Chronology

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1824 British Combination Acts repealed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
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