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China bans opium
Opium trade was extremely profitable for Britain until the ban -
7 Years War
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Spinning Jenny is Invented
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France-Widespread crop failures-price of bread doubles
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Tennis Court Oath
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Storming of the Bastille
France -
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The Great Fear
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The cotton gin is invented
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Britain formally acquires the large Boer population
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Britain Gains Singapore
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Britain Gains Malacca
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Britain defeats Burma
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Morse Code is invented
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First Opium war with Great Britain
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Problems with technology, agriculture and population
Japan -
Period: to
Crimean War
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Nicholas dies, Alexander II becomes czar
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Second Opium war
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Serfs Emancipated
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Alaska Purchase (US from Russia)
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Meiji restoration
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Japan revokes the ban on Christianity
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Samurai revolt
Where the samurai attempted to fight against the law preventing them from carrying swords -
Marxist socialism starts to spread
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Revolution
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