Central Asia in the twentieth century (1914 – 2000). Two world wars, decolonisation and the technologies that made the present. These articles cover the century within living memory.
Moscow cut Turkestan, Bukhara and Khorezm into republics named for nationalities in 1924-25, on Stalin's definition of a nation, and revised them to 1936.
· 1924An IAEA table printed in 1998 counts 456 Soviet nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk from August 29, 1949; the site closed in August 1991, a date the UN kept.
· 1949At 22:28:34 Moscow time on October 4, 1957, an R-7 rocket from Tyuratam put an 83.6-kilogram sphere into orbit. Its beeps lasted three weeks.
· 1957The world's fourth largest lake lost its rivers to Soviet cotton after 1960. NASA recorded the eastern basin gone in 2014; a 13 km dike saved the north.
· 1960A shallow shock under central Tashkent on April 26, 1966 left over 300,000 of 1.5 million people homeless. Official deaths were counted as eight or 10.
· 1966Rakhmonov and Nuri signed the General Agreement on Peace and National Accord in Moscow on June 27, 1997. A UN commission and UNMOT then oversaw its terms.
· 1997
