🩷 1800–1849: steam, Napoleon, and the telegraph · 1800 – 1849
Each dot below is an address on your wall. Read the story, talk it through, draw a small icon, tape it at the dot.
This space holds 6 stories.
🩷 Dot 1 · 1800s
1804An obscure officer named Napoleon wins battle after battle until he rules France — then makes the Pope watch as he places the imperial crown on his own head.
📍 Address: Space 17 · Dot 1 (1804)
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🩷 Dot 2 · 1810s
1815The eruption of Mount Tambora leads to the “Year Without a Summer” — and the story-writing contest that produced both Frankenstein and vampire horror.
📍 Address: Space 17 · Dot 2 (1815)
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🩷 Dot 3 · 1820s
1828Simon Bolívar defeats Spain and helps free much of South America, but can’t keep his nation together: as assassins storm his palace, he crawls through a window to escape.
📍 Address: Space 17 · Dot 3 (1828)
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🩷 Dot 4 · 1830s
1830At its opening ceremony, the world’s first modern railway locomotive crushes a British Member of Parliament.
📍 Address: Space 17 · Dot 4 (1830)
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1839To stop the British from flooding China with opium, Lin Zexu dumps a mountain of it into pits and dissolves it with saltwater; Britain responds by sending warships to force the Chinese to accept the drug.
📍 Address: Space 17 · Dot 4 (1839)
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🩷 Dot 5 · 1840s
1848In the middle of a revolution, Karl Marx writes “The Communist Manifesto”, calling on industrial workers to remake the world.
📍 Address: Space 17 · Dot 5 (1848)
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