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Thomas Hobbes was the first philosopher of the Enlightenment. However, he was the dumbest philosopher. As a philosopher, he believed in an absolute monarchy. -
Guy Fawkes and some other members made the Gunpowder plot to kill King James I. Fawkes put 36 barrels of TNT in the Parliament basement. The King somehow knew about it, and sent soldiers to search. Then, they found Guy Fawkes and executed him -
In that same year, King James I died and King Charles I took over the throne -
After King Charles I took the throne, three years later, he asked the Parliament for money. The Pairliament refused, so they made the Petition of Rights. Charles signed it, but then ignored it. -
John was the second philosopher of the Enlightenment. He believed that all people are born equal. He was one of the most loved philosophers of all time. -
After Charles ignored the petition of Rights, people disliked him so much, that Charles had to start a war between the Parliament -
In 1647, the Puritans held the king prisoner. Two years later, he was in trial, and was sentenced to death. He was the first ever monarch to be executed publically. -
After 15 years of bloodshed, injuries, and death, the dust settles and the members of the Parliament sealed their victory -
The majority of the book was influenced by the Enlightenment. The author was Thomas Paine. It was one of the best books of its time. -
After many years of suffering and disagreement, the peasants, and even the middle class people started to rebel against the French government. And thus, the war began. -
When the King ignored the tennis court oath, the peasants got angry and wanted to start a Revolution. They first began marching to the Bastille, which held the one thing peasants needed and wanted: gunpowder. After the peasants stole the gun powder. After the peasants acquired the gunpowder, they completely destroyed the Bastille. That was the main event that began the Revolution -
After the Storming of the Bastille, the King realized what was happening, and told this family that they were going to flee the country. They were able to pass the borders, when suddenly a man recognized them because of the King’s face on a coin. They were then sent back to Paris, and were executed. -
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Britain, continental Europe and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to 1820 to 1840. This timespan experienced the population growth. -
Even the royal family's attempt to flee was not enough. After they were figured out, they were sent back to France. After that, they were tried and guillotined. -
The first succesful textile mill, owned by Samuel Slater. He was also known as the Father of the America Industrial Revolution. It was one of the invention that used water power. -
A few months after the King's execution, Marie was put in prison. A few days later, the queen was sent to be put on trial. Later, she was sent to the guillotine to be executed -
Cotton gin, was invented by Eli Whitney to make cleaning cotton easier. It was also a way to clean cotton quicker than by hand. It was one of the most important inventions in the industrial revolution. -
After the reign the terror, there was no one who could rule France. In that space, came Napoleon. He crowned himself the first consul -
Abolition of the Slave Trade Act abolishes slave trading in British Empire. Ship Captains fined 120 pounds per slave transported. William Wilberforce was the one who brought the act into play. -
Ushered America into a new era of transportation. This boat traveled incredibly fast, at least in that era. It was the first boat to not use sails. -
After the loss of the Battle of Leipzig, Napoleon abdicates. Later, he gets exiled to Elba. However, he escaped the island and returned to France. -
After his final battle at Waterloo, he lost for the last time. He was later sent to St. Helena. He lived there until he died -
John Deere created the steel plow. It made preparing ground much less work for the soil. It was way more durable than other plows -
This machine sent long and short pulses of electricity along a wire. These pulses could be translated into letters of a message. With this new invention, it took only seconds to communicate with someone in another city. -
Elizabeth was the Queen after King William IV. She was only 18 years old when she became queen. She ruled for more than 63 years. -
When she was queen, she was not allowed to marry anyone below her class. Both of them were first cousins. One weird fact was that she hated pregnancy but had children. -
The solid establishment of trading between Europe and Africa is a significant event because this is the beginning of what led up to the Berlin Conference. When Europe realized that Africa had plenty of natural resources, King Leopold II decided not to wait for those natural resources to be traded to them. They divide Africa to the European nations and decrease the cost of transport back to their mainland. -
The British Raj was a very significant ruling system of India. The East India Company, a major company at the time, collapsed because of the Enfield rifles that they produced. The Sepoy rebellion failed. -
At 42, Albert died of tybloid. Elizabeth was in so much grief, she wore black because of his death. We wear black for funerals -
He was the next king to the throne. Little did he know that he would be a bad ruler. He would also have an enemy. -
The Suez canal is such a trading route that connects two bodies of water that before were impractical to travel through one to another. The land around the water is filled with trading ports, leaving the Suez canal to be highly desired by many countries and empires. I later becomes one of the most important trading routes. -
The end of one of the greatest eras in history. Without this era, we would not be where we are today. The industrial revolution shaped the future of the world. -
The telephone was one of the best inventions of all time. It was used to communicate with others from another location. People had to connect wires to connect people with who they are talking to -
The lightbulb was one of the first producers of artificial light. Thomas Edison originated from Ohio. He died in 1931. -
The Berlin Conference marks when King Leopold II decided to carve up Africa so that Belgium expanded as well as the rest of the European nations. They did not consider cultural boundaries when they chose which land to conquer, so this caused wars amongst the people of Africa later in the future. However, they proceeded anyways to take Africa -
This is important because Ethiopia is one of the only countries in Africa who was able to completely resist European rule. King Menelik II used strategic advantages and played European countries against each other to maintain the Ethiopian independence. It was the only country in Africa to be independent -
The Boer War is significant because it was one of the first "total war" battles fought by the British against the Dutch farmers in South Africa. The Boers used guerilla tactics to hide amongst the people. They believed that if they could kill everybody, they would kill every Boer that had resisted them. -
Farnsworth was the first to invent an electronic television. People were able to watch their favorite shows at home. It was invented in 1927. -
The Bolsheviks were a revolutionary party that was led by Lenin. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was established in 1912. It came after the rule of Nicholas. -
Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Hungarian throne. However, the Serbians did not want that. Princip was sent to later assassinate him. -
The Austrian government blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and declared war on Serbia. Although Russia was allied with Serbia, Germany did not believe that she would mobilize and offered to support Austria if necessary. However, Russia did mobilize and, through their alliance with France, called on the French to mobilize. -
The Germans mounted an attack on the French at Verdun designed to ‘bleed the French dry’. Although the fighting continued for nine months, the battle was inconclusive. Casualties were enormous on both sides with the Germans losing 430,000 men and the French 540,000. -
The British and German naval forces met again but the battle was inconclusive. The German ships did a great deal of damage to British ships before once again withdrawing and the British Admiral Jellicoe decided not to give chase. Although British losses were heavier than
the German, the battle had alarmed both the Kaiser and the German Admiral Scheer, and they decided to keep their fleet consigned to harbor for the remainder of the war. -
Stalin was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee. Stalin vastly increased the scope and power of the state's secret police and intelligence agencies. With propaganda, he took the entire country. -
More than 140,000 Russian workers strike in commemoration of the 12th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Many policemen were killed. After that, Nicholas doubted himself -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, withdrawing Russia from the First World War, ceding much of the former territory of the Russian Empire. The people were not happy with. Ghis caused a huge upset. -
Nicholas was killed from a firing squad. It was commanded by the Bolsheviks. The entire family was in one grave. -
The iron lung was important because it helped people with polio. It was made for breathing circumstances. It is classified as a negative pressure ventilator