Europe

1770s-1840s - Age of Revolution
1770s-1870s - First Industrial Revolution
1774 - James Watt's first rotary steam engine
1776 - Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
1789-1815 - French Revolution
1791-1792 - Constitutional state in Poland-Lithuania
1800 - British Act of Union
1804 - Crowning of Napoleon as Emperor of France
1810-1811 - Height of Napoleon's empire
1815 - Defeat of Napoleon at Battle of Waterloo; Congress of Vienna
1821-1830 - Greek war of Independence
1830-1831 - Wave of revolutions across Europe
1831 - Formation of Young Italy movement by Mazzini
1845-1846 - Irish potato famine
1848 - Wave of revolts across Europe; The communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
1851 - Great Exhibition in London
1859-1870 - Unification of Italy
1862-1871 - Unification of Germany
1870s-1914 - Second Industrial Revolution

The Americas

1770s-1840s - Age of Revolution
1773 - Boston Tea Party
1776 - American Declaration of Independence
1776-1783 - American Revolution
1783 - British recognition of U.S. independence
1787 - U.S. constitutional convention; Northwest Ordinance for forming new states
1791-1894 - Haitian Revolution
1808 - Move of Portuguese royal family to Brazil
1810-1811 - First Mexican revolution
1810-1826 - Spanish-American wars of independence
1816 - Argentina independence
1821 - Founding of Gran Colombian republic by Bolivar
1822 - Mexican independence; Dom Pedro emperor of Brazil
1830 - Independence of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador
1839 - Division of Central American states

United States

1787 - U.S. constitution
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1812-1814 - U.S. - British War of 1812
1823 - Monroe Doctrine
1825 - Completion of Erie Canal
1846-1848 - U.S. - Mexican war
1848 - U.S. acquisition of Texas, California, and New Mexico
1849 - California gold rush
1861-1865 - Civil War
1862 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
1867 - U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia
1869 - Completion of transcontinental railroad
1898 - U.S. incorporation of Hawai
1898-1902 - Spanish-American War
1902 - U.S. colonisation of Philippines
1903 - First powered flight by Wright Brothers

Latin America

1823-1889 Abolition of slavery
1842 - End of trans-Atlantic slave trade by most nations
1861-1872 - Benito Juarez president of Mexico
1862-1867 - French Occupation of Mexic
1876-1911 - Diaz dictatorship in Mexico
1879-1884 - War between Chile and Peru-Bolivia
1886 - Abolition of slavery in Cuba
1889 - Brazilian Republic
1889 - Abolition of slavery in Brazi
1895-1898 - Cuban revolt against Spai
1898-1902 - Spanish-American War
1901 - Platt Amendment to Cuban constitution
1910-1920 - Medical Revolution
1912 - U.S. intervention in Nicaragua
1914 - Completion of Panama Canal

Canada and Oceania

1763 - British defeat of French forces in Canada
1774 - British recognition of French culture and laws in Quebec
1770s - Cook expeditions to Polynesia, New Zealand, and Australia
1788 - First British penal colony in Australia
1792 - First British settlers in New Zealand
1812-1814 - U.S. - British War of 1812
1840s-1900s - Western colonisation of Pacific islands
1850 - Treaty of Waitangi
1851 - Discovery of gold in Australia
1867 - Canadian Confederation
1885 - Canadian transcontinental railroad
1901 - Australian Commonwealth
1907 - New Zealand self-government

Sub-Saharan Africa

1804 - Launching of Fulani jihads by Uthman dan Fodio
1804 - Abolition of slave trade by Denmark
1806 - British seizure of Cape region from Dutch
1807-1833 - Abolition of slave trade in Britain and its territories
1816 - Beginning of Shaka's Zulu Empire
1838 - Great Trek by South African Boers
1842 - Ending of trans-Atlantic slave trade by most European nations
1847 - First American freed slave settlement in Liberia
1870 - Ending of trans-Atlantic slave trade
1874-1901 - British - Ashante wars
1878 - Belgian colonisation in Congo
1884-1885 - Berlin Conference on colonialism
1884-1885 - Discovery of gold in South Africa
1898 - French defeat of Samory Toure
1899-1902 - Boer (South African) war
1905 - Maji Maji Rebellion in Tanganyika
1912 - Founding of African National Congress in South Africa

The Middle East

1768-1829 - Russians gain control of northern Black Sea lands and Georgia
1794-1925 - Qajar Dynasty in Persia
1798-1799 - French occupation of Egypt
1805-1848 - Rule of Muhammad Ali in Egypt
1830 - Greek independence from Ottoman Empire
1830 - French colonisation of Algeria
1859-1869 - Building of Suez Canal
1882 - British colonisation of Egypt
1890s-1915 - Turkish genocide against Armenians
1897 - First Zionist conference
1899 - British protectorate over Kuwait
1905-1911 - Constitutional revolution in Persia
1907-1921 - Russian and British spheres of influence in Persia
1908 - Young Turk government in Ottoman Turkey
1908 - Discovery of oil in Persia
1911-1912 - Colonisation of Libya and Morocco

South Asia

1744-1761 - Anglo-French struggle for Coromandel coast
1757 - Battle of Plassey
1764 - British acquisition of Bengal
1774-1784 - Warren Hastings governor of Bengal
1793 - new land policy in Bengal
1799 - British defeat of Mysore
1796-1815 - British colonisation of Sri Lanka
1816 - British protectorate over Nepal
1819 - British occupation of all Maratha lands
1820s - Beginning of British Westernization policy
1839-1842 - First Anglo-Afghan War
1849 - British defeat of Sikhs in Punjab
1850 - Completion of British India
1857-1858 - Indian Rebellion
1858 - Introduction of colonial system in India
1877 - Founding of Muslim college at Aligarh
1878-1880 - Second Anglo-Afghan war
1885 - Formation of Indian National Congress
1903 - British invasion of Tibet
1906 - Formation All-India Muslim League

Southeast Asia

1786 - British base at Penang Island
1788-1802 - Tayson rule in Vietnam
1799 - Abolition of Dutch East India Company
1802 - Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam
1819 - British colony in Singapore
1824-1886 - Anglo-Burmese Wars
1830-1870 - Cultivation system in Java
1858-1884 - French conquest of Vietnam
1868-1910 - Kingship of Chulalongkorn in Siam
1869 - Opening of Suez Canal
1885-1886 - Completion of British conquest of Burma
1887 - Formation of Federation of Indochina
1898-1902 - U.S. conquest of Philippines
1908 - Dutch defeat of last Balinese Kingdom

China

1644-1912 - Qing Dynasty
1839-1842 - Opium War
1841 - Treaty of Nanjing
1850-1864 - Taiping Rebellion
1856-1860 - Arrow War
1894-1895 - Sino-Japanese War
1898 - 100 Days of Reform
1900 - Boxer Rebellion
1911 - Chinese Revolution
1912 - Formation of Chinese Republic
1915 - Japan's 21 Demands of China

Japan and Korea

1392-1910 - Yi Dynasty in Korea
1600-1867 - Tokugawa Shogunate
1853 - Opening of Japan by Perry
1854 - Treaty of Kanagwa
1867-1868 - Meiji Restoration
1894-1895 - Sino-Japanese War
1904-1905 - Russo-Japanese War
1910 - Japanese colonisation of Korea and Taiwan

Russia and Central Asia

1762-1769 - Reign of Catherine the Great
800-1870s - Russian conquest of Caucasus and Turkestan
1861 - Emancipation of Russian serfs
1891-1915 - Building of Trans-Siberian railroad
1904-1905 - Russo-Japanese War
1905 - First Russian Revolution

World War I and Aftermath

1908 - Austria-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina
1914 - Outbreak of World War I
1916 - Battle of Verdun
March 1917 - Fall of czarist government in Russia
June 1917 - U.S. intervention in World War I
October 1917 - Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
March 1918 - Brest-Litovsk Treaty
1918-1921 - Russian civil war
November 1918 - End of World War I
1919 - Paris Peace Conference
1919-1920 - First Red Scare in United States
1921 - Irish Free State
1921 - Formation of Italian Fascist movement
1922 - Formation of Soviet Union
1924 - Death of Lenin
1926 - Fascist state in Italy
1928 - Beginning of Soviet Five-Year Plans

Era of Great Depression

1929-1941 - Great Depression
1929-1953 - Stalin's dictatorship in Russia
1931 - Japanese occupation of Manchuria
1933-1945 - Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
1932 - Nazi electoral victory in Germany
1933-1938 - Anti-Jewish legislation in Germany
1935-1936 - Italian conquest of Ethiopia
1936 - Start of fascist government in Japan
October 1936 - Hitler-Mussolini alliance
1936-1938 - Stalin's Great Purge
1936-1939 - Spanish Civil War

World War II

1937 - Japanese invasion of China
March 1938 - Austrian merger with Germany
1938 - German annexation of western Czechoslovakia
August 1939 - Nazi-Soviet Pact
September 1939 - German invasion of Poland
1939 - Beginning of war in Europe
1939-1945 - World War II
1940-Tripartite Pact between Germany, Italy, and Japan
June 1941 - German invasion of Soviet Union
December 1941 - Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor; invasion of Southeast Asia
1942 - Battle of Midway
1944 - Allied landing at Normandy
July 1944 - Bretton Woods conference
February 1945 - Yalta Conference
April 1945 - Allied invasion of Germany
August 1945 - U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

China and India

1911-1912 - Chinese Revolution
1915 - Beginning of New Culture movement in China
1916-1927 - Warlord Era in China
1919 - May Fourth Movement in China
1919 - Amritsar massacre in India
1926-1928 - Northern Expedition to reunify China
1927 - Guomindang suppression of communists
1927-1934 - Mao Zedong's Jiangxi Soviet
1928-1937 - Republic of China in Nanjing
1930 - Chandi's Great Salt March
1931 - London Conference on India
1931 - Japanese occupation of Manchuria
1935-1936 - Chinese Communist Long March
1935 - Government of Indian Act
1937 - Provincial elections in India
1937-1945 - Japanese invasion of China
1942 - Gandhi's Quit India campaign

Southeast Asia and Africa

1912 - Formation of African National Congress in South Africa
1912 - Formation of Islamic Union in Indonesia
1920-1922 - Nationalist unrest in Keny
1920 - Formation of Indonesian Communist Party
1926-1927 - Communist uprising in Indonesia
1927 - Formation of Indonesian Nationalist party
1928-1931 - Peasant rebellions in the Congo region
1930 - Founding of Indochinese Communist Party
1932 - Nationalist coup in Thailand
1935-1936 - Conquest of Ethiopia by Ital
1941-1945 - Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia
1941 - Formation of Viet Minh in Vietnam by Ho Chi Minh

Latin America and the Middle East

1909-1933 - U.S. forces in Nicaragua
1916 - Arab revolt against the Turks
1917 - Balfour Declaration
1919-1922 - Turkish Revolution by Ataturk
1921 - Formation of Iranian republic by Reza Khan
1922 - End of British protectorate in Egypt
1922 - Formation of Turkish republic
1925-1979 - Pahlavi dynasty in Iran
1928 - Formation of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
1930 - Independence for Iraq
1930-1931 - Military governments throughout Latin America
1930-1945 - Estado Novo in Brazil
1932 - Formation of Saudi Arabia
1934-1940 - Cardenas presidency in Mexico
1934 - Fulgencio Batista Cuban dictator
1935 - Discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia
1936 - British-Egypt alliance
1936-1939 - Civil War in Palestine