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1800's

Over 200 factories where working in Britain.

1800

Steam engines all over Britain

1804

Buonaparte became emperor of France

The Luddite movement began in Nottingham and culminated in a region-wide rebellion.

1764

Protests against labour replacing machines

Napoleon’s forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France’s domination in Europe.

1815

Battle of Waterloo

Between the Sixth Coalition; consisting of Russia, Austria, and Prussia against the French Empire.The french surrendered and Emperor Napoleon abdicated and went into exile.

1814

Battle of Paris

1815

Napoleone took Belgium

Intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe. Like conservatism, nationalism and liberalism

1800

Age of Enlightenment

1850 - 1900

1815

Over 2,000 miles of canals in use in Britain

This helped to carry thousands of tonnes of raw materials and manufactured goods by horse-drawn barge.

1776

Karl Marx was born

He was a German philosopher and social critic, he talked about the oppression of workers made by capitalism provoked battle of classes

Miguel Hidalgo is believed to have made the cry of independence (El Grito de la Independencia) in the town of Dolores, this to motivate people to revolt against the Spanish regime.

1821

Mexican Independence

1819

Alexandrina Victoria "Queen Victoria" was born

Peter Cooper's steam locomotive, called Tom Thumb, first steamed along 13 miles (21 km) of Baltimore and Ohio railroad track

1829

American railroad era

1830

Belgian Revolution

By Samuel Morse, it revolutionized long-distance communication.

1830

Invention of the telegraph

In London it is thought 7000 people died of the disease which represented a 50% death rate of those who caught it.

1831

Cholera outbreak

To improve conditions for children working in factories, first regulation of conditions of industrial employment.

1833

Factory act by the Government

1834

Zollverein, German customs union

It created a free-trade area throughout much of Germany and is often seen as an important step in German reunification.

Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837, and a regency was avoided. Less than a month later, on 20 June 1837, William IV died at the age of 71, and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom. Her Reign lasted 63 years.

1837

Coronation of Queen Victoria,
Start of Victorian Age

1838

First train in Britain left from Paddington Station

February 10, in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace, London. They were very much in love and had 9 children.

1840

Queen Victoria married Prince Albert

1848

Marx's "The Communist Manifesto" was published

1848

The Communist Manifesto

Political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.

1842

Industrial Expansion in France

Poor working and living conditions.

1833

Industrialisation

1845

People demanded revolution in Britain

It was around steel railroads, chemical and electricity

1850 - 1970

Second Industrial Revolution

1854

Automatic Safety Catch invented by Elisha Otis

by William Henry Perkin.

1856

Discovery of Aniline purple dye

This sent Victoria into a deep depression, and she stayed in seclusion for many years, rarely appearing in public. After this she only wore black.

1861

 Prince Albert from Britain died

British Crown rule was established in India, ending a century of control by the East India Company.

1858

British Raj started

1862

Transcontinental Railroad

The Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies to build a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west.

War between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish, with support from January 1855 by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont.

1853 - 1856

Crimean war

1863

Queen Victoria's first appearance after her husband died

1866

Queen Victoria back in the parliament

A piece of British legislation that enfranchised part of the urban male working class in England and Wales for the first time.

1867

Reform Act

1867

Marx's "Capital: critique of political economy"

Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labor, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of surplus value.

It was a conflict between France and Prussia, which was backed by the North German Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria.

1870

Franco - Prussian War

1871

Germany became a Nation State

Proclaimed William I of Prussia as German Emperor after the French capitulation in the Franco-Prussian War.

Insurrection of Paris against the French government. It occurred in the wake of France’s defeat in the Franco-German War and the collapse of Napoleon III’s Second Empire.

1871

Paris commune

1876

Queen Victoria named Empress of India

Alexander Graham Bell, his company in now known as AT&T.

1876

Invention of the telephone

1879

Invention of the light bulb

by Thomas Edison.

Otto E. L. von Bismarck was a Prussian statesman and diplomat created his welfare system to prevent a radical socialist take over.

1837

First modern welfare state

1838

Karl Marx's death

A device essential to sending and receiving radio waves and one the U.S.

1884

Invention of the Tesla coil

1889

Hitler was born

Leader of the Nazi.

1890

Discovery of the Aspirin

By the chemist Felix Hoffmann in Bayern, Germany.

1884

Invention of Airship

Charles Renard and Arthur C. Krebs, inventors and military officers in the French Army Corps of Engineers, built an elongated balloon, La France.

by Karl (Carl) Benz.

1885

Invention of the car powered by gasoline

1889

Eiffel Tower by Gustave Eiffel

Constructed from 1887–1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair

1896

Invention of the radio

by Guglielmo Marconi.

1899

First Zeppelin

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

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