2020 Onwards COVID-19 Global pandemic challenges all human activity... view world latest

2020+ Artificial Intelligence is entering the mainstream with Quantum computing following, faster than most of us realise...view more

2000+ Y2k problems...tens of billions $ spent.
During the previous 20th century population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion...view more

1991 The World Wide Web went live to the world... There was no fanfare in the global press. In fact, most people around the world didn't even know or have a clue what the Internet was. Even if they did, the revolution the Web ushered in was still but a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee's eye.

1967+ UTC - The World's new Time Standard. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the basis for civil time today. This 24-hour time standard is kept using highly precise atomic clocks combined with the Earth's rotation. UTC In 1960, the International Radio Consultative Committee formalized the concept of UTC, and it was put into practice the year after. The name Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) was officially adopted in 1967 enabling localtime.delivery to be predetermined across the globe.

1948 The year the first atomic clock was invented.

1753 Tax day in the UK is established as of 5th of April each year thereafter by Parliament... after protest by bankers paying their taxes on 25 March "Give us back our 11 days" they insisted as it scraps 2 - 14 September in 1752 Taxes are finally paid 11 days later on 5 April which remains tax day in the UK today.

1277 "The Kalendarium is intolerable in terms of logic, horrible as astronomy, and as undesireable as mathematics", the year influencial English monk Roger Bacon is quoted as telling his friend Pope Clement 1V.

532 A declaration by astronomer Dionysius Exiguus confuses the then known world that the year of Christ's birth AD 1 and not AD 0

AD14 Out of jealousy over Caesar's 31 - day July, Augustus renames the month Sextilius after himsef, stealing a day from Febuarius in the process.

45BC 80 days are added to the year creating "The Year of Confusion" by Caesar.

3761BC "The creation of the world" according to the Jewish calendar.

4236BC "Earliest known date"...the Egyptian calendar.