Question

can anyone give me 10 modern history events from 1350-1800

Answer 1

http://prezi.com/wjtf3gbhbvlg/world-history-timeline-1350-1800/

Answer 2

Probably not. I think most historians would date "modern" history as beginning no earlier than the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865. If you mean any historical events at all, well how about...

(1) The invention of movable type printing by Gutenberg in 1439, which brought printed books within the grasp of people other than the landed aristocracy and monks, leading to a substantial increase in literacy.

(2) The start of the Reformation, which we can date to Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517, which helped along the Enlightenment notion that truth -- scientific or moral -- was a thing accessible to every man through his own senses, and not a mystical secret that only priests or holy books could reveal.

(3) The defeat of the Spanish Armada by Elizabeth I's Royal Navy in 1588, which marked the decline of the mighty Spanish Catholic empire and the ascendancy of the Protestant seafaring nations (England and the Netherlands).

(4) The founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, in 1607, which opened the massive era of English colonialism, which ultimately spread Englightenment republican ideas, entrepreneurship and economic liberty, as well as the English language, around the planet.

(5) The Peace of Westphalia that closed the Thirty Years War and more generally the wars of religion (Reformation and Counter-Reformation) in 1648, and marked the beginning of the ability of German culture and ingenuity to influence the world, now that they were no longer occupied with slaughering each other. This also cemented in place the eternal truce between factions of Christianity which led to its long subsequent record of intellectual tolerance and "church-state" separation, so different from Islam or the Eastern religions.

(6) The invention of calculus by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz in 1666 (or so), opening three centuries of spectacular math-based technological advance. This was essentially the first time that it was understood that the natural world could be described and predicted by mathematics, with mathematical levels of certainty.

(7) The invention by Thomas Newcomen of a practical steam engine in 1712, which is a good marker for the start of the Industrial Revolution in England.

(8) The American Declaration of Independence in 1776, marking the first time a nation had been founded on the Englightenment principle of government by and for the people themselves.

(9) The American Constitution of 1787, which marked the first time time a large nation had fashioned a successful republican form of government since Rome herself.

(10) The French Revolution of 1797, the earliest example of the failure of the nationalist-collectivist-Romantic impulse to actually improve the lives of ordinary people, and the first demonstration that such impulses usually lead directly to tyranny and bloodshed.