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CHRONOLOGY
1890 Electric chair first used
1891 Swiss Army knife invented
1892 Diesel invents new engine
1893 First car number plates
1894 Movie film invented
1895 Oscar Wilde arrested
1896 First X-ray photo taken
1897 Klondike gold rush
1898 Joshua Slocum sails round the world
1899 Aspirin patented
1900 Boer War - Relief of Ladysmith
1901 Queen Victoria dies
1902 Car speed record of 74 mph
1903 First radio broadcast US-UK
1904 Panama canal begun
1905 Einstein announces Relativity
1906 Great San Francisco earthquake
1907 Taxi meters first used
1908 Boy Scout movement started
1909 Bleriot flies across Channel
1910 Edward VII dies
1911 Rutherford discover nucleus
1912 Titanic sinks
1913 Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"
1914 Great War begins
1915 Prototype tank tested
1916 Easter Rising in Ireland
1917 Revolution in Russia
1918 Great War ends
1919 Prohibition begins in USA
1920 Hitler makes first speech
1921 Irish Free State established
1922 Tutankhamen's tomb opened
1923 Autogyro invented
1924 Lenin dies, Stalin takes over
1925 Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf"
1926 General Strike
1927 Lindbergh flies Atlantic solo
1928 Mickey Mouse born
1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre
Stock Market Crash, Wall Street
1930 Pluto discovered
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