Scale: 10 years per graduation — Total span: 271 years
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Periods
Major Political Periods
French Revolution and First Republic
Napoleonic Empire
Restoration and Liberal Monarchies
Nationalism and National Unifications
Belle Époque
Interwar Period
Decolonisation
Globalisation
Cold War
Wars & Conflicts
Napoleonic Wars
Crimean War
American Civil War
Franco-Prussian War
World War I
Spanish Civil War
World War II
First Indochina War
Algerian War
Iran-Iraq War
Gulf War
Yugoslav Wars
War in Afghanistan
War in Ukraine
Korean War
Vietnam War
Society & Economy
Industrial Revolution
Imperialism and Colonisation
Great Depression
The Thirty Glorious Years
Labour Movement and Trade Unionism
European Integration
Environmental Crisis and Ecological Transition
Technological Revolutions
Age of Steam and Iron
Age of Oil and the Automobile
Age of Electricity
Space Age
Atomic Age
Computing Revolution and the Internet
Artificial Intelligence
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Events
Technology & Innovation
James Watt's Steam Engine
Volta's Battery
First Commercial Railway (Stockton-Darlington)
Electromagnetic Induction (Faraday)
Electric Telegraph (Morse)
First Internal Combustion Engine (Lenoir)
Opening of the Suez Canal
Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)
Electric Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
Automobile (Karl Benz)
Radio (Guglielmo Marconi)
Powered Aircraft (Wright Brothers)
Ford Model T — Mass Production
Television (John Logie Baird)
First Commercial Television Service (BBC)
Transistor (Bell Labs)
ARPANET — Birth of the Internet
Intel 4004 Microprocessor
Mobile Phone (Motorola DynaTAC)
Concorde Enters Service
World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee)
iPhone (Apple)
Rise of Generative AI
Politics & Diplomacy
US Declaration of Independence
French Revolution
Execution of Louis XVI
Coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte
Haitian Independence
Revolutions of 1830 in Europe
Springtime of Nations and Communist Manifesto
German Unification and the Paris Commune
Berlin Conference — Partition of Africa
Russian Revolution of 1905
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
Treaty of Versailles
Hitler as Chancellor — Start of the Third Reich
Founding of the United Nations
Indian Independence
Bandung Conference
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Dissolution of the USSR
Rwandan Genocide
Election of Nelson Mandela — End of Apartheid
Handover of Hong Kong to China
Arab Spring
Brexit
Medicine & Health
Smallpox Vaccine (Jenner)
Pasteur — Germ Theory of Disease
Spanish Flu
Insulin (Banting & Best)
Penicillin (Alexander Fleming)
Contraceptive Pill
First Heart Transplant (Christiaan Barnard)
MRI (Raymond Damadian)
Eradication of Smallpox
Identification of HIV/AIDS
COVID-19 Pandemic
Wars & Conflicts
Battle of Waterloo
Start of the American Civil War
Armistice — End of World War I
D-Day — Normandy Landings
Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
September 11 Attacks
US Invasion of Iraq
Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
War in Gaza
Science & Exploration
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
X-Rays (Wilhelm Röntgen)
Special Relativity (Albert Einstein)
First Nuclear Reactor (Enrico Fermi)
DNA Structure (Watson & Crick)
Sputnik — First Artificial Satellite
Yuri Gagarin — First Human in Space
First Man on the Moon (Apollo 11)
Hubble Space Telescope Launched
Discovery of the First Exoplanet (51 Pegasi b)
Dolly the Sheep — First Cloned Mammal
Human Genome Sequencing
CRISPR
First Image of a Black Hole (EHT)
Society & Rights
Abolition of Slavery in the United States
Women's Suffrage — New Zealand
19th Amendment — Women's Suffrage in the United States
Wall Street Crash
Women's Right to Vote in France
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Civil Rights Act (United States)
Assassination of Martin Luther King
May 1968
Oil Shock and End of the Thirty Glorious Years
Global Financial Crisis
Natural & Industrial Disasters
Lisbon Earthquake
Mount Tambora Eruption (Indonesia)
Krakatoa Eruption (Indonesia)
Mount Pelée Eruption (Martinique)
Messina Earthquake (Sicily)
Titanic Sinking
Great Kantō Earthquake (Japan)
China Floods
Bhola Cyclone (Bangladesh)
Tangshan Earthquake (China)
Bhopal Disaster (India)
Chernobyl Disaster (Ukraine)
Indian Ocean Tsunami
Haiti Earthquake
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Gulf of Mexico)
Tōhoku Earthquake, Tsunami & Fukushima (Japan)
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