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1st successful steam engine is built
The history of the steam engine stretches back as far as the 1st century AD. During the industrial revolution, steam engines became the dominant source of power and remained so into the early decades of the 20th century, when advances in the design of the electric motor and the internal combustion engine resulted in the rapid replacement of the steam engine by these technologies. Investigations are being made into the practicalities of reviving the reciprocating steam engine -
Industrial Revolution
was the transition to new manufacturing process. It also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal. It began in Great Britain and within a few decades had spread to Western Europe and the United States. -
Mexico declares its independence
the foundational document of the empire, and therefore, of the Mexican nation. president of the Imperial Regency and to issue a declaration of independence for the new nation. Iturbide was elected president of the Regency, and that afternoon the members of the Regency and the Supreme Junta signed the Declaration. -
Michael Faraday’s dynamo
British physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. Born in 1791 to a poor family in London, Michael Faraday was extremely curious, questioning everything.Michael Faraday built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic rotation that is a continuous circular motion from the circular magnetic force around a wire. -
Taiping 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.n the 20th century, Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, looked on the rebellion as an inspiration, and Chinese leader Mao Zedong glorified the Taiping rebels as early heroic revolutionarie -
Sepoy Mutiny in India
The rebellion posed a considerable threat to Company power in that region and was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. The rebellion is also known as India's First War of Independence, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Rebellion of 1857, the Uprising of 1857, the Sepoy Rebellion and the Sepoy Mutiny. The Mutiny was a result of various grievances. -
Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”-
Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production. Karl Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labour, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of profit and surplus value. Capital proposes an explanation of the "laws of motion" of the capitalist economic system, from its origins throughout its future, by describing the dynamics of the accumulation of capital, the growth of wage -
The Meiji Restoration
The goals of the restored government were expressed by the new emperor in the Charter Oath. His period also saw Japan change from being a feudal society to having a market economy and left the Japanese with a lingering Western influence. The growth of vassals later held inherited lands and provided military service and homage to their lords after the defeat of the armies. -
Franco-Prussian War
The conflict emerged from tensions regarding the German unification. A war against France was deemed necessary to unite the North German Confederation and the independent southern German states, while France was preoccupied by the emergence of a powerful Prussia. The German coalition quickly took charge of the war. -
Spanish-American War begins
Revolts against Spanish rule had occurred for some years in Cuba. There had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in 1873. In the late 1890s, American public opinion was agitated by anti-Spanish propaganda led by journalists such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst which used yellow journalism to criticize Spanish administration of Cuba. -
Boxer Rebellion
The uprising took place against a background of severe drought and the disruption caused by the growth of foreign spheres of influence. The Boxer Protocol of September 7, 1901 provided for the execution of government officials who had supported the Boxers. The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists or "Boxers United in Righteousness" was a secret society which arose in the inland sections of northern coastal province of Shandong. -
Russo-Japanese War
It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden; and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. The resulting campaigns, in which the Japanese military attained victory over the Russian forces arrayed against them, were unexpected by world observers. -
Franz Ferdinand is killed
The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. The assassins, the key members of the clandestine network, and the key Serbian military conspirators who were still alive were arrested, tried, convicted and punished. -
U.S. joins WWI
The United States' entry into World War I came in April 1917. after two and a half years of efforts by President Woodrow Wilson to keep the United States neutral. The sentiment for neutrality was strong among Irish Americans, German Americans and Swedish Americans,[2] as well as among church leaders and women. -
Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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Treaty of Versailles is signed
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Russia becomes the USSR
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Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy
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Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins
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Black Tuesday Stock Market crash
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Germany attacks Poland – WWII begins
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Japans attack on Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares war on Japan
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D-Day
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U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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Nuremberg trials are held
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Apartheid in South Africa
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Korean War is fought
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Vietnam War is fought
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Fidel Castro’s Communism in Cuba
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Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China
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Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR
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Persian Gulf War begins
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USSR collapses & Russia is back
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NAFTA is formed
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WTO is formed