Ten events of contemporary history

  • Peace of Utrecht

    Peace of Utrecht
    The Treaty of Utrecht is a set of treaties signed by the kingdoms of France, Great Britain and Austria. They signed that treaty due to the unsustainability of the Spanish state due to the lack of a king, at that time Spain was the third kingdom with the most power, so that was the reason for taking Spain, everything ended with a French king in Spain and the loss of some territories of Spain.
  • The Spirit of the Laws was published

    The Spirit of the Laws was published
    It is a book full of political theories with which Montesquieu, a French illustrated writer, as an anonymous author, because his works at that time were censored, wanted to revolutionize the laws of his time for an egalitarian and just society in front of everyone.
  • Watt patent the steam engine

    Watt patent the steam engine
    James Watt's patented steam engine was a great help to the industrial revolution.This Watt steam engine opened up a whole new field of application: it allowed the steam engine to be used to operate rotating machines in factories such as cotton mills. Unsurprisingly, demand for Watt's steam engine was high and it was quickly adopted across multiple industries.
  • Us constitution was published

    Us constitution was published
    The Constitution of the United States was written due to colonies in North America that became independent from the English, its three articles they support the separation of powers that is divided into judicial, legislative and executive powers and in turn these three have control over the others so that there is no conspiracy against the state.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille
    The Bastille was taken on July 14, 1789 because there was a revolution in France due to the mismanagement of the government and a famine that passed the country, as the third state wanted to overthrow the government they decided to besiege the prison of the Bastille to get the weapons What they needed.
  • Flight to Varennes

    Flight to Varennes
    Due to the fear that the royal family had, they decided to escape abroad so as not to die, it all started with a mismanagement of French money and the beginning of the revolution, the royal family managed to leave the palace of the Tuileries at night. The next morning the people noticed and started looking for them, unfortunately they were discovered on the edge of the border and they were taken back to the palace.
  • Execution of Louis XVI

    Execution of Louis XVI
    As king of France after the Jacobins took power, he tried to escape from France out of fear of being killed, but was discovered and taken to a prison and later taken to a court to sentence him and judge him as a traitor with the death penalty by guillotine.
  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo
    After Napoleon's return to power, he decided to take his army and make a lightning battle, not giving the enemy time to regroup, which in that war was Great Britain and Prussia, the outcome ended with the capture of Napoleon and exile to a distant island in the Atlantic.
  • stockton and darlington railway was opened

    stockton and darlington railway was opened
    The inauguration of the Stockton and Darlington railway was important because it was the first locomotive pulled by steam trains, the objective of this train was to develop a machine that would transport more cargo and carry it in the shortest time possible, this continued to be extended to transport people .
  • Samuel Morse invented the telegraph

    Samuel Morse invented the telegraph
    Samuel Morse was the inventor of the first telegraph line in the world, managing to carry an electric current connected to poles throughout the United States, this in turn created the Morse code that was the only way to communicate by telegraph, he demonstrated his invention managing to communicate with another person more than 300 kilometers away by telegraph.