History Important dates (copy)

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Industrial revolution (Britain)

1750-1850

Spinning Jenny

1764, James Hargreaves

Water frame

1769, Richard arkwright

Steam Engine

1769, James Watt

First cotton factory

1771, Richard Arkwright

First reform act

1833

Second reform act

1853

No. of voters increased by gov

1832

Cholera outbreaks

1815-30

Peterloo massacre

1819

Japan Industrial revolution

1870-1920

Matthew Perry → Japan

1853

Treaty of Kanagawa

1854

Emperor Meiji took full control, changing the capital from Kyoto to Tokyo.

1868

Delegation sent to the west to renegotiate treaties, bbut it was unsuccessful.

1871

Constitution set: Diet

1889

Japan Conscription introduced

1873

Samurai rebellion was defeated

1877

Merriwhether Lewis, William Clark journey to the river

1804

Incandescent light bulb

1879

Electricity distribution system (Edison)

1880

George butters + Josephine Cochraine created dishwasher

1886

Spice trade time period

1400s - 1700s

Lord Mcartney

1793

Lord Amherst

1816

First opium war

1839 - 1842

Second opium war

1856-1858

Slave trade started

1400s

Britain Abolished slavery

1833

US banning import of slaves, internal trade still existed

1808

US civil war (abolishment of slavery)

1861-1865

UN Condemning/Banning/abolishing slavery

1948

Henry ford first motorcar

1896

Henry ford company opened

1903

Mass production of ford model t

1909

Blitz

1940-1941

Food rationing

1940

Clothes rationing

1941

Education act - britain

1944

Family allowance britain

1945

National insurance act

1946

NHS

1948

Black plague

1340s - killed 40% of world pop

Medical Rennaisance

1500s-1600s

Period of enlightenment

1700s

Plague epidemic

1665

Cholera identified

1854

Edward Jenner - Vaccination

1796

Louis pasteur - germ theory

1861

Blood groups

1901

First hormone - Female oestrogen

1929

Vitamins, diet and it’s link with health

1912

Sodium citrate to stop clotting of blood

1913

WW1

1914-1918

X-ray

1895

Electron microscope invented.

1931

Prontosil

1932

Hormone testosterone

1930s

Penicillin

1928

WW2

1939-1945

Penicllin timeline

1940 - British government started producing (Howard Florey)

1941 (dec) - USA joined war

1942 - Mass production of penicillin (800 million dollars in produciton)

1943 - British north africa - Used by troops

1944 - Enough for every soldier on d-day (gangrene)

1945 - 2 million doses administered per year

Breveridge report

1942

Romanticism time period

early-mid 1800s

Romanticism 2 artists

Francisco Goya
The parasol 1777

Realism time period

1840 until the late 19th century

Realism 1 artists

George bellows
Gustave Courbett The stone breakers 1849

Camera invention

1816

Dada movement time period

1916 until the mid-1920s

Dada movement 2 artists

George Grosz “Gott mit uns”
Marcel Janco “We had lost confidence in our culture. Everything had to be demolished. We could start again”

Russian revolution (tsar overthrown) Lennin

1917

William Godwin

1793

Micheal bukanin joins socialist international

1868

Paris commune

1871

USSR formed

1924

Dissolution fo USSR

1991

Chinese civil war

1930-50s

PRC (People’s republic of china) formed, mao zedong

1949

German Worker’s Party (nazi’s) formed

1919

Hitler became chancellor

1933

Feminist movement stage 1

Early 1800s

Feminist movement stage 2

1960s

Feminist movement stage 3

1990s-present

Franco-Prussian war

1871

Russo Japanese war

1905

Second naval law passed in Germany

1900

HMS dreadnought built

1906

European arms race

1900-1914

Moroccon crisis 1 (agadir conference)

1905

Moroccon crisis 2 (algeciras conference)

1911

Balkan wars

1912,1913

Bosnian crisis

1908

July crisis

1914

USA entered ww1

1917

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Great depression

1929-1939

Italy invading Abyssinia

1935

Japan invading manchuria

1931

Japan full scale invasion of china

1937

Hitler publicly announced rearmament and reintroduced conscription.

1935

Remilitarization of rhineland

1936