Timeline
Modernist Cultures Timeline
1895 The trial of Oscar Wilde
1896 Founding of the Daily Mail, London
--------Rontgen’s discovery of x rays
--------Guglielmo Marconi invents telegraphy
---------Joseph Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus
1898 The Curies discover radium and plutonium
*1899 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
-------Beginning of the Boer War (1899-1902)
1900 Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
1901 Death of Queen
1903 Emmeline Pankhurst founds the WSPU
-------First successful flight of the Wright brothers
1905 Albert Einstein proposes the theory of relativity
-------The founding of Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party
1907 Cubist exhibition in Paris
-------Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon
--------Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
1909 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’
1910 Post-impressionist exhibition in London
*-------E.M. Forster, Howards End
--------Death of Edward VII, accession of George V
1912 Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase
1913 Igor Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps (for the Ballets Russes)
-------Suffragette demonstrations in London
*1914 Founding of Blast
------Ford Madox Ford, ‘On Impressionism’
*-------Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
-------Outbreak of World War 1
1916 Dada performances in Zurich
------Easter Rising in Dublin
1917 TS Eliot, Prufrock and other Observations
-------Russian Revolution
1918 Votes for women age 30 and over in Britain
1919 Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
------Virginia Woolf, ‘Modern Fiction’
--------Treaty of Versailles, end of World War 1
---------T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’
1920 D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
*1921 Charlie Chaplin, The Kid
-------The Little Review prosecuted for publishing Ulysses
1922 T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
------James Joyce, Ulysses
*-------Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
----------Founding of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
1924 First Labour government in Britain
-------Virginia Woolf, ‘Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown’
1925 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
-------Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
1926 General Strike throughout Britain
1929 Collapse of the
------Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
1930 Mahatma Gandhi begins campaign against British rule in India
------Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
1933 Hitler becomes Reich Chancellor in Germany
*1934 Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
1936 Spanish Civil War begins
------Charles Chaplin, Modern Times
1939 Beginning of World War II