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Cyrus W. Field laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean
Cyrus West Field conceived the idea of the telegraph cable and secured a charter to lay a well-insulated line across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. -
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species,which presents his theory of evolution by natural selection. -
Marx publishes the first volume of The Capital
The first of three volumes of Das Kapital was published.Dedicated to Wilhelm Wolff and was the sole volume published in Marx's lifetime. -
Suez Canal opens (for the first time)
The Suez Canal, stretching 101 miles from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was officially opened in a lavish ceremony -
Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone. -
Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb.
Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. In 1882, Lewis Howard Latimer, one of Edison's researchers, patented a more efficient way of manufacturing carbon filaments -
The Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference or West Africa Conference , regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. -
Karl Benz produced the first car with internal combustion engine.
Karl Benz patents the first motor vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. -
Marconi transmitted wireless across the English Channel
Marconi transmitted across the English Channel from Wimereux near Boulogne, France to South Foreland Lighthouse near Dover, England. Also in 1899, wireless telegraphy was adopted by the British Royal and Merchant Navies. -
Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight. -
Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to stand at the South Pole
The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole,.
