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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, and the United States, in the period from 1760 to 1830. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, the increasing use of steam power and water power and the rise of the mechanized factory system.
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The storming of the Bastille, which occurred on Tuesday July 14, 1789 in Paris, is one of the inaugural and emblematic events of the French Revolution. During this day, the Bastille was stormed by rioters. This event is considered the first major intervention by the Parisian people in the course of the Revolution and in French political life.
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On 26 August 1789, the French Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen which defined individual and collective rights only for men and not women at the time of the French Revolution.
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The French constitutional monarchy refers to the system of government established in France in 1792.
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The escape to Varennes was a significant episode of the French Revolution, in which the royal family had a serious decline in its royal authority, tried to escape Paris disguised as a Russian aristocratic family but were stopped at Varennes
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The French Republic, was the name given to a series of parliamentary and republican regimes that succeeded each other during the French Revolution.
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On September 21, 1792, the deputies of the Convention, meeting for the first time, unanimously decided to abolish the constitutional monarchy in France. Although the Republic was never officially proclaimed until September 22, 1792
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Unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason against the French people and was condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793.
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The Reign of Terror, was a two-year period of the French Revolution between 1793 and 1794, characterized by brutal repression in the form of state terrorism, unleashed by Maximilien Robespierre
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The Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor or the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre refers to the series of events beginning with Maximilien Robespierre's address to the National Convention on July 26th 1794, his arrest the next day, and his execution on 10 Thermidor Year, July 28th 1794.
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For the first time in history, the National Convention proclaimed the abolition of slavery
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The Coup of General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France with ended completely the French Revolution. This bloodless coup d'etat overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. This occurred on 9 November 1799
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Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of France on Sunday, December 2, 1804, at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris.
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The First French Empire, was the monarchical government established by Napoleon Bonaparte after the dissolution of the First French Republic in 1804.
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Napoleon abdicated in April 1814 after his unsuccessful invasion of Russia, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, with forced him to abdicate and renounce to the throne
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The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history following the first fall of Napoleon on 3 May 1814 to the July Revolution of 26 July 1830, during which the House of Bourbon was returned to the French monarchy
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The Congress of Vienna was an international meeting held in the Austrian capital, to reestablish the European borders after the defeat of Napoleon and France
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The Battle of Waterloo was a battle that took place on June 18, 1815 in the proximities of Waterloo, a town in Belgium, in which the French army, commanded by the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, fought against the British, Dutch and German troops, commanded by the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussian army. France lost this battle leading Napoleon's regime to end and the beginning of the restoration
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The July revolution is the second revolution in French history. It led to the overthrow of King Charles X, and the start of the July monarchy led by King Louis-Philippe until 1848
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The colonisation of Algeria in 1834 led to the start of the French colonisation in the XIX century
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The Victorian Era refers to as the time when The Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom. This period was marked by a growing, economy, culture and franchises where the Britain Empire was born and became the most powerful empire in the world
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The First Opium War was a series of military engagements fought between Britain and the Qing dynasty between 1839 and 1842. This was a result of the imbalance of trade between China and the UK. China were exporting tea, silk and silver. To readjust the trade, the UK started smuggling Opium into China. China tried to enforce the Opium ban and war broke out
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The French Second Republic, was the republican government of France that existed between 1848 and 1852. It was established in February 1848, with the February Revolution that overthrew the July Monarchy, and ended in December 1852, after the 1851 coup d'état and when president Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III and initiated the Second French Empire.
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The French Revolution of 1848, also known as the February Revolution, was a revolution in France that ended the July Monarchy and established the French Second Republic. This lead to the famous revolutionary wave known as the spring of the people
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The Spring of the Peoples or Spring of the Revolutions refers to the revolutionary movement experienced by a large part of Europe in 1848, mainly between the end of February and the beginning of July 1848, with a high concentration of events between March and June and is until the day, the biggest revolutionary wave in European history
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The Second French Empire was the Imperial regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third Republic of France.
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Louis Napoleon, being the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte was the second emperor of France and its last monarch between 1852 and 1870
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The Second Opium War was a war regarding the British Empire and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China, because of the opium smuggling into China that lasted from 1856 to 1860
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The Battle of Puebla took place on 5 May, 1862, near Puebla City during the Second French intervention in Mexico. The battle ended in a victory by the Mexican Army over the French army force. Napoleon wanted to instaure a French empire in Mexico by replacing Benito Juarez with Maximilien de Habsburg but it failed.
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The Franco-Prussian War was a military conflict that broke out between July 19, 1870 and May 10, 1871 between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. This war ended the empire and monarch regimes in France and was the beginning of a republican country and the consolidation of the industrial capitalism
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The French Third Republic was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, when WW2 led to the Vichy regime
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By the end of the XIX century, Africa had been colonized by most of the powerful European countries such as France and Great Britain. But as colonial expansion progressed, disputes arose between the imperialist powers as they attempted to control vast areas of Africa, Asia, and Oceania territorially, politically, and militarily, leading to the end of the European empires and creating tensions between different European countries that will later develop in the start of WW1
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The Fashoda Incident was an event when the UK and France were colonizing in Africa and they met at Fashoda. France had to retire their troops to prevent a colonial war. This incident would be the start of the alliance of these 2 countries
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Queen Victoria dies on January 22, 1901 at the age of 81 after a very long reign. Her elder son Edward VII succeed the throne.
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Fordism is a manufacturing technology that serves as the basis of modern economic and social systems in industrialized, standardized mass production and mass consumption. Along with Taylorism, this idea developed in the early 1920s, before the First World War
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Taylorism, System of scientific management advocated by Fred W. Taylor. In Taylor's view, the task of factory management was to determine the best way for the worker to do the job, to provide the proper tools and training, and to provide incentives for good performance. Along with Fordism, this idea developed in the early 1920s, before the First World War
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb. This assassination eventually led to the outbreak of the First World War.
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By the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand, WW1 will start