WHII2 - Timeline

Hong Kong implements CDA due to soldiers being unfit for duty from VD

Hong Kong becomes an official British colony

Queensland is settled by the British

Havelock Ellis' Psychology of Sex

French sodomy laws abolished

Charles Ledger sells a lush cinchona plant to the Dutch

"On the Origin of Species" published

Yugoslavian Civil War: result of Croat and Bosniak oppression; focused in Sarajevo; proxy war once NATO is involved

Sewing machine introduced in France

Roentagen discovers X-rays

Jazz music becomes popular during American Prohibition

Woodstock: sums up the flower child era of 1960s; Baby boomers conceived

Britain decriminalizes being gay

Gandhi's Salt March: promote non-violent protest against British colonialism; fight for Indian independence

British Empire ends with the release of Hong Kong to China

First Fashion Week started by Eleanor Lambert

Christian Dior releases first collection; New Look

Voluntary Aid Detachment employs women during WWs

Hitler's dictatorship begins

Uganda released from British protection

Meiji Period: rapid westernization and importation of comfort women from China/Korea

Tokugawa/Edo Period: Confucian values, feudalism, open prostitution

Darwin's research on the HMS Beagle

Sepoy Rebellion: Indians against British colonialism; first Indian War of Independence

Boxer Rebellion: China against British imperialism and an extension of the Opium Wars

Chinese Civil War: Mao Zedong and Communists vs Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalists; latter end up in Taiwan

Nigerian Civil War: follows decolonization by Britain; Biafra attempts to break off and control oilfields

Arab Revolt: end of Ottoman Empire as a result of British and Young Turks' interference