Home›The Contemporary World›Event Era (Year)›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryThis dimension groups historical events by the specific year in which they occurred. Wikipedia notes that historians rely on "primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations," evidence that in most cases pins an event to one specific year. Browsing by event year lets a visitor compare events that happened at the same time.Facts20th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonStart YearWell-attested1945 CE 120th centuryFilter Results34 entriesEvent TypeAllEconomic Event (3)Military Conflict (24)Natural Disaster (1)Political Event (3)Scientific or Technological Event (3)Group TreeAllEvents of the Early Cold War and Decolonization, 1945 to 1969 (16)Events of the Late Cold War and After, 1970 to 1999 (16)EraAllThe African Independence Era (3)The Cold War (10)The Contemporary Period (22)LocationAllAfrica (8)Asia (12)Bengal (1)Cuba (2)Dagestan (1)East Asia (1)Europe (5)Iran (2)Latin America (1)North America (5)Punjab (1)South America (2)Southeast Asia (1)The Korean Peninsula (1)ParticipantsAllAugusto Pinochet (1)Charles de Gaulle (1)Chun Doo-hwan (1)Fidel Castro (2)Gamal Abdel Nasser (2)Hector Pieterson (1)Ho Chi Minh (1)Jawaharlal Nehru (1)Jose Lopez Portillo (1)Kim Dae-jung (1)Mahatma Gandhi (1)Mao Zedong (3)Mikhail Gorbachev (1)Patrice Lumumba (1)Paul Kagame (1)Ruhollah Khomeini (2)Salvador Allende (1)Participating StatesAllEgypt (2)France (1)Israel (2)Jordan (1)Russia (1)Soviet Union (1)Syria (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 341959 Tibetan uprising20th century1973 Chilean Coup d'Etat20th century1999 war in Dagestan20th centuryAlgerian War of Independence20th centuryAsian Financial Crisis of 1997 to 199820th centuryBlack Monday (1987)20th centuryCambodian Genocide20th centuryChernobyl Disaster20th centuryCongo Crisis20th centuryCuban Missile Crisis20th centuryCuban Revolution20th centuryCultural Revolution20th centuryDot-com Bubble20th centuryFalklands War20th centuryFebruary 28 incident20th centuryGreat Chinese Famine20th centuryGreen Revolution20th centuryGwangju Uprising20th centuryIranian Revolution20th centuryIran-Iraq War20th centuryKorean War20th centuryLatin American Debt Crisis20th centuryMau Mau Uprising20th centuryNigerian Civil War20th centuryPartition of India20th centuryRwandan Genocide20th centurySix-Day War20th centurySmallpox Eradication (1967 to 1980)20th centurySoviet-Afghan War20th centurySoweto uprising20th centurySuez Crisis20th centuryThe Digital Revolution20th centuryThe Fall of the Berlin Wall20th centuryVietnam War20th centurySources1. Wikipedia: Contemporary historytier 2WikipediaContemporary history, lead section, span sentenceQuote, Contemporary history, lead section, span sentenceContemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.