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Industrial dynamo
The Dynamo is an electric generator designed to transform magnetic flux into electricity that generates direct current. -
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The Second Industrial Revolution
The second industrial revolution began in 1870 and ended in 1914 when started The First World War -
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The Imperialism
Imperialism remains a system of political, military, ideological and economic domination. War became a business, a military-industrial complex was built to promote it, and the power of arms led to a change in the struggle for the division of the world through local and regional wars. -
Amadeo I swears the constitution
Amadeo I swears the constitution and accedes to the throne.
The reign of Amadeo I was the first attempt in the history of Spain to put into practice the form of government of the parliamentary monarchy although it ended with a resounding failure. -
Emilio Castelar is elected president of the First Spanish Republic
In Spain, Emilio Castelar is elected president of the First Spanish Republic, replacing Nicolás Salmerón.
After the abdication of Amadeo I of Savoy, in a joint meeting of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate the proclamation of the First Spanish Republic was agreed as a parliamentary republic it lasted less than a year. -
General Pavia enters the Cortes and perpetrates a coup d'état
In Madrid (Spain), General Pavia enters the Cortes and perpetrates a coup d'état, putting an end to the First Spanish Republic.
The government coup consisted of the occupation of the building of the Congress of Deputies by civil guards and soldiers who evicted the deputies from it when the vote for a new president of the Executive Power of the Republic was taking place. -
Napoleon III ordered the construction of the Garnier opera
Napoleon III ordered the construction of the Garnier opera by the architect Charles Garnier.
Napoleon III ordered its construction to the architect Charles Garnier, who designed it in the Second Empire or Napoleon III Style. Since its opening in 1875, the opera house has been officially called the National Academy of Music-Opera House. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented a a device that transmitted sounds through a cable through electrical signals that they called a telephone. -
The incandescent light bulb
Thomas Alva Edison was the inventor of the incandescent light bulb. -
Anglo-Egyptian War
Occurred in 1882 between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the United Kingdom. It ended a nationalist uprising against the Khedive Tewfik Pasha. -
The steam turbine
A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to perform mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. It was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884 -
Positive ignition engine
A positive ignition engine cause combustion of a hydrocarbon and air mixture using spark ignition -
Cinematograph
The Lumière brothers invent the cinematograph. It was the first machine capable of shooting and projecting motion pictures -
Automobile
Karl Benz patented his three-wheeled "gasoline-powered motor vehicle," and it was considered the birth of the automobile. -
The US defeated Spain
The US defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War and obtained Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guaján.
was a period of armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Radium
Marie and Pierre Curie discovered a new element, radium, very important in physics and chemistry -
the Philippine-American War begins
After the expulsion of the Spanish, the Philippine-American War begins, which ended in 1902 with an American victory.
was an armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States, the conflict arose in 1898 when the United States, rather than acknowledging the Philippine's declaration of independence. -
Taylorism
System of scientific management advocated by Fred W. Taylor.It consists of the division of the tasks of the production processes, supposes the hiring of the worker and the imposition of a variable salary proportional to the value that the work affects the process. -
Proclamation of the Republic of Portugal
5 October was proclaimed the Portuguese Republic in the grand hall of the Palaces of Lisbon Municipality, after the end of the National Revolution movement -
Sinking of the RMS Titanic
The RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. -
Fordisme
The term fordisme refers to the chain production system that will derive directly from the inn in practice, by Henry Ford, from the chain of muntatge and tot a seguit de noves tècniques. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg in Sarajevo
Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. -
Start of the First World War
Referred to by contemporaries as the "Great War", belligerents included much of Europe, Russia, the United States and Turkey, with fighting also expanding into the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia. One of the deadliest conflicts in history