IMPORTANT DATES

• 1000-1500


  Early Modern Era
• 1750-1900


  Industrial Revolution
• 1900-1999


  20th century
• 1492


  Columbus reaches americas
• c1500-c2000


  british empire
• 1520


  aztecs meet conquistadors
• c1500-1700


  increase in superstition and witchcraft accusations
• c1600-c1800


  transatlantic slave trade (peak 1700-1800)
• 1607


  first british colony, virginia
• 1649


  Charles I executed
• 1649-1660


  interegnum, cromwell as lord protector, radical ideas
• c1700


  Enlightenment - lots of scientific ideas, less superstition
• 1770


  captain cook reaches austrailia
• 1789


  french revolution
• 1796


  Jenner's smallpox vaccine
• 1801


  Ireland becomes part of the UK
• 1804


  Napoleon became emperor
• 1807


  British abolition of Trans-Atlantic slave trade
• 1815


  Napoleon defeated
• 1819


  Peterloo Massacre
• 1832


  Great Reform Act
• 1833


  Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
• 1854


  Crimean War
• 1857


  Indian Mutiny
• 1858


  beginning of sewers in britain
• 1860s


  pasteur + germ theory
• 1872


  Secret Ballot Act
• 1897


  NUWSS formed
• 1901


  Australia becomes an independent commonwealth
• 1903


  WSPU formed
• 1914


  WWI begins
• 1918


  End of WWI, men 21+ yrs, women 30+ yrs can vote
• 1928


  women 21+ yrs got the vote
• 1066


  Norman conquest of England
• 1348


  Black Death
• 1381


  Peasants' Revolt