World History Timeline

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    MJHS History 1st Semester Timeline

  • Seven Years' War Begins

    The Seven Years War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, officially begins when England declares war on France.

  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British,[2] was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.

  • Patent issued for Spinning Jenny

  • Wealth of Nations published

    The book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. Through reflection over the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity and free markets.

  • American Declaration of Independence is Approved by Congress

  • Tennis Court Oath

    A pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. The deputies pledged not to stop the meetings until the constitution has been written.

  • Storming of the Bastille

    The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.

  • Signing of the French Declaration of The Rights Of Man

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen), passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights.

  • French Directory Dismissed

    The Directory and the French Revolution itself came to an end with the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799) in which General Napoléon Bonaparte overthrew the Directory and replaced it with the Consulate.

  • Begining of Reign of Terror

    A period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris), and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.

  • Louisiana Purchase Is Signed

  • Haiti Declares Independence

  • Mexico Declares Independence From Spain

  • Columbia Declares Independence From Spain

  • War of 1812

    The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its American Indian allies.

  • Beginning of Hundred Days

    The period between Emperor Napoleon of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days)

  • Battle of Waterloo

    A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher.

  • Argentina Declares Independence From Spain

  • Brazil Declares Independence From Portugal

  • Liverpool-Manchester Railroad Opens

    The first modern railway: the first to rely exclusively on steam power, with no horse-drawn traffic permitted at any time; the first to be entirely double track throughout its length; the first to have a signalling system; the first to be fully timetabled; the first to be powered entirely by its own motive power; and the first to carry mail.

  • English Slave Trade Act Signed

    Act of Parliament which placed limitations of the number of people that British slave ships could transport, related to tonnage. It was the first British legislation passed to regulate slave shipping.

  • Communist Manifesto Published

    An 1848 publication written by economic and political theorists and social scientists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts.

  • Patent Isssued For The Machine Gun

  • Boshin War

    The Boshin War, was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the imperial court.

  • Patent Issued for telegraph

  • Henry Ford Recieves Patent for Motor Carriage