<p> The Modern Era 1901-1960</p><p>1901 -Edward VII becomes King after his mother Victoria dies. -Beatrix Potter publishes The Tale of Peter Rabbit. -Ruyard Kipling’s experience in India is published with his novel Kim. -Robert Falcon Scott journeys out on the Discovery for his first trip to the Antartic.</p><p>1902 -W.B. Yeats forms a group of writers and directors in starting the Irish National theatre Society. -Joseph Conrad publishes his stories including Heart of darkness.</p><p>1910 -Edward VII dies in London. -George V takes over the throne. -H.G. Wells publishes a novel, The History of Mr. Polly, about the escape from drab everyday existence. -Ruyard Kipling’s If is published which is his most famous poem among the British.</p><p>1911 -Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in WWI. -The Titanic is launched.</p><p>1913 -English geologist Arthur Holmes publishes The Age of the Earth, showing evidence that the earth is at leats 1.6 billion yrs. old. -D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers</p><p>1915 -Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham is published. -The British passenger liner Lusitania is sunk by a U-boat, with the loss of 1000 civilian lives. -Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel: The Voyage Out. -John Buchan’s Thirty-Nine Steps is published. -Rupert Brooke’s 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death.</p><p>1920 -Agatha Christie’s first book: The Mysterious Affairs at Styles is published.</p><p>1922 -John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga. 1925 -Virginia Woolfe’s Mrs. Dalloway is published.</p><p>1926 -Pooh Bear will become a household name. A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh is published. -A general strike starts in Britain due to the miners strike, which is called off after 9 dyas.</p><p>1927 -To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe is published.</p><p>1933 -H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war. -In Down and Out in Paris and London English author George Orwell writes a sympathetic account of the people he meets on hard times.</p><p>1935 -Hitler informs Britain and France that he is building up the German army. -George V dies and his son Edward VIII takes the throne.</p><p>1936 -Edward VIII has to choose between the throne of England his love: Wallis Simpson an American divorcee. -Edward VIII chooses Wallis and his brother George VI takes the throne.</p><p>1939 -Britain and France receiving no answer form Hitler on his plan to attack Poland declare war on Germany.</p><p>1945 -Nancy Mitford’s first novel the Pursuit of Love is a success. -Allies celebrate victory over Japan and the end of the war. George Orwell’s Animal Farm.</p><p>1950 -The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published. -The Medical Research Council in Britain produces a report, by Austin Hill and Richard Doll, linking smoking and lung cancer.</p><p>1952 -George VI dies and his oldest daughter Elizabeth II takes the throne.</p><p>1953 -James Bond makes his debut in Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale. -Molecular biologists Francis Crick and James Watson announce their discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. 1954 -Lord of the Flies by William Golding is published.</p><p>1955 -The third and final volume of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein.</p>