Learn about the major Industrial Revolution events that changed society and industry. Discover the important turning points that helped to define modern manufacturing, from the development of steam engines to the mechanisation of textile production.
| Event | Year |
| Invention of the flying shuttle | 1733 |
| James Watt patents the steam engine | 1769 |
| Invention of the spinning jenny | 29-Oct |
| The Factory Act restricts child labor | 1833 |
| Construction of the Stockton and Darlington Railway | 1825 |
| Invention of the power loom | Nov-04 |
| The Battle of Waterloo | 1815 |
| Steam locomotive invented | 1804 |
| First industrial exhibition in London | 1851 |
| The American Civil War | 186100% |
| Invention of the telegraph | 1837 |
| Bessemer process revolutionizes steel production | 1856 |
| The Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, London | 1851 |
| Invention of the cotton gin | 1793 |
| Spinning mule invented | 1779 |
| The French Revolution | 1789 |
| First steamship crosses the Atlantic | 1819 |
| Invention of the power loom | 1784 |
| The Battle of Trafalgar | 1805 |
| Industrialization of textile production | 18th century |
| Invention of the telegraph | 1837 |
| First electric power station | 1881 |
| Invention of the steam-powered printing press | 1811 |
| Rise of the coal and iron industries | 19th century |
| Construction of the Eiffel Tower | 1889 |
| Luddite riots against industrial machinery | 1811 |
| Invention of the sewing machine | 1846 |
| Opening of the Manchester Ship Canal | 1894 |
| The American Revolution | 1775 |
| Construction of the Suez Canal | 1859 |
| Invention of the typewriter | 1867 |
| The War of 1812 | 1812 |
| Invention of the steam hammer | 1839 |
| First transcontinental railroad completed | 1869 |
| The Opium Wars | 1839 |
| Invention of the telephone | 1876 |
| The California Gold Rush | 1848 |
| Invention of the internal combustion engine | 1859 |
| Invention of the light bulb | 1879 |
| The Russian Revolution | 1917 |
| Invention of the phonograph | 1877 |
| Invention of the assembly line | 1913 |
| The Great Depression | 1929 |
| Invention of the motion picture camera | 1891 |
| World War I | 1914 |
| Invention of the airplane | 1903 |
| The Roaring Twenties | 1920s |
| Wall Street Crash of 1929 | 1929 |
| World War II | 1939 |
| Invention of the atomic bomb | 1945 |
| The Cold War | 1947 |
| Invention of the computer | 1946 |
| Space Race begins | 1955 |
| Civil rights movement | 1950s-1960s |
| Apollo 11 moon landing | 1969 |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | 1989 |
| Dissolution of the Soviet Union | 1991 |
| September 11 attacks | 2001 |
| Launch of the iPad | 2010 |
| Brexit referendum | 2016 |
