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1701 The War of Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1714. -
1756 The Seven Years War
The Seven Years' War was a global conflict involving most of the major European powers and many smaller European states, as well as nations in Asia and the Americas. -
1760 The Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
The beginning of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States. -
1765 The American Revolution Begins
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. -
1766 James Watt invents the Steam Engine
James Watt invents the Steam Engine
An Englishman had developed it in 1712 for the purpose of pumping water out of mine shafts, but it proved too weak to be employed in mines. Watt immediately identifies the reason. The steam vapor cools down in the cylinder. Watt realized that this was causing an immense amount of thermal energy loss -
1768 James Cook explores the Pacific
In 1768 Cook was chosen to lead an expedition to the South Seas to observe the Transit of Venus and to secretly search for the unknown Great Southern Continent. -
1770 The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles. -
1773 The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
1776 The Decleration of Independence is Approved
Voting on the Declaration of Independence. After much debate, the Second Continental Congress ultimately agreed to the Declaration of Independence, and then signed it on August 2, 1776, in the Pennsylvania State House. -
1789 The French Revolution Begins
On July 14, 1789, the Parisian crowd seized the Bastille, a symbol of royal tyranny. Again the king had to yield; visiting Paris, he showed his recognition of the sovereignty of the people by wearing the tricolour cockade. In the provinces, the Great Fear of July led the peasants to rise against their lords.