History Important dates

MYP Course

Industrial revolution (Britain)

1750-1850

Spinning Jenny

1764, James Hargreaves

Water frame

1769, Richard arkwright

Power loom

1784, Edmund Cartwright

Cotton gin

1793, Eli Whitney

Steam Engine

1769, James Watt

Open Heath Furnace

1866, Siemens

First cotton factory

1771, Richard Arkwright

First reform act

1833

Second reform act

1853

No. of voters increased by gov

1832

Cholera outbreaks

1817-1826, 1829-1851, 1852-1860

Peterloo massacre

1811

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

Education was made compulsary in Japan

1872

Japan Conscription introduced

1873

Samurai rebellion was defeated

1877

Britain and others to give up extraterritorial rights - Japan

1894

Foreign control over tariffs was also removed - Japan

1911

Merriwhether Lewis, William Clark journey to the river

1804

Edison Speaking Phonograph Company to sell phonograph

1878

Incandescent light bulb

1879

Electricity distribution system (Edison)

1880

George butters + Josephine Cochraine created dishwasher

1886

Spice trade time period

1400s - 1700s

Manchus started ruling over the mings

1640s

Lord Mcartney

1793

Lord Amherst

1816

First opium war

1839 - 1842

Second opium war

1856-1858

Boxer rebellion

1901

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 outbreaks

1817-1826, 1829-1851, 1852-1860

Cholera identified

1854

Edward Jenner - Vaccination

1796

Louis pasteur - germ theory

1861

Patrick Manson - Mosquitoes

1884

Crimean war - Florence nightingale and Mary seacole

1853-1856

Blood groups

1901

First hormone - Female oestrogen

1902

Vitamins, diet and it’s link with health

1912

Sodium citrate to stop clotting of blood

1913

WW1

1914-1918

X-ray

1895

Marie curie nobel prize

1903

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

1798 until 1837 (early-mid 1800s)

Romanticism 2 artists

• John Constable (1776-1873)

• Francisco Goya (1746-1828)

Realism time period

1840 until the late 19th century

Realism 2 artists

• Luke Fildes

• George Bellows

Camera invention

1816

Dada movement time period

1916 until the mid-1920s

Dada movement 2 artists

George Grosz, Hannah Hoch

Russian revolution (tsar overthrown)

1917

Socialist realism

1930s to end of 1940s

Vietnam war

1955-1975

Russian civil war

1918-21

William Godwin

1793

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

1840

Micheal bukanin joins socialist international

1868

Paris commune

1871

USSR formed

1924

Dissolution fo USSR

1991

Chinese civil war

1927-1949

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

International Women's Day established.

1900