1768-1881

By jebbyjr

  • Spinning Jenny invented

  • Steam engine

    James watts- powered by coal

  • Water powered loom invented

  • Congress of Vienna

    Hosted by Austrian emporer and Prince Klemens von Metternich -> "The conservative agenda"

  • Dutch uprising

  • Frankenstein was published by Mary Shelley

  • Belgian revolt and independance

  • Louis-Phillippe (revolution)

  • Reform act- Great Britain

  • Factory act (labor)

  • Period: to

    Opium War

    China and Britain over trade (tea and opium)

  • G.B.- 'as much cotton as you can'

  • Mines act (labor)

  • Frankfurt assembly

  • A outbreak of revolutions through europe

    Italy, Germany, France, Austria

  • Restoration of Austrian control in Lombardy and Venetia

  • 50% living in cities in G.B.- only 25% in France and Germany

  • Louis Napolean becomes dictator by Coup D'etat

  • G.B.- 3 million tons of Iron (more then rest of world combined)

  • Crimean war (Russia, Britain, France, and Turks)

  • Italian conflict w/Austria

  • Darwin's book, 'On the origin of species' published

  • Tsar Alexander the 2nd emancipated serfs

  • German war w/Denmark

  • German war w/Austria

  • Venetia added to Italy

  • Austrian war w/Prussia

  • Aussgleich compromise

  • Reform bill- Britain

  • German war w/France

  • Rome added to Italy

  • Frence war w/Prussia

  • Tsar Alexander the 2nd assasinated by Lenin's radicals with grenade