Modern era

Country in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

Country in Southern Africa

Dutch painter (1853–1890)

Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)

Country in Southeast Asia and Oceania

Country mainly in West Asia

German philosopher and socialist (1818–1883)

Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)

Country in northwestern Europe

Country in North America

Country in North America

Country

Country in South America

Country in South America

Country in South America

Russian writer (1828–1910)

Indian polymath (1861–1941)

American jazz trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)

American animator, producer and entrepreneur (1901–1966)

1914–1918 global conflict

Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

Worldwide economic depression (1929–1939)

1939–1945 global conflict

Era from 1945–present

English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)

English founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)

1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR

French chemist, pharmacist and microbiologist (1822–1895)

Scottish physicist and mathematician (1831–1879)

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)

Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

Capital and most populous city in Japan

American business magnate (1863–1947)

Indian actress (1933–1969)

Italian actor (1895–1926)

French stage actress (1844–1923)

British actress (1913–1967)

American actor (1899–1957)

American actor (1901–1960)

American actress and singer (1922–1969)

American actress and model (1926–1962)

French-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1818–1910)

Russian ballet dancer (1881–1931)

Russian dancer and choreographer (1889–1950)

American dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)

American and French entertainer (1906–1975)

American escapologist and stuntman (1874–1926)

French realist painter (1819–1877)

Danish-French painter (1830–1903)

French painter (1832–1883)

American painter (1834–1903)

French Impressionist artist (1834–1917)

French painter (1839–1906)

French painter (1840–1926)

French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)

French painter (1844–1910)

Russian realist painter (1844–1930)

French artist (1848–1903)

American painter (1856–1925)

French painter (1859–1891)

Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)

Norwegian painter (1863–1944)

French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)

Russian painter and art theorist (1866–1944)

French artist (1869–1954)

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

Russian artist and painter (1879–1935)

Swiss-German painter (1879–1940)

German artist (1880–1916)

American painter and printmaker (1882–1967)

Mexican muralist (1886–1957)

German artist (1891–1976)

Belgian painter (1898–1967)

Mexican painter (1907–1954)

American painter (1912–1956)

American cartoonist and animator (c.1866–1934)

English illustrator and author (1872–1898)

Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)

French sculptor (1840–1917)

Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter (1876–1957)

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)

Catalan architect (1852–1926)

American architect (1856–1924)

American architect (1867–1959)

German-American architect (1883–1969)

German-American architect (1886–1969)

Swiss-French architect (1887–1965)

Estonian-American architect (1901–1974)

French fashion designer (1883–1971)

English photographer (1830–1904)

Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)

American photographer (1886–1958)

French official who renovated Paris (1809–1891)

American landscape architect (1822–1903)

Programmable machine that processes data

Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany

1861–1865 conflict in the United States

British passenger liner that sank in 1912

1936–1939 civil war in Spain

Systematic campaign in the Ottoman Empire

International cultural movement (1920s–1950s)

19th-century art movement

Major World War II battle from 1942 to 1943

20th-century avant-garde art movement

Electric light bulb with a resistively heated wire filament

Cultural and artistic movement

Artistic, cultural, and theoretical movement

Multi-party war in the former Russian Empire (1917–1922)

1918–1920 global influenza pandemic

African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)

Major stock market crash in the United States

Tenth conflict of the Russo-Turkish wars (1853–1856)

Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)

1940–41 bombing of Britain during WWII

English mathematician (1815–1852)

British statesman and writer (1874–1965)

Colossal sculpture in New York Harbor

President of the United States from 1961 to 1963

Avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century

1803–1815 series of wars led by Napoleon

European conflict from 1870 to 1871

Signalling device to control competing flows of traffic

Youth movement

1939–1940 war between the Soviet Union and Finland

1815 battle of the Waterloo campaign

Transnational Sunni Islamist organization

1904–1905 conflict in East Asia

1932–1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine

Modernist art movement

Faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

1937–1945 conflict in East Asia

Theatre of war of European Axis and Soviet Union blocs

Artistic and social movement

1898 conflict between Spain and the United States

1890–1911 European style of art and architecture

1941 Japanese attack on the U.S.

German art school and art movement

1812–1815 conflict in North America

1927–1949 civil war in China

Late 19th-century art movement in Europe

1848–1870 consolidation of Italian states

Device that converts other energy to electrical energy

Clock tower in London, England

Uprising against British Company rule

1912–1913 conflicts in Balkan states

1812 conflict during the Napoleonic Wars

1899–1901 anti-foreign uprising in China

1805 battle of the Trafalgar campaign

1912–1913 war between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire

Device for analogue recording of sound

1940 WWII air battle

1894–1895 war between China and Japan

1846–1848 conflict between Mexico and the United States

1805 battle of the War of the Third Coalition

Soviet massacre of Polish military officers and intelligentsia in 1940

German invasion of France in 1940

1839–1842 war between the United Kingdom and China

1938 anti-Jewish pogroms in Nazi Germany

Last major offensive of the European theatre of World War II

1896 military conflict in East Africa

1943 tank battle in the Soviet Union

Blockade by the Axis powers, 1941–1944

Predominantly French art movement, 1886–1905

1937–1938 mass murder in China

World War II landing operation in Europe

Greek rebellion against the Ottoman Empire (1821–1829)

Battle on the Western Front during the First World War

20th-century architectural and art style

Ancient Greek analogue astronomical computer

20th-century conflict between Poland and Russia

WWI battle pitting France and Britain against Germany

Artistic style

Bulgaria's invasion of its neighbours (1913)

British royal family

1807–1814 war against Napoleon in Iberia

1866 war in Europe

1942 major naval battle in World War II

Major rebellion in China (1850–1864)

Nationwide armed struggle in Mexico (1910–1920)

Interwar conflict in Turkey, 1919–1923

Territorial conflict between Chile and allied Peru and Bolivia (1879–83)

1899–1902 war in South Africa

1856–1860 war between British–French forces and China

1813 battle of the Napoleonic Wars

World War II campaign in Russia

Major World War II battle in the Pacific Theater

Soviet style of realistic art depicting communist values

1845–1852 mass starvation in Ireland

Early-20th-century Russian art movement

1914 shooting in Sarajevo

American post–World War II art movement

1812 battle of the French invasion of Russia

Iranian royal dynasty (1925–1979)

1911–1912 war in Libya and the Aegean Sea

Group of English painters, poets, and critics founded in 1848

Artistic and architectural philosophy originating in Russia

1918 civil war in Finland

Nazi plan for the genocide of Jews

First major battle of World War I, 1914

Dutch art movement founded 1917

Armed Philippine-American conflict (1899–1902)

Artistic period (1860s–1970s)

Resistance group in Nazi Germany

Major 1945 battle of the Pacific War

1919 massacre of Indian protesters

19th-century conflicts between China and European powers

1863 battle of the American Civil War

1944 attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler

1916 major naval battle during World War I

Royal house of Sweden

African American new religious organization

Failed Hungarian revolt against the Austrian and Russian Empires

Large-scale conflict in South America (1864–1870)

1935–1936 war between Italy and Ethiopia

Opponents of textile automation in 1810s

1933 arson attack in Berlin, Germany

1905 protest in St. Petersburg, Russia

1916–1918 uprising against the Ottoman Turks

Evacuation of Allied forces in early 1940

1919–1921 war between Irish and British forces

Conflict between the Kingdom of Greece and the Turkish National Movement

European royal house of German origin

1922–1923 conflict between factions of the IRA

1944–1945 war between Finland and Germany

Attempt by Germany during World War II to cut supply lines to Britain

Major battle of the Texas Revolution

Genocide of Assyrians (1914–1924)

Genocide of the Romani in Europe during World War II

1880–1881 war in South Africa

1835–1836 rebellion

1914 World War I battle