5.1 Timeline

1750- Industrializatiion begins in Britain

1769- James Watt creates the modern steam engine

1780s and 1790s- Interchangability of parts developed in France

1803- Denmark becomes the first Western country to abolish the slave trade

1814- George Stephenson puts a steam engine on a carriage on rails, creating the locomotive

1819- First Atlantic crossing by a steam engine boat

1839-1842- Opium War between China and Britain 

1842- Treaty of Nainjing opens Chinese ports

1853- U.S. ships enter Japanese ports

1865- U.S. Civil War ends, rapid U.S. industrialization begins

1868- Meiji Restoration launches Japanese industrialization

1871- Germany gains resource abundant Alsace and Lorraine after beating the French, helping industrialization.

1873-1900- deep global recession with uneven recovery

1890s- Argentina's leading textile manufacturer produces 1.6 million yards of cloth yearly

1891-1904- Constructuin of trans-Siberian railroad

Timeline 5.4

Whole Period - Immigration of the Welsh to Great Britain due to Industrial Revolution jobs
1812 - First use of a steam-powered locomotive
1816 - Spanish migration to Argentina
1837 - First passenger steamship crosses the Atlantic in 1/4 the time of a sail-powered ship
1840 - Great Potato Famine in Ireland leads to global migration from the island
1840s - First Chinatown in San Francisco
1847 - First propeller-driven ship crosses the Atlantic. The more efficient propellers increased the popularity             of travel by steamship.
1847-1857 - Immigration of almost 200,000 people from France
1861 - Italian Diaspora following the unification of Italy
1862 - Circassian Diaspora to Russia and the Ottoman Empire
1892 - Opening of Ellis Island immigration station