Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
A nearly intact pharaoh's tomb in the Valley of the Kings
On 4 November 1922 Howard Carter's workmen cleared a step leading to a sealed tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Three weeks later Carter peered in by candlelight and, asked by Lord Carnarvon whether he could see anything, replied: 'Yes, wonderful things.' The tomb held more than 5,000 objects, including a gold mask of about 10 kg. The find set off worldwide Egyptomania.
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In November 1922 Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb; just over a month later the USSR was founded.
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Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 8 years earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 4 years earlier
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 2 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 17 years later
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 25 years later
Europe
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 17 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 3 years earlier
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 6 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 11 years later
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 14 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 5 years earlier
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 5 years earlier
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 7 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 14 years later
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 19 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 14 years earlier
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 7 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 6 years earlier
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 6 years earlier
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 10 years later
Asia
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 11 years earlier
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 1 year later
- 1931 China floods — 9 years later
- 1934–1935 Long March — 12 years later
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 23 years later
Americas
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 9 years earlier
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 8 years earlier
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 8 years earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 7 years later
- c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — 8 years later
Oceania
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 11 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 10 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 14 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 19 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 75)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 66)
- Marie Curie (aged 55)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 53)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 52)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 51)
- Winston Churchill (aged 48)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 44)
- Albert Einstein (aged 43)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 41)