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Napoleon Bonaparte captured
Major backlash at the prospect that a single country could dominate Europe ensued, and actions were done to help prevent countries from doing so -
Parliament orders the abolition of slavery
The abolition of slavery gave slaves (who were nearly always black people) a form of basic human rights: eventually, black people gained more political rights over time (but not necessarily complete freedom from racism) -
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph/sends the first message
Telegraphs became telephones, and telephones branched out into cell phones: modern smartphones are over 100 times more powerful than the first rocket that launched to the moon -
Ten Hours Bill passed (limited working hours to 10 hours for children/women)
*I can't find a date other than "1847", so I'm just putting that
[Comes after the 1819 Cotton Factories Regulation Act, which set the minimum working age to 9 years old, and the 1833 Child Labor Law, which established paid enforcers of the 1819 act]
Children were able to receive more education, instead of having to work (which lead to more technological process as education increased): furthermore, working conditions are the time were incredibly hazardous, and the labor laws initiated protection -
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto created Communism, which is now used in actual economies/countries -
Christopher Scholes invents the typewriter, QWERTY key system
*I can't find any other date than "1868", so I'm just putting that
-QWERTY key system = made typing easier, which lead to being able to mass produce typed goods more quickly
-Typewriter = evolved into the keyboard, which are heavily used in modern-day society (like in laptops) -
Louis Pasteur invents the first vaccine (rabies and anthrax)
*I can't find any other date than "Jan 1870", so I'm just putting that
Vaccines eventually wiped out many diseases that raged through populations -
Alexander Parkes creates the first man-made plastic (Parkesine)
*I can't find any other date than "1885", so I'm just putting that
Plastic is now used in mass quantities for many things
