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1821 ... the first edition of the Guardian Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1901 ... Victoria dies Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1912 ... Titanic sinks Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1914 ... First world war declared Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1917 ... Russian revolution Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1936 ... Edward abdicates Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1939 ... Second world war Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1941 ... Pearl Harbour Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1945 ... Victory in Europe Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1945 ... Hiroshima bombed Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1953 ... Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1953 ... Queen Elizabeth II crowned Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1956 ... Suez crisis Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1958 ... Busby babes killed Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1959 ... Castro in power Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1962 ... Cuban missile crisis at height of the cold war Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1963 ... JFK assassinated Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1964 ... Mandela jailed Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1965 ... Churchill's funeral Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1967 ... Six-day war Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1968 ... Martin Luther King murdered Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1969 ... Man on the moon Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1972 ... Bloody Sunday Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1973 ... Britain joins EEC Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1981 ... Riots on the streets of Brixton Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1981 ... Yorkshire Ripper Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1981 ... Diana weds Charles Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1982 ... Falklands war Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1984 ... Brighton attack Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1985 ... Live Aid Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1986 ... Chernobyl disaster Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1988 ... Lockerbie bombing Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1989 ... Tiananmen Square Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1989 ... Wall comes down Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1990 ... Mandela freed Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1990 ... Thatcher's downfall Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1991 ... War in the Gulf Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1991 ... Yeltsin defiant Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1996 ... Hamilton exposed Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1997 ... Blair's landslide Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1997 ... Aitken scandal Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1997 ... Nation mourns Princess Diana's death Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

1998 ... Mandelson loan row Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

2001 ... World Trade Centre, New York City, September 11 Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

2001 ... Afghanistan bombed Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

2003 ... Saddam toppled Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

2004 ... Boxing Day tsunami Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

2005 ... London's 7/7 attacks Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

2005 ... Berliner launched Photograph: Guardian/Guardian

2007 ... Blair steps down Photograph: Guardian/Guardian