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A Plan in the Making
Robert Catesby will reveal his plan to assassinate both the king and the parliament to Guy Fawkes and his crew. -
A Message From an Unlikely Source
Lord Monteagle received a warning letter, from one of the conspirators that he was good friends with, informing him about the plot to explode the House of Parliament, and about the gunpowder in the cellar. The King then tells his troops to go and investigate Guy Fawkes and the claims of gunpowder in parliament. -
Guy Fawkes a Criminal Novicemind
The Gunpowder Plot was a botched attempt on the part of the Catholics (who thought the king was horrible) to overthrow both Parliament and the Government. The intention was to blow up the House while the King was inside. There have been several conspiracies, but the scheme is usually synonymous with Guy Fawkes. -
A Somber Ending for an Unlucky Guy
After being arrested for conspiracy against the king, Guy Fawkes was sent to prison and imprisoned, until he admitted who the other plotters were. Guy Fawkes was tortured for three months before eventually confessing. He was then sent to be executed. -
Edgehill, The First Battleground
Edgehill 's battle was the first battle of the civil war in England. Two nations, Banbury and Warwick, fought this way. The royalists had Prince Rupert of the Rhine in command. Robert Devereux, and Earl of Essex, were in charge of the roundheads(parliament supporters). -
A Shift in the Battle's Tide
At Marston Moor, in North Yorkshire, the armies gathered for what would become the Civil War 's greatest battle. His men were outnumbered by Prince Rupert, but he was determined to fight, putting his trust in his superior cavalry. Parliament's cavalry was under the command of Oliver Cromwell, MP for Cambridge. Cromwell, in front row. -
A Plot Surfaced when Peace Finally Emerged
The First Civil War has ended. Charles headed out for Scotland and gave up the effort at Newark. He was released to the English and efforts were made to make a settlement with him. But he had wished only to reclaim his former power. -
Taking a Step into the Future
In Britain, the industrial revolution begins with James Hargreaves's invention of the spinning jenny. This machine allowed yarn to be spun automatically instead of by hand, greatly reducing the time needed to make a quality product -
Transportation Evolves
Watt notes that a lot of steam is being lost. Watt finds a way to upgrade the machine of Newcomen and obtains a patent for his own steam engine, which during the Industrial Revolution would be commonly used. -
The Birth of an Emporor
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, in Corsica to a noble family with a less than ideal economic standing. -
Preparations to End Slavery
The Anti-Slavery Commission was set up by British Quakers, who played a major part in the abolition movement. The committee started by circulating pamphlets to both Parliament and the public on trade. The analysis became an important feature of the abolitionist approach, and the inquiries of Thomas Clarkson on slave ships and in the chief cities of the trade provided ammunition for William Wilberforce, the leading parliamentary supporter of abolition. -
The Next Frontier
For the British Crown, Lieutenant James Cook assumed control of Australia's east coast. Cook's findings encouraged the government to create a penal colony in the newly claimed territories when he returned to Britain. The purpose of the new colony was to relieve overcrowding in British jails, enlarge the British Empire, assert Britain's claim to the region against other colonial forces, and create a British base in the global South. -
Wilberforce's Debate on Parliment
The time for abolition was simply out of season. There were sixty members of the West Indian lobby, and advocates of the trade had already called abolition a "mad, wild, fanatical scheme of enthusiasts." For more than three hours, Wilberforce spoke. The Times claimed that both sides felt Wilberforce's speech was one of the finest that Parliament had ever heard, but the House ended by adjourning the matter. -
The Oath formed in an Unlikely Court
The Third Estate, which had the most officials, proclaimed itself the National Assembly and took an oath to uphold the king's new constitution. Louis briefly appeared to concede, authorizing the Third Estate National Assembly, but then surrounded Versailles with soldiers and dismissed Jacques Necker. -
A Declaration of a Man's Right
In view of the fact that arrogance, forgetfulness or disrespect of human dignity are the sole causes of public suffering and the corruption of states, the representatives of the French people, organized in a national assembly, have agreed to set out in a solemn declaration the universal, inalienable and sacred rights of man, such that this declaration is ever-present to all the members of the so-called -
The First Attempt at Abolition
163 Commons members voted against abolition. A few MPs, except in the early debates, dared to defend slavery on moral grounds. Instead, the many economic and political explanations for keeping it were drawn to notice. -
The Cotton Gin
In Georgia, Eli Whitney is inventing a cotton gin, a seed washing gadget for cotton. The principle of mass manufacturing of interchangeable parts was later developed by Whitney improving repair speed. -
Execution of a King
King Louis XVI was executed by a guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris one day after being accused of collusion with foreign forces and sentenced to death by the tribunal -
An End to a Terror
Maximilien Robespierre, the leader of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. s the head member of the Committee of Public Safety since 1793, Robespierre promoted the death, often by guillotine, of the Revolution's more than 17,000 opponents. The day after his capture, at the Place de la Revolution in Paris, Robespierre and 21 of his allies were guillotined before a cheering crowd. -
A New Solution for an Old Plague
In 1796, the British physician Edward Jenner proved that a comparatively mild cowpox virus infection conferred immunity to the lethal smallpox virus. Until the first smallpox vaccine appeared, cowpox acted as a natural vaccine. In the 20th century, the epidemic was eventually eradicated. -
A Treasure Lost in Time
A black basalt slab engraved with ancient writing was found by French soldiers near the town of Rosetta, some 35 miles east of Alexandria. The irregularly formed stone housed passage fragments written in three separate scripts: Greek, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, and Demotic Egyptian. -
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Opposition from a New Political Power
Socialist resistance to industrialization is starting to grow. Luddites, anti-industrialization persons, strike factories in a variety of cities across Great Britain, smash garment machines, and displace them. The textile artisans involved in these attacks usually resist violence against citizens and are also assisted by locals in these regions. -
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Victory at Last
The decision that made slavery punishable by expulsion to Botany Bay halted British smugglers in their tracks. After other nations had outlawed it, piracy under separate flags threatened to continue the Atlantic trade and the British African Squadron patrolled the West African coast until after the American Civil War. Slavery in the British Empire was abolished in 1833. -
A Disaster in Siberian Snow
Napoleon invaded Russia in June with a force of 480,000, leaving another 120,000 troops in reserve. The French quickly conquered Vilnius and then Smolensk, but neither Napoleon nor Koutousov emerged triumphant from the Borodino war at the gates of Moscow on 7 September. A week later, soon to be engulfed in flames, the French entered a city; the Russians had sacrificed it in order to kill any weapons or ammunition that the French could have profited from. -
The Grave Defeat at Waterloo
The forces of Napoleon launched an effective assault on the British, with the arrival of the Prussians flipping the tables against the French. In confusion, the French emperor's outnumbered army withdrew. According to some estimates, the French suffered more than 33,000 casualties (including killed, wounded, or imprisoned), while there were more than 22,000 British and Prussian casualties. Fatigued and apparently in bad health during the Belgian campaign. -
Opium: Extreme Pleasure or Pain?
China's efforts to curb the drug trade led to the Opium Wars. Opium was being secretly exported from India to China by foreign merchants (mostly British). The pervasive addiction that resulted was wreaking havoc on China's social and economic systems. Later that year, after British warships destroyed a Chinese blockade of the Pearl River, hostilities erupted. -
The Start of a Rebellion
In the Bengal Army, a mutiny broke out. The launch of the modern Enfield rifle provided the pretext for revolution. The sepoys had to bite off the ends of lubricated cartridges to load it. The sepoys heard that the grease used to lubricate the cartridges was a combination of pig and cow lard, and that eating it was an insult to both Muslims and Hindus. -
Germ Theory
Pasteur published his theory of germs that showed that diseases are caused by bacteria. Afterward, Robert Koch, who started to isolate the particular bacteria that caused specific diseases, picked up this notion. -
A Hundred Years of Revolution
The Eiffel Tower was built to be one of the main attractions at the Paris World's Fair in 1889. That year, the World's Fair covered the entire Champ de Mars in Paris and its focus was the vast constructions in iron and steel that were the great industrial advancement of that time. -
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The Next Generation of Travel
With a pilot onboard, the Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air system to achieve controlled continuous flight. The first successful airplane was designed by the Wright brothers. Henry Ford is building the first moving assembly line to mass-produce a whole vehicle. His breakthrough shortened the time it took from more than 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes to create a vehicle. -
The Spark that Blew the Keg
Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were in Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 28, 1914. As Inspector General of the Imperial Army, he was there. Nedjelko Cabrinovic, one of the gunmen, tossed a grenade at the royal couple's vehicle. The bomb detonated behind them after bouncing off the rear of the tank. As the royal motorcade came to a halt on a side street to turn around, Cabrinovic's compatriot Gavrilo Princip shot both Franz Ferdinand and Sophie with a Browning pistol. -
America Steps into Hell
A hidden telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann was sent to Mexico. Should the United States join the war, it suggested a secret coalition between Germany and Mexico. Mexico will be able to conquer New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona if the Central Powers won. Merchant ships were being hunted by U-boats. The Lusitania sailed to Liverpool on May 1, 1915. It was discovered and shot off the coast of Ireland on the 7th. 1,198 lost their lives of 1,962 passengers -
A Giant Steps off the Field
In Russia, protests erupted. The public was dissatisfied with the government's handling of the food and fuel shortages. On March 15, Czar Nicholas II, the Russian Empire's ruler, handed over his throne to a provisional administration. This government-backed Russia's continued involvement in World War I, but they were unable to resolve the country's food shortages. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the government in November 1917. -
The War is at its End
On November 11th, 1918, the Armistice was signed, ending hostilities between the Allies and Germany. The Armistice did not conclude the First World War, but it did put an end to the fighting on the Western Front while the terms of a lasting peace were being worked out. The terms were extremely unjust, requiring Germany to bear the brunt of the blame while still paying reparations. Germany, Italy, and Japan became enraged when they were left out of the goods distribution.
