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Period: 1501 to
ancient regime
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First Industrial Revolution.
Steam engine (James Watt, 1776).
Power loom (Cartwright, 1785). -
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Industrial revolution
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James Watt
Steam engine -
french revolution
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Storming of the Bastille
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Luis XVI
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Reign of Terror
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Period: to
Napoleonic era
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Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor of France
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Battle of Waterloo
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Congress of Vienna
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First liberal revolutions in Spain, Greece and Italy.
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Revolutions of 1820, 1830 and 1848
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Revolution of 1830
July Revolution in France: overthrow of Charles X, establishment of Louis Philippe as "bourgeois king." -
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Second Industrial revolution
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Revolution of 1848
Fall of Louis Philippe and proclamation of the Second French Republic. -
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Second Industrial Revolution.
Thomas Edison: Incandescent lamp (1879).
Nikola Tesla: Alternating Current (1880s). -
Thomas Edison
Incandescent lamp