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1894–95: The Donghak Peasant Revolution: Korean peasants led by Jeon Bong-jun revolted against the Joseon dynasty; the revolt was crushed by Japanese and Chinese intervention, leading to First Sino-Japanese War. 1895: The revolution against President Andrés Avelino Cáceres in Peru ushers in a period of stable constitutional rule.
Thirteen are sentenced to death after the largest murder trial in American history. [35] Mexican Border war: c. November 20, 1910 – June 16, 1919 Texas,Mexican-American Border, Chihuahua: Constitutionalistas,Pancho Villa, Many Mexican civil war factions The chaos from the Mexican Revolution spills over onto the Texas border. Several towns and ...
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. It marked a major turning point in history and almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. In particular, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth.
The largest of these early revolutions was the American Revolution beginning in 1775, ... An Atlantic History of the English Revolution (U of Chicago Press, 2013).
The Industrial Revolution was underway. By 1850, England had 6,600 miles of track laid for its growing railroad industry. Within another decade the U.S. had raced forward and built 30,000 miles of ...
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
"great revolution" (a revolution that transforms economic and social structures as well as political institutions, such as the French Revolution of 1789, Russian Revolution of 1917, or Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979). [18] [19] Mark Katz identified six forms of revolution: rural revolution; urban revolution; coup d'état, e.g., Egypt, 1952
At some point in history during the rivalry of France and Britain, the French wanted a faster route to Asia through water so they agreed to make a canal with Egypt. Egypt owning 51% and they 49%.