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
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)