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The Start Of The 19th Century
At the beginning of the 19th century, revolution and independence movements swept through the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of Latin America. With the Iberian countries weakened and at the end of their imperial dominance, they could not hold on to their colonies so far away from home. -
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The Emperor Of The First French Empire
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 and ended on 31 December 1900, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the First French Empire. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. -
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Science Discovers
Everyday things consumers took for granted by the 20th century—the light bulb, telephones, typewriters, sewing machines, and phonographs—were all products of the 19th century. -
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The Economic Important Changes
During the 19th century, economic life in Europe and North America underwent an amazing unprecedented transformation. B. There were enormous changes in the methods of production as steam and eventually electricity became widely used, replacing muscle, wind and water pow- er in most large-scale manufacturing processes. -
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The important of the science
In the 19th century the study of heat was transformed into the science of thermodynamics, based firmly on mathematical analysis; the Newtonian corpuscular theory of light was replaced by Augustin-Jean Fresnel's mathematically sophisticated undulatory theory; and the phenomena of electricity and magnetism were distilled . -
Latin american Movement
After three centuries of colonial rule, independence came rather suddenly to most of Spanish and Portuguese America. All of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian powers who had ruled the region since the conquest. -
The Napoleon Army
The 19th century was a time of great change. Imperial powers battled for control of the world as Napoleon's army marched through Europe. South American countries fought wars for their independence. China put down rebellions, and Japan shifted its entire culture. -
Chineese Migration
In the 1850s, Chinese workers migrated to the United States, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. -
The Main Changes
The three main nineteenth century social reform movements – abolition, temperance, and women's rights – were linked together and shared many of the same leaders. Its members, many of whom were evangelical Protestants, saw themselves as advocating for social change in a universal way. -
The End Of The 19th Century
The last decades of the nineteenth century were marked by rapid expansion and change in the United States, including the disappearance of the great American frontier and the acquisition of island possessions overseas as an outcome of the Spanish–American War.