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Watt´s steam engine
Watt's steam engine was the first practical steam engine, becoming one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. -
industrial revolution beginning
1760 – 1840
Beginning in Great Britain, the Industrial Revolution spread to continental Europe and the United States, during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. -
INDEPENDENCE OF THE US.
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America is a document drafted by the Second Continental Congress—in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4 -
FRENCH REVOLUTION
La Revolución francesa fue un conflicto social y político, con diversos periodos de violencia, que convulsionó la Francia del Antiguo Régimen, y a otros países por extensión de sus implicaciones -
NAPOLEON EMPIRE
The First French Empire, also known as the Napoleonic Empire or Napoleonic France, was the monarchical government established by Napoleon Bonaparte following the dissolution of the First French Republic in 1804. -
luddism
Luddism was a movement led by English artisans in the 19th century, who protested between 1811 and 1816 against the new machines that destroyed jobs. -
CONGRESS OF VIENA
The Congress of Vienna was an international meeting held in the capital of the Austrian Empire, convened with the aim of reestablishing the borders of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and reorganizing the political ideologies of the Ancien Regi -
Revolution of 18200.
Revolution of 1820 or revolutionary cycle of 1820 are the names with which historiography has designated the set of revolutionary processes that took place in Europe around 1820. -
FASHODA INCIDENT
The Fachoda Incident or Fachoda Crisis is the name given to the episodes that took place in 1898 when France and the United Kingdom decided to build communications lines intended to connect their respective African colonies continuously. -
MONROE DOCTRINE
The Monroe Doctrine, summarized in the phrase "America for Americans", was developed in 1823 in the United States by John Q. Adams and attributed to President James Monroe. -
stephenson´s rocket
Stephenson's Rocket was one of the first steam locomotives. It was built for the Rainhill Trials, organized by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 to choose the best design to power the new railway, in which it won. -
The Revolution of 1830
The Revolution of 1830 was a revolutionary process that began in Paris, France, which brought Louis Philippe I of France to the throne and opened the period known as the July Monarchy. -
THE OPIUM WARS
The Opium Wars were two wars that occurred in the 19th century between the Chinese and British empires. The first lasted between 1839 and 1842. The second, in which France became involved with the British, broke out in 1856 and lasted until 1860. -
Communist manifesto
The Manifesto of the Communist Party is an early text written as a manifesto between 1847 and 1848. -
Revolution of 1848.
Revolution of 1848, Spring of the People or Year of Revolutions are historiographical names of the revolutionary wave that ended Restoration Europe. -
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865 as a result of a controversy over slavery, dating back to the country's origins. -
ITALIAN UNIFICATION
With French help, the Piedmontese defeated the Austrians in 1859 and united most of Italy under their rule by 1861. -
First international
The International Workers' Association or First International was an organization founded in London in 1864 that initially brought together English trade unionists, anarchists and French and Italian republican socialists. -
MEIJI RESTORATION
The Meiji Restoration and Modernization. In 1868 the Tokugawa shôgun, who ruled Japan in the feudal period, lost his power and the emperor was restored to the supreme position -
BISMARCKIAN ALLIANCES
The Bismarckian Systems is the system of international alliances that Otto von Bismarck sponsored after the Franco-Prussian War to isolate France and thus avoid its hypothetical revenge after the defeat of 1871. -
GERMAN UNIFICATION
The term "German reunification" was given to the process of the German Democratic Republic joining the Federal Republic of Germany with full German sovereignty from the four Allied-occupied countries -
ALFONSO XII
Alfonso XII of Spain, was spain´s king between 1874 and 1885. -
BOER WAR
The Second Boer War was a conflict between the United Kingdom and the founders of the independent republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, in northeastern South Africa. -
BERLIN CONFERENCE
The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884 and, after an adjournment, concluded on 26 February 1885 with the signature of a General Act regulating European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. -
MAROCCAN CRISES
The First Moroccan Crisis refers to the international crisis over the colonial status of Morocco between March 1905 and May 1906. -
Chinese conference
In October 1911, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system. -
BALKAN WARS
The Balkan Wars were two wars that occurred in southeastern Europe from 1912 to 1913. The first pitted the Ottoman Empire against the so-called Balkan League made up of Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece and Serbia. -
february revolution
The February Revolution of 1917 in the Russian Empire marked the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It caused the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, ended the Russian monarchy, and led to the formation of a provisional government. -
october revolution
October Revolution,), the second and last major phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the Soviet regime. See Russian Revolution of 1917. Also called: Bolshevik Revolution -
first trade unions
The first organized Trade Union in India named as the Madras Labour Union was formed in the year 1918. -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
first world war
The First World War was a global military conflict, although centered in Europe, that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. -
treaty of versailles
The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most controversial armistice treaties in history. The treaty's so-called “war guilt” clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I -
The League of Nations.
The League of Nations was an international organization created by the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. -
Primo De Rivera Dictatorship
The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera was the political regime that existed in Spain from the coup d'état of the captain general of Catalonia, Miguel Primo de Rivera, on September 13, 1923, until his resignation on January 28, 1930. -
wall street crash
The crash of '29 was the most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the stock market in the United States. Its impact, its global reach and the long duration of its consequences caused the so-called Great Depression. -
ALFONSO XIII
Alfonso XIII of Spain, called "the African" was king of Spain from his birth until the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic on April 14, 1931. -
Spanish Second Republic
The Second Spanish Republic was a democratic regime that existed in Spain from April 14, 1931 to April 1, 1939, ending with the civil war and giving way to the Franco dictatorship. -
The constitution of the second republic
The Constitution of the Spanish Republic of 1931 was approved on December 9, 1931 by the Constituent Cortes after the Spanish general elections of 1931 that followed the proclamation of the Second Republic and was in force until the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. -
Asturias miner´s strike
The revolution of Asturias in 1934 was a revolutionary movement that took place between October 5 and 19, 1934, it was made by the PSOE and the UGT during the second republic. -
Spanish civil war
The Spanish Civil War was a military conflict that developed after the partial failure of the coup d'état of a sector of the army against the democratic government of the Second Spanish Republic, and that lasted from July 18, 1936 to April 1, 1939, concluding with victory of the rebel side and the establishment of the Franco dictatorship -
Franco Dictatorship
It was the period in the contemporary history of Spain corresponding to General Francisco Franco Bahamonde's tenure as Head of State from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975. -
second world war
World War II was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. -
attack on pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941 -
operation barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its allies, which began on Sunday, June 22, 1941. -
athomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people -
united nations
Four months after the San Francisco Conference ended, the United Nations officially began, on 24 October 1945 -
truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is known as the American foreign policy that sought to contain the spread of communism worldwide at the beginning of the Cold War. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a political, economic, social, ideological, military and propaganda confrontation which began at the end of the Second World War between the Western and Eastern blocs, led by the United States and the Soviet Union respectively in 1945. -
Arab-Israeli War
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948, which occurred from May 1948 to mid-1949, was the first of a series of armed conflicts that pitted the State of Israel against its Arab neighbors. -
universial declaration of human rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948 in Paris. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea that took place between June 25, 1950 and July 27, 1953. At the same time, it was an unofficial war between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
vietnam war
La Guerra de Vietnam, llamada también Segunda Guerra de Indochina, y conocida en Vietnam como Guerra de Resistencia contra Estados Unidos fue un conflicto bélico librado entre 1955 y 1975 para reunificar Vietnam. -
Bandung Conference
The Bandung Conference was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which had just acceded to independence. It was organized by independence leaders Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sukarno, as well as two leaders from Pakistan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a security wall that formed part of the inter-German border from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. -
Cuba missile crisis
The two missile crisis in Cuba is what is called the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States at the end of 1962, and it is one of the largest crises between both powers during the Cold War. -
bloody sunday
Bloody Sunday 1972 was a massacre that occurred on 30 January 1972, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area.