Arguably the turning point in the 1800s lasted a while, potentially from 1848 (the year of revolution) to 1871 (end of the Franco-Prussian war and the creation

Arguably the turning point in the 1800s lasted a while, potentially from 1848 (the year of revolution) to 1871 (end of the Franco-Prussian war and the creation of the German Empire). Some of us might have to live our entire lives in what turned out later to be a turning point.