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The British Empire (1601 - 1997)
The first tentative steps toward the establishment of the British Empire began with overseas settlements in the 16th century. Great Britain's maritime expansion accelerated in the 17th century. The British Empire does not exist today. However, the Commonwealth is a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and many of its former dependencies that acknowledge the British monarch as the association's symbolic head. -
The Jesuist Missions in South America (1632)
They founded several missions and developed a kind of evangelization. They put into practice the precepts of the Gospel, isolated the Guaraní from the influences of the Europeans and developed the creativity of the Indios. -
The Enlightenment
Period of time when people took the ideas and methods of the Scientific Revolution and tried to find another way to discover the natural laws that governed human society. The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring some revolution such as the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. -
The Industrial Revolution (1750-1850)
It was an increase in production brought about by the use of machines and characterized by the use of new energy resources. It started in Europe, especially Britain because it had two huge advantages: coal and wages. -
The Declaration of Independence (1775)
It declares that there are natural laws that everyone must follow and that people have the right to life liberty. This document was inspired by the Enlightenment period. The Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, cutting all bonds between Britain and the 13 colonies and calling into being a new organization- the United States of America. -
The loss of the thirteen colonies (1775)
Britain had lost all her original thirteen colonies on the Atlantic shore of America and the Empire lay in ruins. -
Jane Austin (1775)
She was an English write who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. Pride and Prejudice became Jane Austen's second published novel and one of her most memorable works to modern audiences. -
Independence of the United States (1776)
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America. Founded in the 17th and 18th centuries, they began fighting the American Revolutionary War in April 1775 and formed the United States of America by declaring full independence in July 1776. -
The US constitution (1787)
It took all the political ideals of the Enlightenment including religious freedom and said that the government has to follow this. -
The French Revolution (1789- 1799)
The French wanted to have the control of their destiny from the King, nobility and church giving birth to a new way of seeing the world. During this revolution, the symbols of royal, religious and aristocratic power were destroyed creating a new political order. Revolution inspired by the Enlightenment ideas. -
The Enclosure Movement (the 1800 and 1900s)
It was a push to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land. It was important to the Industrial Revolution because it helped create a system that created a large workforce for the factories and mines. -
The English Invasions (1806-1807)
The British invasions of the Rio de la Plata were a series of unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colonies located around the La Plata Basin in South America. The social effects of the invasions are among the causes of the May Revolution. -
Edgar Allan Poe (1809)
He was born on January 19th 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works include the poem “Annabel Lee” (1849) and the short stories of wickedness and crime “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846) among others. -
May Revolution (1810)
The revolution of May was a historical process that resulted in the breaking of colonial ties with Spain and opened the way to our Independence. This Revolution is connected to the United States Declaration of Independence, The English Invasions, the Industrial Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. -
Charles Dickens (1812)
Dickens was born on the 7th of February 1812. He is considered the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era. Among Charles Dickens’s many works are the novels Oliver Twist (1838) and a Christmas Carol (1843). -
Travels in South America, during the years, 1819–20–21 by Alexander Caldcleugh
First published in 1825 and based on his diaries, this two-volume account by Alexander Caldcleugh (1795–1858) of his experiences in Brazil, Buenos Aires, and Chile portrays a diverse and changing continent. Alexander worked as a private secretary to the British minister at the Portuguese royal court -
The Poor Law (1834)
This law ensured that the poor were housed in workhouses, clothed and fed. Children who entered the workhouse would receive some schooling. In return for this care, all workhouse paupers would have to work for several hours each day. -
The plight of women's work in the early Indutrail Revolution in Britain and Wales (1840)
Women's role during the Industrial Revolution and the inhuman work conditions they had. -
Oscar Wilde (1854)
He was born on October 16th, 1854. One of his best known comedy play is The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). -
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
It was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1st, 1863. It declared that all people held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free. It applied only to states that had seceded from the USA, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. -
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States (1865)
It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except in the case of punishment for a crime. The Amendment was passed by Congress on January 331st, 1865.
