12.

00 World Population (High Growth

0.4 Sunspots
Rate Projection)
10.00

World Population
0.2 World Population (Moderate Average Global Temperature
200 370 Growth Rate Projection Change Index (1943 = 0)
Environmental

8.00

(billions)
0 World Population (Low Growth Atmospheric CO2 Level (parts
350 Rate Projection) per million by volume)
-0.2 6.00
330
100 -0.4 4.00
310
-0.6 2.00

0
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800.00
“Euphoric” Periods
Crime & Social

Social Unrest
Crime
Mood

Era of Good Gilded Age 1920s to 1950s 1980s to 2000s

1765 1838 Prohibition- and Yuppies Urban gangs; rise
Feeling Mid-2070s - 2100
The Stamp Act Police force 1870s to 1890s Roaring ‘20s depression-era of drug lords Late-2020s - 2050
1794 Period of increased violence and
Riots
The Whiskey 1810 - 1820s created in New 1844 Era of the western outlaw 1893 - 1920s gangsters: rise of 1950s - 1970s 2010 - 2030 Period of increased violence 2055 - 2080 criminal activity
York City
Rebellion Student riots Boston to Pre-Civil War and vigilante justice Agrarian and labor organized crime Civil rights marches, anti- Period of increased and criminal activity Period of increased
police force 0.00
on university deal with unrest protests (many turn war protests, rioting in social and civil unrest social and civil unrest
campuses urban crime created violent) cities and on campuses U.S. Rate of Violent Crime
Music

Classical Romantic Impressionist Jazz Rock and Roll World Beat? ?

1780s - 1810s 1822-1844 1840-1870 1870s-1880s 1890s-1910s 1920s-1930s 1950s - 1970s 1980s - 2000s
Rise of Radical Masonry dedicated to A wave of pronouncements of the "last days" Belief in transcendentalism, Revivalism and missionary fervor Christian socialists preach the Social Fundamentalism & Pentecostalism Declining church memberships, growth of the The "Moral Majority", Christian
Social

teamwork, “good works”, and secular and the coming of Christ mysticism, and pietism sweeps sweeps American university Gospel in American cities grow in U.S., particularly in the southern counterculture & search for a new consciousness conservatives, and rapid growth of
progress. Protestant churches campuses states evangelical organizations

Religion, Morality & Philosophy

400,000,000
Human Rights, Slavery & Feminism
1844 1863 1879 1920 1933 1960s-70s
1777-1804 1807 1833 1869 1881, 1886, 1887
1785 1826 Seventh Day 1849 Emancipation Church 1902 Prohibition Prohibition 1948 Liberation 1973 1994-96 300,000,000 Age Categories

(by age after 1996)

Northern Slave trade Rise of Proclamation Female Various Church of 1957-68
Creation of Chinese Armed forces Supreme

U.S. Population
Rise of outlawed by Millerites Adventists Female of Christ, God denominations Exclusion Act enacted repealed theology and Fundamentalist
states abolish American lawyers 1919 desegregated Civil Rights Court Under 10 50 to 59
Universalism U.S. and part of a formed doctors Scientist formed "God is political power
slavery Temperance licensed extended for U.S. 1921 Acts of '57, legalizes
Great Britain great revival allowed to formed 1882 1925 Dead" peaks 10 to 19 60 to 69
1791 Society in U.S. 1892 another 10 constitutional Emergency '60, '64 & '68; 1972 abortion 200,000,000
1804 1848 practice in 1865 1877 Chinese Scopes 1979 20 to 29 70 to 79
U.S. Constitution Chinese years amendment Quota Act puts 1965 Equal
Rise of 1820s 1830s First U.S. Constitutional 1872 End of Exclusion Act "Monkey Trial" 1960s Supreme
guarantees 1830 Exclusion granting quotas on 1954 Voting 30 to 39 80 to 89
Unitarianism "No Popery" Anti-Irish, anti- national amendment Jehovah's Reconstruction; prohibits pits Use of birth Employment Court
freedom of Mormon church Catholic mobs Act extended women vote Asian and Supreme Court
movement grows in Women's abolishes Witnesses systematic immigration Eastern fundamentalists control Opportunity upholds 40 to 49 90 or older
religion created; burn homes and for 10 years passes; rules segregated 100,000,000
response to Catholic Rights slavery founded repression of of Chinese for against theory becomes affirmative
Churches of churches Convention ratified in 1920 European public schools Act passed
immigration God formed blacks begins 10 years immigration of evolution unconstitutional widespread action

1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100
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1944 1947 1957 1962 1970 1987 1997 2002 2010
1947 Micromechanical 2025
Television Sputnik
1931 V-2 rockets fired First I Telstar I Recombinant Humane Artificial Launch of
CBS begins against Britain supersonic introduced orbits communication DNA Genome chromosome space station systems Demonstration of
commercialized first fusion power
Key Events

1900 1921 regularly flight Earth satellite techniques Project created

1946 in homes plant
Zeppelin 1903 Airmail scheduled TV 1959 launched discovered begins 2005 2050 Production
1885 makes first Wright introduced broadcasts 1941 ENIAC 1952 2000 2020 Commercial fusion
1947 First Maglev links
1825 1831 1838 Electric powered 1901 brothers in USA First jet ( First First UNIVAC I passenger 1979 1990 Entire cities in Japan; Nanotechnology power widespread Transportation
Technological

Stephenson's First First crossing 1879 transformer 1885 flight Marconi fly first 1926 airplane electronic (first 1969 Intel develops First human 2005 begins to appear in 2035
suburban jet enters Germany
1801 1807 locomotive (pulling practical of Atlantic 1869 1876 Edison invented Benz builds transmits heavier- 1919 NBC flight computer) development commercial commercial Humans microprocessor successful genome Internet growth extremely small, First commercial Communications
First steam Fulton builds first 38 cars) exceeds electric 1838 entirely under Edison Bell invents first working first radio than-air First dial becomes first powerful computer
1939 (Levittown, computer) service land on 1981 human gene mapped reaches fusion power plant
locomotive commercially speed of a generator Morse code steam power invents invents electric light automobile message aircraft telephone national moon therapy saturation systems
FM radio New York) First space Computer
1764 demonstrated successful galloping horse and motor invented stock ticker telephone across introduced radio
Atlantic network invented shuttle flight
Watt invents the steamboat
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1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100
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8000
Lead Technology
6000
Genuine Progress Indicator K Wave (not to scale)
Information Processing Biotechnology
Textiles 400 Steel 4000
40 World Energy
Petroleum Consumption (Total)
World Energy
Consumption
(in exajoules)

(in exajoules)
Production
World Energy

U.S. Oil
Worldwide oil Consumption (Oil)
production begins
to decline World Energy
Consumption (Other)
Economic

US Oil Production
(forecast to 2040)
0 0
Forecast World Oil
Production

1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100
14 +8
Panic

Panic

Panic

Panic

Panic

Panic

Panic

Panic
Recession

Recession

Recession
Depression

Recession

Recession
Depression

Recession

Recession

Recession

Recession

Recession

Recession
Recession

Recession

Recession

Recession
Panic E.A. — Early Advance

Panic

Asian Panic
Japanese Panic
Start of the
Industrial
Revolution in
%
Recession L.A. — Late Advance
America 0
E.D. — Early Decline
The Great Depression Depression
Interest Rate on U.S. Gov't. Securities U.S. GDP (% deviation from trend) L.D. — Late Decline
0 -8
L.A. E.D. L.D. E.A. L.A. E.D. L.D. E.A. L.A. E.D. L.D. E.A. L.A. E.D. L.D. E.A. L.A. E.D. L.D. E.A. L.A. E.D. L.D. E.A. L.A. E.D. L.D.
1920s to 1950s
1754-63 Disintegration of the German,
French & Indian Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman,
War 1853-56 1870-71 1914-18 Russian, Italian, Japanese, French 1950-53
(British colonies 1861-65 World War I 1980s-90s
1806-12
War/Armed Conflict

1775-83 Crimean War American Franco- & British Empires Korean War
vs. French 3rd Russo- 1808-25 Prussian War 1894-95 (Germany, Austria- Disintegration of the
American 1789 (Russia vs. Civil War (North Korea, 1958-75 Period of increased
colonies in North Turkish War Spanish- (France vs. 1st Sino- Hungary, Turkey vs. Soviet empire; decline
Revolutionary War French Turkey, Britain, (North vs. 1899-1902 1937-1945 China vs. South Vietnam War probability of
America) (Russia vs. American wars Prussia) Japanese Britain, France, of American influence 2001-06
(separation from the Revolution France, Sardina) South) Boer War 2nd Sino- Korea, US/UN (North Vietnam American
Turkey) of independence War Russia, USA) in Central & South War in Afganistan
British Empire) (Britain vs. Japanese War Forces) vs. South America involvement in war
1756-63 1866 (Japan vs. 1917 (USA & Allies vs.
1792-1802 Boers) (Japan vs. Vietnam, USA)
Seven Years War 1839-42 1846-48 1856-58 Seven Weeks China) Russian Afgan guerrillas)
French Revolutionary 1828-29 2nd Opium 1904-05 China) 1956
(Britain, Prussia, 1768-74 1787-92 1st Opium Mexican- War 1877-78 1898 Revolution 1939-45 2nd Arab-Israeli 1979-89
Hanover vs. Wars 1812-15 4th Russo- War (Austria vs. Russo- 1990-91
1st Russo- 2nd Russo- Turkish War War American War Last Russo- Spanish World War II War War in Afganistan 2003-06
France, Austria, (France vs. Austria, War of 1812 (Britain vs. Prussia) Japanese 1918-20 Persian Gulf War
Turkish War Turkish War (Russia vs. (Britain vs. (USA vs. Turkish War American (Germany, Italy, (Israel, Britain, (Soviet Union vs. War in Iraq
Russian, Saxony, Prussia, Holland, (Britain vs. China) War Russian Civil War (Iraq vs. USA/UN
(Russia vs. (Russia vs. Turkey) China) Mexico) (Russia vs. War Japan vs. Britain, France vs. Afgan guerrillas) (USA, Britain & Allies
Sweden, Spain) Britain, Spain, Russia, USA) (Russia vs. (Bolshevik vs. non- Forces)
Turkey) Turkey) Turkey, Portugal, Turkey) (USA vs. Japan) France, USSR, Egypt) vs. Iraq)
Bolshevik, Britain,
Naples) Spain) France, USA) USA)
Political

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Rebellions
Revolts &

1775-83 1788
1804 1825 1836 1837 1868-78 1895 Timeline of Major Trends and Events
1792 Haiti Texas Canada 1844
United
States 1781
Brazil Haiti 1810-22 1813
Bolivia
1830 Dominican
1850-64
China 1858
Cuba Cuba 1905-06
Russia
1911-12
China
1930
Brazil
1936-39 1947-76 1959 1968 1975-89 1970s-94 (Social, Technological, Economic & Political)
1860-68 1931-47 Palestine 1956 Cuba
New 1789 Gran Columbia; Paraguay 1822
France; Italy; Republic 1854 Italy Japan 1877 1898-1901 1910-20 India Various Hungary
Czechoslovakia Various South 1750 A.D. — 2100 A.D.
1821 Brazil 1919
Granada; France 1810-16 1820 Germany; 1848-49 Mexico Japan China 1908 Mexico 1916-18 Korea; 1931 1936
1945-49 African &
1966-70
1979 Central Africa
Peru Rio La Plata 1817 Spain; Mexico; 1828 Belgium; France; Germany; 1857-58 Ottoman Ottoman Korea China; Asian 1952-64 Iran; American
Chile Greece Peru Uruguay Empire Empire Egypt Japan Indonesia colonies Bolivia Nigeria Poland conflicts
(South America) Russia Austria; Hungary India

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