Industrial Revolution

Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine

Mar 6, 1712

Britain’s first canal was opened

Mar 6, 1761

The first cotton spinning factory was opened

Mar 6, 1771

The first steam powered mill began operation

Mar 10, 1779

Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

Mar 10, 1782

Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

Mar 10, 1801

steam locomtive

The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines

Mar 10, 1811

luddites

Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened

Mar 10, 1825

railway

The first great cholera epidemic

Mar 10, 1831

cholera epidemic

Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

Mar 10, 1833

slavery

Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

Mar 10, 1834

Telephone invented

Mar 10, 1876

Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

Mar 10, 1879

Compulsory education for all children is introduced

Mar 10, 1880

schooling

First skyscraper was built in Chicago

Mar 10, 1883

Karl Benz invented the first automobile

Mar 10, 1885

Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

Mar 10, 1888

Wireless radio invented

Mar 10, 1889

Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

Mar 10, 1903

Outbreak of World War I

Mar 10, 1914