1750-1900 By Kboyd575 Period: 1715 to 1789 The Enlightenment Period: 1760 to 1789 First Industrial Revolution Period: 1765 to 1783 American Revolution Period: 1789 to 1795 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution 1799 Napoleon gains power in France Period: 1806 to 1826 Latin American Revolutions Period: 1839 to 1860 Opium Wars Period: 1839 to 1876 Tanzimat Reforms in the Ottoman Empire Period: 1850 to 1864 Taiping Rebeliion 1858 Britain takes India Period: 1859 to 1871 Charles Darwin presents Darwinism 1861 Russian Serfs Emancipated 1863 Emancipation Proclamation established in U.S.A. 1867 End of Tokugawa Shogunate 1868 Meiji Restoration Period: 1870 to 1914 Second Industrial Revolution Period: 1875 to 1900 European Conquests of Africa 1885 Berlin Conference 1896 Battle of Adowa Ethiopians defeat Italians