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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes its not 100 % clear of when it took place but its known that it was in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production method to machines, new iron production and chemical manufacturing processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, and the development of machine tools. It also included the change from wood and other bio -
THE LATE ENLIGHTENMENT AND BEYOND: 1780-1815
The French Revolution of 1789 was the conclusion of the High Enlightenment vision of throwing out the old authorities to recreate society along rational lines, but then it devolved into bloody terror that demonstrate the limits of its own ideas and led, a decade later, to the rise of Napoleon. Still, its goal of egalitarianism attracted the admiration of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and inspired both the Haitian war of independence and the extrem racial inclusivism of Paraguay’s firs -
The Indian Rebellion
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 started on 10 May 1857 and ended 1 year, 1 month, 2 weeks and 5 days on the 20th June 1858. The Indian Rebellion first began as a mutiny of sepoys of the east India Company’s arm on the 10th of May in the cantonment of the town of Meerut. It eventually ended -
Australian Natives Association is established
The Australian Natives Association (ANA) began in Australia’s East Melbourne in 1871 as a benefit or friendly society to encourage thrift and educational improvement among those born in Australia, 'natives'. Non-sectarian and politically impartial, it later campaigned for political reform and patriotic causes. In the mid 1880’s Tasmania operated a brief supported political reform, and developed more strongly from the 1890s. ANA branches fervently supported federation. In 1904 a statewide conf -
the assassination of franz ferdiand
On 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand from Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serbian man named Gavrilo Princip, he was one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) coordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member of the Black Hand secret society. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be comb
