Test 1 Dates Flashcards
The scientific revolution
1550-1700
Spain’s Armada is defeated around the British Isles
1588
The English civil war
1642-1649
Rule of Louis XIV
1643-1715
Glorious Revolution in England
1688-1689
The enlightenment period
1700-1800
Heart of the Great Awakening
1730s-1740s
The Seven Year’s War
1756-1763
James Watts steam engine and beginning of the Industrial Revolution
1765
The American Revolution
1775-1783
The French Revolution
1789-1799
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo & The congress of Vienna ends
1815
Slavery abolished throughout most of the British Empire
1833
Irish potato famine
1845-1851
Karl Marx & Fred Engels issue the Communist Manifesto
1848
Commodore Mathew Perry sails into Tokyo Bay
1853
Charles Darwin publishes his dumb book
1859
Unification in both Germany and Italy
1871
Age of Western Imperialism
1880-1914
Charles Spurgeon pastor of New York Street Chapel
1854