Wells's The Shape of Things to Come
1933 · Work
Wells's 'future history' predicts a world war beginning in 1940 and a ruling caste of scientists rebuilding civilisation; filmed as Things to Come.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1933
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)