Timeline Project #4

v  Plot at least 25 of the following items on the timeline in the appropriate era

v  At least 10 of them are to be annotated

v  At least 10 graphics/pictures must in included

v  Due January 15, 2015

 

MODERN ERA

 

1607-173         COLONIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES

1629                PETITION OF RICHT SIGNED BY CHARLES I

1643-1648       ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

1643-1750s      SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

1650-1800       ENLIGHTENMENT

1648-1660       ENGLAND IS RULED BY PARLIAMENT

1660                CHARLES  II RESTORATION

1666                BUBONIC PLAGUE BREAKS OUT IN LONDON/CITY BURNS

1685-1750       JOHANNES SABASTIAN BACH

1688                ENGLISH GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

1689                ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHS BY WILLIAM AND MARY

1756-1763       SEVEN YEARS WAR/FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

1756-1791       WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

1765                JAMES WATT BUILDS STEAM ENGINE

1770-1827       LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN

1775-1783       AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1776                DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

1789                UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

1789-1799       FRENCH REVOLUTION

1793                ELI WHITNEY INVENTS COTTON GIN

1799-1815       NAPOLEONIC ERA

1804-1825       REVOLUTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA

1815                CONGRESS OF VIENA

1839                OPIUM WAR, CHINA

1848                NATIONALISTIC REVOLUTIONS ACROSS GLOBE

1848                KARL MARX PUBLISHED THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

1853                COMMODORE MATTHEW PERRY OPENS JAPAN TO THE WEST

1857                SEPOY REBELLION, INDIA

1869                SUEZ CANAL OPENS

1870                UNIVICATION OF ITALY COMPLETE

1871                BISMARCK SUCESSFULLY UNIFIES GERMANY

1885-1900       SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

1914                PANAMA CANAL OPENS

1914-1918       WORLD WAR I

1917                BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA

1918                CZAR NICHOLAS II AND FAMILY MURDERED

1919                TREATY OF VERSAILLES ENDS WORLD WAR I

1927                LINDBERGH FLIES ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN

1929-1940s      THE GREAT DEPRESSION

1931                JAPAN INVADES MANCHURIA

1933                ADOLF HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY

1939-1945       WORLD WAR II

7 Dec 1941      PEARL HARBOR

6 June 1944     D-DAY, NORMANDY, FRANCE

7 May  1945   GERMANY SURRENDERS

Aug – Sept 1945          US DROPS 1^ST ATOMIC BOMS ON JAPAN/JAPAN SURRENDERS

1945-1980       DECOONIZATION TAKES PLACE IN AFRICA AND ASIA

1946-1960       BABY BOOMERS BORN

1947                GANDHI LEADS INDIA TO INDEPENDENCE

1946-1991       COLD WAR BETWEEN US AND USSR

1949                MAO ZEDONG CREATES COMMUNIST STATE IN CHINA

1950-1953       KOREAN WAR

1954-1975       VIETNAM

1957                SPOTNIK, 1^ST MAN MADE SATELITE ORBITS THE GLOBE

1969                US PUTS THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON

1981                1^ST SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT

Oct 1989         BERLIN WALL TORN DOWN

1990-1991       GULF WAR

1992                APARTHEID ENDS IN SOUTH AFRICA

11 Sept 2001   WORLD TRADE CENTER AND US PENTAGON ATTACKED

2001                GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR

2003                US DEFEATS/CAPTURES SADDAM HUSSEIN

2013/2014       WHAT IMPORTANT EVENT HAPPENED IN YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR