Christian By comptchr Jan 1, 1700 Industrial Revolution Jan 1, 1712 1st successful steam engine is built Jan 1, 1813 Mexico declares its independence Mar 6, 1831 Michael Faraday’s dynamo Mar 6, 1850 Taiping rebellion Mar 6, 1857 Sepoy Mutiny in India Mar 6, 1867 Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”- Mar 6, 1868 The Meiji Restoration Mar 6, 1870 Franco-Prussian War Mar 6, 1898 Spanish-American War begins Mar 6, 1899 Boxer Rebellion Mar 6, 1907 Russo-Japanese War Mar 6, 1914 Franz Ferdinand is killed Mar 6, 1917 Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia Mar 6, 1917 U.S. joins WWI Mar 6, 1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed Mar 6, 1921 Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy Oct 6, 1922 Russia becomes the USSR Mar 6, 1929 Black Tuesday Stock Market crash Mar 6, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Mar 6, 1939 Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins Mar 6, 1941 Japans attack on Pearl Harbor Mar 6, 1941 U.S. declares war on Japan Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Mar 6, 1945 Nuremberg trials are held Aug 15, 1945 U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima Mar 6, 1950 Korean War is fought Mar 6, 1956 Vietnam War is fought Mar 6, 1961 Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba Mar 6, 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR Mar 6, 1990 Persian Gulf War begins Mar 6, 1991 USSR collapses & Russia is back