ch 21 vocab Flashcards
1830
Cholera epidemic begins in Europe
France invades and begins conquest of Algeria
1832
George Sand publishes Indiana
1833
Factory Act regulates work of children in Great Britain
Abolition of slavery in British Empire
1834
German Zollverein officially established with Prussian leadership
1835
Belgium opens first railway on continent built with state funds
1839
Beginning of Opium War
Invention of photography
1841
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
1846
Famine strikes Ireland
Corn Laws are repealed in England
peasant insurrection in Austrian province of Galicia
1848
Revolution breaks out in Paris; sparks uprisings across Europe
last great wave of Chartist demonstrations in Britain
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
abolition of slavery in French colonies
End of serfdom in Austrian Empire
1851
Crystal Palace exhibition in London