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Timelines of world history; List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang, Geologic time scale, Timeline of evolution, and Logarithmic timeline
For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see Timeline of the 20th century. For 1914–1918, ... An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); ...
The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 (MCMI), and ended on 31 December 2000 (MM). [1] [2] It was the 10th and last century of the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of communication that would operate at nearly instant speeds, and new forms of art and entertainment.
The 20th century changed the world in unprecedented ways. The World Wars sparked tension between countries and led to the creation of atomic bombs, the Cold War led to the Space Race and the creation of space-based rockets, and the World Wide Web was created.
Timeline of antisemitism in the 20th century; Timeline of events preceding World War II; Timeline of geopolitical changes (1900–1999) Timeline of LGBT history, 20th century; Timeline of the Troubles in Europe
The 1900s (pronounced "nineteen-hundreds") was a decade that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The Edwardian era (1901–1910) covers a similar span of time.
3rd century BC: Analog computers in the Hellenistic world (see e.g. the Antikythera mechanism), possibly in Rhodes. [ 258 ] By at least the 3rd century BC: Archimedes' screw , one of the earliest hydraulic machines, was first used in the Nile river for irrigation purposes in Ancient Egypt [ 259 ]