The American Revolution was the first wave of the Atlantic Revolutions: the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Latin American wars of independence. Aftershocks reached Ireland in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, in the PolishâLithuanian Commonwealth, and in the Netherlands.
A reconstruction of Homo erectus, the earliest human species that is known to have controlled fire (reconstruction shown in WestfÃ¤lisches Landesmuseum, Herne, Germany, in a 2006 exhibition)
Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged. The discovery in Ethiopia suggests climate change spurred the transition from tree dweller to upright walker. The head of the research team told BBC News that the find gives the first insight into the most important transitions in human evolution.