Political revolution and constitutional reform across Europe severely limits powers of monarchs, advances democracy.
Gold discovered in Australia and throughout the west of the United States, leading to huge increases in national wealth and encouraging mass migration of free settlers there.
Slavery ended in British colonies and in America. See American Civil War. End of global slave trade enforced by British navy.
William Morris, social reformer, one of the first people to detect and warn of the drawbacks of standardisation, the profit motive and the division of producer/consumer interests
... 1968 as a Peace And Freedom Party candidate for Congress. In 1980 he would run for President as the SPUSA candidate receiving over 6,000 votes, and also becoming the first ...