Mass Society and Democracy

By s-pasingh

  • The Communist Manifesto is published

  • Period: to

    Reign of Francis Joseph of Austria

  • Period: to

    Reign of Alexander II

  • Alexander II passes the emancipation edict

  • Period: to

    The U.S. Civil War

  • British voting reform act

  • The First International fails

  • German Social Democratic Party emerges

  • France forms the Third Republic and implements a republican constitution

  • Alexander Bell invents the telephone

  • Edison forms the Edison Electric Light Company

  • The Congress of Berlin meets

  • Assassination of Alexander II

  • Triple Alliance is formed...

    ...consists of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

  • British voting reform act

  • Period: to

    Reign of Emperor William II

  • The Second International is formed

  • William II fires Otto von Bismarck

  • British Housing Act

  • Triple Entente is formed...

    ...consists of Great Britain, Russia, and France.

  • The Labour Party is founded

  • Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio waves

  • The first flight by the Wright Brothers

  • The Women's Social and Political Union is founded

  • Period: to

    Russo-Japanese War

  • Bloody Sunday occurs in Russia

  • British National Insurance Act

  • The assembly line is pioneered

  • World War I begins

  • Panama Canal opens