1800 - 2000

By ashlea shakeshaft
  • Period: to

    1800-2010

  • Britan and Ireland

    Great Britan and Ireland merge to become the United Kingdom

  • British beat the Spanish to dominate the sea's

    UK defeated French and Spanish fleets and dominanted the seas

  • Joseph Nicephore took first photograph

    Joseph Nicephore took first photograph

  • Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo

    Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, and was exiled to St. Helena

  • Antarctica was discovered

    Antarctica was discovered

  • Opium War

    pium War, China ceded Hong Kong to UK untill 1842

  • First telegraph line

    First telegraph line in the world between Baltimore and Washington connected

  • Mexican American War

    Mexican American War, US gained the nowaday Southwestern US

  • American Civil War

    American Civil War untill 1865

  • Taiping rellellion in China ended

    Taiping rellellion in China ended with 20 million people dead

  • US purchased Alaska from Russia

    US purchased Alaska from Russia

  • Canadian Confedration formed

    Canadian Confedration formed

  • First Transcontinental Railroad

    First Transcontinental Railroad completed in US

  • Aspirin was discovered

    Aspirin was discovered

  • First commercial film was released

    First commercial film was released

  • Olympic Games revived in Greece

    Olympic Games revived in Greece

  • Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras

    Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras

  • Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.

    Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.

  • U.S. President McKinley Assassinated

    U.S. President McKinley Assassinated

  • First Message to Travel Around the World

    First Message to Travel Around the World

  • First Silent Movie

    First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery

  • The Wright Brothers Make the First Flight

    The Wright Brothers Make the First Flight at Kitty Hawk

  • The Chinese Revolution

    The Chinese Revolution

  • the titanic sinks

    the titanic sinks

  • WWI

    World war one begins

  • Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I

    Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I

  • BBC Founded

    BBC Founded

  • The First Talking Movie

    The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer

  • first working black and white TV

    first working black and white TV

  • Scientists Split the Atom

    Scientists Split the Atom

  • Spanish Civil War Begins

    Spanish Civil War Begins

  • Japan Invades China

    Japan Invades China

  • WWIII

    World War II Begins

  • Battle of Britan

    Battle of Britan

  • Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

    Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

    Dday and Germany fire the first V1 and V2 rockets

  • Germany Surrender

  • Polaroid Cameras Invented

    Polaroid Cameras Invented

  • Color TV Introduced

    Color TV Introduced

  • End of WWII

    Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII

  • DNA Discovered

    DNA Discovered

  • NASA Founded

    NASA Founded

  • Berlin Wall Built

    Berlin Wall Built

  • JFK Assassinated

    JFK Assassinated

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

    Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

  • Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon

    Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon

  • Computer Floppy Disks Introduced

    Computer Floppy Disks Introduced

  • VCRs Introduced

    VCRs Introduced

  • U.S. President Nixon Resigns

    U.S. President Nixon Resigns

  • Microsoft Founded

    Microsoft Founded

  • Elvis Found Dead

    Elvis Found Dead

  • Sony Introduces the Walkman

    Sony Introduces the Walkman

  • John Lennon Assassinated

    John Lennon Assassinated

  • Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina

    Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina

  • Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

    Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Berlin Wall Falls

  • end of cold war

    end of cold war

  • home computers break the 1GHz barrier

    Personal home computers break the 1GHz barrier

  • 9/11 world traid center

    terror attacks, 3000 dead

  • The invasion of Iraq

    The invasion of Iraq

  • Facebook is created

    the launch of Facebook

  • Youtube is launched

  • Barack Obama is sworn in as 44th president of the USA

    first black presedent

  • Gulf oil spill