| 1773-1782 |
American war of indepenence |
| 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
resevoir 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. |
| 2003 |
Iraq war, caused by fears over the secret development of
weapons of mass destruction. The President of Irag, Saddan Hussein
was deposed. |
| 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 Gadafi, but country
then descends into chaos as forecast by the ex leader. |
| 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 inadvertantly 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. |
| 2022 |
Russian forces led by Vladimir Putin launch an unprovoked invasion
of Ukraine. |
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Note:
A comprehensive list of terrorist attacks can be found on
Wikipedia.
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