Perkins, Nycholas

By Raptor282

  • Industrial Revolution

    Arguably the most important on the timeline, as this 'kicks off' the rest of the events. Began in Britain, and forcibly kept inside the borders to give Britain an advantage over other countries. Without this event, most of the other events on the timeline would probably never happen.

  • 1st successful steam engine is built

    While the first successful steam engine was built in 1712, it was slower than would be optimal. A more well known inventor named James Watt, however, optimized the design for the engine. Watt's version of the steam engine was so successful that by 1800, around 500 of his engines were at work throughout Britain, in factories and mines.

  • Mexico declares its independance

  • Michael Faraday's dynamo

  • Taiping Rebellion

  • Sepoy mutiny in India

    The Sepoy were Indian soldiers who fought in the British army, at the time of British occupation of India. The Sepoy rebelled because a new rifle required the Sepoy to go against their religion in a few ways. To insert a cartrige into the rifle, a piece had to be bit off the end, and the cartrige was greased with pork and beef fat. That forced them to go against their religion because most Sepoy were either Muslum, who can't eat pork, or Hindu, who can't eat beef.

  • The Meiji Restoration

  • Franco-Prussian War

  • Karl Marx's "Das Kapital"

  • Spanish-American War begins

  • Period: to

    Boxer Rebellion

  • Russo-Japanese War

  • Franz Ferdinand is killed

  • US joins WWI

  • Lenin's Bolshevic Revolution in Russia

  • Mussolini's Fascist party in Italy

  • Treaty of Versailles is signed

  • Russia becomes the USSR

  • Stalin's rule in the USSR begins

  • Black Tuesday Stock Market crash

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Germany attacks Poland - WWII begins

  • Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

  • US declares war on Japan

  • D-Day

  • US drops A-bomb on Hiroshima

  • Period: to

    Nuremberg trials are held

  • Apartheid in South Africa

  • Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China

  • Period: to

    Korean War is fought

  • Fidel Castro's Communism in Cuba

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War is fought

  • Period: to

    Mikhail Gorbachev power in USSR

  • Persian Gulf War begins

  • USSR collapses and Russia is back

  • NAFTA is formed

  • WTO is formed