CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

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  • T. Newcomen’s steam engine

    T. Newcomen’s steam engine
  • John Kay’s flying shuttle

    John Kay’s flying shuttle
  • James Hargreaves’ spinning jenny

    James Hargreaves’ spinning jenny
  • James Watt’s steam engine

    James Watt’s steam engine
  • Richards Arkwright’s water mill

    Richards Arkwright’s water mill
  • Samuel Crompton’s spinning mill

    Samuel Crompton’s spinning mill
  • Edmund Cartwright’s power loom

    Edmund Cartwright’s power loom
  • Stephenson’s puffing devil

    Stephenson’s puffing devil
  • R.Fulton’s steamboat

    R.Fulton’s steamboat
  • Luddites opposed machines in textile industry

    Luddites opposed machines in textile industry
  • Transcontinental railroad

    Transcontinental railroad
  • Unification of Germany

    Unification of Germany
    The first unification of Germany occurred in 1871 after Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. In this unification, most of the German-speaking states of Europe united under the crown of Prussia to form the German Empire.
  • Edison’s light bulb

    Edison’s light bulb
  • I Boer War

    I Boer War
    The Boer Wars were two armed conflicts that took place in South Africa between the British Empire and the settlers of Dutch origin.
  • Berlin Conference

    Berlin Conference
    The Berlin Conference was created by Otto von Bismarck and took place in Berlin, Germany, from november 1884 to february 1885. European powers divided and claimed most of the African continent, including the resources and population.
  • Beginning of colonization of Berlin congo

    Beginning of colonization of Berlin congo
    The Berlin Conference of 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.
  • The first skyscraper in Chicago

    The first skyscraper in Chicago
  • Wilhelm II crowned Kaisen of Germany

    Wilhelm II crowned Kaisen of Germany
    Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
  • First movie picture

    First movie picture
  • Fashoda affair

    Fashoda affair
    Fashoda incident, the climax of a series of territorial disputes in Africa between Britain and France, which took place in Fashoda, Egyptian Sudan. The disputes arose from the common desire of each country to unite their various colonial possessions in Africa.
  • II Boer War

    II 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.
  • Boxer rebellion

    Boxer rebellion
    The Boxer uprising, known in China as the Yihétuán uprising, was a movement that began in 1898, coinciding with the Hundred Days Reform, and ended on September 7, 1901.
  • Invention of the radio

    Invention of the radio
  • Wright brothers’ first flight

    Wright brothers’ first flight
  • First plastics

    First plastics
  • Henry Ford’s T model

    Henry Ford’s T model
  • Annexation of Congo Free State

    Annexation of Congo Free State
    The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo, was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. It was privately owned by King Leopold II, the constitutional monarch of the Kingdom of Belgium.
  • Crisis of Agadir

    Crisis of Agadir
    The Agadir crisis or second Moroccan crisis (1911) was an international crisis that was about to trigger a war between France and the German Empire for control and influence over Morocco.
  • I Balkan war

    I Balkan war
    The First Balkan War was a war that took place in 1912 and 1913 between the nations united in the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire. The objective of the League was to expel the empire from Europe and divide up its Balkan territories.
  • II Balkan war

    II Balkan war
    The Second Balkan War was a brief conflict that pitted Bulgaria against its former allies in the Balkan League, Romania, and the Ottoman Empire in the summer of 1913, from which it emerged defeated. The war led to a new peace treaty, the Treaty of Bucharest, which modified the territorial distribution agreed upon in the recent Treaty of London that had put an end to the first Balkan war in which the League had defeated the Ottomans.
  • Beggining of WW1

    Beggining of WW1
    The First World War, also previously called The Great War, was a global military conflict, although centered in Europe, that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the conditions of the armistice. .