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Thomas Newcomen
Newcomen's engine, or atmospheric steam engine, was invented in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen, advised by physicist Robert Hooke and mechanic John Calley. -
Seven Years´War
The Seven Years' War were international conflicts between early 1756 and late 1763 to establish control over North America and India. -
James Hargreaves
Plan for the spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves, 1770. This was a very important invention because it meant that eight threads could be spun at a time, rather than a single thread using a spinning wheel, Catalogue ref: Completed Spinning Jenny Image via Wellcome Images. -
James Watt
Watt's steam engine, also known as the Boulton and Watt steam engine, was the first practical steam engine, becoming one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. -
Abraham Darby
He developed a method of producing high quality iron in a blast furnace fueled by coke instead of coal, which was a great advance in the production of iron as a basic material for industry. -
Boston Tea Party
3 shipments of tea were thrown into the sea.
A group of colonists disguised as Amerindians dumped a cargo of tea from three British ships into the sea. -
First Continental Congress
The primary accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774, unless parliament should rescind the Intolerable Acts. -
Battle of Concord and Lexington
For the Battle of Lexington in the American Civil War, see Battle of Lexington The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
Elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but the delegates also drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution. The king refused to hear the petition and declared the American colonies in revolt. -
USA Declaration of Independence
On July 4th, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, which had been written largely by Jefferson. -
Saratoga Battle
This was the first time that the British defend the citizen militias and thanks to that Spain and France start helping them. -
George Washington crosses the Delaware
General Washington chose to cross the Delaware River at this strategic point because it allowed his troops to cross without probable detection. After landing in New Jersey, the Continental army marched approximately nine miles through a perilous winter storm and engaged the Hessian garrison at the Battle of Trenton. -
French Treaty of Alliance
The American Colonies and France signed this military treaty on February 6, 1778. It formalized France's financial and military support of the revolutionary government in America. -
Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor, best known for devising the first truly practical spinning machine. -
British surrendered in Yorktown
British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War. -
Edmund Cratwright
Edward Cartwright was an English clergyman and inventor who created the first power loom -
Henry Cort
Henry Cort discovered the puddling process for making wrought iron. -
Louis XVI calls the Estates General
The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Oath of the Ballgame was a union commitment presented on June 20, 1789 among the 577 deputies of the third estate not to separate until they provided France with a Constitution, facing pressure from the King of France Louis XVI. -
Storming of the Bastille
a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. -
Louis XVI amd Marie Antoinette captured at Varennes
The king and his family were eventually arrested in the town of Varennes, 31 miles from their ultimate destination, the heavily fortified royalist citadel of Montmédy. The arrest of Louis XVI and his family at the house of the registrar of passports. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing cotton gin. -
Execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVIvs execution was important as it challenged the divine right of kings. The chaos in France led to the reign of terror and mob justice. His execution led to a European-wide war that saw the rise and fall of Napoleon. -
Nicolas Appert
Nicolás-Francisco Appert was a French master confectioner and chef who invented the hermetic method of food preservation. He founded the first commercial canning factory in the world. -
Coup d´etat of Brumaire
The coup d'état of 18 Brumaire in the 18th century in France refers to the coup given on that date of the French republican calendar. -
Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick was an English inventor and machine builder engineer, who developed the first working steam locomotive. -
Napoleon crowned as emperor
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff. -
Victory of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, pitted a French army led by Emperor Napoleon I against French forces on December 2, 1805. -
R. Fulton
Robert Fulton was an American engineer, businessman, and inventor, best known for developing the first steamboat, which became a commercial success, and for pioneering the development of the first submarines. -
Beginning of the Spanish War of Independence
The Spanish War of Independence was a war that took place between 1808 and 1814 within the context of the Napoleonic Wars, which confronted the allied powers of Spain. -
Battle of Bailen
La batalla de Bailén se libró durante la Guerra de la Independencia Española y supuso la primera derrota en campo abierto -
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. -
Battle of the Nations (Leipzig)
The Battle of Leipzig, also called the Battle of the Nations, was the largest armed confrontation of all the Napoleonic Wars and the most important battle lost by Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Exile of Napoleon in Elba
Elba has been for Napoleon a brief exile, although very important. He stayed and ruled for ten months, from May 3, 1814, to February 26, 1815, in which night he escaped from Elba during a masquerade carnival party. -
Battle of Waterloo
the French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, was defeated by the British and Prussian armies -
Napoleon´s death at St. Helena
Napoleon died on St. Helena on 5 May 1821 at the age of 51. He was buried on the island until 1840 when his body was transferred for reburial in Paris where his body rests today Les Invalides in Paris. -
George Stephenson
George builds his first steam locomotive, the Blucher, at Killingworth Colliery, near Newcastle upon Tyne. George obtains a patent for an improved steam locomotive, with exhaust steam providing a draught on the fire, and working purely by adhesion. -
Michael Faraday
His main discoveries include electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis. -
John Deere
He was an American manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the world's leading agricultural and construction equipment brands. -
Samuel Morse
Invented and installed a telegraphy system in the United States, the first of its kind. -
Antonio Meucci
He was the creator of the telephone, later baptized as "telephone", among other technical innovations. -
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer was a British inventor of French descent, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for producing steel in the 19th century, being used for almost a hundred years. -
First subway of the world in London
The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system. -
Charles Tellier
Louis Abel Charles Tellier was a French engineer, builder, in 1858, of the first industrial refrigerating machine. -
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone that had been invented by Antonio Meucci
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone -
Thomas Alaba Edison
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 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 -
Wright Brothers
The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers' invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped create an entirely new world.