Dates

• 1715 - The Enlightenment
• 1730–1760 - The Great Awakening
• 1756–1763 - The Seven Years’ War / French and Indian War
• May 1789 - Estates General Meets / French Revolution Begins
• July 14, 1789 - Storming of Bastille
• 1812 - Invasion of Russia
• June 1815 - Battle of Waterloo
• 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
• 1814–1815 - Congress of Vienna
• 1848 - Revolutions in Europe
• 1870–1871 - Franco-Prussian War
• 1914 - Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
• 1917 - United States enters war
• 1918 - Armistice between Allies and Germany
• 1919 - Treaty of Versailles
• 1848 — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write the Communist Manifesto
• 1909–1915 — The Fundamentals published
• 1913 — Establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank
• 1917 — Bolshevik Revolution
• 1928 — Stalin issues his five-year plan
• 1929 — U.S. Stock Market Crashes
• 1933 — Great Depression / New Deal
• 1933 - Hitler comes to power in Germany
• 1939 - WW II begins when Germany invades Poland
• June 1941 - Germany invades USSR (Operation Barbarossa)
• June 1942 - Battle of Midway marks the turning point of the Pacific Theater
• June 1944 - Allied invasion of France (D-Day)
• May 1945 - Germany surrenders (V-E Day)
• Sept. 1945 - Japan surrenders (V-J Day)
• 1947 — Truman Doctrine
• 1959 — Cuba falls to Communism
• 1965 — Combat troops sent to Vietnam
• 1969 — Americans land on the moon
• 1980 — Ronald Reagan elected president of U.S. / Solidarity Movement begins in Poland