TIMELINE
1776 |
Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations. |
1798 |
Thomas Malthus wrote an Essay on the Principle of Population. |
1799,1800 |
Combination Acts |
1802 |
Factory Act |
1804 |
Ludwig Feurbach was born. |
1807 |
Friedrich Hegel wrote Phenomena of the Mind. |
1810 |
Northcumberland and Durham miners strike. |
1811 |
Louis Blanc was born. |
1812 |
Luddites |
1813 |
Glasgow weavers strike. |
1817 |
David Ricardo wrote Principle of Political Economy and Taxation. |
1818 |
May 5--Karl Marx was born. Manchester cotton spinners strike. |
1820 |
Friedrich Engels was born. |
1821 |
Friedrich Hegel wrote Philosophy of Right. |
1823 |
David Ricardo died. |
1824 |
Combination Acts were repealed. |
1830 |
Industrial Revolution spread to France and
Belgium. July Revolution |
1831 |
Lyons workers' revolt in the silk industry. Polish Insurrection |
1832 |
Sadler Commission Report on Child Labor Reform Bill |
1833 |
Factory Act |
1834 |
Thomas Malthus died. |
1836 |
People's Charter |
1839 |
Louis Blanc established a magazine called Revue
du Progres as an organ for Socialist documents. |
1841 |
Ludwig Feurbach wrote Essence of Christianity. |
1842 |
Coal Mines Act Friedrich Engels converted to communist beliefs by German Socialist Moses Hess. |
1843 |
Chartism Prussian government suppressed Marx's newspaper the Rheinsche Zeitung. |
1844 |
Friedrich Engels wrote the Condition of the
Working Class in England. Marx and Engels met in Paris. |
1846 |
Marx and Engels organized the "German
Democratic Communists" in Brussels. |
1847 |
Ten Hours Act Marx and Engels joined the Communist League. |
1848 |
Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. |
1849 |
Marx was banished from France. Marx was arrested and tried in Cologne on the charge of indictment to armed insurrection--he was aquitted. Marx was expelled from Germany. |
1850 |
Continental Industrial Revolution came to age. |
1852 |
Communist League was dissolved. |
1854 |
Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times. |
1859 |
Marx wrote the Critique of Political Economy. |
1864 |
First International was established. |
1867 |
Marx wrote Das Kapital. Reform Bill |
1871 |
Paris Commune |
1872 |
Marx essentially ended the First International by
moving its headquarters to the U.S. Ludwig Feurbach died. |
1882 |
Louis Blanc died. |
1883 |
Marx died. |
1884 |
Engels wrote the Origins of Family, Private
Property, and the State. Reform Bill |
1889 |
First International was revived. |
1892 |
Engels wrote Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. |
1895 |
Engels died. |
1898 |
Lenin established the Social Democratic Party. |
