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)
When the first cave person started a fire in his cave, and found that the smoke had to be sent somewhere, and fresh air had to be drawn in. Air pollution started very early in Earth's history. As primitive life stared producing oxygen, anaerobic life saw this as pollution and died off.