Strickland's Must Know Dates
334041934 | 1756-1763 | 7 Years War (French and Indian War) | 0 | |
334041935 | 1767 | Invention of the Spinning Jenny | 1 | |
334041936 | 1776 | American Revolution/Smith writes "Wealth of Nations" | 2 | |
334041937 | 1789 | French Revolution Begins | 3 | |
334041938 | 1796 | Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine | 4 | |
334041939 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 5 | |
334041940 | 1807 | British Abolition of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | 6 | |
334041941 | 1807-1808 | Janissary Revolt | 7 | |
334041942 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 8 | |
334041943 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 9 | |
334041944 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | 10 | |
334041945 | 1839-1878 | Tanzimat Reforms | 11 | |
334041946 | 1848 | European Revolutions/Marx and Engles write "The Communist Manifesto" | 12 | |
334041947 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 13 | |
334041948 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 14 | |
334041949 | 1861 | End of Russian Serfdom | 15 | |
334041950 | 1861. | Italian Unification | 16 | |
334041951 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 17 | |
334041952 | 1871 | German Unification | 18 | |
334041953 | 1885 | Berlin Conference division of Africa (begins "Scramble for Africa") | 19 | |
334041954 | 1893 | New Zealand grants women suffrage | 20 | |
334041955 | 1896 | Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) | 21 | |
334041956 | 1898 | Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam & Puerto Rico) | 22 | |
334041957 | 1899-1902 | Boer War, British in control of South Africa | 23 |