Industrial Revolution

Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine+

Mar 5, 1712

Britain's first canal was open

Mar 5, 1761

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The first cotton spinning factory was opened

Mar 5, 1771

COTTON FACTORY

The first steam powered mill began operation

Mar 5, 1779

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Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

Mar 5, 1782

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Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

Mar 5, 1801

The 'luddites' began to destroy machines

Mar 5, 1811

Britain's first passenger steam railway was opened

Mar 5, 1825

The first great cholera epidemic

Mar 5, 1831

Slavery was abolished throughout the british empire

Mar 5, 1833

Henry Fox Talbot

Mar 5, 1834

Henry Fox Talbothttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot

Thomas Edison

Mar 5, 1879

Thomas Edison

Compulsory education for all children is introduced

Mar 19, 1880

First skyscraper was built in Chicago

Mar 19, 1883

Karl Benz invented the first automobile

Mar 19, 1885

Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

Mar 19, 1888

wireless radio invented

Mar 19, 1889

World war 2

Mar 19, 1914