Historical Events from 1750-2000 By Evazroth Period: 1715 to 1789 The Enlightenment 1750 British takeover of India Period: 1750 to 1800 High Point of the Atlantic Slave Trade Period: 1760 to 1789 First Industrial Revolution Period: 1775 to 1787 North American Revolution 1780 Start of Abolitionist Movement 1788 Ratification of the US Constitution Period: 1789 to 1799 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution 1793 Chinese Reject British Request for Expanded Trade Period: 1806 to 1826 Latin American Revolution Period: 1808 to 1825 Latin American War of Independence Period: 1839 to 1876 Tanzimat Reforms in Ottoman Empire Period: 1840 to 1842 First Opium War in China 1848 Women’s Rights Convention: Seneca Falls 1848 Publication of the Communist Manifesto Period: 1850 to 1864 Tailing Uprising in China Period: 1856 to 1858 Second Opium War Period: 1859 to 1871 Charles Darwin Presents Ideas on Evolution 1868 Meji Restoration in Japan Period: 1875 to 1900 Scramble for Africa 1885 Berlin Conference Period: 1889 to 1901 Boxer Uprising Period: 1894 to 1895 Japanese War Against China Period: 1904 to 1905 Russo-Japanese War Period: 1910 to 1920 Mexican Revolution Period: 1911 to 1912 Chinese Revolution; end of Qing Dynasty Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1917 Russian Revolution Period: 1920 to 1946 League of Nations 1921 Founding of Chinese Communist Party Period: 1922 to 1943 Mussolini in Power Period: 1929 to 1933 Great Depression Period: 1929 to 1953 Stalin Era 1933 Nazi Come to Power 1933 New Deal by FDR Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II 1941 Pearl Harbor Period: 1941 to 1945 Holocaust 1945 UN, World Bank, IMF created Period: 1946 to 1991 Cold War 1949 NATO created Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War 1955 Warsaw Pact Period: 1955 to 1975 Vietnam War Period: 1957 to 1975 African Independence Achieved Period: 1958 to 1962 Great Leap Forward 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Period: 1979 to 1989 Soviet War in Afghanistan 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall 1991 Collapse Soviet Union 1993 EU Created