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    Thomas Hobbes

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    John Locke

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    Baron de Montesquieu

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
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    Voltaire

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    Benjamin Franklin

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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    Adam Smith

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    Cesare Beccaria

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    Thomas Jefferson

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    Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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    Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France

    Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France

  • Stamp Act passed by British Parliament

    Stamp Act passed by British Parliament

  • Repeal of Stamp Act

    Repeal of Stamp Act

  • Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists

    Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists

  • Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops

    Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
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    American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

  • American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance

    American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance
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    Simon Bolivar

  • Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America

    Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America

  • Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris

    Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris

  • National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man

    National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Beheading of King Louis XVI

    Beheading of King Louis XVI

  • Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue

    Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue

  • U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states

    U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states
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    French Revolution

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    Haiti Revolution

  • French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue

    French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue

  • France declares war on Austria

    France declares war on Austria

  • France declares war on Great Britain

    France declares war on Great Britain

  • All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British

    All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British

  • Toussaint leads troops against the British

    Toussaint leads troops against the British

  • French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint

    French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint

  • Toussaint negotiates peace with the British

    Toussaint negotiates peace with the British

  • War ends between Great Britain and France

    War ends between Great Britain and France

  • Constitution for Haiti

    Constitution for Haiti

  • General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery

    General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery

  • New declaration of war between Great Britain and France

    New declaration of war between Great Britain and France

  • French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence

    French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France

    Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France

  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti

    Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti

  • British end the slave trade

    British end the slave trade

  • Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies

    Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies

  • French expelled from Spain

    French expelled from Spain

  • Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone

    Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone

  • French abolish slave trade

    French abolish slave trade

  • U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine

    U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine