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Overview of the 20th Century
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| Significant world events | The Ecumenical Movement | |
| 1901 Death of Queen Victoria
1903 First powered flight |
1900 | 1907 Rome World Council of Christian Education
(WCCE) conference
1907 Foundation of United Methodist Church Revivals in Los Angeles and Wales |
| Development of plastics
1914 - 1918 First World War 1917 Russian revolution |
1910 | 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference |
| 1920 League of Nations formed
1929 Start of Great Depression |
1920 | 1921 Lake Mohonk International Missionary
Council (IMC) conference
1923 Oxford IMC conference 1925 Stockholm Life and Work conference 1927 Lausanne Faith and Order and Commission (FOC) meeting Establishment of World Student Christian Federation 1928 Jerusalem IMC conference |
| 1939 End of Great Depression
1939 Start of Second World War |
1930 | 1937 Oxford Life and Work conference
1937 Edinburgh FOC meeting 1938 Utrecht Ecumenical conference 1938 Madras IMC conference |
| 1942 First nuclear reactor
1945 End of Second World War 1946 First electronic computer 1948 First production Land Rovers built 1949 Chinese revolution 1949 Foundation of NATO |
1940 | 1947 Whitby IMC conference
1948 Amsterdam Inaugural Assembly of World Council of Churches (WCC) |
| 1952 Invention of contraceptive pill
1953 Discovery of DNA 1955 Warsaw Pact signed 1957 Sputnik 1957 Start of Vietnam war |
1950 | 1950 Toronto WCCE conference
1952 Lucknow Asian Churches meeting 1952 Willingen IMC conference 1952 Lund FOC meeting 1954 Evanston WCC Assembly 1954 Frankfurt WCCE conference 1958 Tokyo WCCE conference 1958 Ghana IMC conference |
| 1961 Berlin Wall built
1962 Nelson Mandella imprisoned 1962 Cuban missile crisis 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy 1968 Assassination of Revd. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1969 First man on the Moon |
1960 | 1961 New
Delhi WCC Assembly
1962 Belfast WCCE conference 1963 Mexico World Mission conference 1963 Montreal FOC meeting 1963 - 1965 Second Vatican Council 1966 Geneva Ecumenical Conference 1967 Nairobi WCCE conference 1968 Uppsala WCC Assembly 1969 Pope Paul VI visits WCC in Geneva |
| 1973 Opec oil price rise
1979 Mrs. Thatcher wins UK general election |
1970 | 1971 Lima WCCE conference
1971 Louvain FOC meeting 1972 Bangkok IMC conference 1974 Accra FOC meeting 1975 Nairobi WCC Assembly 1978 Bagalore FOC meeting 1979 Cambridge (USA) Conference on "Faith, Science and the Future" at M.I.T. |
| 1981 First Space Shuttle mission
1986 Chernobyl disaster 1989 Collapse of Berlin Wall |
1980 | 1980 Melbourne World Mission (WM) Conference
1980 Assassination of Archbishop Romero in El Salvador 1982 Lima "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry" conference 1983 Vancouver WCC Assembly 1985 Stavanger FOC meeting 1986 Larnaca meeting on diakonia 1988 Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women 1989 San Antonio WM conference 1989 Budapest FOC meeting |
| 1990 Nelson Mandella released
1992 Collapse of USSR 1997 Dolly the sheep cloned |
1990 | 1990 Seoul "Justice, Peace and the Integrity
of Creation" (JPIC)
1991 Canberra WCC Assembly 1993 Santiago de Compostela, Spain meeting on "unity" 1996 San Salvador (WM) "Vision" Conference 1998 Harare WCC Assembly |
| 2000 | 2000 Millennium celebrations |