4. 1869 The Sues Canal is opened 1874 The first Impressionist exhibition is held in Paris 1885 Karl Benz builds the first motor car 1895 Marconi transmits the first wireless signal 1903 The Wright brothers make the first flight in an aircraft 1904 The Russo-Japanese War 1929 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
74. Salvador Dali An Average Atmospherocephalic, 1933 The Enigma of Desire, 1929
75. 1914 Henry Ford begins mass production of the Model ‘T’ Ford car 1914 Outbreak of World War I 1917 Start of the Russian Revolution 1918 End of World War I 1929 Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia established as new countries 1924 The death of Lenin 1926 Television is first successfully demonstrated in Britain
76. 1933 Hitler becomes the German Chancellor 1937 The Japanese invasion of China 1939 The outbreak of World War II 1942 Nuclear chain reaction produced in Chicago by Enrico Fermi 1944 The production of the first digital computer 1945 End of World War II 1947 India and Pakistan become independent republics 1956 Soviet forces crush the uprising in Hungary 1957 The Treaty of Rome establishes the European Economic Community 1966 The Cultural Revolution begins in China