Unit 5 APWH timeline
Category: History
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1642: Death of Galileo (enlightenment)1651: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (enlightenment)1687: Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica (enlightenment)1691: John Locke, Two Treatises on Government (enlightenment)1762: Voltaire, Candide; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract (enlightenment)1776: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (enlightenment)1792: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (enlightenment)1808: Napoleon makes his brother king of Spain (Atlantic revolution; Latin American)1754-63: French and Indian War (Atlantic revolution; US)1765: Stamp Act (Atlantic revolution; US)1773: Boston Tea Party (Atlantic revolution; US)1775-1783: American War of Independence (Atlantic revolution; US)1788: US Constitution (Atlantic revolution; US)1789: Louis XVI calls Estates General; start of French Revolution (Atlantic revolution; French)1793: Louis XVI is executed (Atlantic revolution; French)1793-4: Reign of Terror (Atlantic revolution; French)1804: Napoleon crowns himself emperor (Atlantic revolution; French)1815: Napoleon is defeated (Atlantic revolution; French)1791: Haitian Revolution starts (Atlantic revolution; Haiti)1804: Haiti becomes independent (Atlantic revolution; Haiti)1810: Latin American Revolutions start (including Mexican War of Independence)(Atlantic revolution; Latin American)1830: almost all of South and Central America is independent from Spain(Atlantic revolution; Latin American)15th century: invention of printing (in Europe) (enlightenment)16th century: Protestant Reformation (enlightenment)1803-1815: Napoleonic Wars (France vs everyone else) (Nationalism)1806: End of Holy Roman Empire (Nationalism)1810-1830: Latin American Revolutions (Nationalism)1832: Greece becomes independent from Ottoman Empire (Nationalism)1861: Foundation of unified kingdom of Italy (Nationalism)1871: Rome becomes part of Italy; Foundation of German Empire (Nationalism)1878: Serbia becomes independent from Ottoman Empire (Nationalism)1896-1898: Philippine Revolution (Nationalism)
(1898 is when USA took Philippines from Spain)18th century: Agricultural Revolution (industrial rev)1712: first steam engine (used to pump water from mines) (industrial rev)1761: first canal in Britain (industrial rev)1764: Spinning Jenny (machine for spinning cotton) (industrial rev)1785: Power Loom (machine for weaving cotton) (industrial rev)1799: Combination Act passed (banned trade unions) (industrial rev)1801: First steam locomotive (like a steam-powered car) (industrial rev)1803: Cotton becomes Britain’s biggest export (industrial rev)1811: first large-scale Luddite riot (industrial rev)1848: Cholera epidemic kills 52,000 people (industrial rev)1851: Half of Britain’s population now lives in towns (industrial rev)1789 – Samuel Slater smuggles plans for spinning machine to USA (industrial rev; not just Britain)1793 – cotton gin (USA) (industrial rev; not just Britain)1799 – William Cockerill smuggles plans for spinning machine to Belgium (industrial rev; not just Britain)1799-1815 – Napoleonic Wars (delayed industrialization in Europe) (industrial rev; not just Britain)1869 – Transcontinental Railroad finished in USA (industrial rev; not just Britain)1879 – electric light bulb invented (USA) (industrial rev; not just Britain)1886 – first practical automobile (Germany; Benz Patent-Motorwagen) (industrial rev; not just Britain)1903 – first airplane (USA) (industrial rev; not just Britain)1453：conquered Constantinople (Ottoman; gov role)1450-1750: Ottoman => the strong sword of Islam (Ottoman; gov role)1750-1900: the sick man of Europe (Ottoman; gov role)19th century: Janissaries => highly conservative (Ottoman; gov role)1789-1807: Selim III (1st to attempt to modernize; not successful) (Ottoman; gov role)1839-1876: Tanzimat movement (Ottoman; gov role)1808-1839: Sultan Muhmud II (Peter the Great of the Ottoman emppire) (Ottoman; gov role)1856: Muslims, Jews, and Christians were made legally equal (Ottoman; gov role)1867: Sultan Abdülaziz became the first Ottoman Sultan to travel outside the empire (went to UK) (Ottoman; gov role)1858: secondary school for girls opened in Istanbul (Ottoman; gov role)1870: teacher training college for women opened (Ottoman; gov role)1876: Young Ottomans won a victory: they forced Sultan Abdülaziz to abdicate (Ottoman; gov role)1908: the Young Turks took power in
a military coup (Ottoman; gov role)
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