history timeline dates

• 1492


  Columbus reaches the Americas
• C1500-C2000


  the british empire
• 1520


  aztecs meet the conquistadors
• C1500-1700


  increase in superstition and witchcraft accusations
• C1600-1800


  the transatlantic slave trade (peak= 1700-1800)
• 1649


  execution of charles I
• 1649-1660


  Interregnum, cromwell, radical ideas
• c1700


  the enlightenment
• c1750-1900


  industrial rebolution
• 1770


  captain cook reaches australia
• 1789


  french revolution
• 1796


  jenner develops his smallpox vaccine
• 1801


  ireland becomes part of the uk
• 1804


  napoleon becomes emperor
• 1807


  abolotion of transatlantic slave trade
• 1815


  napoleon defeated
• 1832


  great reform act
• 1833


  the abolition of slavery in the british empire
• 1854


  crimean war
• 1857


  indian mutiny
• 1858


  beginning of sewers in britain
• 1860s


  pasteur and germ theory
• 1872


  secret ballot act
• 1897


  NUWSS formed
• 1901

  australia become a dominion (self -governing)
• 1903


  WSPU formed
• 1914


  first world war breaks out
• 1918


  first world war end, men 18+ and women 30+ get the vote
• 1928


  women 21+ get the vote
• persis


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