19 and 20 Century

By Marcos Caballero
  • 1911 BCE

    Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole

    Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole
    On 14 December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who had already led the first expedition to traverse the North West Passage, and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole.
  • 1903 BCE

    Orville Wright pilloted the first powered airplane

    Orville Wright pilloted the first powered airplane
    In North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier than air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline powered which stayed for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.
  • 1899 BCE

    Marconi transmitted wireless across the English channel

    Marconi transmitted wireless across the English channel
    On 27 March 1899, Marconi transmitted across the English Channel from Wimereux near Boulogne, France to South Foreland Lighthouse near Dover, England and in 1899, wireless telegraphy was adopted by the British Royal and Merchant Navies.
  • 1886 BCE

    Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine

    Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine
    Karl Benz was born November 25, 1844 in Germany. A mechanical engineer, he designed and built the first practical car powered by an internal-combustion engine. The original car, his three-wheeled Motorwagen, first ran in 1885.
  • 1879 BCE

    Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb

    Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb
    The first successful test was on October 22, 1879 and it lasted 13.5 hours. Edison continued to improve this design and on November of 1879 for an electric lamp using a carbon filament and connected to platina contact wires.
  • 1876 BCE

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell's success came through his experiments in sound.
  • 1869 BCE

    Suez Canal opens for the first time

    Suez Canal opens for the first time
    The Suez Canal, stretching 101 miles from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was officially opened in a lavish ceremony on 17 November 1869 and it wasn't the first time a canal here had been considered. Ancient sources suggest the existence of a canal between the Red Sea and the Nile River
  • 1867 BCE

    Marx publishes the first volume of the capital

    Marx publishes the first volume of the capital
    The first of three volumes of Das Kapital was published on 14 September 1867, dedicated to Wilhelm Wolff and was the sole volume published in Marx's lifetime.
  • 1859 BCE

    Charles Darwin publishes on the origin of species

    Charles Darwin publishes on the origin of species
    It was published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
  • 1858 BCE

    Cyrus W.Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean

    Cyrus W.Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean
    A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland.
  • 1855 BCE

    The Berlin Conference

    The Berlin Conference
    To regulate African colonisation and trade followed by a period of increased colonial activity.