Industrial Revolution

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  • The First Central Bank Invented

  • Steam Engine Invented

  • Flying Shuttle Invented

  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution

    https://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/modernworldhistorytextbook/industrialrevolution/Timeline.html

  • Spinning Wheel Invented

  • Turnpike Invented

  • Cotton Gin Invented

  • 10 million tons of coal mined in Great Britain

  • Luddite Rebellion Began

  • Parliament Passes Law

  • 14 Luddites hanged in Manchester after a rushed one-day trial

  • Poor Law created “poorhouses” for the destitute.

  • British put together a General Board of Health

    British government sets up the General Board of Health to investigate sanitary conditions, setting up local boards to ensure safe water in cities.

  • 10,000 people die in three months in London from Cholera epidemic

  • Public Health Act

    Public Health Act gives government responsibility to ensure public health for housing and sewage.

  • Education Act made school compulsory for children up to age 14

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