Timeline Key Dates

By Madison Conwell
  • American Declaration of Independence

    American Declaration of Independence

  • Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom

    Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom

  • French Revolution

    French Revolution

    The French Revolution is duration of time covering the years 1789-1799, in which the ‘Monarchy’ was disestablished and reassembling was forced onto the Roman Catholic Church.The French Revolution impacted on Australia dramatically. The main reason why Australia is a democracy today is because the French Revolution and the fight against the Monarchy.
  • Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man is published

    Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man is published

  • First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

    First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales

  • Chartism, a working-class movement for male voting and other rights

    Chartism, a working-class movement for male voting and other rights

  • Meiji (‘enlightened rule’) Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced

    Meiji (‘enlightened rule’) Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced

  • German unification after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany’s rise as an imperial power

    German unification after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany’s rise as an imperial power

  • Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

    Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)

  • Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia

    Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia