Civics Timeline

  • 27 BCE

    The Roman Empire and bureaucracy

    What The Roman Republic is, the bureaucratization of the Roman state, a long and slow process, can be traced to the Roman Empire, when there was a more systematic effort to provide a more centralized administration of the provinces.
  • The Student Movement

    The student Movement is students activism or campus activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change. They are often focused on schools, curriculum, and educational funding, student groups have influenced greater political events.
  • The Industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution, now also known as the First Industrial Revolution, was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
  • the American Revolution

    The American Revolution is the political Revolution that occured in colonial North America between 1765 and ended 1783 by signing a peace treaty.
  • The French Revolution

    The French Revolution started in May 1789 when the Ancien Régime was abolished in favour of a constitutional monarchy. The revolution then ended in 1799
  • The feminist movement

    What The feminist movement refers to a series of political campaigns for reforms on issues such as domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment,and sexual violence. All of these things that were and still happening to women is what started the feminist movement.
  • The Suffrage Movement in Canada

    In 1916, suffrage was given to women in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The federal government granted limited war-time suffrage to some women in 1917, and followed with full suffrage in 1918. By the close of 1922, all the Canadian provinces, except Quebec, had granted full suffrage to White and Black women.
  • The Russian Revolution

    The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire, commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1917 and concluding in 1923 with the Bolshevik establishment of the Soviet Union at the end of the Civil War.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression was happening worldwide and the economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s. The beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across the world; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s.
  • The end of Apartheid

    Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa's Nationalist Party in 1948 to the country's harsh, institutionalized system of racial segregation, came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994.
  • The civil rights Movement

    The civil rights movement in the United States was a decades-long struggle by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States
  • The end of communism

    The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the culminating point of the revolutionary changes sweeping East Central Europe in 1989. The Revolutions of 1989 formed part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.
  • the LGBTQ2 Movements

    The Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement is a social movement to advocate for LGBT people in society Social movements may focus on equal rights, such as the 2000s movement for marriage equality, or they may focus on liberation, as in the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • 9/11 Truth movement

    The 9/11 Truth movement are conspiracies who dispute the general consensus of the attack on the United States of America on September 11, 2001. The group disputes the consensus that Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners, crashed them into the Pentagon and the original World Trade Center Twin Towers, where the crashes led to their collapse
  • Climate movement

    The climate movement is the collective of nongovernmental organizations engaged in activism related to the issues of climate change.
  • Idle No More and other Indigenous Movements

    Idle No More is an ongoing protest movement, founded in December 2012 by four women: three First Nations women and one non-Native ally.
  • Black Lives Matter

    Black lives matter is political and social movement advocating for non-violent civil disobedience in protest against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people.