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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history. For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history.
June 15: Release date of Disney's The Lion King. June 23: Release date of Forrest Gump. July 1: Plano Real introduces the new real currency in Brazil. July 5: Amazon founded in Bellevue, Washington, by Jeff Bezos. July 8 – 17: Death and state funeral of Kim Il-sung. Kim Jong-il becomes Supreme Leader of North Korea.
Late modern period. For a timeline of events from 1801 to 1900, see Timeline of the 19th century. For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see Timeline of the 20th century. For 1914–1918, see Timeline of World War I. For 1939–1945 see Timeline of World War II.
September 10: Storm Daniel becomes the deadliest Mediterranean storm in history, with over 4000 deaths in Libya. September 19 – 20: 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. October 3: Kevin McCarthy's expulsion via a motion introduced by Matt Gaetz is the first ousting of a Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in history.
Historic events in the 20th century. Toggle Historic events in the 20th century subsection. World at the beginning of the century. "The war to end all wars": World War I (1914–1918) Between the wars. The rise of dictatorship. Global war: World War II (1939–1945) The war in the Pacific. Japanese Expansion.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
September 11. September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 111 days remain until the end of the year.
An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online; Murphy, Derrick. AS/A-level 19th & 20th century European & world history (2002) online; Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online; Gladden, Rhodes.