Period 5 Timeline

When Watt's steam engine was perfected, it marked the beginning of an age of expansion and travel. Once the steam engine was perfected, boats, trains, and other methods of travel became faster and more affordable. Watt's steam engine was one of the most important inventions of the early Industrial Revolution.

The French revolution was a bloody revolution to gain better conditions and rights for the poor and to over throw King Louis XVI. The peasants of France were starving, while the King dined lavishly without doing anything to help out his peasants. This angered the lower class and soon radical groups were spurring the revolution into a bloodbath. The rebels were known to execute anyone who they thought showed any opposition to the revolution.

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader and brilliant politician who led the French Army towards the end of, and after the French Revolution. He set in place a civil law system called the Napoleonic Code and led France through the Napoleonic Wars in which France was able to claim a large amount of new territory.

The Wars of Latin American Independence were widespread rebellions against the Spanish to try to gain independence in Latin American countries, Simon Bolivar was a leader of the movement.

The Congress of Vienna was a meeting of European Ambassadors. It was held to settle the issues remaining from the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Holy Roman War. It was an attempt to establish a balance of power in Europe.

The War of Greek Independence was a rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman Empire, a struggle, which resulted in the establishment of an independent kingdom of Greece.

The automatic spinning mule was developed in 1825 by Richard Roberts. It was a very influential innovation during the Industrial Revolution because it spin much more yarn, far faster than a human could have done it. Even through the automatic mules were dangerous for the workers, they were widely used because of their efficiency.

The Communist Manifesto was written and published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and was one of the most influential political writings of the time. It presented the communist party and explained it's goals, and it's solutions for issues such as the class system.

The Unification of Italy took place in 1860's thanks to a combination of diplomacy by the statesman Camillo Cavour, military leadership of Giuseppe Garibaldi, and popular patriotism.

The Crimean War was a dispute between the alliances of the French, British, and Ottoman Empires, and the Kingdom of Sardinia, against the Russian empire over the possession of the failing Ottoman Empire. It is sometimes considered to be the first "modern war" because it was one of the first wars in which inventions of the Industrial Revolution were used.

The Bessemer Process was a method originally developed by Henry Bessemer in Great Britain. The Bessemer Process was the first process used for making large scale amounts of iron. This made large iron buildings such as skyscrapers possible.

The Origin of Species is considered to be one of the best scientific books ever written. It combines religion, science, and philosophy which made science more tangible to the average person.

Otto van Bismark united Germany, but only after the 7 weeks war and the Franco-Prussian war, the Franco-Prussian war was the final stage of the unification of Germany.

The Unification of Germany occurred when the princes of the German States met at Versailles in France and decided that one of the princes, Wilhelm would take a new role as the Emperor of the German Empire. The princes decided to unite the German States into one Empire after the Franco-Prussian War.

The first Boer war was the rebellion of the farmers, or boers, in the South African Republic against their British mother country. The main issue of the first war was when the British annexed the South African Republic in 1877, it angered many of the native people.

The Berlin Conference, or the Berlin West Africa Conference was held to regulate European colonization and trade in Africa. The conference was suggested by Portugal because they wanted control of the Congo River.

The second Boer War occurred when Great Britain separated the South African Republic into separate colonies, which then became a part of the Union of South Africa. The Africans rebelled, but were eventually defeated by the British forces.