The Industrial Revolution (In Our Time)
1760 · Resource
In the first of two programmes, Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Industrial Revolution. Between the middle of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth, Britain was transformed. This was a revolution, but not a political one: over the course of a few generations industrialisation swept the nation.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1760
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)