World History Timeline

  • 782 BCE

    The Armenian genocide

    The Armenian genocide
    Yerevan capital of america was founded in 301 AD. The ottoman beat the Armenians in a fight, which lead to the Armenian genocide.
  • Enlightenment Thomas Hobbes

    Enlightenment Thomas Hobbes
    Thomas Hobbes believed that everyone was born bad and cruel, everyone was greedy in his eyes and there was no one to tell him different.
  • The Civil War winners

    The Civil War winners
    The parliament won the battle (Civil War) and the king (Oliver Cromwell) was killed in public. Soon commonwealth was created which meant there was no king just a parliament leader
  • Gas Fawkes fails

    Gas Fawkes fails
    Guy Fawke was trying to explode gunpowder in the House of Parliament in London. Before he could make the explosion he was caught and tortured, soon he was sent to death.
  • The Gunpowder beginning

    The Gunpowder beginning
    The Protestants believed that they weren’t being far in the equality that they were getting. So they thought blowing the House of Parliament up would make it so they seemed stronger and unite.
  • The Gunpowder Poem

    The Gunpowder Poem
    Remember, remember, the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason, plot. We see no reason, why gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot
  • Enlightenment John Locke

    Enlightenment John Locke
    John Locke believed that everyone was born good and selfless, he was opposite from Thomas Hobbes. He felt everyone was born with rights from God, also known as the natural law.
  • The palace of Versailles

    The palace of Versailles
    Kind Louis XIV decided that he was going to build a palace all about him, he wanted to be named the sun king and he named the palace the palace Versailles which had a sun on the front of it for the sun king.
  • The Enlightenment bushes

    The Enlightenment bushes
    During this tie the Greeks and Romans would always want there properties to be very clean and neat. So, they had an enlightenment garden that was full of straight turns and neatly cut bushes.
  • Gibraltar

    Gibraltar
    Gibraltar was captured by the British on August 4, 1704 and then soon after became part of the British naval bastion in the 21st-century
  • Steam engine

    Steam engine
    On June 18, 1712 Thomas Newcomen invents the first steam engine.
  • Weaving machine

    Weaving machine
    On May 21, 1733 the weaving machine was invented by John K and it was also known as the flying shuttle. This invention allowed things to be easier to weave and make fabric.
  • Olaudah Equiano

    Olaudah Equiano
    He was born July 3, 1745 he was kidnapped when he was seven with his sister. He was on a slave ship and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados in west Indies in 1756
  • William Wilberforce

    William Wilberforce
    He was born on February 27, 1759 when he was a member of parliament. He ended the slave trade and his friend was a future Prime Minister.
  • Bridge water canal

    Bridge water canal
    On August 24, 1761 the Bridge water canal opens and it was the first of it in Britain. It was also named after Francis Egerton.
  • Spinning Jenny

    Spinning Jenny
    About November 4, 1768 for the spinning Jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in Lancashire. It allowed people to make cloth much quicker with the machine than their hands
  • Estates general meeting

    Estates general meeting
    On May 5, 1789, 3 people were aloud to represent at this meeting and it was to vote whether or not to tax the 2nd estate. The tennis court oath with the 3rd estate happened because of only being able to have one vote per estate
  • The beginning of French Revolution

    The beginning of French Revolution
    On July 14, 1789, They started out by wanting to store gunpowder in a prison that only had 7 prisoners at that time. During the fight the prisoners were freed and so many of the members were injured.
  • Louis XVI idea

    Louis XVI idea
    Louis agreed to fly the new flag of France on August 4, 1789. The great fear was that the rumors were sent to attack the peasants so everyone was scared to die.
  • The declaration of rights of man

    The declaration of rights of man
    On August 26, 1789, the freedom of speech, religion, and press was officially a law for the French. They had the right to fair trial and people could start making laws. They still questioned the women however.
  • The March of women

    The March of women
    On October 5, 1789, the March of women took place because the price of bread they seemed wasn’t fair. They marched all around the kings palace and soon he was kicked out.
  • First vaccine

    First vaccine
    On May 14, 1796, Jenner took a certain fluid from cowpox and injected into James Phipps arm, hoping it would help stop the smallpox virus.
  • Napoleon as “first consul”

    Napoleon as “first consul”
    On November 9, 1799, Napoleon decided that he was going to declare himself as first consul. After he started declaring himself consul for life, so he was be a leader forever.
  • Napoleon dies

    Napoleon dies
    On may 5, 1821, Napoleon dies due to stomach cancer. He might have been poisoned but they are not for sure.
  • Monroe doctrine

    Monroe doctrine
    On December 2, 1823 President James Monroe was by the Atlantic ocean and not soon after did he draw a line down the entire ocean and declared one side his and one side theres
  • Micheal Sadler interview

    Micheal Sadler interview
    Only 10 hours for kids, declined by parliament. Agreement to visit factories and they were interviews with 48 different people about damage to children.
  • Victoria popularity

    Victoria popularity
    Queen Victoria starting becoming very popular around June 20, 1837. Not soon after, she was in reign and was the queen for 63 years.
  • Death obsession

    Death obsession
    July 16, 1850 is when death started to get out of hand. People would dig up other dead bodies, they had to make a train to just get to a graveyard, people were dying left and right, etc.
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite
    On April 5, 1867 dynamite was made by Alfred noble. It was such a help for burning down certain places and being able to reconstruct things.
  • Cellphone call

    Cellphone call
    On March 10, 1876, the first call was made to Thomas Watson from Alexandra Graham Bell. Yes, they were just across the room from each other, but it still was a great success.
  • Cuban war

    Cuban war
    The Cuban war of independence started on November 5, 1895 and ended in 1898. The Cubans wanted to have nothing to do with Spain.
  • Philippine war

    Philippine war
    On October 21, 1896 our boat out between the Philippines and Spain. This was considered the Philippine war of independence where Cuba and the Philippines ganged up on Spain.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    The war with Spain ended this treaty but there was a crisis that started in the US. A war broke out between Philippines Cuba Guam and Puerto Rico. It was all under uncle Sam’s lap.
  • The empire speech

    The empire speech
    It was election Time and William Jennings Bryan had to give another speech. He was going to talk about the empire, but last time he talked about silver and gold
  • Victorian Era

    Victorian Era
    Queen Victoria was in reign on January 22, 1901. She was looked up to and very popular, so people would try to be exactly like her.
  • Wright brothers

    Wright brothers
    On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their first plane in Kitty hawk North Carolina. It was the first successful airplane, but only stayed up for a few seconds.
  • Assassination

    Assassination
    Archduke franz ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Pricip when he was only 19 years old. Which was one of the reason world war 1 started.
  • World War 1 starts

    World War 1 starts
    The world war started on July 28, 1914 because many countries were in arguments and were willing to risk they’re own life for resources.
  • Genocide begins

    Genocide begins
    The Turkish government got arrested and executed Armenians. They marched through Mesopotamia desert to camp and if they stopped, they would get shot.
  • The Gallipoli campaign beginning

    The Gallipoli campaign beginning
    The Gallipoli campaign started to fight over the sea route to Russia called the Black Sea.
  • Gallipoli campaign ends

    Gallipoli campaign ends
    Gallipoli campaign ends and it was a huge failure for the allies. Which lead to people feeling they were being treated unfairly.
  • Interwar period

    Interwar period
    The interwar period was from November 11, 1918 - September 1, 1939. This was in between the First World War and world war 1 starting in 1914.
  • World war 1 ends

    World war 1 ends
    The war ended on November 11 at 11a.m. Mostly because all of the countries were done fighting and were out of resources to fight.
  • Hitler visits Napoleon

    Hitler visits Napoleon
    On June 28, 1940, Hitler visits Napoleon’s tomb in the les invalides in Paris, France