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The Agrarian Revolution
First, an agrarian revolution began in the 1700s changed agricultural practices. Their was a vast expansion of farmland, good weather, and improved transportation. -
1760 Steam engines
In the 1760's James Watt improved the steam engine making it more efficient to use coal rather than water in the cotton process. Because of this, farms no longer had to be located next to rivers. -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves had invented a machine that produced thread faster than any other machine in its time. -
Puddling
A better quality of iron was produced in the 1780's when Henry Cort developed a process called pudling. -
Water-Powered Loom
Edmund Cartwright invented a machine that finally let the weaving catch up to the threading process. Now their was no point to even have weivers to do your work causing jobs to go down. -
Romanticism
At the end of the 1700's, a new intellectual movement, know as Romanticism, emerged as a reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment. -
Cotton Industry
In the 1800's Great Britain had surged way ahead in the production of inexpensice cotton goods. The manufactures had a two step process that changed the speed of production dramaticaly. -
Richard Trecithick's Steam Locomotive
In the early 1800's Richard Trevithick invented a steam locomotive that runs on an industrial rail-line in Britan -
Electric light
First electric light was invented -
Congress of Vienna
After the defeat of Napolean, European rulers, Britain, Austrian, Prussia, and Russia all met on September 1814 to arrange a final peace settlement. -
Forces of Change
Between 1815 and 1830, conservative governments throughout Europe worked to maintain the old order. However, powerful forces for change- know as liberalism and nationalism were also at work. -
Stethiscope
In the 1816's the Stethiscope was invented causeing a great medical breakthrough. -
Frenkenstien
The first ever story of Frankenstein was published. -
Overthrow of Charles X
In France, liberals overthrew the Bourbon monarch Charles X in 1830 and established a constitutional monarchy. -
Revolutions of 1848
Three more revolutions erupted in late 1840's. Nationalism and Liberalism continued to grow exponetioally. -
Republicans take over
Monarchy was completely overthrown. A group of moderate and radical republicans set up a temp. Government. -
Mary Shelley
This picture painted by Richard Rothwell presented mostly all the reveloutionary changes in it. -
Russian Invasion
In 1853 Russia decided to inved the Turkish Balkan provinces of Moldavia and Walachia. -
Czar, Alexander 2
As stated before in 1856, Russia suffered a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War. Even staunch conservatives realized that Russai was falling hoplessly behind the western European powers. Czar Alexander decided to make some reforms. -
Austria War
Austria got really mad ant French Emperor and declared war in 1859, -
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garibaldi's forces landed in Sicily and, by the end of July, controlled most of the island. -
Conquest Turnover
On early April, Guaribaldi decided to turn over his conquest over to Piedmont. -
Unification
Both Germany and Italy would be unified. The changes that made this possible began with the Crimean War. -
Romantics in Literature
In the early 1800's , they told romantic stories between nights, and princeses. Also they wrote terrifying war stories. -
Industrial Capitalism
Industrial capitalism meant an economic system based on industrial production. This produced a whole new middle class within society.
