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Important events

  • Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
    It is a book by Charles Darwin considered one of the
    of the percussive work of literature and the foundation of the theory of evolution in the biology.
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    1859 to 2002

  • Cyrus W. Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean

    Cyrus W. Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean
    It is an undersea cable that stay under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first communications occurred August 16, 1860, reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days
  • Marx publishes the first volume of The Capital

    Marx publishes the first volume of The Capital
    It is a treaty on the review of the political economy, at the same time, it has also be a work of philosophy, as a treaty on economy, or as a political traety on the relations of domination between the classes, on the one hand the proletarians and on the others the bourgeoisie.
  • Suez Canal opens (for the first time)

    Suez Canal opens (for the first time)
    It is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. It is often considered to define the border between Africa and Asia.It took 10 years to build
  • The berlín conference

    The berlín conference
    It was call by France and the United Kingdom1 and organized by the Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck, in order to solve the problems of colonial expansion in Africa and resolve its partition.
  • Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb. ‌

    Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb. ‌
    This bulb had a carbon filament and was commercially viable outside of the laboraties.
  • Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine.

    Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine.
    The first stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz was a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Eve.
  • Marconi transmitted wireless across the English Channel

    Marconi transmitted wireless across the English Channel
    The idea that the wires needed for electrical telegraphy could be eliminated, creating a wireless telegraph, had been around for a while before radio-based communication. Inventors attempted to build systems based on electric conduction, electromagnetic induction, or on their own theoretical ideas. Several inventors/experimenters came across radio waves before they were proven to exist but it was written off as electromagnetic induction at the time.
  • Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane

    Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane
    The Wright they were the first to fly an airplane.Alse this brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
  • Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole

    Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole
    It was the first expedition to reach the South Pole, led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He, along with four of the members who made up the expedition, arrived at the Pole on December 14, 1911, five weeks in advance of the group led by the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott.
  • Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
    Although it was already invented in the US,but the campaign that Bell created,was the protagonist of the first steps of the telephone.