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Toussaint Louverture
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, also Toussaint Bréda, Toussaint-Louverture, was the leader of the Haitian Revolution -
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Reign of Napoleon
was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe -
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American Revolution
was a political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century -
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Spinning Mule Developed
is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere. They were used extensively from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century -
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Simon Bolivar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco, commonly known as Simón Bolívar, was a Venezuelan military and political leader -
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Simon Bolivar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco, commonly known as Simón Bolívar, was a Venezuelan military and political leader -
James Watt Perfects the Steam Engine
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French Revolution
was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a lasting impact on French history and more broadly throughout Europe -
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Haitian Revolution
was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic. The Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state -
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Wars of Independence in Latin America
were the various revolutions that took place during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries in Latin America. These revolutions followed the American and French Revolutions, which had profound effects on the Spanish, Portuguese and French colonies in the Americas -
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Reign of King Louis XVI
was King of France and Navarre from 1775 until 1791, after which he was subsequently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution -
Cotton Gin Developed
is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation -
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Congress of Vienna
was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna -
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Unification of Italy
was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century -
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Opium War
These were the climax of disputes over trade and diplomatic relations between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire -
Communist Manifest Published
originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party, is a short 1848 publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -
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Taiping Rebellion
was a massive civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty -
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Crimean War
was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire -
Bessemer Process Developed
was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace -
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Opium War
These were the climax of disputes over trade and diplomatic relations between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire -
Sepoy Rebellion
began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region -
Origin of the Speies Published
On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology -
Emancipation of Russian Serfs
was the first and most important of liberal reforms effected during the reign of Alexander II of Russia. The reform, together with a related reform in 1861, amounted to the liquidation of serf dependence previously suffered by peasants of the Russian Empire -
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Meiji Restoration
was a chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji -
Suez Canal
is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea -
Unification of Germany
into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871 at the Versailles Palace's Hall of Mirrors in France. Princes of the German states gathered there to proclaim Wilhelm of Prussia as Emperor Wilhelm of the German Empire after the French capitulation in the Franco-Prussian War -
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Boer War
was a rebellion of Boers (farmers) against British rule in the Transvaal that re-established their independence -
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Panama Canal
is a 48-mile (77.1 km) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean -
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Berlin Conferance
regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period -
Indian National Congress
It is the largest and one of the oldest democratically-operating political parties in the world -
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Boxer Rebellion
was an anti-foreign, proto-nationalist movement by the Righteous Harmony Society (also known as I-ho-tuan or Yihetuan) in China -
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Boer War
by contrast, was a lengthy war—involving large numbers of troops from many British possessions, which ended with the conversion of the Boer republics into British colonies (with a promise of limited self-governance) -
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Russo-Japanese War
was "the first great war of the 20th century."[3] It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea -
All-India Msulim League Founded
was a political party which advocated the creation of a separate Muslim-majority nation -
Henry Ford and Assembly Line
Henry Ford created the assembly line to produce cars in a quicker way