🌀 Big Spiral History 🩷 Space 18

Space 18: The Industrial Age II

1850–1899: steel, empire, and invention

1850 – 1899

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Space 18: The Industrial Age II

🩷 1850–1899: steel, empire, and invention · 1850 – 1899

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🩷 Dot 1 · 1850s

1851 After failing his civil-service exams, Hong Xiuquan becomes convinced that he is Jesus’s younger brother, raises an army to build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and plunges China into the Taiping Rebellion, a civil war that kills tens of millions of people.

📍 Address: Space 18 · Dot 1 (1851)

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🩷 Dot 2 · 1860s

1863 After a Confederate invasion of the North is broken at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln stands among the fresh graves and calls for America to be reborn around the promise that “all men are created equal”.

📍 Address: Space 18 · Dot 2 (1863)

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🩷 Dot 3 · 1870s

1871 Humiliated by Western powers, Japan sends its brightest leaders to America and Europe to discover what makes them rich and strong — and they return home determined to beat the West at its own game.

📍 Address: Space 18 · Dot 3 (1871)

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🩷 Dot 4 · 1880s

1885 As part of a great wave of migration, Emma Goldman arrives in New York, works ten-hour days in a factory for miserable wages, and begins to take a stand against the capitalists and lawmakers who support the system.

📍 Address: Space 18 · Dot 4 (1885)

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1888 Knowing it might cost her the throne, Portuguese princess Isabel ends slavery in Brazil — the country that has enslaved the most Africans, and the last in the West to continue doing so.

📍 Address: Space 18 · Dot 4 (1888)

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🩷 Dot 5 · 1890s

1895 Oscar Wilde, the wittiest man in England, sues his lover’s angry father — but the case backfires, ending with Wilde imprisoned for being homosexual.

📍 Address: Space 18 · Dot 5 (1895)

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1897 Belgian King Leopold II forces the Congolese people to harvest rubber, and ships hundreds of them to Europe to be displayed in a human zoo.

📍 Address: Space 18 · Dot 5 (1897)

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1898 Émile Zola exposes a conspiracy among France’s military leaders to falsely brand a Jewish officer as a spy — revealing a hatred so deep that it helps convince many Jews they will never be safe without a country of their own.

📍 Address: Space 18 · Dot 5 (1898)

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