ca. 1765 |
Hargreaves invents spinning jenny; Arkwright creates water frame |
1769 |
Watt patents modern steam engine |
ca. 1780–1850 |
Industrial Revolution and accompanying population boom in Great Britain |
1799 |
Combination Acts passed in England |
1805 |
Egypt begins process of modernization |
1810 |
Strike of Manchester, England, cotton spinners |
1824 |
British Combination Acts repealed |
1829 |
Stephenson’s Rocket; first important railroad |
1830s |
Industrial banks promote rapid industrialization of Belgium |
1833 |
Factory Act passed in England |
1834 |
Creation of a Zollverein (customs union) among many German states |
1842 |
Mines Act passed in England |
1844 |
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England |
1850s |
Japan begins to adopt Western technologies; industrial gap widens between the West and the rest of the world |
1851 |
Great Exhibition held at Crystal Palace in London |
1860s |
Germany and the United States begin to rapidly industrialize |