| Timeline
33 A.D. - Christ dies and promises to return to usher in a heavenly kingdom.
96 - John of Patmos believed to have written the book of Revelation.
1919 - Marcus Garvey goes bankrupt trying to start the Black Star Line to bring Africans in the Western Hemisphere back to Africa. Deported back to Jamaica.
1929 - Stock market crash. America enters the Great Depression.
1930 -Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.
1935 - Ethiopia invaded and occupied by the Italian army.
1936 - The Carter Family records "No Depression in Heaven".
1936 - Robert Johnson records "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day".
1940 - Woody Guthrie releases Dust Bowl Ballads.
1941 - Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese and America enters the Second World War, effectively ending the Great Depression. Ethiopians finally beat back the Italian army and end the occupation with the help of British troops.
1945 - First atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico.
1946 - Hank Williams records "The Battle of Armageddon".
1948 - Israel founded.
1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement in America.
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) are both founded.
1960 - Founding of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
1961 - President John Kennedy sends 16,000 US military advisers to Vietnam.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis. Bob Dylan meets Woody Guthrie as he lay dying in the hospital. Writes "Song To Woody". Jamaica earns its independence from the British Empire.
1963 - Assassination of President Kennedy. Bob Dylan records "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 ends legal segregation. Bob Dylan records "The Time's They Are A-Changin'". The Beatles make the first of many appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, simultaneously beginning their conquest of America, the British Invasion and the revitalization of rock and roll. Berkeley Free Speech Movements begins, providing the catalyst for the rest of the Student and Youth Movements. President Lyndon Johnson escalates American involvement in Vietnam.
1965 - Barry McGuire hits the pop charts with "Eve of Destruction". Bob Dylan goes electric.
1966 - Meredith March and the birth of Black Power.
1967 - The Summer of Love and the blossoming of the counterculture into the mainstream of American thought. Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Doors record and release "The End". Six-Day War in Israel.
1968 - Assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Race riots across America. Protest and bloodshed at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tet Offensive. Richard Nixon elected president. Max Frost and the Troopers release "Shape of Things to Come". The Beatles release The Beatles containing "Helter Skelter". First reggae songs go on the market in Jamaica. Desmond Dekker releases "The Israelites".
1969 - Collapse of SDS. Woodstock festival. Altamont Festival. The Rolling Stones release Let it Bleed, containing "Gimme Shelter". The Manson Family murders five people in California.
1970 - The Beatles break up. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin die of drug overdoses. The Turtles cover "Eve of Destruction".
1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine". Funkadelic releases Maggot Brain, dedicated to the Process Church and containing the closing track "Wars of Armageddon". Black Sabbath releases Paranoid with the opening track "War Pigs". Jim Morrison of the Doors dies of a drug overdose in Paris.
1972 - David Bowie releases Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars containing the opening track "Five Years".
1974 - David Bowie releases Diamond Dogs. Bob Marley releases "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry).
1975 - American troops withdrawal from Vietnam.
1976 -The Ramones release their first album, The Ramones, and inspire the New York punk explosion. The Sex Pistols form and release their debut single, "Anarchy in the UK", to much controversy, inspiring the punk explosion in England.
1977 - The Sex Pistols release Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and "God Save the Queen", which nearly reaches number one on the British pop charts despite more controversy. Bob Marley releases Exodus containing "Exodus".
1978 - The Sex Pistols break up. X-Ray Spex release Germ-Free Adolescents, which contains the opening track "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo".
1979 - The Clash release London Calling, which contains "London Calling". Willie Williams releases "Armagiddeon Time". Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister in England.
1980 - Ronald Reagan elected president of the United States.
1983 - Prince releases 1999, which contains "1999" as its opening track.
1985 - Talking Heads release "Road to Nowhere". Sonic Youth release "Death Valley '69".
1987 - REM release "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".
1988 - Talking Heads release "(Nothing But) Flowers".
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union.
1997 - Radiohead release OK Computer, with the opening track "Airbag".
1999 - The Dismemberment Plan releases "8 ½ Minutes".
2000 - Y2K scare, end of the 20th century.
2001 - September 11th terrorist attacks destroy the World Trade Center buildings in New York. Frodus releases …And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea, which contains "The Earth Isn't Humming".
2002 - Johnny Cash records "The Man Comes Around".
2003 - Radiohead releases Hail to the Thief with "Where I End and You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In)".
2004 - David Byrne releases "Tiny Apocalypse". Decahedron offers their debut album Disconnection_Imminent.
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