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Haitian leader; "The Slave Who Defeated Napoleon"
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Revolutionary Constitutional Reign
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A time period when the 13 Colonies of the U.S. joined together to break free from Britain's rule.
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Invented by Samuel Crompton; the Spinning Mule spins textile fibres into yarn.
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Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military leader who was instrumental in the revolutions against the Spanish empire.
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The Steamboat is built to James Watt's patent in Freiberg in Germany
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This was a period of radical social, and political upheaval in France.
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The Haitian Revoluton not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched on slave uprisings in the Caribbean.
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The Cotton Gin is a machine used to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed. This caused an explosion in the use of cotton, and mass production.
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Created a rule that was copied by almost every country: that every man should be treated equal.
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Various revolutions that happened during the early 19th century.
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A congress of the Great Powers of Europe met at Vienna to discuss the future boundaries of the continent. Almost every state in Europe was represented.
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Struggles about trade rights in China
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It was the platform of the Communist League, a working men's association, first exclusively German, later international. It was published by a group of German political refugees.
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The formal unification of Italy into a politically and administratively integrated nation state
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Massive Civil War in China
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This was a war between Russia on one hand and the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France, and Sardinia. It was fought to stop Russian expansion into the Black Sea region.
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The Bessemer Process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace.
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Struggle over trade rights in China
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Beginning of Indian Independece Movement
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One of Charles Darwin's greatest works and the foundation of the evolutionary theory.
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This is thought to be the single most important reform made by Tsar Alexander II. It is also thought to have catapulted Russia into the 20th century.
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The Meiji Restoration in Japan signaled the end of the shogunate system and the beginning of modern Japan.
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The Suez Canal connected the Mediterranean and the Red seas
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The formal unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state.
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The British Empire fought the Dutch Settlers of two independent Boer Republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic. Sometimes referred to as the "South African War" because the black population of South Africa was also involved.
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The Berlin Conference was the meeting of European colonial powers to negotiate the division of colonial territories within Africa.
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The Indian National Congress was originally founded to promote economic reforms and to influence the policies of the British authority, and soon found itself as a major force behind the rebellion against British occupation. Now it is celebrated as the world's oldest and largest democratic political party.
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The British Empire fought the Dutch Settlers of two independent Boer Republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic. Sometimes referred to as the "South African War" because the black population of South Africa was also involved.
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A group known as "Boxers" murdered thousands of foreigners, especially missionaries in an attempt to rid China of all foreign influence.
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Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East
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Founded in 1906 by Agah Khan III. It advocated the creation of a Muslim-majority nation, Pakistan. It emerged from the Aligarh Movement.
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Henry Ford democratized cars by creating division of labor, the assembly line, and interchangable parts.
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Links the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
