Scandinavian Studies 374/Literature
in Translation 274
Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature:
The Twentieth Century.
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| 1890 | Death of Vincent Van Gogh |
| Knut Hamsun, Hunger | |
| 1891 | Gaugin travels to Tahiti |
| Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray | |
| 1893 | Edvard Munch paints The Scream |
| 1894 | The Dreyfus Case in France |
| Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book | |
| 1895 | Marconi invents the wireless telegraph |
| Röntgen invents the X-ray | |
| 1896 | Thomas Edison and others invent film |
| Lenin, The Rise of Capitalism in Russia | |
| 1897 | André, Strindberg, and Fraenkel die in an attempt to reach the North Pole in a hot-air balloon |
| 1898 | August Strindberg, To Damascus |
| Marie Curie discovers radium and polonium | |
| 1900 | Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Death of Nietzsche | |
| 1901 | Death of Queen Victoria |
| Pablo Picasso begins his "blue period." | |
| President McKinley is murdered by an anarchist and Theodore Roosevelt becomes President | |
| August Strindberg, A Dream Play | |
| 1902 | Death of French naturalist, Emile Zola |
| 1903 | The Wright Brothers achieve flight for the first time |
| 1904 | Henry Ford founds his automobile factory |
| The silent film, The Great Train Robbery, has its premier | |
| 1905 | The union between Sweden and Norway is dissolved |
| Einstein's theory of relativity | |
| Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas | |
| 1906 | Death of Henrik Ibsen |
| 1907 | Beginning of the Cubist movement in art |
| Picasso paints Demoiselles d'Avignon | |
| August Strindberg's Chamber Plays | |
| 1909 | Ford's assembly line |
| 1910 | The beginning of German Expressionist painting with Der blaue Reiter exhibition in Munich |
| 1911 | First female instructor at Copenhagen University |
| Roald Amundsen discovers the South Pole | |
| 1912 | Death of August Strindberg |
| The sinking of the Titanic | |
| First German Expressionist play, The Beggar by R. Sorge | |
| 1913 | Charlie Chaplain makes his film debut |
| Pär Lagerkvist, Verbal Art and Pictorial Art | |
| Women are allowed to vote in Norway | |
| 1914 | The assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne in Sarajevo, initiates thebeginning of World War I |
| 1915 | Danish women given the right to vote |
| Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis | |
| 1916 | Dadaism |
| James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |
| Edith Södergran, Poems | |
| 1917 | The Russian Revolution |
| 1918 | Finnish Civil War |
| 1919 | Pär Lagerkvist, The Secret of Heaven |
| End of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles | |
| Women are allowed to vote in Sweden and the U.S. | |
| 1920 | Warren Harding replaces Woodrow Wilson as President of the United States. |
| 1921 | Elmer Diktonius, My Poetry |
| 1922 | James Joyce, Ulysses |
| 1923 | Adolf Hitler sent to prison, where he writes Mein Kampf |
| 1924 | Death of Lenin |
| 1925 | Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, and reestablishes his party, the NSDAP |
| 1926 | The "Hitlerjugend" is founded |
| Mussolini becomes "Il Duce del fascismo," the leader of fascism. | |
| 1927 | Trotsky exiled from the Soviet Union |
| 1928 | Gandhi demands independence for India before the end of the year |
| 1929 | Heinrich Himmler becomes the head of the SS |
| The American Stock Market crashes | |
| 1930 | Walt Disney makes the first sound cartoon with Mickey Mouse |
| 1931 | Approximately 250 million people throughout the world go to the movies each week |
| 1932 | Aldous Huxley, Brave New World |
| Hitler becomes a German citizen and runs for president | |
| 1933 | Hitler comes to power. Joseph Goebbels becomes minister of propaganda. |
| The persecution of the Jews begins | |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt enters the White House | |
| 1934 | Premier of King Kong |
| Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales | |
| 1935 | Charlie Chaplain, Modern Times |
| 1936 | England's Kind Edward III abdicates to marry Mrs. Wallace Simpson. |
| Summer Olympics are held in Berlin | |
| 1937 | The Spanish Civil War |
| 1938 | Germany annexes Austria |
| Orson Welles, War of the Worlds. | |
| 1939 | Hitler invades Czechoslovakia |
| Hitler attacks Poland | |
| The beginning of World War II | |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England |
| Norway and Denmark occupied by the Germans | |
| Sweden maintains a strained neutrality | |
| 1941 | Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and her Children |
| The attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| 1942 | Isak Dinesen, Winter's Tales |
| 1944 | D-Day |
| Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf | |
| 1945 | Hitler commits suicide |
| Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
| World War II ends | |
| Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death | |
| 1946 | Onset of the "Cold War." Churchill coins the term "Iron Curtain." |
| Tage Erlander becomes prime minister of Sweden, signaling the onset of the rise of the Welfare State. | |
| 1948 | Founding of the state of Israel |
| 1949 | George Orwell, 1984 |
| Mao Tse-tung comes to power in China. | |
| 1950 | The Korean War |
| 1953 | Martin A. Hansen, "Paradise Apples." |
| Dag Hammarsköld becomes UN-Secretary General. | |
| 1954 | The United States Supreme Court declares segregation unconstitutional. |
| 1957 | Ingmar Bergman, Wild Strawberries. |
| The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I | |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba. |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy defeats Richard M. Nixon and becomes president |
| 1961 | Bay of Pigs invasion |
| 1962 | Betty Frieden, The Feminine Mystique. |
| 1963 | President Kennedy is assassinated |
| The Berlin Wall | |
| The Beatles arrive in America | |
| 1964 | After an attack upon a U.S. ship in the Tonkin Gulf, the U.S.A. becomes openly involved in the Vietnam War. |
| 1965 | The U.S. begins bombing military targets in North Vietnam |
| 1967 | The peak of civil rights and anti-Vietnam protests. |
| 1968 | Richard Nixon is elected president |
| Assassination of Martin Luther King | |
| 1969 | The first men on the moon. |
| 1970 | Alexander Solsjenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature |
| 1971 | The Pentagon Papers |
| Sjöwall/Wahlöö, The Abominable Man | |
| 1972 | Nixon visits China and Moscow |
| Nixon is reelected | |
| Terrorists murder 10 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. | |
| 1973 | Watergate. |
| The U.S. withdraws from Vietnam | |
| 1974 | Nixon resigns. |
| 1975 | International Women's Year |
| One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter is elected |
| 1977 | Star Wars |
| 1978 | Knut Faldbakken, Adams Diary |
| Tax Revolt in California | |
| 1979 | Khomeini comes to power in Iran |
| Margaret Thatcher comes to power in England | |
| Three Mile Island | |
| 1980 | Vigdis Finnbogadottír of Iceland becomes Europe's first female president |
| Ronald Reagan is elected. | |
| John Lennon is murdered | |
| 1981 | AIDS first diagnosed in the United States |
| MTV begins broadcasting | |
| Steve Jobs becomes Chairman of Apple Computers | |
| 1982 | Princess Grace of Monaco dies in a car accident |
| 1984 | Vanessa Williams is forced to resign as Miss America. |
| Olympic Games held in L.A. The Soviet Union does not participate. | |
| The Cosby Show debuts | |
| 1986 | Olaf Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated. |
| Space shuttle Challenger explodes. | |
| Chernobyl explodes | |
| 1989 | Tiananmen Square massacre in China. |
| Berlin Wall falls. | |
| 1991 | Gulf War |
| Soviet Union is officially dissolved | |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton is elected President |
| The Los Angeles Riots erupt when the Rodney King verdict is delivered. | |
| 1995 | OJ Simpson is found innocent of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Coleman |
| 1997 | Princess Diana dies in a car accident. |
| Mother Theresa dies. |
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