Key Events Of The Industrial Revolution

The first Steam Engine

Mar 3, 1712

Britain's first canal

Mar 3, 1761

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_and_when_was_the_first_canal_built_in_Britain#slide=3&article=Where_and_when_was_the_first_canal_built_in_Britain

The first Cotton Spinning Factory was oppend

Mar 6, 1771

The first steam powered mill began operation

Mar 6, 1779

Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

Mar 6, 1782

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwattsenginespread.htm

The Demonstration of the first steam locomotive

Mar 10, 1801

The Luddites began to destroy machines

Mar 10, 1811

Britan's first passenger railway was opened

Mar 10, 1825

The first great cholera epidemic

Apr 11, 1831

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak

Slavery was abolished throughout British empire

Sep 29, 1833

Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

Mar 10, 1834

Telephone was invented

Mar 10, 1876

http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm

Thomas Edison invents the ligtbulb

Mar 10, 1879

Compulsory education for all children is introduced

Mar 10, 1880

The first Skyscraper was built in Chicago

Jun 13, 1883

Karl Benz invented the first automobile

Apr 13, 1885

Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

Mar 13, 1888

Wireless radio invented

Mar 13, 1889

Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

Mar 13, 1903

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Orville_and_Wilbur_wright_invented_the_first_powered_what

Outbreak of World War I

Oct 13, 1914

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/ww1-centenary/every-man-remembered