Industrial Revolution
1760–1840 · Event
Transition to new manufacturing processes in Britain (then Europe and the US): factory system, steam power, iron and steel, mechanised textile production.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England, Economic History
More from Industrial Revolution
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Spinning jenny invented (1764)
- Arkwright's water frame (1769)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
- Abraham Darby's coke-fired blast furnace (1709)
Around 1760
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)