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Edo Period 1592-1862
The Edo Period was a time of relative peace and prosperity with a centralized government under the Shogun. Merchants became more powerful as the economy improved. -
Petition of Rights
Parliment formed a committee of grievances and prepared a petition of right, which was presented to the king. The petition was designed to protect subjects from any further taxation unauthorized by parliment. Charles reluctantly signed the document. -
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver was elected to parliament for the second time. He openly criticized Charles taxes and the level of corruption in the Church of England -
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English Civil War
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Charles | Imprisoned
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The Kongo Civil War
The Kongo Civil War (1665–1709) was an internal conflict between rival houses of the Kingdom of Kongo. The war waged throughout centuries. Numerous other factions entered the fray claiming descent from one or both of the main parties such as the Água Rosada of Kibangu and the da Silva of Soyo. By the end of the war, Kongo's vaunted capital had been destroyed and many Bakongo were sold into the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. -
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Enlightenment
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Charles |V dies
Charles |V, Emperor of Austria, died leaving his empire to his daughter, Maria Theresa. Frederick || of Prussia tried to use this to their advantage and launched an attack in Austria , seizing the province of Silesia. This started the -
Montesquieu writes “Spirit of the Laws”
He was a political writer. His primary book, “Spirit of the Laws” focused on separation of powers. He also believed that no part of gover,met should have too much power over the rest of the state . -
Joseph || comes into power
Joseph || of Austria beach me emperor in 1764. He was one of the most progressive emperors of his time. He got rid of executions and torture. He offered the poor food, and forced the nobility to pay them for their work. Joesph || even tolerated the Protestants and Jews in his nation -
First British settlement in Australia
The first British settlement is established at Sydney by Captain Arthur Phillip. It is the start of the British penal colony which is made up of mostly prisoners. -
Storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789) .
The Bastille is a French prison which is located in Paris, France. On the afternoon of the 14th of July 1789 the Bastille was stormed by an angry and aggressive mob. The Bastille in during the French Revolution was a symbol of power and the monarchy’s dictatorial rule. The Bastille only held seven prisoners at the time but the mob didn’t come for them. They came for the huge ammunition storages that were kept in the prison. -
Royal Family attempts to flee
The royal family attempted to flee Paris to
Varennes. King Louis XVI realized that things were becoming too dangerous for them because of the Revolution. When they were caught in Varennes the trust of the revolutionary government to them faded completely and the revolutionary government became hostile towards to royal
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Overthrow of the monarchy (August 10, 1792)
. This was the day in which the French revolutionaries over threw the monarchy because they found Louis XVI guilty of treason. -
The First invasion of the Tuileries (June 20, 1792)
This is one of the Revolutionary turning points. On this day a little more than three years after the attack on the Bastille, the people of Paris laid siege on the Tuileries. The Tuileries was the official home of King Louis XVI and the Legislative Assembly. -
Execution of the King
This was the day that King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine. The revolutionaries made Marie Antoinette watch as the King lost his head. -
Concordant of 1801
The Concordant was a document signed by Napoleon acknowledging Catholicism as the major religion of France. Agreement with Pope Pius VII and Napoleon that brought back the church's civil status into society. -
Battle of Trufulgar
A significant defeat suffered by Napoleon. England was able to destroy the invading Spanish and French ships. This battle confirmed England's dominance over the seas. -
Steam boat introduced by Robert Fulton
Robert is the first man to open the very first steam boat. It was launched in 1807 and operated on the Hudson River. The boat was a great success. Soon, Fulton and Livingston had more steamboats built. They branched out to other areas including the Mississippi River where they introduced a steamboat named the "New Orleans" in 1811. -
Congress of Vienna Begins
Congress of Vienna BeginThe Congress of Vienna was a conference in Austria that sought out to settle political and territorial questions that arose as a result of Napoleon's conquest and the restoration of power to Europe. It was guided by: The Balance of Power, Legitimacy, Buffer States, Conservatism. -
Mechanical Reaper
Cyrus McCormick invents the first mechanical reaper to replace the usual hand held sickle. This machine was used by farmers to harvest crops mechanically. For hundreds of years, farmers and field workers had to harvest crops by hand using a sickle or other methods, which was an arduous task at best -
Sadler Committee investigates child labor
Sadler seeking to limit the hours of work of children in textile mills and factories. In committee hearings carried between the passage of the 1832 Reform Act through the Commons and Parliament’s subsequent dissolution Sadler had elicited testimony from factory workers, concerned medical men and other bystanders on bad working conditions and excessive working hours to which children were subjected, highlighting the risks to tired children and the brutality to which they might be subjected -
Opium War (China)
British defeat China in South China and force terms of "Treaty of Nanjing" Establishment of "Treaty Ports" and cession of Hong Kong to Britain as a colony -
Irish potato fanmine
Occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The crop failures were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant. The causative agent of late blight is the water mold Phytophthora infestans. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th century. -
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion or total civil war in China that was waged from 1850 to 1864 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Hong Xiuquan. -
Safety break for elevators invented
1852, Elisha Graves Otis introduced the first safety contrivance for elevators. Otis established a company for manufacturing elevators and went on to dominate the elevator industry. Today the Otis Elevator Factory is the world's largest manufacturer of vertical transport systems. -
The Indian rebellion began
The rebellion began In 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in central India, though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east. The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region. The British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the hostilities formally to have ended until July 8th. -
The Suez Canal
is a sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. The canal offers watercraft a shorter journey between the North Atlantic and northern Indian Oceans via the Mediterranean and Red Seas by avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian Oceans, reducing the journey by hours. It extends from the northern terminus of Port Said to the southern terminus of Port Tewfik at the city of Suez. -
The Second Boer War
The Second Boer War was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa. -
October Manifesto
Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, a liberal scheme proposed by Witte. It grants civil liberties, the need for Duma consent before passing laws and a widening of the Duma electorate to include all Russians; mass celebrations follow; political parties form and rebels return, but acceptance of the Manifesto pushes the liberals and socialists apart. The St. Petersburg soviet prints its first issue of the newsheet Izvestia; left and right groups clash in streetfights. -
3rd Duma opens
The Third Duma Opens. Mainly Octobrist, Nationalist and Rightist, it generally did as it was told. The failure of the Duma causes people to turn away from liberal or democratic groups in favour of radicals -
Austria-Hungary Declares War
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on this day. Austria-Hungary was feeling threatened by Serbian ambition, And they determined the proper response for the assassinations was to declare war and prepare the military for war. -
Germany Declares War on Russia
Germany Declared war on Russia because of the alliance they had with Austria-Hungary, which meant they would go after Russia. Also Germany had seen the mobilization of the Russian troops as a war threat. -
Battle of Tannenberg
Germany had a crushing victory over Russia in the Battle of Tannenberg. By the time the Russian's commander could see what was happening the Germans had already surrounded their second army. Russia lost over 125,000 men due to death and imprisonment. -
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. -
A Declares War on Germany
The United States declared war on Germany in response to the sinking of the Lusitania. All of the ships being traded with Britain would be easy targets for the Germans unrestricted submarine warfare so something needed to be done according to the U.S. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles ended the state of war between Germany and the allied powers. It's what brought World War I to an end. The treaty of Versailles also demanded for the surrender of Germany. -
The March on Rome
After years of seeking support and raising funds, Mussolini and his followers stormed the Prime Minister in Rome. They took over power from the king and began setting up a new form of government. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan successfully invades Manchuria and conqours it. Making Manchuria a Japanese colony -
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. His Nazi Party, or the Third Reich, takes power and Hitler is essentially the dictator of Germany. -
Warsaw ghetto sealed off
German authorities order the Warsaw ghetto in the to be sealed. It is the largest ghetto in both area and population, confining more than 350,000 Jews (about 30 percent of the city's population) in an area of about 1.3 square miles, or 2.4 percent of the city's total area. -
Auschwitz-Birkenau camp established
The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow, near the prewar German-Polish border in Upper Silesia, an area that Nazi Germany annexed in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. -
Battle at Stalingrad
On June 22, 1941, four million troops poured over the Russian border. Within one month, over two and half million Russians had been killed, wounded or captured. -
D-Day
General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. -
Paris is liberated
Paris is liberated from German control. -
Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. -
Japan Surrenders
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The Sino-Indian War
The Sino-Indian War was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to the Dalai Lama. India initiated a Forward Policy in which it placed outposts along the border, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of the Line of Actual Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. -
Richstag building burns
Richstag building mysteriously burns down. Hitler uses this opportunity to blame the communist party. Also to gain more support from the people.
