Timeline Ali by Alice Larosa

1768

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"An experiment on a bird in the air pump" byJoseph Wright of Derby. This painting represents the early age of the Enlightenment, which will help set the industrail revolution.

1789

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"The storming of the Bastille" by Jean-Pierre Houël. This painting portrays the attack on the Bastille by the french population, this event is then recognized as the start of the French Revolution

1848

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"The proclamation of the abolition of slavery in french colonies" by Auguste Biard. This painting is an example of colonial propaganda, celebrating the abolition of slavery

1919

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"Gassed" by John Singer Sargent. This painting is a popular and powerful representation of the WWI, showing a line of british soldiers, blinded by mustard gas. This work shows the horror of the war and its consequences

1937

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"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso. This is painting is one of the most explanation anti-war paintings in history. It represents the horror of the spanish civil war and specifically, of the bombardament in Basque town of Guernica

1990

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"Fraternal kiss" by Dmitri Vrubel. This Berlin Wall mural was inspired by a picture of years before and symbolizes the suffocating relation between East Germany and Soviet Union

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1760, Industrial Revolution. It shifted economies from being primarily agrarian to being dominated by mechanized manufacturing and the factory system.

1793

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"The death of Marat" by Jacques- Louis David. This painting represents the assasination of Jean-Paul Marat, a french journalist and politician during the reign of terror in France (1792-1795)

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1770, The english explorer James Cook, commenced his first voyage around the world, becoming the first known European to reach the east coast of Australia

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The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 emancipating slaves throughout most of the British Empire

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The Second French Republic permanently abolished slavery in France and all its colonies in 1848.

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Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Denmark-Norway became the first European nation to prohibit the transatlantic slave trade by royal decree on March 16, 1792

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The American Civil War was a conflict between the United States (the Union or the North) and the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy or the South) from 1861 to 1865.

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The First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918.

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The Second World War from 1939 to 1945, was a global conflict that involved the vast majority of the world's nations, forming two opposing military alliances

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The Spanish Civil War started in 1936 and was fought between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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1917, the Russian Revolution occurred due to a combination of long-term social and political problems exploding under the pressure of World War I.

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1919, Treaty of Versailles, peace treaty that ender WWI

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1945, Cold War. It was a geopolitical and ideological war between United States and Soviet Union

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1989, fall of Berlin Wall, one of the most significant and symbolic events of the 20th century, marking the dramatic end of the Cold War in Europe.

1840

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"the slave ship" by William Turner, is a painting in the romantic era, regarding the traslantic slave trade and a direct critic to its brutality. This painting is also inspired by the Zong massacre in 1781.

1940

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"The face of the war" is a painting by Salvador Dali. It is an haunting and psychological painting, both representing his personal anxieties and trauma of the war as a dark historical moment. Dali painted this disembodied face, right after he fled in Europe from the US