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Execution of Charles I
King Charles I was beheaded on January 30, 1649. Disagreements between Charles I and Parliament had been simmering for several years. Charles had been exercising too much power, such as raising taxes unreasonably and imprisoning without trial those who did not pay up. -
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Louis XIV revoked it because he saw the Huguenots to the French. This caused a lot of Huguenots to leave France. -
Glorious Revolution
permanently established Parliament as the ruling power of England and later the United Kingdom which represented a shift from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy. -
Declaration of Independence
an important document in the history of the United States of America. It was ratified on July 4, 1776. It says that the Americans were no longer under British rule. Instead, the thirteen British colonies came together to become a union of new free and independent states. and thats why we have independance day. -
Storming of the Bastille
took place in Paris, France on July 14, 1789. This violent attack on the government by the people of France signaled the start of the French Revolution. What was the Bastille? The Bastille was a fortress built in the late 1300s to protect Paris during the Hundred Years' War. -
Coup d’état of Brumaire
brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France and in the view of most historians ended the French Revolution. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. -
Congress of Vienna
was a meeting of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815. -
Treaty of Nanjing
Treaty of Nanjing ended the first Opium War, the first of the unequal treaties between China and UK. As a part of the agreement, the Chinese agreed to repay the British for the opium the government had destroyed.
