Modern History 1750-1918

By estella.mihovilovic

  • Enclosure of land increases in Britain

  • Period: to

    Modern History

  • James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny

  • Richard Arkwright opens first factory

  • Declaration of independence (USA)

  • James Watt invents a steam engine to power machines in factories

  • Cotton gin

    Invented by: Eli Whitney
    Where: in Georgia
    Why: to speed up the process of removing seeds from cotton fibre

  • Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin

  • Edward Jenner develops smallpox vaccination

  • British governments bans slave trade

  • George Stephenson the rocket steam locomotive

  • Factory act

  • Slavery abolition act

  • Brunel's SS Great western the first transalantic steamship

  • Samuel Morse invents the telegraph

  • Elias Howe invents the sewing machine

  • The communist manifesto is published

  • Elisha Otis invents the elevator safety break

  • The Bessemer Method for processing steel is invented

  • Eight hours movement

  • Henry Bessemer develops process to mass produce steel

  • Alfred Nobel creates dynamite

  • Louis Pasteur develops vaccines for diseases

  • Overland telegraph links Australia

  • Alexander graham bell patents the telephone

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

  • Karl Benz produces the first automobile

  • The wright brother make first powered flight

  • Henry Ford creates the Model T

  • Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I

  • Austria-Hungary invades Russia.

  • Allied forces halt German advance into France during First Battle of the Marne

  • Germany begins naval blockade of Great Britain

  • Allied forces land on the Gallipoli Peninsula of the Ottoman Empire

  • Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Germany begins the attack on Verdun

    Germany begins the attack on Verdun

  • Naval Battle of Jutland takes place between British and German fleets

  • Allied offensive begins the Battle of the Somme

    Allied offensive begins the Battle of the Somme

  • Battle of Verdun ends with 550,000 French and 450,000 German casualties

  • Germany returns to unrestricted submarine warfare halted after the sinking of the Lusitania

  • United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany

  • The United States declares war on Germany

  • American combat forces arrive in France

  • Russia signs armistice with Germany

  • American women recruited to serve as bilingual telephone operators for the AEF arrive in Europe

  • Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany

  • Germany begins its final offensive of the war

  • United States forces are victorious in the Battle of Cantigny, the first independent American operation

  • American forces stop German attempt to cross the Marne River at Chateau-Thierry

    American forces stop German attempt to cross the Marne River at Chateau-Thierry

  • American First Army attacks St. Mihiel salient

    American First Army attacks St. Mihiel salient

  • Allied forces begin the attack at Meusse-Argonne, the final offensive of the war

    Allied forces begin the attack at Meusse-Argonne, the final offensive of the war

  • Germany signs the Armistice at Compiègne, ending World War I

  • British and American forces enter Germany

  • Invention of the steam engine

    invention of the steam engine 1965