1 Flashcards
Invention of the spinning jenny
1767
The American Declaration of Independence
1776
American Revolution/Smith writes “The Wealth of Nations”
1776
French Revolution//The French Declarations of Rights of Man
1789
Edwards Jenner’s smallpox vaccination
1796
Haitian Independence
1804
British abolition of the slave trade
1807
Latin American Independence
1810-1825 (mexican revolution first)
Metternich hosts the Conference of Vienna
1815
First opium war between China and England
1839
European Revolutions///Communist Manifesto//Seneca Falls Conference
1848
Commodore Perry opens Japan
1853
Sepoy Mutiny in India
1857
End of Russian serfdom//Italian unification
1861
Emancipation Proclamation issued in United States
1863
German Unification
1871
Berlin Conference//Benz develops first petrol-driven car
1885
New Zealand first to award women suffrage; other commonwealth nations soon follow.
1893
Battle of Adwa—Ethiopians fend off Italians
1896
Spanish American War///spain loses colonies
1898
Boer War—Dutch under British rule in South Africa
1899
Napolean Bonaparte
Know the name
Sergei Witte
Russian minister of finance; spearhead of Russian industrialization.
Emiliano Zapata
Land and liberty; Mexican mestizo became leader of Mexican revolution; failed, but pushed for new constitution to be drafted
Olympe de Gouges
Revolutionary thinker; wrote the declaration of rights of woman and the female citizen; was executed for doing so
Otto von Bismarck
Prime minister of Prussia; blood and iron; German nationalist, led to unification of Germany (Second Reich)
Toussaint L’Ouerviture
Former slave; led french colony of Saint Dominique to independecne; died before Haitian independence
Karl Marx
Most important socialist of all time; argued that problems were casued by European capitalism and class conflict
Cecil Rhodes
Successful british imperialist; dominated diamond industry and worked fkr british interests in Africa
Queen Victoria
Ruler of British Empire at height of imperial power;
Theodore Roosevelt
Champion of US imperialism; exerted the right to intervene in Latin American affairs
Louis XVI
His actions as king of france lead to the third estate seceding; formation of the national assembly which lead to the French Revolution.
Seven Years War/French and Indian War
1756-1763
