World history timeline by Perle Kandza _ Student - SouthGarnerHS

The neolithic age 10000 BC

pskandza — 2024-10-22 14:17:37 UTC

The Neolithic Revolution was a time when agriculture was created and people like Homo sapiens became farmers in villages and began to grow crops, raise animals and much more.

Source: https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/neolithic-revolution

Haitian Revolution age August 22, 1791

pskandza — 2024-10-22 14:23:52 UTC

A revolt by african slaves in the caribbean against french colonists.

source: https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/haitian-revolution-1791-1804/

French Revolution age May 5, 1789

pskandza — 2024-10-22 16:00:55 UTC

people's revolt against the inequalities of French society, the corruption of royal officials, and despair owing to widespread economic hardship.

source: https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/french-revolution

Russian Revolution March 8, 1917 – June 16, 1923

pskandza — 2024-10-22 16:04:46 UTC

The russian revolution was a revolution where the people from russia overthrew the imperial government and placed the Bolsheviks in power.

Source: https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/russian-revolution

Chinese Revolution October 10, 1911 – February 12, 1912

pskandza — 2024-10-22 16:07:24 UTC

The chinese revolution was a revolution where a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system.

source: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/chinese-rev

Cuban Revolution age July 26, 1953 – January 1, 1959

pskandza — 2024-10-23 13:15:10 UTC

The Cuban Revolution was an armed uprising led by Fidel Castro that eventually toppled the brutal dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

Source: https://www.history.com/topics/latin-america/cuban-revolution

American Revolution age April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783

pskandza — 2024-10-23 13:23:15 UTC

The American Revolution was an epic political and military struggle waged between 1765 and 1783 when 13 of Britain's North American colonies rejected its imperial rule.

source: The American Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 1)

British Agricultural Revolution age 1960s.

pskandza — 2024-10-23 13:32:50 UTC

The British agricultural revolution was a revolution where there was an extraordinary increased in agricultural production in Britain and also was the transitions of human hunter-gatherers to farmers and Herbers.

source: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2191/agriculture-in-the-british-industrial-revolution/

The Green Revolution age 1966–1985

pskandza — 2024-10-23 13:40:36 UTC

The green revolution was a period of time where the practice of agriculture started increasing in the world.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/event/green-revolution

Gunpowder is invented 9th century China.

pskandza — 2024-10-24 10:53:33 UTC

The gunpowder was the first explosive that was invented in China it was considerate as on of their Four great inventions.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gunpowder

The Industrial Revolution age 1760

pskandza — 2024-10-24 13:11:17 UTC

The industrial revolution was a period where mechanization, innovation, scientific and technological development spread across the world.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/event/Industrial-Revolution

Steam engine invented age 1712

pskandza — 2024-10-24 13:53:30 UTC

The invention of steam quickly became one of the most important power sources for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce goods in large quantities. And because of this, many people began to want more steam to build more machines and increase the production of goods.

Source: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2166/the-steam-engine-in-the-british-industrial-revolut/

Internal combustion engine 1853.

pskandza — 2024-10-24 14:05:13 UTC

The invention of the internal combustion engine helped revolutionize the world in many ways, especially in the field of transportation, leading to the invention of cars, trucks, airplanes, etc.

source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/gasoline-engine/Development-of-gasoline-engines

Plastic is invented age 1907

pskandza — 2024-10-24 14:23:49 UTC

Plastic was invented by a man name Leo Baekeland because he wanted to meet the needs of the rapidly electrifying United states.

source: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/chemistry/age-plastic-parkesine-pollution

Digital Revolution 1980

pskandza — 2024-10-24 14:31:08 UTC

The digital revolution was a period where society went from analog electronic and mechanical devices to digital technology transforming the way they live,communicate and work.

source: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/23371/digital-revolution

Columbus “discovers” the Americas 1492

pskandza — 2024-10-24 16:33:40 UTC

In reality, Columbus didn't discover America and was not the first European to set foot in the "New World".

source: https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

Invention of the printing press 1440

pskandza — 2024-10-24 16:34:29 UTC

The printing press originated in China but was developed by a German named Johannes Gutenberg. The printing press was a device that allowed people to produce books and other documents much faster and cheaper. The printing press also helped people read books that were not originally written in their language.

source: https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-printing-press-impact-on-the-english-language.html#:~:text=With%20the%20development%20of%20the,had%20substantial%20impacts%20on%20language.

Invention of the Machine gun (The Maxim Gun) 1884

pskandza — 2024-10-25 11:46:15 UTC

The Maxim was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world and was heavily used by colonial powers and was also had been used by other armies during WWI and WWII

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun

The Syrian Civil War age March 15, 2011 (1980s Islamist Uprising)

pskandza — 2024-10-25 12:12:04 UTC

The conflict began with a Syrian uprising against the Syrian government and its leader, President Bashar al-Assad. The war in Syria began as a battle between those who were for and those who were against President Bashar al-Assad. As an authoritarian leader, al-Assad did not allow the Syrian people to enjoy democratic freedoms. Ordinary people had no right to privacy, as the government monitored and surveilled them.

source: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=640dfa46d8859720&rlz=1CAWOAL_enUS1124&q=Why+did+the+Syrian+civil+war+start&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC-uaovKmJAxUKTTABHQteDJYQ1QJ6BAhKEAE&biw=1366&bih=599&dpr=1&safe=active&ssui=on

Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon age 1969

pskandza — 2024-10-25 12:20:40 UTC

Neil Armstrong was an American Astronaut who became the first man to have set foot on the moon.

source: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/50-years-ago-apollo-astronauts-land-take-first-steps-on-moon/

Facebook launches- February 4, 2004

pskandza — 2024-12-17 14:50:42 UTC

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#:~:text=On%20February%204%2C%202004%2C%20Zuckerberg,in%20the%20US%20and%20Canada.

Cambridge Analytica goes bankrupt-1 May 2018

pskandza — 2024-12-17 15:00:27 UTC

The consultancy was at the centre of the Facebook data-sharing scandal in which it was accused of improperly obtaining information on users.The bankruptcy proceedings are part of the process of closing down the company and its UK parent, SCL Elections, that started in early May.

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44167000

The Battle of the Somme begins - 1 July 1916

pskandza — 2024-12-17 15:08:01 UTC

The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 1 July 1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough.

7 min read

source: https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-somme#:~:text=The%201916%20Somme%20offensive%20was,bloodiest%20day%20in%20its%20history.

An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki- 6 and 9 August 1945

pskandza — 2024-12-17 15:13:24 UTC

On August 6, 1945, during World War II. The U.S dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

source: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

Creation of the world wide web- 1989

pskandza — 2024-12-17 15:23:25 UTC

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

source: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web#:~:text=Tim%20Berners%2DLee%2C%20a%20British,and%20institutes%20around%20the%20world.

The protestant reformation-1517

pskandza — 2024-12-17 15:29:03 UTC

The Protestant Reformation Sometimes called the Protestant revolution, a religious movement that began in the sixteenth century, brought an end to the ecclesiastical unity of medieval Christianity in western Europe and profoundly reshaped the course of modern history.

source: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/protestant-reformation/#:~:text=The%20Protestant%20Reformation%2C%20a%20religious,the%20course%20of%20modern%20history.

Council of Trent-between 1545 and 1563

pskandza — 2024-12-17 23:23:15 UTC

The Council of Trent held between 1545 and 1563 was a meeting of Catholic clerics convened by Pope Paul III in response to the Protestant Reformation.

source:

https://www.worldhistory.org/Council_of_Trent/

Invention of the first Wheel- 4th century BC

pskandza — 2024-12-18 14:08:22 UTC

The wheel was invented around the 4th century BC in Lower Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) by the Sumerians. They made it by attaching rotating axles to solid wooden discs. Later, around 2000 BC, they started hollowing out the discs to make lighter wheels.

This improvement brought big progress in two important areas.

source: https://www.citeco.fr/10000-years-history-economics/the-origins/invention-of-the-wheel#:~:text=The%20wheel%20was%20invented%20in,advances%20in%20two%20main%20areas.

Invention of the Cotton Gin-1793

pskandza — 2024-12-18 14:28:49 UTC

Eli Whitney, an American inventor, created a modern cotton gin in 1793 and got it patented in 1794. His machine used wire hooks to pull cotton through a screen, while brushes removed loose cotton to keep it from clogging.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin#:~:text=A%20modern%20mechanical%20cotton%20gin,cotton%20lint%20to%20prevent%20jams.

The first Airplane was invented (Wright brothers)-1903

pskandza — 2024-12-18 14:31:55 UTC

Wilbur and Orville Wright worked for four years to build the first successful powered airplane, called the 1903 Wright Flyer. It flew for the first time on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville flying it.

source: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/1903-wright-flyer/nasm_A19610048000#:~:text=Brief%20Description,airplane%2C%20the%201903%20Wright%20Flyer.