MKD 1750-1900 (Era #3)

1756-1763

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

1767

Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

1776

Decl. of Independence (American Revolution)

1776

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (capitalism)

1789

French Revolution Begins

1796

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

1804

Haitian Independence

1807

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1807-08

Janissary Revolt

1815

Congress of Vienna

1820s

Independence in Latin America

1825

Erie Canal opens

1839

1st Opium War in China

1839-1878

Tanzimat Reform

1848

Marx & Engles’ *The Communist Manifesto*

1848-1849

European Revolution

1853

Commodore Perry “opens” Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny

1861

Russian “frees” serfs / ends serfdom

1861-1865

U.S. Civil War

1861-1870

Italian Unification

1863

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

1869

Suez Canal Opens

1871

German Unification

1885

Berlin Conference (“Scramble for Africa”)

1888

Brazil ends slavery (last in Americas)

1893

New Zealand grants women suffrage

1896

Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

1898

Spanish-America War (US acquires Phillippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)

1899-1902

Boer War (British in control of S Africa)