Historical event?

Question

In class our BIG report has to be about a historical event that changed the way people live today ,and we have to be interested in. I need help choosing an event. I'm NOT interested in war. An example of a historical event is the Titanic. Any suggestions on a historical event? Thank You

Answer 1

The Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague that entered Melcombe Regis in 1348, and within a year had killed nearly half the population.

The Black Death, began with a minor outbreak of bubonic plague, medical term Yersinia Pestis, which started in the Gobi Dessert. It was transmitted throughout China and reached Europe when a Kipchak army, besieging a Crimean trading post, catapulted plague-infested corpses over the city walls. Plague spread throughout Europe, carried by fleas in the fur of rats, and eventually reached the Dorset coast on 24th June 1348.

Contagion carried quickly, and about two thirds of the population became infected. The morbidity rate was about 66%, i.e. if you caught it, you had a two to one chance of dying. Chroniclers relate how the disease raged in a town for about a month and then left. It moved gradually northwards until it had burnt itself out. Within twelve months, nearly half the population was dead.

After the problem of burying the dead in plague pits was over, people tried to get back to normality. But life was never the same again. The decreased population meant a shortage of labour and workmen demanded and received pay increases. The government of Edward III tried to cap pay increases by an Act of Parliament, The Statute of Labourers, the first government attempt to control the economy. Workmen who demanded too much were placed in the stocks, that is trapped in a wooden gadget for a day, and employers who paid over the odds were fined. The Act was largely unsuccessful as employers coaxed workers from other employers, with promises abundant pay increases, and wages kept on rising. One recorded case shows that a joiner who built the stocks for the punishment of greedy workers was paid three times the legal rate for his labour.

The government also passed The Sumptuary Act of 1367, making it illegal for the lower classes to spend their new wealth on new apparel of ermine or silk. Only the aristocracy and some senior gentlefolk were allowed to wear these items. Today when barristers are raised to the rank of Queen’s Council, they are said to ‘take silk’, indicating their elevation in status. The Act has never been repealed, so if you wear silk, and if any of Edward III’s commissioners are still alive, you could get put in the stocks!

By the reign of Richard II, the economy had settled down and landowners switched from labour intensive methods, grain production, to low labour processes, particularly sheep farming. Increased wool production boosted the economy and became the nation’s chief export, making England a major economic power.

Answer 2

The Titanic is fascinating, but I don't think it qualifies as having had a big enough impact on the way people live today.

If you want an American event, The Lewis and Clark Expedition qualifies, for it opened up the American West, set the stage for the Louisiana purchase and the expansion of the U.S. to the Pacific. This had repercussions on all sorts of things.

Thomas Edison and his light bulb--not especially the bulb itself which had already been invented in Europe--but his creation of the means to allow for the usage and spread of the usage of electricity changed enormously the way we live today.

Either the transcontinental railway system or the first National Road connecting East and West in America (U.S. 40) (later upgraded to U.S. 70) allowed for an increased flow of commerce between the East and the West and provided a means for the mid-west to get it's agricultural products to other parts of America.

If ships are you thing you could expand your fascination with the Titanic to the part that steamships played in connecting Europe and America and what sorts of effects that had--and incorporate a bit about the Titanic--as it is the represenative ship of man's dreams to conquer the sea. And his failure because of pride at various levels of the development of the ship and the running of it. But overall steamships played a huge part in commerical traffic, passenger traffic (immigration and culture) and the ships were requisitioned for war transport as well. There is a lot there on ships. And they are fascinating.

Hope some of these ideas help, or at least stimulate your thinking.

Hey Ho, Maggie.

Answer 3

The following are a few of the historical events tht changed the living of the people:
1. Invention of electricity.- changed living style completely.
2. Invention of aeroplane, electric locomotives and thus in transportation
3. The birth of Buddha and subsequent attaing wisdom, similar is the case with Jesus and Mohammed.
4. Invention of sattellite and allied communication network changed the world completely into a knowledge revolution,
VR

Answer 4

Space Flight. Apollo 8 Changed the way that we look at the Earth.

The 2 Pictures that they took on 24 December 1968 were the first views of this planet, In Toto, from Outer Space.

World War II it Introduced Penicillin, long range air travel, FM Radio, Television, Rockets ,Jet Airplanes, and lest we forget the Atomic Bomb.

Answer 5

The history channel has a whole series on foods. You could look at the invention/founding of hamburger restaurants. Or look at the invention of franchising. The invention and development of sandwiches is sort of interesting as well. There is also the whole idea of canned food. This one is really interesting, the can opener wasn't invented until about 50 years after the can.

Answer 6

background, interior the broadest experience potential each and every thing that has handed off in the previous. this could call for that the oldest occurences had the main dramatic result on immediately's existence on the grounds that all destiny background could would desire to be in line with those earlier activities. If I had to respond to in that wide classification i could probably say that a particular to extinction point worldwide adventure such as an asteroid strike could have maximum dramatically formed the way we live immediately for, had it never occured, humankind could probably have never more suitable in any respect. The President of the US would ok have became out to be an more suitable T-Rex, or in line with risk even some dominant species previous to the dinosaurs (who apparantly have been given their huge destroy from an asteroid, basically like us.)

Answer 7

How about focusing on an invention? Cars or computers, or something else that had a big impact.

Is there a time period you need to look at or are interested in? Narrowing the scope would make it a lot easier.

Answer 8

1. Invention of the World Wide Web

Answer 9

how about the opening of the Panama Canal, the stock market crash, or the Lindburgh Trial

Answer 10

The discovery of x-rays.