What are some important events in history that happened in the past 200 years?

Some of the important events in history that have happened in the past 200 years were the first settlers arriving in America in the 1600s. The American Revolutionary War in the 1700s and the Civil War in the late 1800s. World War 1 began in 1914 and Great Depression happened in the 1930s. World War 2 began in the 1940s and ended in 1945.