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Comtemporary History

  • T. Newcomen's steam engine

    T. Newcomen's steam engine
    Newcomen's great achievement was his steam engine, developed around 1712.
  • John Kay’s flying shuttle

    John Kay’s flying shuttle
    It was the first step in the mechanisation of the loom and significantly increased the productivity of the weavers.
  • James Hargreaves Spinning Jenny

    James Hargreaves Spinning Jenny
    was a spinning machine, invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves
  • Richard Arkwright’s water mill

    Richard Arkwright’s water mill
    The spinning machine is an invention from the period of the Industrial Revolution, designed to manufacture yarns or threads from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanised way together with John Kay.
  • James Watt's steam engine

    James Watt's steam engine
    His machine pumped water from the mine much better and made it cheaper to extract coal.
  • S.Crompton’s spinning mule

    S.Crompton’s spinning mule
    La máquina facilitaba la producción de hilo de algodón.
  • Coup d’ etat

    Coup d’ etat
    Napoleon became the new emperor of France and make it the consulate. After he done a coup d’ etat.
  • The conquest of Napoleon

    The conquest of Napoleon
    On 1803 Napoleon Bonaparte do his first war, and that war he win, on Marengo (Italy).
  • Napoleon's coronation

    Napoleon's coronation
    On 1804 Napoleon coronated himself and became the first power of France and the France impery.
  • Battle of Austerlitz

    Battle of Austerlitz
    It was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, as the First French Empire finally crushed the Third Coalition after almost nine hours of difficult fighting.
  • R. Fulton’s steamboat

    R. Fulton’s steamboat
    R. Fulton was an American engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, best known for developing the first steamboat.
  • The Spanish war of independence

    The Spanish war of independence
    The War of Spanish Independence was a war that took place between 1808 and 1814 in the context of the Napoleonic Wars, which pitted the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against Napoleon Bonaparte, whose aim, after the abdications of Bayonne, was to install his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne and to establish Spain as a satellite state of the First French Empire.
  • Russian campaing

    Russian campaing
    The French invasion of Russia, also known as Russian campaign and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.
  • Luddoties opposed mechanization in textile industry

    Luddoties opposed mechanization in textile industry
    They began in Nottinghamshire in 1811 and quickly spread throughout the country
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo
    The Battle of Waterloo was a battle that took place on 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium about 20 kilometres south of Brussels, between the French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and the British, Dutch and German troops led by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian army of Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher. The battle marked the definitive end of the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Stephenson steam locomotive

    Stephenson steam locomotive
    Stephenson's Rocket was one of the first steam locomotives with a 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for the Rainhill Trials
  • Beginning of Transcontinental railroad

    Beginning of Transcontinental railroad
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was a monumental feat that transformed the United States by providing a coast-to-coast rail link for the first time. From Nebraska to Sacramento
  • Unification of Germany

    Unification of Germany
    The unification of Germany occurred in 1871 after Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War
  • Edison’s lightbulb

    Edison’s lightbulb
    In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
    And don't require as much maintenance as traditional incandescent lights but can offer the same vintage style without the high energy costs.
  • I Boer War

    I Boer War
    The First Boer War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal (as the South African Republic was known while under British administration). The war resulted in a Boer victory and eventual independence of the South African Republic.
  • Berlin Conference

    Berlin Conference
    A general pact of Europeans powers for colonization
  • Begining of colonization of Belgian Congo

    Begining of colonization of Belgian Congo
    Leopold II of Belgium conquered the Republic of the Congo for his house
  • First Skyscraper (In Chicago)

    First Skyscraper (In Chicago)
    In architectural history, one structure stands as the leader of a new era—the Home Insurance Building.
  • Anexxation of Congo Free State

    Anexxation 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.
  • Wilhem II crownded as Kaiser

    Wilhem II crownded as Kaiser
    Although in his youth Wilhelm had been a great admirer of Otto von Bismarck, the impatience characteristic of his personality and above all the determination on his part to reign and administer at the same time - unlike his grandfather, who used to entrust the day-to-day administration to the brilliant Bismarck - quickly brought him into conflict with the ‘Iron Chancellor’.
  • First moving picture

    First moving picture
    The first motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene, shot in 1888. Louis Le Prince dazzles the eye with a remarkable display of 4 people walking in a garden, creating this 2.11-second cinematic masterpiece.
  • Marconis radio

    Marconis radio
    Although the discovery of radio was not without controversy, on 14 May 1897, the Italian electrical engineer and Nobel Prize winner Guillermo Marconi made the first radio transmission in history.
  • Fashoda affair

    Fashoda affair
    The Fashoda Incident, also known as the Fashoda affair , was the climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa, occurring between 10 July to 3 November 1898. A French expedition to Fashoda on the White Nile sought to gain control of the Upper Nile river basin and thereby exclude Britain from Sudan.
  • Boxer rebelion

    Boxer rebelion
    The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers"
  • II Boer War

    II Boer War
    The Second Boer War, also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
  • Wright Brothers first flight

    Wright Brothers first flight
    Wind, sand, and a dream of flight brought Wilbur and Orville Wright to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where, after four years of scientific experimentation, they achieved the first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903.
  • Ford’s Model T

    Ford’s Model T
    A high quality, easy to drive and affordable car (the Model T cost as little as $260, a very reasonable price for the time).
  • Crisis of afadir

    Crisis of afadir
    The Agadir Crisis, Agadir Incident, or Second Moroccan Crisis was a brief crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in July 1911 and the deployment
  • I Balkan War

    I Balkan War
    The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame the initially numerically inferior
  • II Balkan War

    II Balkan War
    The Second Balkan War was a conflict that broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece. On June 1913. Serbian and Greek armies repulsed the Bulgarian offensive and counterattacked, entering Bulgaria.
  • Beginning of WW1

    Beginning of WW1
    On 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand,