Modernism

Events

industrial revolution

1760 - 1840

American Revolution

1775 - 1783

French Revolution

1789 - 1799

Napoleonic Wars

1803 - 1820

Queen Victoria's reign

1837 - 1901

American Civil War

1861 - 1865

World War I

1914 - 1918

russian revolution

1917

Hitler is ruler in Germany

1933 - 1945

World War II

1939 - 1945

Korean War

1950 - 1953

President Kennedy Assasinated

1963

Vietnam War

1965 - 1973

Key Inventions

Spinning Jenny

1764

Watt Steam Engine

1781

Electric Motor

1821

Passenger Train

1825

Otis Elevator

1842

Wrought Iron I Beam

1845

First Iron Hull Steamship

1847

Photography developed

1850 - 1860

Great Exhibition

1851

Bessemer Steel Process

1855

First Oil Well

1859

Internal Combustion Engines commercially available

1872 - 1879

Telephone

1876

Electric Light Bulb

1879

Skyscraper Building

1885

Petrol Tractor

1892

Radio transmission

1899

Wright Brothers first airplane

1903

Model T Ford

1908

First Commercial Passenger Flight

1914

Splitting the Atom

1917

Jet Engine

1937

Electronic Computer

1942

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 6, 1945 - August 9, 1945

Television

October 27,1951

Man in Space

04/12/1961

Moon Landing

July 20, 1969

Personal Computer

1981

2G Digital Mobile Phone

1991

World Wide Web

1991

Major artists

John Ruskin

1819 - 1900

Edouard Manet

1832 - 1883

William Morris

1834 - 1896

Paul Cezanne

1839 - 1906

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Claude Monet

1840 - 1926

Paul Gauguin

1848 - 1903

Antoni Gaudi

1852 - 1926

Vincent van Gogh

1853 - 1890

Edvard Munch

1863 - 1944

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Mies van der Rohe

1886 - 1969

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

1895 - 1946

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986

Barbara Hepworth

1903 - 1975

Salvador Dali

1904 - 1989

Roy Lichtenstein

1923 - 1997

George Segal

1924 - 2000

Andy Warhol

1928 - 1987

Richard Serra

1938 - present

Antony Gormley

1950 - present

Anish Kapoor

1954 - present

Jeff Koons

1955 - present

Rachel Whiteread

1963 - present

Tracy Emin

1963 - present

Damien Hirst

1965 - present

Banksy

1974 - present