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Timeline

This chronology of external events is taken from Appendix C of the textbook and was developed for the Web by Tim Gades. Because the timeline is very long, it has been broken up into six segments for easier loading and viewing. Just use the "Quick Section Links" below to jump from part to part.


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Enlightenment, Romanticism, Colonization, and the Industrial Revolution: 1680-1900

1688 The Glorious Revolution. [icon]
1689-1702 Rule of William and Mary. [icon]
1700 Population of England is 5 million. [icon]
1707 Act of Union, uniting England and Scotland as the UK. [icon]
1746 Battle of Culloden, with subsequent repression of Scottish Gaelic. [icon]
1759 Wolfe takes Quebec for England. [icon]
1760-1850 Highland Clearances in Scotland, with resulting emigration and loss of Celtic. [icon]
1763 Trading in Basra, Iraq. [icon]
1765-1947 British rule over India. [icon]
1773 Boston Tea Party. [icon]
1775-1783 American War of Independence. [icon]
1780s Colonies (of convicts) in Australia. [icon]
1789 French Revolution; George Washington is first American president. [icon]
1791 British colonies in Upper and Lower Canada. [icon]
1803 Louisiana Purchase. [icon]
1806 British take over the Cape Colony in South Africa. [icon]
1821-1823 Irish Potato Famine. [icon]
1820s Railroads in the U.S. [icon]
1819-24 Malacca and Singapore occupied by the British. [icon]
1834 Slavery abolished in the British Empire. [icon]
1830s Settlement of New Zealand. [icon]
1842 China cedes Hong Kong. [icon]
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria. [icon]
1853 Gadsden Purchase; Japan opened to Western trade. [icon]
1858 Decision made to start the Oxford English Dictionary. [icon]
1861-65 American Civil War. [icon]
1861 British colony in Nigeria. [icon]
1862 British colony in Honduras. [icon]
1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States of America. [icon]
1869 Suez Canal opened. [icon]
1876 Telephone invented. [icon]
1880s Colonization of West Africa. [icon]
1884 Berlin Conference determines colonial power in Africa. [icon]
1886 Annexation of Burma. [icon]
1890s Rhodesia and Uganda conquered in an attempt to control the Cape-to-Cairo corridor. [icon]
1880-1902 Boer Wars and British conquest of South Africa. [icon]
1898 American control over Hawaii, Philippines, and Puerto Rico; Hong Kong and Territories leased to Britain for 99 years. [icon]
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