Timeline: Continuity and Change in the Modern Period | Timetoast

Period: 1750 to 1800

Hight point of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Period: 1750 to 1850

Europe's Industrialization
Period: 1757 to 1858

Rule of the British East India Company over India
Period: 1775 to 1787

American Revolution

The end of which signifies the writing of the American Constitution
Period: 1791 to 1804

Haitian Revolution
1792

China rejects British request for open trade

Signifies growing tensions between China and the West
1833

Slavery Abolition Act

Britain establishes an act in which they gradually outlaw the trading and ownership of slaves throughout Britain, starting a trend of abolitionist acts across Europe
Period: 1839 to 1876

Tanzimat Reforms

Signifies the failure of the Ottoman Empire to industiralized
Period: 1856 to 1858

Second Opium War

Signifies the signing over of much of the Chinese governing power to alien powers
Period: 1865 to 2000

United States of America's Industrial Revolution
Period: 1875 to 1900

Scramble for African territory by European powers

1875
Period: 1875 to 1914

European Colonial Conquests of Africa
1887

Proclamation of the Japanese Constitution
Period: 1894 to 1910

Japan Imperialist Period
1905

First Russian Revolution
Period: 1911 to 1912

End of the Qing Dynasty

On a greater scale, signifies the end of the dynastic era
Period: 1914 to 1918

World War One
1929

Start of the Great Depression
Period: 1939 to 1945

World War Two

Signifies the time period of the atrocity of the Holocaust
Period: 1946 to 1991

Cold War

Tensions between the Communist and Capitalist worlds
1949

Communist triumph in China

The beginning of the Mao regime
Period: 1950 to 1953

Korean War
Period: 1957 to 1975

African Independences from Colonial power
Period: 1959 to 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis
Period: 1965 to 1973

Vietnam War
1968

Meiji Restoration

Finishes off the Tokugawa period
Period: 1979 to 1989

Soviets in Afganistan
1991

Collapse of the Soviet Union
1993

End of Apartheid in South Africa
1993

Formation of the Eu