| A MAP OF TIME |
|---|
| 1712 | Early steam engine in Britain |
| 1780s | Beginning of British Industrial Revolution |
| 1812 | Locomotives first used to haul coal in England |
| 1832 | Reform Bill gives vote to middle-class men in England |
| 1848 | Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto |
| 1850s | Beginning of railroad building in Argentina, Cuba, Chile, Brazil |
| 1861 | Freeing of serfs in Russia |
| 1864–1876 | First International socialist organization in Europe |
| After 1865 | Rapid growth of U.S. industrialization |
| After 1868 | Takeoff of Japanese industrialization |
| 1869 | Opening of transcontinental railroad across United States |
| 1871 | Unification of Germany |
| 1889–1916 | Second International socialist organization in Europe |
| 1890s | Rapid growth of Russian industrialization |
| 1891–1916 | Building of trans-Siberian railroad |
| 1905 | Failed revolution in Russia |
| 1910–1920 | Mexican Revolution |
| 1917 | Russian Revolution |