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English Bill of Rights
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Seven Years’ War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliament
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Repeal of Stamp Act
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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Boston Massacre
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Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
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Gaspee Incident
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Boston Tea Party
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Tea Act
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First Continental Congress
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Coercive or intolerable
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Quebec Act
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Continental Congress
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Second Continental Congress
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Declaration of Independence
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American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance
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Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America
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Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France 1789 Storming of the Bastille, prison (and armory) in Paris (FR)
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Slave rebellion in Saint Domingu
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Beheading of King Louis XVI
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U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states
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French Revolution:
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Haiti Revolution
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French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue.
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France declares war on Austria
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France declares war on Great Britain
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All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British (Haiti)
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Toussaint leads troops against the British
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French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint
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Toussaint negotiates peace with the British
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War ends between Great Britain and France
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Constitution for Haiti
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General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery
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New declaration of war between Great Britain and France
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French withdraw troops; Haitians declare independence
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti
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British end the slave trade
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Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies
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French expelled from Spain
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Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone
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French abolish slave trade
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U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine
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Tar and feathering
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British are coming...
paul revere and william Dawes -
Thomas Paine Common Sense
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