Whitney's cotton gin
1794 · Event
Dramatically sped up cotton processing; perversely entrenched US slavery.
On these timelines: Master, USA, Industrial Revolution, Slavery & Abolition
Around 1794
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Opium Wars (1839)