19 and 20 Century

Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole

1911 BCE

On 14 December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who had already led the first expedition to traverse the North West Passage, and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole.

Orville Wright pilloted the first powered airplane

1903 BCE

In North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier than air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline powered which stayed for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.

Marconi transmitted wireless across the English channel

1899 BCE

On 27 March 1899, Marconi transmitted across the English Channel from Wimereux near Boulogne, France to South Foreland Lighthouse near Dover, England and in 1899, wireless telegraphy was adopted by the British Royal and Merchant Navies.

Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine

1886 BCE

Karl Benz was born November 25, 1844 in Germany. A mechanical engineer, he designed and built the first practical car powered by an internal-combustion engine. The original car, his three-wheeled Motorwagen, first ran in 1885.

Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb

1879 BCE

The first successful test was on October 22, 1879 and it lasted 13.5 hours. Edison continued to improve this design and on November of 1879 for an electric lamp using a carbon filament and connected to platina contact wires.

Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

1876 BCE

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell's success came through his experiments in sound.

Suez Canal opens for the first time

1869 BCE

The Suez Canal, stretching 101 miles from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was officially opened in a lavish ceremony on 17 November 1869 and it wasn't the first time a canal here had been considered. Ancient sources suggest the existence of a canal between the Red Sea and the Nile River

Marx publishes the first volume of the capital

1867 BCE

The first of three volumes of Das Kapital was published on 14 September 1867, dedicated to Wilhelm Wolff and was the sole volume published in Marx's lifetime.

Charles Darwin publishes on the origin of species

1859 BCE

It was published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.

Cyrus W.Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean

1858 BCE

A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland.

The Berlin Conference

1855 BCE

To regulate African colonisation and trade followed by a period of increased colonial activity.