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Spanish War of succession.
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1715. The death of childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700 led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Philip of Anjou and Charles of Austria, and their respective supporters, among them Spain, Austria, France, the Dutch Republic, Savoy, and Great Britain. -
Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Newcomen was a blacksmith, entrepreneur and British inventor. He was born in Dartmouth, Devon, England in a merchant family and was baptized at the Church of San Salvador on February 28, 1664. -
Abraham Derby
Abraham Darby was the first and best-known three generations of the same name, belonging to a family of English Quakers, who played a major role during the industrial revolution. -
Treaty of Utrecht.
The Trety of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715. The war involved three contenders for the vacant throne of Spain, and involved much of Europe for over a decade. The main action saw France as the defender of Spain against a multinational coalition. The war was very expensive and bloody and finally stalemated. -
Louis XIV
Louis XIV was king of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign, 72 years and 110 days, is the longest in history whose date can be verifiable. -
Diderot and D’Alambert started publishing the Enciclopedia.
He secured the services of the mathematician Jean d'Alembert in 1745 and of the translator and philosopher Denis Diderot in 1746 to assist in the project. In 1747 Diderot undertook the general direction of work on the Encyclopédie, except for its mathematical parts, which were edited by d'Alembert. -
7 years War.
The Seven Year War was a series of international conflicts that took place between early 1756 and late 1763 to establish control over Silesia and colonial supremacy in North America and India. They took part, on the one hand, the Kingdom of Prussia. -
First Industrial Revolution.
The First Industrial Revolution began in England in about 1750–1760 that lasted to sometime between 1820 and 1840. It is one of the most distinguished turning points in human history. -
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves was a weaver, a carpenter and an English inventor, famous for creating the spinning Jenny. In 1763. Along with Richard Arkwright, Hargreaves is one of the best known men of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, although little is known about his person -
American Revolution
The American Revolution, It created the environment for the American Revolutionary War, which lasted from 1775 to 1783, whereby the Thirteen Colonies secured their independence from the British Crown and consequently established the United States as the first sovereign nation state founded on Enlightenment principles of the consent of the governed, constitutionalism and liberal democracy. -
James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish mechanical engineer, inventor and chemist. The improvements he made to the Newcomen machine led to the so-called water vapor machine, which would be instrumental in the development of the first Industrial Revolution, both in the UK and in the rest of the world. -
Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor, known for devising the first truly practical spinning machine, called "spinning mule." -
Edward Cartwright
Edward Cartwright was an English cleric and inventor who created the first mechanical loom. -
Henry Cort
Henry Cort was an English businessman and metallurgical inventor. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort started refining iron and turning it from arrabios into forged iron using innovative production systems. In 1783 he patented the process of pudelation or pudelation to refine iron. -
The French Revolution.
The French Revolution[a] was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy,[1] while the values and institutions it created remain central to French political discourse. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor and manufacturer. -
Nicolas Appert
Nicholas Francisco Appert was a French confectionary master and cook inventor of the hermetic preservation method of food. -
Edward Jenner Vaccine
Edward Jenner created the first successfull vaccine and it was for the smallpox. -
Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick was an English inventor and engineer machine builder, who developed the first steam locomotive capable of working. -
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was an American engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, known for having developed the first steam boat, which became a commercial success, and for pioneering the development of the first submarines in the 1800s. -
Luddite rebellion in Great Britain
Political reform in 19th century Britain. The machine-breaking disturbances that rocked the wool and cotton industries were known as the 'Luddite riots'. The Luddites were named after 'General Ned Ludd' or 'King Ludd', a mythical figure who lived in Sherwood Forest and supposedly led the movement. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was a British mechanical engineer and civil engineer who built the world's first public railway line using steam locomotives and the first passenger rail line using steam locomotives. -
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a British scientist who studied electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Its main findings include electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. -
John Deere
John Deere was a U.S. manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the world’s leading brands of construction and agricultural equipment. Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont, the son of William Deere. -
Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter who, along with his associate Alfred Vail, invented and installed a telegraphy system in the United States, the first of his kind. -
Antonio Meucci
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and engineer who immigrated to the United States, was the creator of the “teletrophone”, later named “telephone”, among other technical innovations. -
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer fue un inventor británico de ascendencia francesa, cuyo proceso de fabricación siderúrgico se convertiría en la técnica más importante para producir acero en el siglo XIX, utilizándose durante casi cien años. -
First subway of the world in London.
The world's first underground railway opened in London in 1863, as a way of reducing street congestion. Here is a very short history of the Underground. -
Charles Tellier
Louis Abel Charles Tellier was a French engineer, constructor, in 1858, of the first industrial refrigeration machine. In 1867 Tellier also built the so-called “ammonium horse”, which was an ammonia engine capable of dragging a tractor. -
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone that had been invented by Antonio Meucci
In 1874, due to a lack of money, Meucci could not renew the patent caveat protecting his invention, and two years later he learned that Alexander Graham Bell, a worker from the laboratories of Western Union, had received the patent for the telephone. The litigation brought by the Italian engineer was to no avail. -
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions include the phonograph. The electric light bulb. The Edison effect. -
Karl Benz
Karl Friedrich Benz, better known as Karl Benz or Carl Benz, was a German engineer and inventor, known for having created the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886 with his wife, he was considered the first vehicle in history designed to be powered by an internal combustion engine. -
Wright Brothers
The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, were two aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers, generally referred to jointly, and recognized worldwide as the ones who successfully invented, built, and flew the world's first airplane, although there is some controversy about it.