Womenlaundryworkers

Ch23 The Building of European Supremacy and Politics to WWI

  • Period: to

    Cholera Epidemic 1830's-40's

  • Villerme's Catalog of the Physical and Moral State of Workers (Fr, soc, pol, cul)

  • Chadwick's Report on the sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population (soc, pol, cultural)

  • British Public Health Act (social)

  • French Melun Act (social, economic)

    Restraints on private life and enterprise
  • Bessemer Process for making steel (Eng, econ)

    manufacturing steel cheaply in large quantities
  • Period: to

    Passage of laws permitting joint stock companies (Br, Fr, Pr, political, econ)

    1856 Britain
    1863 France
    1870 Prussia
  • Revised English divorce law (social)

  • Internatioal Working Men's Association (1st int'l) founded (SOCIAL, POL)

  • University of Zurich admits women for degrees

  • John Stuart Mill's The Subjectio of Women (social)

  • Beginning of major economic downturn (pol, soc)

    several major banks fail
  • German Social Democratic Party founded

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone (social, cultural)

  • First International dissolved

  • University of London admits women as candidates for degrees (social)

  • German antisocialist laws passed

  • Edison perfects the electric light bulb

  • First electric power plant in Great Britain

  • English Married Woman's Property Act

  • Union of German Women's Organizations founded (social)

  • British Fabian Society founded

  • Gottlieb Daimler invents the iternal combustion engine (soc, econ)

  • Daimler's first automobile (soc, econ, cultural)

  • Eiffel Tower built in Paris

  • Second International founded

  • First major impact of petroleum (soc, econ, cultural)

  • German antisocialist laws permitted to expire by Emperor William II

  • German Social Democratic Party's Erfurt Program

  • Witte appointed finance minister

  • Diesel enine invented (soc, econ, cultural)

  • Wireless telegraphy invented (soc, econ)

  • French Confederation Generale du Travail founded

  • Lenin arrested and sent to siberia

  • 11.5 hour workday established

  • Russian Social Democratic Party founded

  • Eduard Bernstein's Evolutionary Socialism

  • Lenin leaves Russia for western Europe

  • Social Revolutionary Party founded in Russia

  • The British Labour Party founded

  • Lenin's What is to be done? (social, politica)

  • Wright brothers make first successful airplane flight (soc, econ)

  • National Council of French Women founded

  • British Women's Social and Political Union founded

  • Bolshevik-Menshevik split

  • Constitutional Democratic (Cadets) founded

  • Witte dismissed in Russia

  • "Opportunism" rejected at the Amsterdam Congress of the Second International

  • Russo-Japanese War begins

  • Japan defeats Russia

  • Revolution breaks out in St Petersburg after Bloody Sunday

  • General Strike in Russia

  • October Manifesto establishes constitutional government

  • First Duma meets (Russia, political)

  • Stolypin appointed prime minister of Russia

  • Dissolution of first Duma (russia, political)

  • Land redemption payments canceled for peasants

  • Land redemption payments canceled for peasants (russia, social, political)

  • Norway permits women to vote on national issues

  • Franchise changed and a third duma elected, which sits until 1912 (russia, pol)

  • Second Duma seated and dismissed in June (russia, political)

  • Henry ford manufactures the model T (soc, econ, cultural!)

  • British suffragettes adopt radical tactics (social)

    Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Stolypin assassinated by a Social Revolutionary (russia, pol, soc)

  • Fourth Duma elected

  • World War I breaks out!!!

  • Vote extended to some British women (soc, pol)

  • Weimar constitution allows German women to vote

  • Oxford and Cambridge Universities award degrees to women

  • French Senate defeats bill extending vote to women

  • Britain extends vote to women on same basis as men