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Evolution | Historyworld

EVOLUTION

including headings Tentative beginnings, Evolution: the theory, From algae to fishes, The first land creatures, Reptiles, ...

American Revolution | Historyworld

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

including headings A mood of rebellion, Boston Tea Party, First Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord, Second Continental Congress, ...

French Revolutionary Wars 1797-1802 | Historyworld

THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS

including headings Encircling a pariah, Republican victories, Volunteer armies and conscription, War on land, War at sea, ...

Industrial Revolution | Historyworld

HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

including headings Humanity's twin revolutions, Britain's industrial advantages, Ironmasters of Coalbrookdale, Lancashire and cotton, Kay's flying shuttle, ...

Evolution of a script | HISTORY OF WRITING

Most early writing systems begin with small images used as words, literally depicting the thing in question. But pictograms of this kind are limited. Some physical objects are too difficult to depict. And many words are...

Linguistic evolution | HISTORY OF LANGUAGE

Linguistic evolution

The ongoing struggle between languages is a process very similar to evolution. A word, like a gene, will travel and prevail according to its usefulness. A word's fitness to survive may derive from being attached to a des...

Revolution | HISTORY OF MEXICO

Revolution

The Mexican revolution, beginning in 1910, evolves as a long and complex sequence of violent events lasting ten years. By May 1911 it has acquired sufficient impetus for the ageing dictator Díaz to be compelled to...

Revolution and reaction | HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Revolution and reaction

William Blake, the first of the Romantic authors, a self-taught engraver and visionary poet, publishes Songs of Innocence in 1789. Drawing on biblical tradition, the poetry of John Milton, Bunyan, Dante, and Nonco...

Revolutions and the Frankfurt assembly | HISTORY OF PRUSSIA

Revolutions and the Frankfurt assembly

The immediate effect of the revolutions which sweep through Europe in 1848 is concession on the part of terrified rulers. Riots in Munich cause the king of Bavaria, Louis I, to abdicate in favour of his son. Unrest in Vi...

Revolutions and the Frankfurt assembly | HISTORY OF GERMANY

Revolutions and the Frankfurt assembly

The immediate effect of the revolutions which sweep through Europe in 1848 is concession on the part of terrified rulers. Riots in Munich cause the king of Bavaria, Louis I, to abdicate in favour of his son. Unrest in Vi...

Revolution of 1905 | HISTORY OF COMMUNISM

Revolution of 1905

The political situation steadily deteriorates in Russia during 1905. The year has begun with one of the most shattering days in Russian history, the day known ever afterwards simply as Bloody Sunday.

A priest, Fat...

Revolution of 1905 | HISTORY OF RUSSIA

Revolution of 1905

The political situation steadily deteriorates in Russia during 1905. The year has begun with one of the most shattering days in Russian history, the day known ever afterwards simply as Bloody Sunday.

A priest, Fat...

Revolutions | HISTORY OF EUROPE

Revolutions

The heady example of the French Revolution remains an inspiration to liberals (a term coined in Spain in 1810) throughout the first half of the 19th century. At first the centre of political agitation is Latin America, w...

Industrial revolution | HISTORY OF SCOTLAND

Industrial revolution

From the 17th century there has been a developing coal industry in a belt of land across the centre of Scotland, stretching southwest from the Firth of Forth. By 1700 the many small coalfields in this region have a combi...

Restoration, revolution, reduction | HISTORY OF THE PAPACY

Restoration, revolution, reduction

The congress of Vienna restores the papacy, like other temporal powers, to its pre-Napoleonic territories. Pius VII returns from imprisonment in France to an ecstatic welcome in the papal states. One of his first actions...

Hitler's revolution | HISTORY OF GERMANY

Hitler's revolution

Hitler moves swiftly to consolidate his hold on power. At his first cabinet meeting, on the day of his appointment as chancellor, he argues that new elections must be held if the coalition fails to command an immediate m...

December revolution | HISTORY OF RUSSIA

December revolution

Russia's first revolution follows immediately on the death of Alexander I in 1825. Since the second half of the 18th century there has been a movement within Russia for constitutional reform (representative government in...