The Modern Era:1750-1914

  • Seven Years War

  • 1st Industrial Revolution

  • American Revolution

  • French Revolution

  • Haitian Revolution

  • Congress of Viena

  • Latin American Independence

  • 1st Opium War in China

  • Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engles

  • Japan opened up by Commodore Matthew Perry

  • Crimean War (Russia vs. Ottoman Empire)

  • Sepoy Rebellion against the British

  • Emancipation of Russian Serfs by Alexander II

  • Taiping Rebellion

  • German Unification

  • Berlin Confrence:Began the Scramble for Africa

  • Spanish American War

  • Boer War

  • Boxer Rebellion

  • World War I Begins