Key Events of the Industrial Revolution

Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine

Mar 5, 1712

Britain’s first canal was opened

Mar 5, 1761

The first cotton spinning factory was opened

Mar 5, 1771

The first steam powered mill began operation

Mar 5, 1779

Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

Mar 5, 1782

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_steam_engine

Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

Mar 5, 1801

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick

The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines

Mar 5, 1811

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened

Mar 5, 1825

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Great_Britain_to_1830

The first great cholera epidemic

Mar 5, 1831

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

Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

Mar 5, 1833