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Industrial Revolution
Major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation had an immense effect on socio-economic and cultural conditions. It also marked a major turning point in human social history, with every aspect of daily life and human society eventually influenced in some way. -
American Revolution
The high taxes that King George imposed on the colonists was what started the war, fought between the Great Britain vs thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. The 13 colonies were fighting for liberty, free press, right of speech, lower taxes, and many other rights. -
Brabant Revolution
This was a populist revolt that broke out in the Austrian Netherlands against Emperor Joseph II’s radical reforms. It was first a way of the people to protest but soon led to violence that became a way for the people to gain their independence. They were successful in 1789, and the short-lived United States of Belgium was formed. Because the Holy Roman Empire took awhile to respond to the new cededUnited States of Belgium. Revolutionaries were crushed in 1790. -
French Revolution of 1789
The revolt that resulted in the abolition of the French absolute monarchy with the entire social three estate system overthrown by the third estate how wanted to abolish this social order. During this period, French citizens razed and redesigned their country’s political landscape, uprooting centuries-old institutions such as absolute monarchy and the feudal system. -
Liége Revolution
In 1789, Revolution breaks out simultaneously in Paris and Liège. Hoensbroeck flees to Germany and the Liège Republic is proclaimed. In 1792, after his death, both the Republic of Liege and the Austrian Netherlands were taken under French control. In 1793, the citizens of Liege want the Principality to be annexed but the Austrian Netherlands defeat the French and again put a priest as the head of the area. In 1794, the French recapture the Principality and all rebellion is lost. -
Haitian Revolutions
The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. The Haitian Revolution created the second independent country in the Americas after the United States became independent in 1783. U.S. political leaders, many of them slaveowners, reacted to the emergence of Haiti as a state borne out of a slave revolt with mixed feelings. -
Irish Rebellion
The immediate origins of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland can be traced to the setting up of the Society of United Irishmen in Belfast in October 1791. Inspired by the French Revolution, and with great admiration for the new democracy of the United States, the United Irishmen. They came together to secure a reform of the Irish parliament; and they sought to achieve this goal by uniting Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter in Ireland into a single movement. -
Mexican War of Independence
Between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial authorities, this revolution sought independence from Spain. Its started like the typical peasants’ rebellion against their masters but soon became an alliance between Mexican ex-royalists and guerilla insurgents. -
Honduran Revolutions
In the early 19th century, Napoleon's occupation of Spain led to the outbreak of revolts all across Spanish America. In New Spain, all of the fighting by those seeking independence was done in the center of that area from 1810 to 1821, what today is central Mexico. Once the Viceroy was defeated in the capital city –today Mexico City- in 1821, the news of the independence were sent to all the territories of New Spain. -
Revolutionary War of Peru
By early 1824, Liberator Simon Bolivar had the Spanish on the run in western South America. Colombia and Venezuela had been liberated. Peru was still a royalist stronghold, however, and there were two mighty Spanish armies in the highlands near. Absacal annexed Upper Peru to the viceroyalty, which benefited the Lima merchants as trade. Therefore Peru became the second to last redoubt of the Spanish Monarchy in South America. -
Belgium Revolutions
At the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, Belgium (The Southern Netherlands) and the Northern Netherlands (Holland) were united to form one State. This new state was ruled by King William I. Although his policy was beneficial to the Belgian bourgeoisie, there was protest. Soon after, unionism was created. -
Serbian Revolutions
A constitutional change and national uprising in Serbia, where the territory changed from an Ottoman province into a constitutional monarchy. This revolution included a struggle for independence with to armed uprisings taking place that eventually lead to a cease-fire. -
Pentrich Revolution
A group of village men from Pentrich in Derbyshire, England rose up in rebellion against the Crown. It was dubbed “the Last Revolution in England,” though it might have more accurately been called a government-inspired provocation to action, designed to justify repression. -
July Revolutions
Overthrow of King Charles X, marked the transition from a constitutional monarchy to another called the July Monarchy. This would also include the transition of power from the House of Bourbon to its other branch, The House of Orleans. This is turn would also change the rule from a popular sovereignty to hereditary rights. -
Texas Revolutions
This resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Texas after the final battle on April 21, 1836. Sporadic conflicts between the two nations continued into the 1840s, finally being resolved with the Mexican–American War of 1846 to 1848 after the annexation of Texas to the United States of America. -
Taipeng Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion was a massive civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. It was a millenarian movement led by Hong Xiuquan, who announced that he had received visions in which he learned that he was the younger brother of Jesus. At least 20 million people died, mainly civilians, in one of the deadliest military conflicts in history. -
Crimean War
It was fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish. The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan. Another major factor was the dispute between Russia and France over the privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. -
Sepoy Rebellion
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India. The mutiny gave the British East India Company evidencethat the sepoy never be allowed such numbers and the British should sweep away all chance of nationhood for nearly a century. -
Spanish-American War
Signaled the emergence of the US as a great power onto the world stage of international relations and diplomacy. The war demonstrated a US move towards imperialism (the taking of colonies). In general, this shift in policy was quite surprising, since the US, once a colony itself, had generally opposed the European colonial habit. -
Phillipine Revolution
After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. On February 4, 1899, just two days before the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, fighting broke out between American forces and Filipino nationalists led by Emilio Aguinaldo who sought independence rather than a change in colonial rulers. The ensuing Philippine-American War lasted three years and resulted in the death of over 4,200 Americans.
