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Coup d'état in Spain (Riego Statement)
Riego's pronouncement was a military uprising led by Lieutenant Colonel Rafael del Riego that took place in Spain in 1820, during the reign of Ferdinand VII, and which was the trigger for the Revolution of 1820 (which is why it is also known as the Revolution of Cabezas de San Juan) -
Creation of the photograph
Began in the late 1830s in France. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used a portable camera obscura to expose a bitumen-coated pewter plate to light. This is the first recorded image that did not fade quickly. -
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Les Trois Glorieuses
The Revolution of 1830 was a revolutionary process that began in Paris, France, with the so-called July Revolution or the Three Glorious Revolutionary Days of Paris that brought Louis Philippe I of France to the throne and opened the period known as the July Monarchy. -
Martin Van Buren President
He was the first non-Anglo-Saxon president of the United States. Martin Van Buren opposed the expansion of slavery to the point of blocking the annexation of Texas. He feared that it would become a pro-slavery state and also worried that gaining Texas would lead to war with Mexico. Van Buren enforced the Indian Relocation Act of 1830. -
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Revolutions of 1848 in Europe
a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history to date. -
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The Indian Rebellion
This sepoy rebellion led to the dissolution of the British East India Company in 1858 and forced the British to reorganize their army, financial system, and administration of India. The country then came to be ruled directly by the British Crown under the name of the British Raj. -
Abraham Lincoln president of the United States
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the sixteenth president of the United States of America, from March 4, 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States during the Civil War -
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War of the Triple Alliance
The War of the Triple Alliance or Paraguayan War, called by Paraguayans the Great War, the War against the Triple Alliance or the Guasu War, was the military conflict in which the Triple Alliance, a coalition formed by the Empire of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, fought militarily against Paraguay between 1864 and 1870. -
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
Alfred found, through his experiments, that mixing nitroglycerine with a fine sand called kieselguhr would turn the liquid into paste which could be shaped into rods. These rods could then be inserted into drilling holes. -
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Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. The conflict was caused primarily by France's determination to reassert its dominant position in continental Europe, which appeared in question following the decisive Prussian victory over Austria in 1866