Midterm Chronology

Date and preceeding events + outcomes

1st Wave Globalization

1820-1914: Napoleonic Wars/Industrial Revolution || WWI

2nd Wave Globalization

1945-1970: WWII/Great Depression || United Nations/decolonization

3rd Wave Globalization

1980s-Present: Soviet Collapse || Global supply chains

China’s Cultural Revolution

1966-1976

Chinese (Xinhai) Revolution

1911-1912: Opium Wars || Republic of China

Peace of Westphalia

1648: Thirty Years War || Modern Sovereignty

Congress of Vienna

1814-1815: French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars || Balance of Power

Hijra

622 CE: Muhammad persecution in Mecca || Founding of Medina

Paris Peace Conference

1919-1920: WWI || Treaty of Versailles/League of Nations

Young Turk Revolution

1908

Vasco da Gama’s Voyage to India

1497-1499

Expeditions of Zheng He

1405-1433

British Raj

1858-1947

Partition of British India

1947

Trials of Galileo Galilei

1633

Mongol Globalization

1206-1368

Digital Revolution

1950-Present

4th Industrial Revolution

2016-Present

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

1789: American Revolution/Enlightenment || French Constitution

Communist Manifesto

1848

Haitian Revolution

1791-1804

Travels of Ibn Battuta

1325-1354

Iranian Constitutional Revolution

1905-1911

Armenian Genocide

1915-1923

Holocaust

1941-1945

Bolshevik Revolution

1917

Soviet Famine

1932-1933

Invention of the “Spinning Jenny”

1770

Cuban Revolution

1953-1959