Bank of England issues first £1-note. John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of the U.S.A.

Iceland declares independence from Denmark. D-Day on June 6th. Battle of Monte Cassino begins.

Battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon defeats Russians at Austerlitz. Premier of Beethoven’s “Eroica”.

Battle of Verdun. Battle of the Somme. Easter Rebellion in Ireland. Charlie Chaplin earns $10,000 a week.

Battle of Waterloo. Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner’s safety lamp. Battle of New Orleans.

Battleship Potemkin mutiny. First movie theater opens in Pittsburgh. Einstein proposes Theory of Relativity.

Beatles break up. Computer floppy disks introduced. Aswan High Dam completed.

Benazir Bhutto is assassinated. Live Earth concerts are held. British child Madeleine McCann disappears.

Berlin Wall comes down. U.S. troops invade Panama. George H.W. Bush inaugurated as 41st U.S. President.

Best Picture at the Oscars: Braveheart. Gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur is shot. Dunblane massacre, 17 dead in Scotland.

Best Picture at the Oscars: The Departed. Last book in series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows released.

Bikinis introduced. Juan Peron becomes president of Argentina. Winston Churchill gives his “Iron Curtain” speech.

Bizet’s “Carmen” premiers. “Snooker” invented by Neville Chamberlain. Matthew Webb first to swim English Channel.

Boer Wars end. The teddy bear is introduced. Mount Pelee erupts.

Boy Scouts established in U.S. Halley’s Comet makes an appearance. The tango catches on.

Britain captures Calcutta. Hungarian raiders plunder Berlin. Battle of Plassey.

Britain declares war on Spain and Naples. Louis XV of France cedes Louisiana to Charles III of Spain.

British defeat French at Battle of Corunna. The Royal Opera House in London opens. First 2,000 guineas horse race.

British Empire adopts Gregorian calendar. Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is electricity, using kite and key.

British under Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile. British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at Battle of Tara.

Burj Khalifa in Dubai is officially opened. Winter Olympics are held in Canada. The Arab Spring begins.

Oscar Wilde convicted of “sodomy and gross indecency”. Captain Dreyfus convicted of treason.

Captain Cook is first European to land on Maui. Benedict Arnold signs U.S. oath of allegiance at Valley Forge.

Dale Carnegie publishes “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. King Edward VIII abdicates. Hoover Dam completed.

Carolus Linnaeus publishes his “Philosophia Botanica”. University of Glasgow, School of Medicine is founded.

Castro assumes power in Cuba. Alaska and Hawaii become 49th and 50th U.S. states. Best Picture at the Oscars: Gigi.

Charles Lindbergh’s baby son kidnapped. Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly Atlantic solo.

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop solo transatlantic flight. George Lemaitre proposes Big Bang theory.

Charleston dance becomes popular. Hitler jailed after failed coup. Talking movies invented.

Charlie Chaplin first appears as the Little Tramp. First traffic light. Ernest Shackleton’s voyage to Antarctica begins.

Chicago is founded. Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act becomes law. British government demands Falkland Islands.

Chief Pontiac surrenders to the British. The American city of St. Louis is established. The Sugar Act is passed.

Christ monument built in Rio de Janeiro. The U.S. officially gets a national anthem. Piccard reaches stratosphere.

Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier. Polaroid cameras invented. Jewish refugees aboard Exodus turned back.

Columbia University is founded. George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity.

Congress decides U.S. flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars. First Christmas carol “Silent Night” composed and sung.

Cuba gains independence from Spain. Aswan Dam completed in Egypt. Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter published.

Cuban missile crisis. Pope John XXIII opens Second Vatican Council. Best Picture at the Oscars: West Side Story.

Curiosity successfully lands on Mars. Hurricane Sandy kills over 200 people. Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

Work begins on Panama Canal. U.S. President James Garfield shot.

Death of Lenin. Mustafa Kemal ends Ottoman Empire. Walt Disney creates his first cartoon.

Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California. James Dean dies in car accident. McDonald’s corporation founded.

Dr. Douglas Hyde elected first President of Ireland. Adolf Hitler is Time magazine’s “Man of the Year”.

Dracula is published. Tate Gallery opens in England. Oscar Wilde is released from Reading prison.

Earthquake devastates Haiti. Winter Olympics open in Vancouver. Spain defeats Netherlands in World Cup finals.

East Germany erects the Berlin Wall. Moscow announces having put first man in orbit, Major Yuri A. Gagarin.

Elvis Presley dies. Best Picture at the Oscars: Rocky. South African activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.

Elvis Presley releases first Gold Album titled Elvis Presley. Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.

England wins World Cup. Best Picture at the Oscars: The Sound of Music. The first Star Trek episode is broadcast.