APWH 1750-1900 By kburlingham24 1750 British takeover of India begins (1750’s) 1750 Beginnings of Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) 1750 High point of Atlantic slave trade (1750-1800) 1750 Fragmentation of Mughal Empire (1707-1750) 1754 Seven Years War (1754-1763) 1780 Beginnings of abolitionist movement 1789 French Revolution (1789-1799) 1791 Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) 1804 Islamic revolutions in West Africa (1804-1817) 1839 Tanzimat Reforms in Ottoman Empire (1839-1876) 1840 First Opium War in China (1840-1842) 1848 Publication of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ by Karl Marx 1858 British government assumes control of India 1861 U.S. Civil War; abolition of slavery (1861-1865) 1868 Meiji Restoration in Japan 1869 Opening of Suez Canal 1870 Unification of Germany and Italy (1870-1871) 1875 European “scramble for Africa” (1875-1900) 1886 Cuba and Brazil abolish slavery (1886-1888) 1894 Japanese War against China (1894-1895)