Historical Events from 1750-2000

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    The Enlightenment

  • British takeover of India

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    High Point of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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    First Industrial Revolution

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    North American Revolution

  • Start of Abolitionist Movement

  • Ratification of the US Constitution

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    French Revolution

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    Haitian Revolution

  • Chinese Reject British Request for Expanded Trade

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    Latin American Revolution

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    Latin American War of Independence

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    Tanzimat Reforms in Ottoman Empire

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    First Opium War in China

  • Women’s Rights Convention: Seneca Falls

  • Publication of the Communist Manifesto

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    Tailing Uprising in China

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    Second Opium War

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    Charles Darwin Presents Ideas on Evolution

  • Meji Restoration in Japan

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    Scramble for Africa

  • Berlin Conference

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    Boxer Uprising

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    Japanese War Against China

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    Russo-Japanese War

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    Mexican Revolution

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    Chinese Revolution; end of Qing Dynasty

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    World War I

  • Russian Revolution

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    League of Nations

  • Founding of Chinese Communist Party

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    Mussolini in Power

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    Great Depression

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    Stalin Era

  • Nazi Come to Power

  • New Deal by FDR

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    World War II

  • Pearl Harbor

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    Holocaust

  • UN, World Bank, IMF created

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    Cold War

  • NATO created

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    Korean War

  • Warsaw Pact

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    Vietnam War

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    African Independence Achieved

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    Great Leap Forward

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

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    Soviet War in Afghanistan

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

  • Collapse Soviet Union

  • EU Created