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Steam Engine
Origanlly, the steam engine was used to pump water out of mines in England. Then James Watt came and re-invented the idea. James discovered that steam could be harnessed and made to work, which was an idea that changed the world. It created a way to get work done faster than before, and created a way that could reduce human labor. -
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French Revolution
The French Revolution began with the issue of the hungry people under the rule of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The people end up killing the King and Queen, which stared the Reign Of Terror. Napoleon was the next to take charge, until the French Revoluton ended. -
Haitian Revolution Starts
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Haitian Reolution
The Haitian Revolution was a period of conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, leading to the elimination of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the first republic ruled by people of African ancestry. -
Louis XVI Executed
Louis XVI was sent to the guillotine on January 20 1793. -
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Independence of Mexico
The Mexican War was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish. The movement was led by Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos and Amerindians who sought independence from Spain. -
The Congress of Vienna Starts
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The Congress of Vienna
As agreed at the first Treaty of Paris in 1814, a congress of the Great Powers of Europe met at Vienna to settle the boundaries of the continent. Almost every state in Europe was represented. The emperors of Austria and Russia, the kings of Prussia, Denmark, Bavaria and Württemberg and many German princes including the Elector of Hesse, the Grand Duke of Baden and the dukes of Saxe-Weimar, Brunswick and Coburg, attended in person. -
Matthew C. Perry goes to Japan
The biggest reason that the United States sent Matthew Perry to Japan was to use it as a coaling base or a base where steamships, which used coal, could restock their coal supply. Japan was a great location for this, because it was at almost the same latitude as San Francisco. The U.S. Navy already used Hawaii as a port for coaling, but they needed another port for steamships in the east. -
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen takes over China
Dr. Sun was a Chinese doctor, revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is known as the Founding Father of Republican China. Sun also played an instrumental role in inspiring the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, -
Unification of Germany
The Unifaction of Germany happened at the Versailles Palace's Hall of Mirrors in France. [http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Unification+of+Germany] -
Berlin Conference
This event regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's imperial power. The main purpose for this meeting was to divide Africa, into regions to locate who owned and controlled every part of Africa. Alomost every country was represented, but africans. {"Boundaries, Colonial and Modern." New Encyclopedia of Africa. Ed. John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008. 262-265. Gale} -
Zulu Uprising
"South Africa, Republic of." New Encyclopedia of Africa. Ed. John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008. 482-495. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 4 Jan. 2011. -
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Russo-Japenesse War
This war was between the Russians and the Japenesse. The conflict was tthe rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea.
