Preceden

The World of Revolutions

Main

British Royal Society Established

1660

England establishes policy of religious toleration

1688

American Revolution

1775 - 1787

American Declaration of Independence

1776

James Watt patents his first steam engine

1781

British Recognition of American Independence

1783

French Revolution

1789 - 1799

Haitian Revolution

1791 - 1804

French King Louis XVI is executed

1793

The Reign of Terror under Maximilien Robespierre

1793 - 1794

Jean-Jaques Dessalines becomes Haiti's first Head of State

1804

Napoleon is Empire of France

1804 - 1815

Napoleon defeated at Battle of Waterloo

1815

Brazil gains independence from Portugal

1822

Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto

1848

Crimean War

1854 - 1856

American Industrial Revolution Begins

1865

Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party formed

1898

Russian Revolution Begins

1905

Mexican Revolution

1910