1918

World War I ends

with German
defeat.
1929
Stock Market on
Wall Street
crashes, start of
Great Depression.
1933
Adolf Hitler
becomes
Chancellor of
Germany.
1934
The Nazi Night of
the Long Knives
and Hitler
becomes Fhrer.
1935
Hitler violates
Treaty of Versailles,
introduces military
conscription.

1919
League of Nations
founded and Treaty
of Versailles
signed.
1930
Nazis become 2nd
largest political
party after German
election.
1933
German Reichstag
burned, Enabling
Act gives Hitler
dictatorship
1935
German Jews
stripped of rights
by Nuremberg
Race Laws.
1936
The German
Gestapo placed
above the law.

1938
1938
Germany
German military is
announces
mobilised,
Anschluss (union)
Chamberlain
with Austria.
appeases Hitler.
1939
Nazis take
Czechoslovakia.

1939
Nazis and Soviets
sign Pact and
invade, divide
Poland.
1939
1939
Britain, France,
Nazis begin
AUS and NZ
euthanasia on sick
declare war on
and disabled in
Germany.
Germany.
1940
1940
Nazis invade
Winston Churchill
Denmark, Norway,
becomes British
France and
Prime Minister.
Belgium.
1940
1940
France signs an
Britain recognises
armistice with Nazi Charles de Gaulle
Germany.
as Free French

1940
Battle of Britain
(German Blitz)
begins.
1941
Nazi SSEinsatzgruppen
begin mass
murder.

leader.
1940
Tripartite (Axis)
Pact signed by
Germany, Italy and
Japan.
1941
Germany attacks
Soviet Union as
Operation
Barbarossa begins.

1941
1941
Wannsee
Nazis order Jews to
Conference for
wear yellow stars.
Final Solution of
the Jewish
Question.
1941
1942
Japan bombs Pearl
Mass murder of
Harbour, United
Jews by gassing
States declares
begins at
war on Japan.
Auschwitz.
1942
1943

Nazis liquidate
Germans surrender
Lidice in reprisal at Stalingrad in the
for Heydrichs
first big defeat of
assassination.
Nazi army.
1943
1943
Nazis arrest White Jewish resistance
Rose resistance
in the Warsaw
leaders in Munich.
Ghetto ends.
1944
1944
D-Day landings on
Assassination
the northern coast
attempt by
of France.
German Army
officer against
Hitler fails.
1944
1944
Anne Frank and
The Liberation of
family arrested by
Paris.
Gestapo.
1945
Dresden is
destroyed by a
firestorm after
Allied bombing

1945
Mussolini is
captured and
hanged by Italian
partisans.

raids.
1945
Adolf Hitler
commits suicide,
unconditional
surrender of
Germany.
1945
Allies divide up
Germany and take
over government.

1945
V-E (Victory in
Europe) Day.

1945
Atomic bombs
dropped on
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan.
1945
1945
Japanese agree to
Nuremberg war
unconditional
crimes trials begin.
surrender.
1912
1914
Titanic sinks.
Start of the First
World War.

1915
Attack on Gallipoli
by ANZAC and
British troops.

1915
First film shot in
technicolour.

1917
1918
Russian Revolution
Armistice ends
sees the death of
First World War.
the Tsar and rise of
Communism
1918
1920
Spanish flu kills 20 Establishment of
million people
QANTAS.
worldwide.
1920
1921
First non-stop
Edith Cowan, first
plane flight from
female elected
Australia to
member of Federal
England.
Parliament.
1922
1923
Discovery of the Radio broadcasting
tomb of King
begins in Australia.
Tutankhamen.
1923
Sydney and
Brisbane first
connected by
telephone.
1924

1923
Vegemite is first
produced.

1924

First self-winding
wrist watch.

Invention of the
popsicle (frozen
ice-cream).

1925
1927
Population of
Mickey Mouse is
Sydney reaches 1
created.
million first city
in Aus. to reach
1m
1927
1928
First flight across
Flying Doctor
the Atlantic Ocean. Service is created.
1929
First electric
shaver invented.

1929
Invention of
penicillin.

1930
World population
hits 2 billion.

1932
Death of Phar Lap.

1932
Sydney Harbour
Bridge opens.

1933
Game of Monopoly
invented.

1935
Invention of
RADAR.

1938
First nylon bristle
toothbrush
manufactured.

1938
1939
Superman makes
The worst Black
his first
Friday bushfire.
appearance in a
cartoon book.
1940
1941
M&Ms invented by Australian women
the Mars Company.
admitted to the
armed forces.
1942
1943
Japanese bomb
Invention of SCUBA
Darwin and
gear.
submarines attack
Sydney Harbour.
1944
1945
First jet powered
Creation of the
aircraft to fly.
United Nations.

1946
French fashion
designer Louis
Reard presents the
bikini.
1947
LEGO is invented.

1947
Chuck Yaegar is
the first person to
break the sound
barrier.
1947
The 40 hour
working week is
introduced in
Australia.

1948
Apartheid is
introduced into
South Africa.

1948
First Australian
Holden Car is built.

1950
Disposable nappies
are invented.

1952
Australias
millionth migrant
arrives.
1953
First time Mt.
Everest was
climbed.

1952
British atomic
bomb is tested in
Australia.

1953
1954
One hundred
Korean War.
thousand Holdens
have been sold.
1955
1955
First atomic clock Melbourne Olympic
invented.
Games.
1956
Disneyland is
opened in
California.

1956
Elvis Presley
releases his first
record.

1956
Worlds first
nuclear power
plant opens.

1957
First manmade
object to orbit the
earth.

1957
Windsurfing
invented.

1959
First Barbie doll is
released.

1959
First working

1960
First supermarket

hovercraft.

opens in Australia.

1961
1961
Introduction of the
Ken, a friend for
contraceptive pill. Barbie, is released.
1961
Population of
Australia reaches
ten million.
1962
Cuban Missile
Crisis.

1961
Yuri Garagin
becomes the first
human to orbit the
earth.
1963
First push button
telephone.

1965
Diet Pepsi is
introduced.

1966
Introduction of
decimal currency.

1967
Disappearance of
Harold Holt,
Australian Prime

1967
First successful
heart transplant
operation on a

Minister.
1967
Australian
Referendum to
alter the
constitution for
racial equality.
1969
Man walks on the
Moon for the first
time.

human.
1967
Last execution in
Australia.

1970
First video cassette
recorder released.

1970
1971
Voting rights given Neville Bonner is
to 18 year old
the first Aboriginal
Australians.
to be member of
parliament.
1972
1974
Sydney Opera
Cyclone Tracy
House opened.
destroys Darwin.
1974
National anthem
changes from God

1974
Rundle Mall is
opened, first mall

Save the Queen.

1975
First disposable
razor.

1977
Malls Balls are
installed for the
first time.
1978
First Gay and
Lesbian Mardi Gras
in Sydney.
1979
Sony Walkman
released.

in Australia.
1975
Removal of the
Whitlam
government by
Governor General.
1977
Star Wars is
released.

1979
First Lotto Draw.

1980
Birth of Australias
first test tube
baby.
1980
1982
Compact Disks
First artificial heart
(CDs) are released successfully placed
to the public.
into a human.

1983
1986
Ash Wednesday
Chernobyl nuclear
bushfires in South
accident.
Australia.
1988
1990
New parliament
Cathy Freemans
house in Canberra. first Gold Medal.
1992
Mabo Decision is
handed down.
1994
Mighty Morphin
Power Rangers
released.
1996
John Howard is first
elected as Prime
Minister.
1997
Death of Princess
Dianna.

1963
President John F.
Kennedy
assassinated.
1995
Wreck of the
Titanic is found.

1997
Adelaide born
Andy Thomas
becomes an
astronaut.
1997
DVDs are
introduced to the

consumer market.
1997
Harry Potter and
the Philosophers
Stone is published.
1998
Furbies are
released onto the
toy market.

1997
Tamagotchi pets
are released onto
the toy market.
1999
Snowtown
murders.

1999
Tony Lockett
retires from AFL
after 1,357 goals.
1991
Collapse of the
Soviet Union.

2000
First discovery of
planets outside our
solar system.
2000
Sydney Olympic
Games.

2001
Centenary of the
Federation of
Australia.

2001
Sir Donald
Bradman dies.

2001

2002

World Trade Centre

is destroyed.

Bali bombings.

2003
Australia joins the
invasion of Iraq as
part of the War on
Terror.
2010
Julia Gillard
becomes the first
female Prime
Minister.
1942
Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE)
established.

2008
Prime Minister
Rudd offers
National Apology.

1954
The Supreme Court
declared school to
be
unconstitutional.
1965

2013
Tony Abbott
becomes Prime
Minister.
1955
Montgomery Bus
Boycott after the
arrest of Rosa
Parks.
1964
Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. awarded
the Noble Peace
Prize.
1966

Malcolm X was
assassinated.
1945
Dr. Evatt, Minister
for External Affairs,
helps draw up the
UN Charter
1975
Australia passes
the Racial
Discrimination Act.
1990
Germany reunited.

Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr.
assassinated.
1962
Indigenous
Australians given
the right to vote.
1995
Racial Hatred Act
introduced.

1938
Indigenous
Australians declare
Australia Day as
Day of Mourning.
1965
1997
Australians
The Bringing
commence
Them Home
Freedom Ride
report was
after U.S Freedom
delivered.
Ride.
2001
1931

Reconciliation
The Empire State
Australia founded. Building is opened.
1932
1937
Two-year crime
The Hindenburg
spree by Bonnie
Disaster.
Parker and Clyde
Barrow.
1938
1961
War of the Worlds The erection of the
radio broadcast
Berlin Wall.
causes panic of
alien invasion.
1957
The founding of
The Beatles.

1955
The Vietnam War
begins.

1969
The three-day
Woodstock
Festival.

1970
Computer floppy
disks introduced.

1972
Terrorists attack at

1989
The fall of the

the Olympic
Games in Munich.
1989
The Tiananmen
Square Massacre.

Berlin Wall.
1980
Pac-Man video
game released.

1981
New plague
identified as AIDS.

1987
DNA first used to
convict criminals.

1989
World Wide Web
invented.

1999
Columbine
Massacre.