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New British Parliament building started: 1836
Foundation of the Academy of Letrán, Mexico: 1836
Joseph Koch, Scene from Shakespeare’s Macbeth : 1834–1835
Emperor of China rejects British demand for greater access to trade: 1793
John Polidori, The Vampyre : 1819
Frankfurt Assembly: 1848–1849
Seneca Falls Convention: 1848
Battle of Navarino: 1827 Great Reform Bill (Britain): 1832
1793
1848
Opium War of
1839–1841
1800
Edmund Burke: 1729–1797
1810
1820
1830
Greek Unification: 1821–1829
Alexander Ypsilantis: 1792–1828
Johanne Gottfried von Herder: 1744–1803
Viscount of Chateaubriand: 1768–1848
Jean-Baptiste de Monet de Lamarck: 1744–1829
Georg Hegel: 1770–1831
William Wilberforce: 1759–1833
Hungary achieves partial autonomy within the Austrian Empire: 1867
Creation of the Dominion of Canada: 1867 Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878
Gettysburg address: 1863
Foundation of the Internationale: 1864
Second Schleswig War: 1864
The Morrill Act: 1862
Seven Weeks’ War: 1866
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln: 1861–1865
Commodore Perry opens Japan to outside trade: 1853
American Civil War: 1861–1864
Berlin Conference of 1884–1885
German unification: 1864–1871
Second Industrial Revolution: ca. 1860–1914
Wilhelm Grimm: 1786–1859
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Tugenhat house: 1930
Robert Chambers: 1802–1871
Napoleon III of France: 1852–1871
Russo-Japanese War: 1904–1905
1920
World War I
1914–1918
Final phase of Western imperial expansion: ca. 1878–1914
Victor Emmanuel II: King of Piedmont,
1849–1861; King of Italy, 1861–1878
Camillo di Cavour: 1810–1861
Frederick William IV of Prussia: 1840–1861
Jacob Grimm: 1785–1863
Russian Revolution of 1905–1906
Italy invades Abyssinia: 1896
Crisis of the fin de siècle: ca. 1885–1914
Italian unification: 1859–1870
1850
Pablo Picasso, “Three Women”: 1907–1908
Bulgarian independence: 1908
Foundation of the Boy Scouts: 1908
Henry Morton Stanley explores the Congo River for Leopold II of Belgium: 1879–1884
British invasion of Egypt: 1882
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : 1859
1848
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden: 1899
Congress of Berlin: 1878
Bram Stoker, Count Dracula: 1897
Serbian independence: 1878
Romanian independence: 1878
Foundation of the International Council of Women: 1888
Otto von Bismarck: 1815–1898
Karl Marx: 1818–1883
Jules Ferry: 1832–1893
Leopold II of Belgium: 1865–1909
Susan B. Anthony: 1820–1906
Carl Shurz: 1829–1906
Ferdinand de Saussure: 1857–1913
Menelik II of Showa: 1889–1913
Friedrich Nietzsche: 1844–1900
Wilhelm II of Germany: 1888–1918
Mark Rothko, “White Center”: 1957
Roy Lichtenstein, “Brushstrokes”: 1965
1920
2000
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
Robert Venturi: 1925–
Georges Vacher de la Pouge: 1854–1935
Sigmund Freud: 1856–1939
Albert Camus: 1913–1960
Margaret Sanger: 1879–1966
Jean-Paul Sartre: 1905–1980
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