WHAP 1750-1900 Dates Quiz

1756-1763 7 Years War, (French & Indian War)

1767, Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

1776, Declaration of Independence

1776, Smith writes Wealth of Nations

1789, French Revolution begins

1798, Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

1804, Haitian independence

1807, British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1807-1808, Janissary Revolt

1815, Congress of Vienna

1820s, Independence in Latin America

1839, 1st Opium War in China

1839-1878, Tanzimat Reforms

1848, Marx & Engles’ The Communist Manifesto

1848-1849, European Revolutions

1853, Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857, Sepoy Mutiny

1861, End of Russian serfdom

1861-1865, U.S. Civil War

1861-1870, Italian Unification

1863, U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

1871, German Unification

1885, Berlin Conference

1893, New Zealand grants women suffrage

1896, Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

1898, Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines & Cuba & Guam, & Puerto Rico)

1899 -1902, Boer War (British gain control of S Africa)