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A.P. Euro 1700-1850

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    Expansion of rural industry in Europe

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    War of the Spanish Succession

  • Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg

  • Newcomen develops the steam engine

  • Attendance at elementary schools mandatory in Prussia

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    Government run foundling homes established

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    Last appearance of the bubonic plague in western Europe

  • Townsend introduces four-year crop rotation

  • Kay invents the flying shuttle

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    War of the Austrian Succession

  • Period: to

    War of the Austrian Succession

  • Montesquieu publishes The Spirit of Laws

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    Illegitimacy explosion

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    Diderot & d'Alembert publish the Encyclopedia

  • Harwicke Act abolishes secret marriages

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    Seven Years' War

  • Coudray publishes the Manual on the Art of Childbirth

  • Rousseau publishes The Social Contract and Emile

  • Louis XV orders Jesuits out of France

  • Hargreaves invented the cotton-Spinning Jenny

  • Arkwright invents the water frame

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    Encyclopedia Britannica is published

  • Watt patents the steam engine

  • Paine publishes Common Sense

  • Smith publishes Wealth of Nations

  • Crompton combines Spinning Jenny w/water frame

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    Industrial Revolution

  • Cartwright invents the power loom

  • Calonne proposed a revamping of the economic system of France

  • Period: to

    Frebch Revolution

  • Estates General convened at Versailles

  • National Assembly is formed

  • Tennis Court Oath

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    Great Fear

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Equality in taxation in France

  • National Assembly issues Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens

  • Period: to

    Women march on Versailles

  • National Assembly confiscated church lands and property

  • Constitutional monarchy & a national church

  • Period: to

    Legislative Assembly convenes

  • Period: to

    Royal family attempts to flee France

  • Declaration of Pillnitz

  • New Constitution for France

  • Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women

  • Period: to

    The gap in technology was widened

  • France declares war on Austria

  • Parisian mob storms the Tuileries & takes Louis XVI prisoner

  • Period: to

    September Massacres

  • France is declared a republic

  • Whitney invents the cotton gin

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    Reign of Terror

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    Economic controls are created to help the poor in France

  • Louis XVI sentenced to death

  • France declares war on Britain, Holland, and Spain

  • Sruggle between Girondists and the Mountain

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    Committee of Public Safety

  • Price controls instituted in France

  • Period: to

    Thermidorian reaction

  • Death of Robespierre

  • The Directory writes a New Constitution

  • Period: to

    Directory rules France inefficiently and ineffectively

  • Jenner performs first smallpox vaccination

  • Napoleon defeated Austrian armies

  • Thomas Malthus writes the Essay on the Principle of Population

  • Second Coalition is formed

  • Combination Acts

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    Napoleonic era

  • Napoleon overthrows the Directory

  • Voters approve Napoleon's constitution

  • Bank of France is founded

  • Treaty of Luneville

  • Concordat with Pope Pius VI

  • Treaty of Amiens

  • Napoleon crowns himself Emperor

  • Battle of Trafalgar

  • Battle of Austerlitz

  • British slave trade abolished

  • Treaties of Tilsit

  • Fulton drives the steamboat Clermont

  • Strike of Manchester cotton spinners

  • Stael publishes On Germany

  • Napoleon invades Russia

  • Russia, Prussia, Austria, & Britain form the Quadruple Alliance

  • Napoleon abdicates & is exiled to Elba

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    Bourbon monarchy is restored

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    Congress of Vienna meets

  • Period: to

    Napoleon escapes Elba

  • The Holy Alliance is formed

  • Second Peace of Paris

  • Carlsbad Decrees

  • “Battle of Peterloo”

  • Congress of Troppau

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    Revolution in Spain and the kingdom of Two Sicilie

  • Austria crushes a liberal revolution in Naples

  • French armies restore the Spanish regime

  • Combination Acts repealed

  • Delacroix paints the Massacre at Chios

  • Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII in France

  • The first railroad in Great Britain

  • Stephenson's Rocket is the first important railroad

  • Greece gains independence from the Ottoman empire

  • A revolution begins in France

  • Charles X repudiates the Constitutional Charter

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    Comte publishes the System of Positive Philosophy

  • Hugo publishes the Hunchback of Notre Dame

  • The Great Reform Bill

  • The Factory Act

  • Telegraph is developed & Chartist movement is born

  • The Mines Act

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    Great Potato Famine in Ireland

  • Ten Hours Act

  • Revolutions break out in Italy, France, Hungary, Austria, Russia, and Prussia

  • Frankfort assembly selects Frederick Wilhelm as emperor

  • Navigation Acts are repealed

  • Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor Napoleon III