Key turning points in modern history

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The most pivotal turning points in modern history, according to Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, University of Tennessee.

Personally, I see a void here that does not acknowledge the consequences and ongoing legacy of the European imperialist-colonial era in South Asia and Africa.

“What do the fall of Constantinople, the French Revolution, the Transcontinental Railroad, and the invention of the Internet all have in common? If any one of these turning points had not occurred, or had occurred differently, the trajectory of modern history—and even your life—would have been dramatically altered. Each event and innovation sparked a profound change in how entire societies viewed the world while signaling the dawn of a new political, economic, or cultural and social reality.” - Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

1) 1433—The Great Voyages of Admiral Zheng He
2) 1453—The Fall of Constantinople
3) 1455—Gutenberg’s Print Revolution
4) 1492—The Columbian Exchange
5) 1600—The British East India Company
6) 1648—The Treaty of Westphalia
7) 1676—Van Leeuwenhoek’s Microscope
8) 1751—Diderot’s Enlightenment Encyclopedia
9) 1787—The American Experiment
10) 1789—The French Revolution
11) 1838—The British Slavery Abolition Act
12) 1839—The Opium War in China
13) 1859—Darwin and the Origin of Species
14) 1893—First Women Voters in New Zealand
15) 1903—Kitty Hawk and Powered Flight
16) 1904—The Russo-Japanese War
17) 1928—The Discovery of Penicillin
18) 1942—The Dawn of Atomic Fission
19) 1969—Walking on the Moon
20) 1972—China Enters the World Balance
21) 1989—The Fall of the Berlin Wall