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Age of reason
The Scientific Revolution convicted European thinkers about power of reason. Scientific method and reason led to discoveries about the physical world. Wondered If reason could be used to study human nature, society. -
Child labor is done for.
Britain passed one of the first child labor laws in 1833. It made it illegal for children under the age of 9 to work. Sometimes children workers were orphans who had little choice but to work for food. Children in the coal mines often worked from 4 am until 5 pm This was due to because children were getting injured and overused due to this. -
Slavery is Done for
the Slavery Abolition Act received Royal Assent, paving the way for the abolition of slavery within the British Empire and its colonies. All thanks to William Wilberforce -
Victoria is nominated for the throne after William IV’s death
Victoria became queen at the age of 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV. She reigned for more than 60 years, longer than any other British monarch. Her reign was a period of significant social, economic and technological change, which saw the expansion of Britain's industrial power and of the British empire. -
British needs Hong Kong
Britain occupied the island of Hong Kong on 25 January 1841 and used it as a military staging point. China was defeated and was forced to cede Hong Kong to Britain in the Treaty of Nanking signed on 29 August 1842. Hong Kong became a Crown Colony of the British Empire. -
The telegraph is invented by Samuel Morse
An electrical telegraph was a point-to-point text messaging system, used from the 1840s until better systems became widespread. It used coded pulses of electric current through dedicated wires to transmit information over long distances. This was a big change in society because now they could potentially communicate -
The sewing machine is invented
Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine and threads his way into the fabric of history. French tailor Barthelemy Thimonnier patented a device in 1830 that mechanized the typical hand-sewing motions to create a simple chain stitch. He planned to mass-produce uniforms for the French army -
Prince consort dies
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs, at the age of twenty Albert married his cousin, Victoria; they had nine children and died on December 14, 1861 -
The end of Tsar Alexander II
Tsar Alexander II is assassinated by a member of the radical group People’s Will. He is succeeded by his son, Alexander III, who enacts anti-terrorism measures that curb civil rights and freedom of the press. -
Queen Victoria’s death
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. -
The first Model T
On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On this day in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. ... The assassination set off a rapid chain of events, as Austria-Hungary immediately blamed the Serbian government for the attack. -
Death of Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg( Franz Ferdidnand's wife)
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Their assassination in Sarajevo sparked a series of events that eventually led to World War I -
The Christmas Truce
The Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred during the relatively early period of the war. -
U-Boats sinks
On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 123 Americans, according to the Library of Congress. -
Zimmermann Telegram is found
The message came in the form of a coded telegram dispatched by Arthur Zimmermann, a Staatssekretär (a top-level civil servant) in the Foreign Office of the German Empire on 19 January 1917. The message was sent to the German ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt. -
The end of Czar Nicholas II
After Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries early on the morning of July 17, 1918, a collection of the royal family's personal photographs was smuggled out of Russia. Czar was one of those dead. The albums offer a haunting glimpse into the life of a family destined for tragedy. -
The End of WW1
This became known as Armistice Day - the day Germany signed an armistice (an agreement for peace) which caused the fighting to stop. People in Britain, France, and the countries that supported them celebrated. -
The end of Vladimir Lenin
On 21 January 1924, Vladimir Lenin, former leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma. The official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. -
Occupation of Cyprus
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus, code-named by Turkey as Operation Atilla, was a Turkish military invasion of the island country of Cyprus. It was launched on 20 July 1974, following the Cypriot coup d'état on 15 July 1974 -
British Raj
This system of governance was instituted on 28 June 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India. -
The Bloody Sunday massacre
Bloody Sunday was a mass shooting on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment without trial. It was one of the most terrifying days of their lives and their last. -
The beginning of the USSR
In 1922, A treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Transcaucasia started the beginning of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The newly established Communist Party, led by Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, took control of the government
