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Queen Victoria was crowned
Queen Victoria was crowned at the age of 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV. Queen Victoria kept a journal and wrote in it on her coronation day: “I shall remember this day as the proudest of my life.” As it turned out, she had a good reason to be proud since she managed to get through five hours of errors and mistakes with the grace and patience of a true queen. -
first telegraph message across two miles
he first telegram in the United States was sent by Morse on 11 January 1838, across two miles (3 km) of wire at Speedwell Ironworks near Morristown, New Jersey, although it was only later, in 1844, that he sent the message "WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT" over the 44 miles (71 km) from the Capitol in Washington to the old Mt. -
Slavery Abolition Act passed in the British empire
Many factors led to the Act’s passage. Britain’s economy was in flux at the time, and, as a new system of international commerce emerged, its slaveholding Caribbean colonies could no longer compete with larger plantation economies such as those of Cuba and Brazil. The persistent struggles of enslaved Africans and a growing fear of slave uprisings among plantation owners were another major factor. -
The Opium Wars
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty. The disputes included the First Opium War and the Second Opium War -
Start of the Irish potato famine
The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, began in 1845 when a fungus-like organism called Phytophthora infestans spread rapidly throughout Ireland. -
Meiji Restoration
Japan evolved to avoid being taken over by Europeans by modernizing their country -
Chewing Gum
The American Indians chewed resin made from the sap of spruce trees. The New England settlers picked up this practice, and in 1848, John B. Curtis developed and sold the first commercial chewing gum called The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum. -
Berlin Conference
Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. -
Boer war
The discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer republics in the 1880s further intensified the rivalry, particularly as British subjects flooded into the Boer territories in search of wealth. -
paper clip creating machine
William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut, patented a machine for making paperclips of the Gem design in 1899. -
Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated
In the summer of 1914, Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie accepted an invitation to visit the capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo. He had been informed of terrorist activity conducted by the nationalist organization the "Black Hand," but ignored the warnings. On the route back to the palace, the archduke's driver took a wrong turn into a side street, where 19-year-old nationalist Gavrilo Princip was waiting. As the car backed up, Princip approached and fired his gun, Both died before reaching the hospital. -
Allied forces land on the Gallipoli Peninsula of the Ottoman Empire.
At dawn on 25 April 1915, Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Turkey. The Gallipoli campaign was the land-based element of a strategy intended to allow Allied ships to pass through the Dardanelles, capture Constantinople (now Istanbul) and ultimately knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war. -
The sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. -
February Revolution
People protesting for bread in the streets of the Russian capital, Petrograd. 90,000 men and women were on strike and refused to leave the streets. -
Nicholas II abdicated the throne
Nicholas II abdicated the throne on March 15, 1917, putting an end to more than 300 years of Romanov rule -
The United States declares war on Germany.
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. On April 6, Congress granted the request and the United States was formally at war with Germany. ... The task of training, supplying and transporting the U.S. forces was one that the Army had to create and maintain. -
President Woodrow Wilson presents to Congress his outline of Fourteen Points required for peace.
On January 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to Congress that outlined Fourteen Points for peace and the end to World War I. Wilson wanted lasting peace and for World War I to be the "war to end all wars." The United States entered World War I on the side of the Allies on April 6, 1917. -
Romanov family executed
Czar Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children, and four attendants were executed in Yekaterinburg, a city on the Eastern side of the Ural Mountains, in the late-night or early morning hours of July 16-17, 1918. -
Allied and German representatives sign treaty of Versailles. The United States signs treaty of guaranty, pledging to defend France in case of an unprovoked attack by Germany.
Allied and German representatives sign treaty of Versailles. The United States signs treaty of guaranty, pledging to defend France in case of an unprovoked attack by Germany. -
Sino-Japanese War
A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945
