1900–2024, year by year
The century laid out the way it was actually lived — everything happening everywhere at once. Pick any year and see the whole world in it: the war, the election, the discovery, the song that was number one.
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Thirty-five years of research from Historycentral, organized so you can move through it by year, by region, by person, or by document
History does not happen in one column. The app is built around that fact.
Choose a year and see it whole — what was happening in the United States, in Europe, in Asia, in the Middle East, in Africa, in South America, and in the laboratories, all on one screen.
145 primary documents, complete and unedited — the Fourteen Points, the Zimmermann Telegram, the Japanese surrender, Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech — linked to the events they document.
120 archival films, most of them one per year, streamed on demand. Newsreel footage of the century as its contemporaries saw it.
The people who made the century and the ones it happened to, each with a full biography, cross-linked to every event they appear in.
Nearly a thousand events placed geographically. Slide through the years and watch where history was happening move across the world.
Every event, every biography, every year in English, Spanish, French and German — not machine output, but the full text translated and checked.
The nine parallel timelines that run the length of the century
Built to be read, not skimmed
Start anywhere
The whole century at once
One year, all of it
The full account
Where it happened
Read the originals
The people
Download it and roam the entire century. No trial, no subscription, nothing hidden behind a signup.
Every year from 1900 to 2024 is open from the moment you install it.
When you want the depth behind the summaries.
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Since 1989, Historycentral has created award-winning history-based learning tools trusted by educators, students, and curious minds worldwide. The Twentieth Century grew out of decades of that work — the events, the documents, the photographs and the newsreels — rebuilt as an app you can read.