1750-1900

1756-1763

7 years war (French and Indian War)

1767

Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

1776

Declaration of Independence (American Rev)

1776

Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations

1780-1850

Industrial Revolution

1789

French Revolution begins

1796

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

1804

Hatian independence

1807

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1807-1808

Janissary Revolt

1815

Congress of Vienna (end of Napoleon)

1820s

Independence in Latin America

1838-1842

1st Opium War in China

1839-1878

Tanzimat Reforms

1848

Marx and Engles’ The Communist Manifesto

1848-1849

European Revolutions

1853

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny

1861

End of Russian serfdom

1861-1865

US Civil War

1861-1870

Italian unification

1863

US Emancipation Proclamation

1868

Meiji Restoration in Japan

1871

German Unification

1885

Berlin Conference divides Africa (scramble for Africa begins)

1893

New Zealand grants women suffrage

1896

Battle of Adowa (Ethiopian defeat of Italy)

1898

Spanish American war (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico)

1899-1902

Boer War (British Control of S Africa)