World History 2

QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

David Head

• Publisher: QuickStudy Reference Guides
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781423221746
• eBook ISBN: 9781423237426
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The perfect study tool for students in a World History course or for any history buff's collection. This 6 page laminated guide is a timeline covering the utmost critical points, events, figures, cultural migrations, and destruction that led to the formation of the world of today. Part 2 of a series, this guide covers the foundations of European empires through the modern multi-polar world.
6 page laminated guide covers:

• The Foundations of European Empires, 1441-1609
• Empires of the East, 1405-1644
• Early Modern Religious, Artistic, and Intellectual Movements, 1491-1705
• The Scientific Revolution, 1543-1687
• State Building in the West, 1640-1763
• Eastern Empires Confront Modernity, 1682s-1876
• An Age of Revolutions, 1763-1865
• Colonizers and Colonized, 1858-1912
• The Birth of Modern Culture, Science, and Technology, 1776-1937
• The World at War, 1914-1945
• The Cold War and Decolonization, 1946-1989
• A Multipolar World, 1990-2013
  

An Age of Revolutions, 1765–1865

1765	Seeking to raise new revenue following the Seven Years’ War, Britain passes the Stamp Act and touches off protests among American colonists. British inventor James Hargreaves creates the spinning jenny, a machine to automate the spinning of cotton into thread.
1768	British naval officer James Cook sets sail to explore the Pacific Ocean.
1769	British industrialist Richard Arkwright patents the water frame, a machine that uses water power to spin cotton into yarn. Scottish inventor James Watt develops the steam engine.
1772	In the Somersett decision, British justice Lord Mansfield rules that slavery is unsupported by existing law in Britain.
1774	Louis XVI is crowned king of France.
1775	The American Revolution begins.
1776	The Declaration of Independence is adopted in the United States.
1778	France joins the U.S. war against Britain by entering into an alliance with the United States. French aid will prove indispensible to the American victory, but it will leave France with deep fiscal issues.
1783	The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution with U.S. independence secured.
1785	British inventor Edmund Cartwright builds the first power loom.
1787	France’s Assembly of Notables gathers to discuss ways to address the nation’s debt crisis. They reject any plan to raise taxes on the nobility.
1788	Britain begins settling Australia.
1789	The French Estates-General—an assembly with representatives from the three estates of nobility, clergy, and commoners—meets for the first time since 1614. In the wrangling that ensues, no solution is found for the nation’s debt crisis. Representatives from the third estate (the commoners) break away to form their own legislature, the National Assembly. The members of the third estate sign the “Tennis Court Oath,” promising not to disband until a constitution has been written. A restive urban crowd storms the Bastille, a Paris prison, seeking arms stored there and touching off the French Revolution. With the French National Assembly now meeting as the National Constituent Assembly, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is drafted.
1790	France bans aristocratic titles, dissolves most religious orders, and requires that church officials be appointed by the Constituent Assembly.
1791	Austria and Prussia issue the Declaration of Pillnitz, pledging their support for Louis XVI. A slave revolt in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue begins the Haitian Revolution.
1792	France declares war on Austria. War with Prussia and Britain will soon follow, beginning the Wars of the French Revolution.
1793	French king Louis XVI is executed by guillotine. Led by Maximilien Robespierre, the ruling party in the French government eliminates rivals in the Reign of Terror. Deaths number in the tens of thousands, with many killed by guillotine. American inventor Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
1794	In the Thermidorian Reaction in France, Robespierre is toppled from power. The Reign of Terror ends and the Directory government is formed.
1798	Napoleon commands an invasion of Egypt. British forces attack Haiti but are repulsed by an army led by Toussaint L’Ouverture.
1799	Napoleon overthrows the Directory government in France.
1801	L’Ouverture promulgates a constitution. Slavery and all distinctions based on race are abolished. L’Ouverture is named governor-general for life.
1802	In France, Napoleon is named consul for life. The Treaty of Amiens brings a brief period of peace to Europe.
1804	Napoleon is crowned emperor of France. Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims Haiti a constitutional republic, the first black republic in the world. The world population is estimated to have reached 1 billion.
1805	Napoleon wins the Battle of Austerlitz and establishes French supremacy on land in Europe. Britain wins the Battle of Trafalgar and establishes British supremacy at sea.
1807	Britain abolishes the slave trade. Napoleon crosses through Spain to conquer Portugal. King John VI removes the royal family to Brazil. American Robert Fulton begins first commercial steamboat operation.
1808	The U.S. ban on the slave trade goes into effect. Napoleon gains control of Spain, deposing King Ferdinand VII and placing his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the throne. To resist Napoleon’s rule, the Central Junta is formed in Spain.
1809	A colonial junta is formed in Spanish Quito. The cities of Caracas, Buenos Aires, Bogota, and Santiago will follow suit, creatin...

Table of contents

• The Foundations of European Empires, 1441–1619
• Empires of the East, 1405–1644
• Early Modern Religious, Artistic & Intellectual Movements, 1491–1704
• The Scientific Revolution, 1543–1687
• State Building in the West, 1640–1763
• Eastern Empires Confront Modernity, 1682–1876
• An Age of Revolutions, 1765–1865
• Colonizers & Colonized, 1858–1912
• The Birth of Modern Culture, Science & Technology, 1776–1937
• The World at War, 1914–1945
• The Cold War & Decolonization, 1946–1989
• A Multipolar World, 1990–2013