth of Nations is established.

1936

The year of the three kings:

  • George V (dies);
  • Edward VIII (abdicates);
  • George VI (succeeds to the throne);

1936

Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

Arts, Architecture & Science

Arts, Architecture & Science

1936

The first regular television broadcast in Great Britain.

1936 - 1939

1936 - 1939

Alexander Fleming discovered of penicillin.

1940 - 1950

1940-1950

Literature

Literature

1940

Ernest Hemingway

For whom the Bell Tolls

1945

George Orwell

Animal Farm

1949

Arthur Miller

Death of Salesman

1949

George Orwell

George Orwell

1984

Events

Events

1941

Pearl Harbour

The USA enters the World War II against Germany.

1944

The D - Day invasion of Normandy.

1945

Atoms bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

End of World War II.

1947 - 1948

Great Britain grants India independence.

Gandhi was assassinated.

Arts, Architecture & Science

Arts, Architecture & Science

1941

The first electronic computer.

1946

ENIAC (1946)

ENIAC

1945

Neo-realism in films

Rossellini's Roma citta aperta

1950 - 1960

1950-1960

Literature

Literature

1951

Isaac Asimov

Foundation Trilogy

1952

1952 - 1954

Ernest Hemingway

The old man and the sea

1954

Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Nobel prize for literature.

Events

Events

1950 - 1953

The Korean War

1952

Queen Elizabeth II is crowned.

1950 - 1953

Arts, Architecture & Science

Frank Lloyd Wright modernises American architecture.

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