People - History

Start of transitional justice process

Humanitarian truce in Tigray

Tigray peace agreement

Swearing in for second term

Ethiopian general election

Tigray conflict begins

Sidama referendum approved by Abiy Ahmed

Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize

Ethiopia declares end to Eritrea war

Abiy Ahmed becomes Prime Minister

Wole Soyinka's 80th Birthday

60th Anniversary of His First Published Play

Return to Nigeria after Abacha's Death

Fleeing into Exile Again

Wole Soyinka Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Exile from Nigeria

Detained During Civil War

Arrest During Political Crisis

Forming of Theatre Group

Birth of Wole Soyinka

Death of Simon Kuznets

Publication of 'Population, Capital, and Growth'

Simon Kuznets Receives Nobel Prize in Economics

Introduction of Kuznets Cycles in Economic Theory

Kuznets' Hypothesis on Economic Inequality

Foundational Work on Secular Movements in Production and Prices

Publication of National Income, 1929-1932 Report

Development of Gross National Product as a Measure

Kuznets Joins the National Bureau of Economic Research

Birth of Simon Kuznets

XYZ Announces Hiatus

David Lee Collaborates with Famous Producer

Release of XYZ's Fifth Album

David Lee's Induction into the Rock Hall of Fame

XYZ World Tour Commencement

David Lee's Solo Album Launch

XYZ's Debut Album Release

Formation of Band 'XYZ'

David Lee Begins Music Career

David Lee Born

George de Hevesy Passes Away

Work on Radioactive Tracers in Biology

Protection of Nobel Prizes from Nazis

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to George de Hevesy

Discovery of Hafnium

Pioneering Use of Radioactive Tracers

Birth of George de Hevesy

Death of Imre Kertész

Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of 'Fatelessness'

Liberation from Buchenwald

Deportation to Auschwitz

Birth of Imre Kertész

Death of James Chadwick

Chadwick's Retirement

End of World War II and Chadwick's Post-war Contributions

World War II and the Manhattan Project

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to James Chadwick

Discovery of the Neutron

Birth of James Chadwick

Posthumous Honor in Kenya

Death of Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the Congo Basin Forest

Launch of the Billion Tree Campaign

Release of 'Unbowed: A Memoir'

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Wangari Maathai

Fight to Save Uhuru Park

Founding of the Green Belt Movement

Wangari Maathai Returns to Kenya

Birth of Wangari Maathai

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Awarded to Ben Bernanke

Publishing of Bernanke's Memoir: "The Courage to Act"

Ben Bernanke Steps Down as Fed Chairman

Launch of QE3 - Third Round of Quantitative Easing

Jackson Hole Speech - The "Bernanke Doctrine"

Quantitative Easing Begins in the US

Lehman Brothers Collapse and Financial Crisis Intensifies

Ben Bernanke Becomes Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Chairman of the Economics Department at Princeton

Birth of Ben Bernanke

Death of Adolf Butenandt

Retirement from the Max Planck Institute

President of the Max Planck Society

Director of Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry

Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Discovery of Progesterone

Isolation of Androsterone

Birth of Adolf Butenandt

Death of Frédéric Passy

Frédéric Passy awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Paris Apprenticeship Conference

First Universal Peace Congress in Paris

Creation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Passy elected as deputy to the French National Assembly

Founding of the French Peace Society

International and Permanent League of Peace

Publication of 'Leçons d'économie politique'

Birth of Frédéric Passy

Death of Elie Wiesel

Honorary Knighthood

Publication of "Night" in Oprah's Book Club

Inauguration of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Nobel Peace Prize

Publication of "Night"

Publication of "And the World Remained Silent"

Liberation from Buchenwald

Deportation to Auschwitz

Birth of Elie Wiesel

Posthumous Recognition and Legacy

Death of Paul von Heyse

Outbreak of World War I

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Publication of "Märchen der Jugend"

Appointment as Professor or Doctor Honoris Causa

Founding of the Munich Literary Society

Publication of "L'Arrabbiata"

First Major Success: "Die Alten, die Jungen"

Birth of Paul von Heyse

Move to Harvard University

Joining Rockefeller Foundation

Discovery related to Yellow Fever transmission

Development of Yellow Fever Vaccine

Postgraduate Studies at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Graduation from University of Capetown

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Interest in Yellow Fever

Death of Max Theiler

Birth of Max Theiler

Death of Willem Einthoven

Publication of Textbook on Electrocardiography

Einthoven's Triangle

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Publication on Electrocardiography

Development of the String Galvanometer

Doctorate in Medicine

Birth of Willem Einthoven

Death of John Cockcroft

Master of Churchill College, Cambridge

Nobel Prize in Physics

Awarded Knighthood

Director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment

Director of Research at Mond Laboratory

Cockcroft-Walton Experiment

Joining the Cavendish Laboratory

John Cockcroft's Birth

Death of Léon Jouhaux

Establishment of Force Ouvrière

Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Reconstruction of French Labor Movement Post-WWII

World War II and Jouhaux's Imprisonment

Matignon Agreements

Break with Communist Faction

World War I Begins: Jouhaux's Pacifism Tested

Becomes Secretary General of CGT

Birth of Léon Jouhaux

Death of Charles Richet

Publication of 'Our Sixth Sense'

Honorary Member of the Academy of Medicine of Peru

War Effort and Military Service During WWI

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1913

Publication of 'Anaphylaxis'

Founding of the Society for Psychical Research in France

Professor at the Collège de France

Publication of 'Recherches expèrirmentales et cliniques'

Birth of Charles Richet

Death of Ludwig Quidde

Exile from Germany

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Elected to the Weimar National Assembly

Opposition to World War I

Publication of "The Power of the German Kaiser" by Ludwig Quidde

Birth of Ludwig Quidde

Death of Emily Greene Balch

Nobel Peace Prize Award

Honorary Doctorate from Yale University

Publication of 'Approaches to the Great Settlement'

Dismissal from Wellesley College

International Congress of Women at The Hague

World War I Outbreak Prevention Efforts

Graduation from Bryn Mawr College

Birth of Emily Greene Balch

Death of Ernst Boris Chain

Appointment as Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College London

Founding of the International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME)

Publication of 'The Production of Microbial Metabolites'

Award of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Chain and Florey Publish 'The Chemical Structure of Penicillin'

Howard Florey and Ernst Chain Demonstrate Penicillin's Therapeutic Action

Chain Publishes 'The Fermentation of Pyruvic Acid to Lactic Acid'

Ernst Chain Moves to England

Birth of Ernst Boris Chain

Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day Established

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Nobel Peace Prize Award

Oslo Accords Signing

Second Term as Prime Minister

Operation Moses: Ethiopian Jewish Immigration

First Term as Prime Minister

Role in the Six-Day War

Yitzhak Rabin in the Israeli War of Independence

Birth of Yitzhak Rabin

Death of Patrick Blackett

President of the Royal Society

Advisory Role on Nuclear Weapons Policy

Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

Radar Development Contribution

Joining the University of Manchester

Cloud Chamber Experiment

Birth of Patrick Blackett

Death of Hannes Alfvén

Published 'Cosmic Plasma'

Wrote 'Evolution of the Solar System' with Gustaf Arrhenius

Alfvén-Kristian Model of the Magnetosphere

Nobel Prize in Physics

Introduction of Alfvén Waves

Alfvén's Hypothesis on the Galactic Magnetic Field

Theory of Critical Ionization Velocity

Alfvén's Theory on Magnetohydrodynamics

Birth of Hannes Alfvén