TIMELINE OF
THE WORLD

1863 The first passenger subway opens in London

1865 President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

1869 The Suez Canal opens

1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

1883 The Brooklyn Bridge opens after over a decade of construction

1903 One of the first silent movies, The Great Train Robbery, premieres

The Wright brothers fly the first airplane

1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T

1912 The Titanic sinks

1914 World War I begins in Europe The Panama Canal opens Ernest Shackleton journeys to Antarctica

1917 The United States enters World War I

1919 The Treaty of Versailles ends World War I

1929 US stock market crashes, initiating the Great Depression

1931 The Empire State Building is completed

1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean