Chapter 22

  • Cholera Epidemic and first public health law in Britain

  • Realism dominant in Western arts and literature

  • Modernization of Paris

  • Pasteur begins studying fermentation

  • Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by the Means of Natural Selection

  • Development of germ theory

  • Pasteur develops pasteurization

  • Mendeleev creates the periodic table

  • 2nd Industrial Revolution

  • Completion of London sewer system

  • Electric streetcars introduced in Europe

  • Max Weber publishes the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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