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The Modern World (1900s (1910s (1920s (1930s (1940s (1950s (1960s (1960:…

- - - - 1922: Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land are published
      - 1923: W.B. Yeats receives the Nobel Prize in literature
      - 1924: E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published
      - 1927: Virginia Woolf publishes To the Lighthouse
      - 1922: Ireland is divided by treaty, with six northern counties remaining part of United Kingdom; civil war begins in Ireland
      - 1930s
        
        1930: W. H. Auden's Poems is published; Noel Coward's play Private Lives is produced
        
        1940s
        
        1945: George Orwell's Animal Farm is published; Chilean poet **Gabriela Mistral is awarded Nobel Prize in literature
        
        1940: In the Battle of Britain, British Royal Air Force prevents German invasion of England
        
        1948: India gains independence from Britain; UN partitions Palestine
        
        1949: Twenty-six of thirty-two counties in Ireland achieve full status as an independent republic
        
        1950s
        
        1953: Winston Churchill is awarded Nobel Prize in literature; Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot is first produced in Paris
        
        1960s
        
        1960: Nigeria wins independence from Britain
        
        1960s: Apollo II astronauts are first people to walk on the moon, as 600 million people watch live telecast
        
        1970s