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Peace of Utrecht
The Peace of Utrecht is a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715. The war involved three contenders for the vacant throne of Spain, and involved much of Europe for over a decade. The main action saw France as the defender of Spain against a multinational coalition. The war was very expensive and bloody and finally stalemated. -
The Spirit of the Laws was published
Is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law.Originally published anonymously, partly because Montesquieu's works were subject to censorship, its influence outside France was aided by its rapid translation into other languages. In 1750 Thomas Nugent published the first English translation -
Watt patented the steam engine
Was an early steam engine and was one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution. James Watt developed the design sporadically from 1763 to 1775 with support from Matthew Boulton. It saved so much fuel than the previous one. Watt never ceased developing the steam engine, introducing double-acting designs (with two cylinders) and various systems for taking off rotary power. Watt's design became synonymous with steam engines -
U.S. Constitution was published
is the supreme law of the United States of America.[2] The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the president and subordinate officers; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. -
Storming of the Bastille
The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy's abuse of power; its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
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Execution of Louis XVI
When Louis XVI ascended to the throne he had to deal with the financial problems that he inherited from his grandfather. In 1789 he called a meeting for the Estates-General. he States-General.In June 1791, the two were forced to flee to Austria. During their trip, they were recognised in France, and carried back to Paris. There, Louis was forced to accept the constitution of 1791. The king made alliances with other countries to take back his power but all went wrong and he was sentenced to death -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington. -
Stockton and Darlington Railway was opened
Not only was it the first public passenger railway in the world, but it was pulled by one of the first steam locomotives. Most people had never seen anything like it before and 40,000 people turned out to witness it.
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England. its first line connected collieries near Shildon with Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham. -
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph
Contrary to myth, Samuel Morse did not invent the telegraph, but he made key improvements to its design, and his work to deploy it would transform communications worldwide.
First invented in 1774, the telegraph was a bulky and impractical machine that was designed to transmit over twenty-six electrical wires.Along with the single-wire telegraph, Morse developed his "Morse" code. He would refine it to employ a short signal (the dot) and a long one (the dash) in combinations to spell out messages -
Fight to Varennes
The royal Flight to Varennes during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant episode in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, his queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution at the head of loyal troops under royalist officers concentrated at Montmédy near the frontier.
