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Wiener Werkstätte founded Bauhaus founded Fallingwater completed Chandigarh construction era Sydney Opera House opens Postmodern architecture rises Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens Apple design era under Jony Ive peaks London Design Museum opens at Kensington site
Villa Savoye completed Unité d'Habitation completed Centre Pompidou opens Pyramid at the Louvre inaugurated Sustainable architecture becomes mainstream focus Burj Khalifa opens
Nobel Prizes first awarded Tour de France begins Pulitzer Prizes first awarded Academy Awards first ceremony Venice Film Festival begins Cannes Film Festival first held Edinburgh International Festival begins Eurovision Song Contest begins Grammy Awards first presented Tony Awards television era expands Booker Prize first awarded Glastonbury Festival begins Brit Awards launched Sundance Film Festival era begins Turner Prize era begins Live Aid concert event BAFTA expands global profile Coachella begins The Eras Tour begins Taylor Swift releases The Tortured Poets Department
Jack Johnson wins world heavyweight title Joe Louis begins heavyweight reign Rocky Marciano retires undefeated Muhammad Ali wins first world heavyweight title Fight of the Century Rumble in the Jungle Thrilla in Manila Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Thomas Hearns Mike Tyson becomes youngest heavyweight champion Buster Douglas upsets Mike Tyson Women's boxing added to Olympic programme Anthony Joshua wins Olympic super-heavyweight gold Floyd Mayweather defeats Manny Pacquiao Tyson Fury defeats Wladimir Klitschko Oleksandr Usyk becomes undisputed heavyweight champion
Modernism rises across the arts Beat Generation rises Hip-hop culture begins Postmodern culture expands Social media culture transforms public life Streaming era reshapes cultural consumption TikTok short-form video culture rises
Harlem Renaissance Rock and roll youth culture emerges Punk movement emerges Rave and club culture era
Surrealism emerges Counterculture era Grunge culture rises
Global internet culture emerges
The Rite of Spring premieres Martha Graham Dance Company founded George Balanchine co-founds New York City Ballet Merce Cunningham Dance Company era rises to prominence Breakdancing added to Olympic programme
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater founded Breakdancing emerges in New York Riverdance premieres Ballet Boyz founded Hip-hop dance becomes a mainstream global performance form Street dance and reality TV era expands
Pina Bausch begins Tanztheater Wuppertal era
Haute couture era consolidates in Paris The little black dress popularised by Chanel Christian Dior launches the New Look Italian fashion rises internationally Yves Saint Laurent introduces Le Smoking Punk fashion emerges Giorgio Armani power dressing era Alexander McQueen rises in British fashion Athleisure becomes mainstream Sustainable fashion becomes major industry focus Virgil Abloh appointed at Louis Vuitton menswear
Coco Chanel opens her first millinery shop Mary Quant and the miniskirt era Supermodel era peaks Fast fashion expands globally
A Trip to the Moon released The Birth of a Nation released The Jazz Singer premieres Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs released Citizen Kane released Rashomon released Breathless released The Godfather released Star Wars released E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial released Schindler's List released Titanic released The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King released Avatar released Parasite wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards
FIFA founded First FIFA World Cup Real Madrid European Cup era begins England win the World Cup Brazil win the 1970 World Cup Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup Premier League founded Bosman ruling France win first World Cup Barcelona Guardiola era begins Leicester City win the Premier League France win the 2018 World Cup Argentina win the 2022 World Cup
Munich air disaster Pele wins first World Cup
Pablo Picasso Beyoncé Cristiano Ronaldo Taylor Swift
Coco Chanel
Charlie Chaplin
Louis Armstrong
Frida Kahlo Princess Diana
Marilyn Monroe Michael Jordan
Elvis Presley
Muhammad Ali
David Bowie
Oprah Winfrey
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published In Search of Lost Time begins publication Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to T. S. Eliot Nineteen Eighty-Four published Waiting for Godot first performed in French To Kill a Mockingbird published One Hundred Years of Solitude published Beloved published The Satanic Verses published Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone published The Road published Svetlana Alexievich awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
Ulysses published The Great Gatsby published
First Prom season of the twentieth century continues The Rite of Spring premieres George Gershwin premieres Rhapsody in Blue Louis Armstrong Hot Five recordings begin Billie Holiday records Strange Fruit Elvis Presley's first RCA single released The Beatles release Please Please Me Woodstock festival ABBA wins Eurovision Song Contest Punk explosion in the UK MTV launches Live Aid concerts held Nirvana releases Nevermind Spotify launches Beyoncé releases Lemonade
Paris 1900 Summer Olympics St. Louis 1904 Summer Olympics Athens 1906 Intercalated Games London 1908 Summer Olympics Stockholm 1912 Summer Olympics Berlin 1916 Summer Olympics cancelled Antwerp 1920 Summer Olympics Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympics Paris 1924 Summer Olympics St. Moritz 1928 Winter Olympics Amsterdam 1928 Summer Olympics Lake Placid 1932 Winter Olympics Los Angeles 1932 Summer Olympics Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Winter Olympics Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics Sapporo 1940 Winter Olympics cancelled Tokyo 1940 Summer Olympics cancelled Cortina d'Ampezzo 1944 Winter Olympics cancelled London 1944 Summer Olympics cancelled St. Moritz 1948 Winter Olympics London 1948 Summer Olympics Oslo 1952 Winter Olympics Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Winter Olympics Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics Squaw Valley 1960 Winter Olympics Rome 1960 Summer Olympics Innsbruck 1964 Winter Olympics Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics Grenoble 1968 Winter Olympics Mexico City 1968 Summer Olympics Sapporo 1972 Winter Olympics Munich 1972 Summer Olympics Innsbruck 1976 Winter Olympics Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympics Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics Albertville 1992 Winter Olympics Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Turin 2006 Winter Olympics Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics London 2012 Summer Olympics Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Rio 2016 Summer Olympics PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Paris 2024 Summer Olympics Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
Kodak Brownie introduced Leica I introduced Farm Security Administration photography project begins Magna Photos founded Polaroid instant photography era begins Instagram launches Smartphone photography dominates mass image-making
Colour photography becomes widely adopted Diane Arbus photography gains prominence Colour photography recognised as fine art Digital photography begins entering consumer markets
Life magazine launches The Family of Man exhibition opens Photoshop released Camera phones begin reshaping everyday photography
Modern Olympic Games revived Tour de France begins FIFA founded First Winter Olympic Games FIFA World Cup begins Jesse Owens at Berlin Olympics Formula One World Championship begins Muhammad Ali wins world heavyweight title 1966 FIFA World Cup Final Black Power salute at Mexico City Olympics Munich Olympic Games massacre Cricket World Cup global era expands Women's marathon added to Olympics Rugby World Cup begins London 2012 Olympic Games
First regular public radio broadcasts begin BBC founded BBC Television Service begins Radio coverage becomes central during World War II Coronation of Elizabeth II televised BBC Two launches Colour television begins on BBC Two Apollo 11 moon landing broadcast worldwide Satellite television expansion era Digital television transition era begins
CNN launches 24-hour news television MTV launches Live Aid broadcast globally Podcasting emerges as a major audio medium Streaming reshapes television distribution
Davis Cup begins Suzanne Lenglen era rises to prominence Fred Perry wins Wimbledon Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon Open Era begins Arthur Ashe wins US Open Martina Navratilova Wimbledon dominance era Monica Seles stabbing Pete Sampras breaks Grand Slam record Roger Federer Wimbledon breakthrough Rafael Nadal wins first French Open Serena Williams career Golden Slam completed Novak Djokovic surpasses men's Grand Slam record
Björn Borg five straight Wimbledon titles completed Steffi Graf Golden Slam
Peter Pan premieres Pygmalion premieres Six Characters in Search of an Author premieres A Streetcar Named Desire premieres Waiting for Godot premieres West Side Story premieres Royal Shakespeare Company founded Oh! Calcutta! opens A Chorus Line premieres Cats premieres The Phantom of the Opera premieres Angels in America premieres The Lion King musical premieres Hamilton premieres off-Broadway National Theatre at Home era begins
Picasso Blue Period begins Les Demoiselles d'Avignon completed Italian Futurist Manifesto published Armory Show Dada movement emerges Surrealist Manifesto published Guernica completed Abstract Expressionism emerges Andy Warhol exhibits Campbell's Soup Cans Arte Povera begins Pompidou Centre opens Young British Artists rise Tate Modern opens Banksy global prominence era
Pop Art rises to prominence
