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Industrial Revolution Begins
This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world. Although used earlier by French writers, the term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English. -
Spinning Jenny is created
James Hargreaves created the spinning jenny in 1764. This machine helped to improve the textile industry as a whole. -
James Hargreaves gets the patent for the Spinning Jenny
Hargreaves receives the patent for the Spinning Jenny -
Arkwright develops mills
The machine's moving rollers drew out the cotton fibers, imitating the action of a hand spinner's fingers. Then, its rotating spindles twisted the cotton into yarn and wound it onto a bobbin -
Spinning Mule is created
This is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibers. Mules worked in pairs by a minder and with the help of 2 boys. -
Wool combing machine
The wool combing machine was invented by Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom, in Doncaster. It was patented in 1790. -
Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater was an early English-American industrialist. He was known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" and the "Father of the American Factory System". -
Luddites rise
The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery. -
Mechanical Reaper
This device was invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831. Farmers were able to use this tool for many years to cut grass easily by swinging its large blade. -
Sewing machine is created
This invention helped the mass production of sewing machines and clothing. The creator of this Elias Howe helped to majorly impact the way that things were sewn -
British Public Health Act
This was a general guide to health there. It was responsible for dealing with public health matters. It took care of many issues across a wide spectrum from things like disease all the way down to helping to create health code and enforce it in towns. -
Crimean War
The Crimean War was a conflict over Turkish-controlled Jerusalem. It was fought by Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia against Russia. -
Seploy Rebellion
Many Indian soldiers rebelled after hearing about how their gun cartridges were greased with pork and beef fat. -
Italian Unification
It was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single state in 1861, the Kingdom of Italy. -
First Oil well is created
The first oil well was created by Edwin L. Drake in 1859. He was originally a railroad conductor, but was able to devise a way to drill oil. -
Transcontinental Railroad construction begins
North America's first transcontinental railroad was a 1,911-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs -
German Unification
Three wars over the span of seven years with Austria, Denmark and France ended in a Prussian victory. In Jan 1871, Prussian King William I was proclaimed German emperor. More importance was given to modernizing the currency, banking, legal and judicial systems in Germany. -
Second Industrial Revolution
It was a phase of rapid scientific discovery, standardization, mass production, and industrialization from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. -
Berlin Conference
This was a scramble for Africa led by Bismarck. No African representation. Britain and France get the most territory out of all the countries. Belgium controls Congo with Leopold II ruling brutally. -
Women's Political and Social Union is founded
Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Political and Social union. The women's suffrage movement becomes more militant in the 20th century -
WWI Begins
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the main cause of the war. This war consisted mainly of trench warfare. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. -
The March on Rome
The 1922 March on Rome was to establish Mussolini and the Fascist Party he led, as the most important political party in Italy. -
Mussolini comes to power in Italy
Mussolini was an Italian politician and a founder of fascism. Before he was a dictator, he was a the prime minister of Italy. Mussolini allied with Hitler because they shared many of the same ideas. -
German Hyperinflation
The out of control inflation began somewhat mildly during World War I, as the German government printed unbacked currency and borrowed money to finance military expenditures. The strategy was to eventually pay off the debts by seizing resource-rich territories and imposing reparations on the vanquished Allies. -
Stalin comes to power
After Lenin died, Stalin came to power to take complete control of the Russia and the Soviet Union. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party's dogma. -
Stalin's 5 year plan
Stalin believed that the Soviet Union had to build up its industry so it could defend itself from attack by countries in the west. Stalin wanted the Soviet Union to be a modern industrial country like the U.S.A., Germany and Britain. So he created the plan. -
Hitler is named chancellor of Germany
On this date, Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. While he wasn't a complete dictator at this time, he would come to be one shortly after this. He was appointed by Franz von Papen. -
Munich Conference
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany. German troops occupy these regions between October 1 and 10, 1938. -
WWII begins
World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. -
Invasion of Poland
This invasion was also known as the September Campaign. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland. -
Operation Barbarossa
It was Germany’s largest invasion force of the war, representing some 80 percent of the Wehrmacht, the German armed forces, and one of the most powerful invasion forces in history. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. -
Invasion of Italy
For almost two years during the Second World War (1939-45), the Allies fought an attritional campaign in Italy against a resolute and skillful enemy. Far from being the ‘soft underbelly of Europe’, Italy became one of the war’s most exhausting campaigns. -
Battle of Anzio
The Battle of Anzio commenced on January 22, 1944 and concluded with the fall of Rome on June 5. The campaign was the result of the Allies' inability to penetrate the Gustav Line following their landings at Salerno. -
D-Day
On this day, nearly 156,000 troops of many different countries landed on the beaches of Normandy. This was the largest seaborne invasion in history, -
Paris Liberated
Paris was liberated from the Nazis on 25th August 1944. -
Atomic Bombs are being created
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Germany Surrenders
The German High Command, signed a document unconditionally surrendering all German military forces, to take effect the following day, thereby all but ending World War II in Europe. -
WWII ends
World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany in May 1945, but both May 8 and May 9 are celebrated as Victory in Europe Day. -
Yalta Conference
This conference was a meeting between Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British prime minister Winston Churchill as World War II was starting to come to an end. -
Iron Curtain Speech
It was a speech in which it heavily stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” across Europe -
Korean War
The Korean War is known as one of the more notable proxy wars that came from the conflicts of the Cold War. This war specifically was started when North Korea invaded South Korea by crossing the 38th parallel, which is the boundary that separates the two countries. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was on e of the smaller wars that was caused by the Cold War. The most notable of these was the Vietnam War, which hung heavily over the 1960s and early 1970s. It was part of the overall Cold War confrontation and the American struggle against the spread of Communism in the world. -
Khrushchev's secret speech
At a closed session on the last day, Nikita Khrushchev gave a speech denouncing Stalin. It became known as “The Secret Speech.” The open sessions, which had been reported on by U.S. diplomats in the U.S.S.R., had included criticism of Stalin, especially the concept of one-man rule. -
Berlin Wall
This wall was a barrier that divided East and West Berlin. The wall was constructed by the people of the German Democratic Republic. This wall was put up so fast that families and friends were divided and were unable to see each other. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a very dangerous confrontation between the world's two superpowers( U.S. and the Soviet Union). This all began when a U.S drone flew over Cuba and spotted Soviets and nuclear parts. -
Detente
It was a period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979. The era was a time of increased trade and cooperation -
Margaret Thatcher elected PM
In the General Election of May 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Thatcher government had pledged to turn Britain's economic decline around, mainly by increasing taxes and balancing the budget. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall came down on the evening of November 9, 1989, during a hastily arranged international press conference in East Berlin.