Turn of the 20th century and the 21st century (1991-2020)

Global

Apartheid (1948–1994)

9/11 (2001)

Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)

British events

Brexit (2020)

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry (2018)

Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (2021)

World Wide Web (1989 by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee)

Art

Young British artists

Angus Fairhurst (1966–2008)

Damien Hirst (the United Kingdom's richest living artist)

No "one medium"

Music genres

Britpop

Girl groups and boy bands

Spice Girls, One Direction

Blur, Oasis

Rock bands

Coldplay, the Arctic Monkeys

Solo singers

Amy Winehouse, Adele, Ed Sheeran