| 1773-1782 |
American war of independence |
| 1789 |
French revolution |
| 1800 about |
First use of coal gas for lighting |
| 1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar (Napoleonic wars) |
| 1808 - 1813 |
Peninsular war |
| 1815 |
Battle of Waterloo |
| 1830 about |
Steam engine heralds industrial revolution and
railways |
| 1839 - 1842 |
Afghan wars |
| 1840 - 1848 |
Sikh wars, move from an agricultural towards an
urban economy begins |
| 1854 - 1855 |
Crimean war with Russia |
| 1861 - 1865 |
American civil war |
| 1865 |
Gas works opened in Malvern, initially to supply street lighting |
| 1866 |
Charles Darwin publishes book on evolution |
| 1870 about |
Iron clad ships |
| 1877 |
Towards the end of the 1870s the Telegraph network reaches Great
Malvern |
| 1879 |
Zulu wars |
| 1890 about |
Bicycle with pneumatic tyres |
| 1881 - 1900 |
Boer wars |
| 1883 |
Krakatoa erupts |
| 1894 |
The public water supply to Great Malvern is augmented by a
reservoir at British Camp. Backed up by water pumped from Bromsberrow
in 1906. However some cottages are still having to rely on water
pumped from wells in 1918. |
| 1897 |
First petrol driven motor cars appear in Malvern |
| 1903 |
First powered flight |
| 1904 |
Malvern Urban District Council opens an electricity generating
plant next to the gas works; some properties do not get electricity
until the 1950s |
| 1914 - 1918 |
World War 1 |
| 1939 - 1945 |
World War 2 |
| 1950 - 1953 |
Korean war |
| 1982 |
Falklands war, caused by Argentina invading the Falkland Islands |
| 1990 - 1991 |
First Gulf War caused by Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq,
invading Kuwait |
| 2001 |
On 11th September 2001 Islamic terrorists flew two airliners, full
of passengers, into
the twin towers of the World Trade Centre. The event became known as
9/11. |
| 2001 |
This led to war with Afghanistan in a hunt for Osama bin Laden the
mastermind behind the attack on the US World Trade Centre. After the
US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban quickly took over
the country, pushing women out of public life. |
| 2003 |
Iraq war, caused by fears over the secret development of
weapons of mass destruction. The President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein
was deposed and later executed. UK prime minister Tony Blair was
criticized for supporting the war especially once it became evident
intelligence reports were not well founded. |
| 2005 |
British Islamic terrorists set off 3 bombs on the London
Underground and a fourth on a double decker bus. The event became
known as 7/7. |
| 2011 |
Libyan Civil War. NATO forces help remove Col Gaddafi, but country
then descends into chaos as forecast by the ex leader. UK prime
minister David Cameron involved this time, who was criticized for
having no plan for what comes after. |
| 2011 |
Syrian Civil War between the government of Syria and the self
declared Islamic State. Russia steps in to support its ally and break
the stalemate. |
| 2014 |
Russian Federation led by Putin invades SE Ukraine and takes
Crimea. |
| 2014 |
Russia backs rebels in the
Donbas region of Ukraine. |
| 2014 |
Russians inadvertently shoot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17
flying over east Ukraine with a ground to air missile killing all 283
passengers and 15 crew on board. |
| 2020 |
Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, otherwise known as COVID-19, spreads
rapidly across the globe. In the UK the deaths of 200,000 people are
linked to COVID-19 over a period of 2 years. There is a suspicion the
virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. |
| 2021 |
In January COVD-19 vaccines become increasingly available and
immunisation programmes commence. |
| 2022 |
On 23rd February, as countries emerge from the pandemic, Russian forces led by Vladimir Putin launch an unprovoked invasion
of Ukraine. |
| 2023 |
On 7th October Hamas launches an attack across the Gaza strip
slaughtering 1,400 Israeli men, women and children and taking 240
hostages, thus provoking the Israel Hamas war. |
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Note:
A comprehensive list of terrorist attacks can be found on
Wikipedia.
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