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The Industrial Revolution and the invention of the steam train and loads of stuff (i.e sewing machine, elevator) that we would be nowhere without.
1810
The Year Without a Summer in 1816, a year of severe climate abnormalities caused famines throughout the world as a result of atmospheric dust from volcanic eruptions.
The War of 1812 (1812-1815) fought between America and Britain.
The Era of Good Feelings (1816-1823/1824) in America.
The end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1814.
The Congress of Vienna reshapes the map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon and introduces a policy of reaction and restoration throughout Europe (1814-1815).
The start of the Romantic era, which lasts until the mid-to-late 1850s and the beginning of the Victorian era.
1820
Nationalistic independence helped reshape the world during this decade (1820's).
Invention of the photograph and the first still existing photograph taken in 1826.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiers on May 7, 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna.
1830
Dutch-speaking farmers known as Voortrekkers emigrate northwards from the Cape Colony. (1830)
Croquet invented in Ireland. (1830)
Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States. (1830)
The first assassination attempt on an American President with Andrew Jackson being shot twice. (1830)
The destruction of the Second Bank of the United States in 1836.
1840
First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long (1840)
The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.
On August 29, 1842, the first of two Opium Wars ended between China and Britain with the Treaty of Nanking. One of the consequences was the cession of parts of modern day Hong Kong to the British. Hong Kong would eventually be returned to China in 1997.
Wave of revolutions in Europe. Collectively known as the Revolution of 1848. This led to mass emigration of these refugees into industrial cities of the United States as well as to other locations around the world.
In the mid 1840s several harvests failed across Europe, which caused famines. Especially the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849) was severe and caused a quarter of Ireland's population to die or emigrate to the United States and Canada.
The Panic of 1837 triggered by the failing banks in America follows a severe depression lasting until 1845.
Introduction of the postage stamp. The first of them is Penny Black, issued by the United Kingdom on May 1, 1840.
1850
Discovery of Neanderthal fossils in Neanderthal, Germany
First official game of baseball played in 1845.
The 1860s were an extremely turbulent decade in the world, with numerous cultural, social, and political upheavals in Europe and America. Revolutions were prevelent in Germany and the Ottoman Empire. The abolition of slavery in America led to the breakdown of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
America experienced a state of total war, and advancements in military technology, such as the iron and steel warships in the Navy, added to the destruction.
1870's
The prototype telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, but other versions were invented earlier by other people, Antonio Meucci.
A version of the light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison, but other versions were invented earlier by other people.
The phonograph is invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison.
The Anglo-Zulu War lasted from 11 January 1879 - 4 July 1879.
Jeanne Calment, born 1875, would eventually become the longest-living human being in recorded history. She lived until 1997, at the age of 122. She still holds the record as of 2009.
Atlas Bear goes extinct.
The British Empire continued to grow; this decade marked the beginning of the New Imperialism
1880's
Development and commercial production of electric lighting was underway.
Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobiles were undertaken by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach
Steel frame construction of "sky-scrapers" happened for the first time.
1885: Thomas Edison invents the first ever movie in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
The James-Lange theory of emotion was produced.
The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the "Mauve Decade," because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the "Gay Nineties", under the then-current usage of the word "gay" which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no connotation of homosexuality as in present-day usage. The phrase, "The Gay Nineties," was not coined until 1926. This decade was also part of the Gilded Age, a phrase coined by Mark Twain, alluding to the seemingly profitable era that was riddled with crime. In America, the 1890s were marked by a severe economic depression sparked by the Panic of 1893, as well as several strikes in the industrial workforce.
1896: Gold was discovered in the Klondike; this caused a massive movement of people, goods and money to the new town of Dawson City, in the far northwestern corner
Second Boer War
Increasing importance of Art Nouveau style.
1899: Scott Joplin publishes his first collection of "rags"
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Where when did segregation of gender specific clothes and color happen?
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Why was there a rush of inventions in the late 1800s?
because there just was that's why there was a rush of inventions in the late 1800s
Who were the rulers in japan from the 1100s to the late 1800s?
The rulers in Japan from the 1100s to the late 1800s were called the "Shoguns" :)
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Why were pollution and sewage a problem in American cities in the late 1800s?
In the late 1800s they did not have the sewage systems and waste disposal that we have today.
