Key Dates Flashcards
Utopia by Thomas More
1516
the industrial revolution
1760s - 1830s
Queen Victoria
1830 - 1901
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
1848
Darwin’s Origins of Species
1859
The Time Machine by H G Wells
1895
Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’
1899
Edward VII and George V
Edward VII (1901 - 1910)
George V (1910 - 1936)
The Machine Stops by E M Forster
1909
The Russian Revolution
(1917 - 1922)
WW1
1914 - 1918
Representation of the People Act (women first get the right to vote)
1918
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
1924
Representation of the People Act (all women over 21 get the right to vote)
1928
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1932
The Great Depression
1929 - late 1930s
Spanish Civil War
1936 - 1939
WW2
1939 - 1945
Winston Churchill
1940 - 1945
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
1949
invention of the internet
1950s
Clement Atlee
1945 - 1951
the Cold War
1947 - 1991
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1953
the Vietnam War
1955 - 1975
JFK assassination
1963
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1962
first man on the moon (Apollo 11)
1969
Roe v Wade
1973
first test tube baby
1978
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Percy
1976
Margaret Thatcher
1979
Ronald Reagan
1981
fall of the Berlin Wall
1989
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
1985
George Bush
2001
9/11 terror attacks
2001
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
The Children of Men by P D James
1992
Bill Clinton
1993
Dolly the Sheep cloned
1996
Barack Obama
2009
Black Mirror
2011