The best summaries of Modern and Contemporary history of the year published here in AboutHistory.
Closing the year, and making a raconto of the best of 2011 in we continue with this special in which we gather the best summaries of History made by our team. In a previous article we have already seen the different summaries of Ancient and Medieval History. Now it’s time to go a little further and get into the modern history and partly also from the Contemporary history (end of century XVIII and century 19th).
Modern History Summaries
Voyages of Discovery and Exploration. Throughout the fifteenth century, the crowns of Portugal Y Spain embarked on overseas expansion, traveling along the African coast first, and then reaching America.
Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America. In this article we focus on the figure of Christopher Columbusin his personal history and in the development of his ambitious and dangerous plan to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to indies that would end in the “Discovery” of America.
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation. In the troubled times of Protestant Reformationthe English monarch Henry VIII will create a new stream of Christianity, the Anglican churchas a result of both your state policies and your personal needs.
The Baroque. A complete description of this unique period of the history of art, reviewing its most important precepts and its most outstanding works and artists.
The industrial Revolution. This is probably the most transcendental historical process of the last millennia, which led to the total transformation of most of the world’s societies. We tell you what were the factors that allowed its development, what are the stages in which it is divided and why it originated in England.
Summaries of Contemporary History
French Revolution. The French Revolution is the historical process with which the Contemporary age. Its significance is so wide that it inspired national and independence movements in vast parts of the globe. But it is quite a difficult process to study, since the tendencies and the protagonists were changing in its different stages. Here we review the main historical events in chronological order.
The French Revolution and the War of the First Coalition. When the revolution began to prosper, the European monarchical powers began to see with great concern the expansion of French influence, forming a coalition against them that led to the so-called War of the First Coalition.
wars of XIX century, abstract (from 1800 to 1848). Here you will find a more than useful summary of the many wars that took place during the first half of the XIX centurywith the opponents who participated in them and the years in which they took place.
The Crossing of the Andes. At the beginning of XIX centurythe Spanish colonies in America began a process of emancipation known as Wars of American Independence. In this context, one of the most important military actions in all of history took place, the Andes Crossing from the United Province of the River Plate (Argentina) a Chilidirected by the General San Martin.
Revolutions of 1830 and Revolutions of 1848. A complete report on each of these two revolutionary waves that affected different European countries following the new ideals of freedom and nationalism.
The colonial division of Africa. Between 1880 and the First World War, the main European powers occupied practically the entire African continent for colonial purposes. This is what is known as the colonial partition of Africa, a process that we address in this complete summary.
imperialism in the XIX century: the Division of the World. This article complements the summary that we have mentioned before, with a more global vision of imperialism and how it developed in different parts of the world.
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