Key Moments In The Industrial Revolution

Thomas Newcomen built the first steam engine

Feb 27, 1712

Britain’s first canal was opened

Feb 27, 1761

The first cotton spinning factory was opened

Feb 27, 1771

The first steam powered mill began operation

Feb 27, 1779

Matthew Boulton and James Watt patented the first rotary steam engine

Feb 27, 1782

Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam locomotive

Dec 24, 1801

http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/richard-trevithicks-first-steam-carriage'

The ‘Luddites’ began to destroy machines

Feb 27, 1811

http://www.luddites200.org.uk/theLuddites.html'

Britain’s first passenger steam railway was opened

Feb 27, 1825

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=219'

The first great cholera epidemic

Feb 27, 1831

http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/p-health/cholera3.htm'

Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire

Feb 27, 1833

http://www.pdavis.nl/Legis_07.htm'

Henry Fox Talbot produced the first photograph

Mar 5, 1834

Charles Dickens Wrote Oliver Twist

Mar 5, 1838

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Du2mQpQNeY

Tasmania Established as a British Colony

Mar 5, 1856

Sheffield Was Established

Mar 5, 1859

Telephone invented

Mar 5, 1876

Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb

Mar 5, 1879

Compulsory education for all children is introduced

Mar 5, 1880

First skyscraper was built in Chicago

Mar 5, 1883

Karl Benz invented the first automobile

Mar 5, 1885

Heinrich Hertz produced radio waves

Mar 5, 1888

Wireless radio invented

Mar 5, 1889

the eiffel tower was finished

Mar 5, 1889

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayH8ZCfY1_k

Federation of Australia

Mar 5, 1901

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjlj3KKKAlA

Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered flight

Mar 5, 1903

Outbreak of World War I

Mar 5, 1914