History dates

• Columbus reaches the Americas

  1492
• The British Empire


  C1500-c2000
• The Aztecs meet the Conquistadors


  1520
• Increase in superstition and witchcraft accusations

  c1500-1700
• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (peak = 1700-1800)


  C1600-c1800
• Execution of Charles I

  1649
• Interregnum, Cromwell, radical ideas

  1649-1660
• The Enlightenment


  C1700
• The Industrial Revolution


  C1750-c1900
• Captain Cook reaches Australia

  1770
• The French Revolution


  1789
• Jenner develops his smallpox vaccine

  1796
• Ireland becomes part of the UK

  1801
• Napoleon become Emperor


  1804
• The abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

  1807
• Napoleon defeated


  1815
• The Great Reform Act


  1832
• The abolition of slavery in the British Empire


  1833
• Crimean War


  1854
• The Indian Mutiny


  1857
• Beginning of sewers in Britain

  1858
• Pasteur & germ theory

  1860s
• The Secret Ballot Act

  1872
• NUWSS formed


  1897
• Australia becomes a dominion (self-governing)

  1901
• WSPU formed


  1903
• First World War breaks out

  1914
• First World War ends; men 18+ & women 30+ get the vote

  1918
• Women 21+ get the vote

  1928