Civilisation - Semester one
Category: Иное
Обновлено: 5 янв 2018
Timeline of all the major events we've talked about in Civ class.
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Created byKherbouche Wassim
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1534 The act of supremacy
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King Henry VIII was denied a divorce
He established a new religion (Anglicanism)1688 The glorious revolution
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Crown taken from James II (Catholic)
And given to William III (Protestant)1689 The bill of right
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Establishment of a parliamentary diplomacy1701 Act of settlement
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Catholic monarchs cannot rule1707 Act of union
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Joined England and Scotland1714 The Hanoverian dynasty
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No heirs after the death of the English monarch
A prince with blood relation came from Hanover1715 Emergence of Tories and Whigs
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Tories (conservative) supported exiled Stuarts
Whigs (Liberal) supported the bill of rights1785 The invention of the steam machine
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By James Watt, used coal as fuel.1764 The invention of the spinning machine
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Led to the building of textile factories in the 1770's1776 The independence of American colonies
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From their motherland Britain1801 Act of Union
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Ireland joined Great Britain
This created the United Kingdom1829 Catholic emancipation
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Catholics obtained their freedom of worship1832 The first reform act
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Right of voting was given to the middle class1837 The People's charter
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A petition asking the parliament for 6 events1851 The great exhibition
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An international exhibition of the latest
technological and scientific inventions1859 Darwin's theory of evolution
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Publication of his book "The origin of species"1868 Trader's union congress
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Created to defend the rights of Labours1870 The education act
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Free primary education for all1872 The ballot act
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The right to vote secretly1876 Queen Victoria became the Empress of India
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Restriction of the political power
of the house of lords1900 Creation of the Labour party
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The Spinning Jenny by James Hargreaves
The Spinning frame by Richard Arkwright
The Spinning Mule by Samuel Cripton1787 The Power Loom
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By Edmond Cartwright1785 The Steam Engine
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By James Watt1804 The Steam Power Locomotive
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By Richard Trevithick1870 The First Electric Generator
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By Thomas Edison & Josef Swan1876 The Telephone
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By Alexander Graham Bell1879 The first electric railroad
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In Berlin - Germany1880 The first electric streetcar
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By Guglielmo Marconi1878 The Internal combustion engine
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By Carl Benz1888 The High-speed engine
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By Gottlieb Daimler1896 The Model T
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By Henry Ford1867 The electoral reform act
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Right of voting was extended1837 Victoria became Queen of UK
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16th C17th C18th C19th C20th CThe Victorian Age (1837-1901)First Industrial Revolution (1760's - 1840's)Second Industrial Revolution (1870's - 1914's)
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