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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a time when the manufacturing of goods moved from small shops and homes to large factories. This shift brought about changes in culture as people moved from rural areas to big cities in order to work. It ended when the paradigm for manufacturing had been established. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a time when the British colonists in America rebelled against the rule of Great Britain. There were many battles fought and the colonies gained their freedom and became the independent country of the United States. The American Revolutionary War lasted from 1775 until 1783. The war virtually came to an end when General Cornwallis was surrounded and forced to surrender the British position at Yorktown, Virginia. -
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of time in France when the people overthrew the monarchy and took control of the government. The revolution came to an end 1799 when a general named Napoleon overthrew the revolutionary government and established the French Consulate (with Napoleon as leader).The result of the French Revolution was the end of the monarchy. King Louis XVI was executed in 1793. The revolution ended when Napoleon Bonaparte took power in November 1799. -
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Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony. ... Together they numbered 40,000 of the colony's residents. -
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Revolutions of 1848
Revolutions of 1848, series of republican revolts against European monarchies, beginning in Sicily, and spreading to France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire. They all ended in failure and repression, and were followed by widespread disillusionment among liberals. -
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Xinhai Revolution
The Chinese Revolution, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system. As Qing rule fell into decline, it made a few last-ditch efforts at constitutional reform. The revolution ended with the abdication of the six-year-old Last Emperor, Puyi, that marked the end of 2,000 years of imperial rule and the beginning of China's early republican era. -
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution took place in 1917 when the peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks. The new communist government created the country of the Soviet Union. Ended a brutal civil war would now decide the fate of Russia. Others include the civil war into their definition of revolution, ending their books in 1921. -
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Chinese Communist Revolution
The “fall” of mainland China to communism in 1949 led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades. The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 in Shanghai, originally existed as a study group working within the confines of the First United Front with the Nationalist Party. -
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Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt in the mid 20th century. It was led by Fidel Castro against the government of Cuba's elected President Fulgencio Batista. The revolt took place between 1953 and 1959. This government changed along communist lines, and became the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965. -
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Iranian Revolution
The Islamic Revolution occurred in 1979, in the Muslim majority country of Iran. Islamist revolutionaries opposed the western secular policies of the authoritarian Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. ... It replaced an authoritarian monarchy with a theocratic republic. The West claims the republic is authoritarian.