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Jan 1, 1543
Scientific Revolution
Scientific RevolutionThe scientific revolution was the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed views of society and nature.
The scientific revolution ended on 1700. -
Galileo Galilei invented the telescope
Was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for heliocentrism. -
Francis Bacon extremly influential
After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. -
Issac Newton publishes his book
widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus. -
Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763 Cause: British leaders feared that more fighting would take place on the frontier if colonists kept moving onto American Indian lands.
Effect: This law banned British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountians. It also ordered settlers to leave the upper Ohio River Valley. -
American Revolution begans
merican RevolutionLocation:In the thirteen colonies.
The thirteen were: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, Province of New York, Province of North Carolina, and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. -
Stamp Act
Cause: The British Government needed to create money to support the Army so they created the Stamp Act of 1765. This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
Effect: The colonists protested against the Stamp Act immediately. Colonists formed a secret society called the Sons of Liberty. -
Louis XVI becomes King
King from 1774- 1792 who was deposed during the French Revolution and executed in 1793. -
Samuel Adams helps to Declaration of Independence
Adams was a failed Bostonian businessman who became an activist in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. He organized the first Committee of Correspondence of Boston, which communicated with other similar organizations -
Benjamin Franklin helps to Declaration of Independence
He was a delegate for the Second Continental Congress and a member of the committee responsible for helping to draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776, for tha he is considered one of the founders of United States. -
Charles Alexandre de Calon
French Controller-General of Finances from 1783 to 1787, whose discovery of the perilous state of French finances in 1786 precipitated the crisis leading to the Revolution. -
Begans the French Revolution
French Revolution Issue: Financial crisis, Influence of the American Revolution and the enlightenment and Social inequalities.
Outcomes: Napoleon Bonaparte, emerging middle class.The región of terror the original goal was to establish a more democratic government -
Maximilien Robespierre:abolition of slavery
As a member of the Estates-General, the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club, he opposed the death penalty and advocated the abolition of slavery, while supporting equality of rights, universal male suffrage and the establishment of a republic. He opposed dechristianisation of France, war with Austria and the possibility of a coup by the Marquis de Lafayette. As a member of the Committee of Public Safety, he was an important figure during the period of the Revolution commonly known as the R -
Jhon Adams becomes the second president of USA
A prominent Boston lawyer who first became famous for defending the British soldiers accused of murdering five civilians in the Boston Massacre. -
The Napoleonic Revolution starts
Is generally classified as including the fourth and final stage of the French Revolution.
Isues and Outmes:
Combination Act outlawed trade unionism and collective bargaining by workers.
Journeymen Cordwainer's union includes a closed-shop clause in its constitution in New York City.
Commonwealth v. Pullis was the first known court case arising from a labor strike in the United States. -
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes empero of France
A general in the French army leader of the 1799.Napoleon´s accession marked the end of the French revolution. He was king from 1804-1814 -
Alexaner I of Russia
He ruled Russia during the chaotic period of the Napoleonic Wars. As prince and emperor, Alexander often used liberal rhetoric, but continued Russia's absolutist policies in practice.
In April 1812, Britain, Russia and Sweden signed secret agreements directed against Napoleon.
The central issue for both Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I was control over Poland. -
Arthur Wesley
British Army officer and statesman who defeated Napoleon I at Waterloo
