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 1ST 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, 1ST MAN MADE SATELITE ORBITS THE
GLOBE
1969 US PUTS THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON
1981 1ST 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
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