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The steam engine was invented by James Watt (although there are certain antecedents such as the Eolipid of Heron of Alexandria).
Its creation gave rise to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. It also played a very important role in industries and the transport. -
Revolution that sought to transform the structures of the old regime. It became a point of reference for the political revolutions that shook Europe and America throughout the 19th century.
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Napoleon is crowned emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII. The whole performance is a staging aimed at creating an imperial and grandiose epic. The pompous ceremony takes place in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. As "emperor of the French", Bonaparte would centralize all power in his hands and establish a new social order based on the defense of order and property.
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The labor movement is a political movement in which salaried workers are associated, temporarily or permanently, for professional or political purposes, but always based on their working-class nature, that is, their status as a person who sells their labor power to another, called capitalist, who owns the means of production and is also the owner of the goods produced.
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Conference between the representatives of the greatest powers in Europe that was led by the Austrian politician Klemens Wenzel von Metternich.
Its purpose was to redraw the political map of the continent after the defeat of the French Napoleonic Empire, and to try to control and eliminate the liberal revolutions that took place. -
Decisive battle between Napoleon Bonaparte's French imperial troops and the Anglo-Prussian forces commanded by Wellington.
A French army, under the command of Napoleon, was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition. -
After the deaths of Louis XVI and Louis XVII, Napoleon consolidated himself as governor of the French Empire, which caused the restoration of the Bourbons to be affected and delayed. However, the defeat of Napoleon between 1813 and 1814 offered Louis XVIII the possibility of establishing a constitutional monarchy that was affected during the 100 days of the new Napoleonic Empire. Once Napoleon was defeated, he was able to return to power but would soon be ousted by Charles X, his successor.
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Process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world.
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Term of historiographical use with which the political revolution included in the process of revolutionary transformations in all areas with which the Modern Age closes and the Contemporary Age begins
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The French conquest of Algeria began on June 14, 1830 with the landing of General Bourmont at Staoueli, after defeating the Algerian troops on the 19th and 24th, taking Algiers on 5 July. This became a Gallic colony until 1962, when this region of North Africa declared its independence after a long war that had begun in 1954.
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The main ideology of this first manifesto is all the ideas and ways of thinking that Karl Marx himself had and all the Marxist ideology. These ideas referred to the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat to end the established socio-economic system, to end inequality between social classes and eliminate private property.
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First large organization that tried to unite workers from different countries internationally.
Its aims were the political organization of the proletariat in Europe and the rest of the world. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels collaborated. Mikhail Bakunin also took part, and due to the tensions he suffered with Marx, there was a confrontation between Marxists and anarchists, after which Bakunin's supporters were expelled and the second AIT was created. -
The Franco-Prussian War began on July 19, 1870 and ended on May 10, 1871. France was defeated by Prussia, about 240,000 people died.
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Phase of rapid standardization and industrialization from the late 19th century into the early 20th
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Imperialism is a policy or ideology of extending the rule over peoples and other countries, for extending political and economic access, power and control, through employing hard power especially military force.
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Insurrectionary government that was formed after the revolution that dethroned Napoleon III. It was considered a revolutionary attempt by the working classes.
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The Berlin Conference, held between 15 November 1884 and 26 February 1885 in the city of Berlin, was convened by France and the United Kingdom and organized by the Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck, in order to solving the problems involved in colonial expansion in Africa and resolving its distribution.
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It occurs when at the Berlin conference, the Congo is assigned as a privately owned colony and as a territory for the exploitation of raw materials. The Belgian administrators forced the entire indigenous population to collect this material to export it, this territory was privately owned by the Belgian king Leopold ll until 1908, when it became part of all of Belgium, from 'this time it was a colony until 1960, the year of its independence.
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It was a society formed by Labor and Socialist parties in 1889 who wanted to coordinate their own activity. Unlike the first AIT, which embraced many different ideologies, once the anarchists were expelled in 1893, it took on a clear social-Marxist tendency. It was set up as a homogeneous organization in which only the socialist parties representing millions of workers participate and in which the main goal was to improve the living conditions of the workers.
