Dates

• 1793 Eli Whitney develops the cotton gin
• 1832 Reform Bill grants suffrage to all middle-class males
• 1834 Cyrus McCormack patents the mechanical reaper
• 1859 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
• 1867 British North America Act makes Canada a self-governing commonwealth
• 1869 Suez Canal completed
• 1884 Fabian Society formed