Chinese woman said to have been born in 1886 passes away at her home
Alimihan Seyiti, died on December 16, 2021, at her home in Komuxerik in Shule County in the north-western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The supercentenarian was born on on June 25, 1886, during the imperial Qing dynasty.
Below are a list of world events she would have lived through in her long life:
1897: Greco-Turkish war
1901: Formation of the Commonwealth of Australia
1903: Wright brothers make first flight, Suffragettes in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Wright Brothers make their first flight in December, 1903
1905: First Russian revolution
1914: World War I begins
1917: Russian revolution leads to communism
1918: World War I ends, Spanish flu pandemic kills millions
1921: Chinese Communists rise
1924: Russia goes from Lenin to Stalin
1927: Lindbergh nonstop flight to Paris
1934: Hitler consolidates power in Germany
1939: World War II Starts
1941: The Holocaust begins
Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-mer on Juno Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day landings, 6th June 1944
1945: World War II and the Holocaust ends, first nuclear detonation
1947: India gains independence
1948: Birth of Israel
1949: NATO founded
1950: Korean War starts
1952: Elizabeth II crowned in Britain, First Hydrogen Bomb Test
1953: The discovery of DNA
1955: Rosa Parks galvanises civil rights movement, Vietnam war begins
1958: US Launches First Satellite
1959: Castro takes over Cuba
1961: Berlin Wall built
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: JFK assassinated in Texas
1966: Mao purges rivals
1967: Six-Day War
1968: Martin Luther King assassinated
1969: Moon Landing
The Moon Landing in 1969
1975: Saigon Falls, Vietnam war ends
1976: The Concorde changes air travel
1977: Rise of the PC
1979: Islamic Republic born in Iran
1983: The Internet is born
1989: The Berlin Wall falls
1991: American goes to war in Middle East
1992: Cold War ends, breakup of Yugoslavia
1993: The EU becomes reality with treaty
1994: Rwandan genocide
1999: NATO’s first independent strike, in Kosovo
2000: International Space Station opens
2001: 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, U.S. invades Afghanistan
Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City
2003: US Invades Iraq
2007: The iPhone is released
2008: Dow plunges, global economic crash
2012: The “God Particle” Is (Probably) Discovered
2016: Trump Elected
2019: Hong Kong Protests
2020: COVID-19 global pandemic
Alimihan Seyiti, died on December 16, 2021, at her home in Komuxerik in Shule County in the north-western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The supercentenarian was born on on June 25, 1886, during the imperial Qing dynasty.
Below are a list of world events she would have lived through in her long life:
1897: Greco-Turkish war
1901: Formation of the Commonwealth of Australia
1903: Wright brothers make first flight, Suffragettes in Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Wright Brothers make their first flight in December, 1903
1905: First Russian revolution
1914: World War I begins
1917: Russian revolution leads to communism
1918: World War I ends, Spanish flu pandemic kills millions
1921: Chinese Communists rise
1924: Russia goes from Lenin to Stalin
1927: Lindbergh nonstop flight to Paris
1934: Hitler consolidates power in Germany
1939: World War II Starts
1941: The Holocaust begins
Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-mer on Juno Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day landings, 6th June 1944
1945: World War II and the Holocaust ends, first nuclear detonation
1947: India gains independence
1948: Birth of Israel
1949: NATO founded
1950: Korean War starts
1952: Elizabeth II crowned in Britain, First Hydrogen Bomb Test
1953: The discovery of DNA
1955: Rosa Parks galvanises civil rights movement, Vietnam war begins
1958: US Launches First Satellite
1959: Castro takes over Cuba
1961: Berlin Wall built
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: JFK assassinated in Texas
1966: Mao purges rivals
1967: Six-Day War
1968: Martin Luther King assassinated
1969: Moon Landing
The Moon Landing in 1969
1975: Saigon Falls, Vietnam war ends
1976: The Concorde changes air travel
1977: Rise of the PC
1979: Islamic Republic born in Iran
1983: The Internet is born
1989: The Berlin Wall falls
1991: American goes to war in Middle East
1992: Cold War ends, breakup of Yugoslavia
1993: The EU becomes reality with treaty
1994: Rwandan genocide
1999: NATO’s first independent strike, in Kosovo
2000: International Space Station opens
2001: 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, U.S. invades Afghanistan
Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City
2003: US Invades Iraq
2007: The iPhone is released
2008: Dow plunges, global economic crash
2012: The “God Particle” Is (Probably) Discovered
2016: Trump Elected
2019: Hong Kong Protests
2020: COVID-19 global pandemic
