Meanwhile…

The height of the British Empire

rond 1920

The Beer Hall Putsch in Munich

1923-11-09

France definitively enacts the forty-eight-hour work week and eight-hour day into law

rond 1930

Mexican Revolution

1910-1920

Two world wars and the atomic age

1914-1945

KLM: the first permanent airline

1919-10-07

Merger into Daimler-Benz AG

1926-06-28

Nobel Prize in Physics

1921

Hubble discovers that the universe is larger than the Milky Way

1923-1925

Discovery of Penicillin

1928

Motor Trucks Revolutionize Road Freight

around 1920

Fordist assembly-line methods applied to shoe manufacturing

1920s

The Graf Zeppelin circles the earth

rond 1929

Salsa, tango and jive emerge from the Americas

from the late 19th century (tango) to the 1970s (salsa)

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

The Anthropocene and climate change

20e-21e eeuw