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  • T. Newcomen's steam engine

    T. Newcomen's steam engine
    The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.
  • John Kay’s flying shuttle

    John Kay’s flying shuttle
    John Kay was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, whick was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution
  • Causes of the French Revolution: Enlightenment

    Causes of the French Revolution: Enlightenment
    A philosophical and intelectual movement that ocurred in Europe. It's called enlightenment because with they started to think about liberal ideas
  • James Hargreaves' spinning jenny

    James Hargreaves' spinning jenny
    It was invented in 1764-1765 by James Hargreaves in England. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce cloth, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once.
  • James Watt's Steam engine

    James Watt's Steam engine
    The steam engine developed by the Scotsman James Watt in 1769.
  • Richard Arkwright's water mill

    Richard Arkwright's water mill
    The water mill was developed by Richard Arkwright in Cromford, Derbyshire, England.
  • Military and financial aid for USA

    Military and financial aid for USA
    France helped the revolutionaries of America with two million dollars and soldiers.
  • S.Crompton’s spinning mule

    S.Crompton’s spinning mule
    The spinning mule was invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779. It revolutionised textile production by vastly increasing the amount of cotton that could be spun at any one time.
  • Luddoties opposed mechanization in textile industry

    Luddoties opposed mechanization in textile industry
    The original Luddites were British weavers and textile workers who objected to the increased use of mechanized looms and knitting frames.
  • Causes of the French Revolution: Financial and economical crisis

    Causes of the French Revolution: Financial  and economical crisis
    There were bad harvests and monarchy hadn't money. One solution was that the clergy and the nobility.
  • The Tennis Court Oath.

    The Tennis Court Oath.
    In this meeting they created the new National Assembly who abolished the feudal rights and wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
  • Poor social structure: Peasants and Bourgeoisie not represented). Economic development of the Bourgeoisie. Nobility and Clergy overrepresented. Three estates: privileged and non-privileged estates

    Poor social structure: Peasants and Bourgeoisie not represented). Economic development of the Bourgeoisie. Nobility and Clergy overrepresented. Three estates: privileged and non-privileged estates
    The peasants and bourgeoisie weren't represented.
    The bourgeoisie was very rich but because of they were of the 3rd Estate they weren't represented.
    Some of the bourgeoisie was more rich than some of the nobility and clergy.
    The nobility and the clergy were the first two states and the privileged ones and the 3rd Estate wasn't privileged.
  • Estates General and votes per estate.

    Estates General and votes per estate.
    It was the Assembly of the Ancien Régime. And each state was represented by one person.
  • The Storming of the Bastille

    The Storming of the Bastille
    ´The revolutionaries attacked Bastille to take weapons and liberate the revolutionaries that were in prison. This was the movement that started the revolution.
  • Declaration of the rights of Man

    Declaration of the rights of Man
    The National Assembly wrote this is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. Inspired by Enlightenment philosophers.
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    Phases of the French Revolution: Constitutional monarchy

    The National Assembly made some legal reforms: feudal rights were abolished and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: rights, freedoms and equality.
    1791 Constitution:
    -Constitutional monarchy
    -Popular sovereignty
    -Separation of powers
    -Limited male suffrage (Men with certain wealth, in a census)
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    Phases of the French Revolution: Social Republic

    Radical bourgeoisie (Supported by popular classes), Republic, more equality (universal male suffrage and more social laws).
    Girondist convention: They were the moderate ones.
    Jacobin convention:They were the moderate ones.
    The Terror: The reign that was imposed by the Jacobins and his representant was Maximilien Robespierre.
  • The execution of Louis XVI

    The execution of  Louis XVI
    The king and the queen tried to escape from France to ask for help to Austria to stop the revolutionaries but they kidnapped them in Varennes. The king was judged for treason and they executed him.
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    Phases of the French Revolution: Conservative republic

    There were five directors who formed the Directory. They agreed that because to change one thing the five had to agree. One of the liders of the French army was Napoleon Bonaparte. New moderate-bourgeoisie.
  • Coup d'etat

    Coup d'etat
    Napoleon Bonaparte, returning from the Egyptian campaign and taking advantage of the political weakness of the ruling Executive Directory in France, staged a surprise coup d'état with the support of the people and the army.
  • First Consul

    First Consul
    The Consulate was the institution of government in France after the fall of the Directory. After Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état on 18 Brumaire, a new constitution was promulgated which established an executive power composed of three consuls for 10 years in office from 1799, but all power was concentrated in the first consul, until the beginning of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804.
  • The empire

    The empire
    El primer Imperio francés,​ también conocido como el Imperio napoleónico o la Francia napoleónica, fue el gobierno monárquico establecido por Napoleón Bonaparte tras la disolución de la Primera República Francesa en 1804.3​ En su máximo apogeo, el Imperio comprendió la mayor parte de Europa Occidental y Central, además de poseer numerosos dominios coloniales y estados clientelares
  • The battle of Austerlitz

    The battle of Austerlitz
    The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, pitted a French army led by Emperor Napoleon I against the combined Russian-Austrian forces of Russian Tsar Alexander I and Austrian Emperor Franz I on 2 December 1805 in the context of the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Prussian campaign

    Prussian campaign
    Napoleon decisively defeated the prussians in an expeditious campaign that culminated at the battle of Jena- Auersterdedt on 14 October 1806. French forces under Napoleon occupied Prussia, pursued the remnants of the shattered Prussian Army, and captured Berlin.
  • R. Fulton’s steamboat

    R. Fulton’s steamboat
    Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely created with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat
  • Spanish War of Independence

    Spanish War of Independence
    The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
  • The battle of Waterloo

    The battle of Waterloo
    The Battle of Waterloo was a battle that took place on 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium about twenty kilometres south of Brussels, pitting the French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, against British, Dutch and German troops led by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian army of Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher.
  • Stephenson steam locomotive

    Stephenson steam locomotive
    Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement.
  • Beginning of Transcontinental railroad

    Beginning of Transcontinental railroad
    America's first transcontinental railroad was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869.
  • Unification of Germany

    Unification of Germany
    The first unification of Germany occurred in 1871 after Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. In this unification, most of the German-speaking states of Europe united under the crown of Prussia to form the German Empire.
  • Edison’s lightbulb

    Edison’s lightbulb
    Edison light bulbs, also known as filament light bulbs and retroactively referred to as antique light bulbs or vintage light bulbs.
  • I Boer War

    I Boer War
    The First Boer War was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal
  • First Skyscraper (In Chicago)

    First Skyscraper (In Chicago)
    The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, opened in 1885, is, however, most often labeled the first skyscraper because of its innovative use of structural steel in a metal frame design.
  • Berlin Conference

    Berlin Conference
    The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884 and, after an adjournment, concluded on 26 February 1885 regulating European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
  • Beginning of colonization of Belgian Congo

    Beginning of colonization of Belgian Congo
    The Belgian Congo was first colonized as the Congo Free State from 1885-1908, when the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 declared the Congo to be under the sovereign rule of King Leopold II.
  • First moving picture

    First moving picture
    The first motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene, shot in 1888.
  • Wilhelm II crowned as Kaiser of Germany

    Wilhelm II crowned as Kaiser of Germany
    Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire.
  • The invention of the radio

    The invention of the radio
    Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi became known across the world as the most successful inventor in applying radio waves to human communication in the 1890s.
  • Fashoda affair

    Fashoda affair
    The Fashoda Incident, also known as the Fashoda Crisis was the climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa.
  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion
    The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China
  • II Boer War

    II Boer War
    The Second Boer War also known as the Boer War, , or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
  • Wright Brothers first flight

    Wright Brothers first flight
    The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.
  • Ford’s Model T

    Ford’s Model T
    The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company.
  • Annexation of Congo Free State

    Annexation of Congo Free State
    Following reports of mistreatment of native peoples that provoked international outrage, the Congo Free State was annexed as a colony by Belgium on November 15, 1908, which ended its existence as an independent sovereign state.
  • Crisis of Agadir

    Crisis of Agadir
    The Agadir Crisis, Agadir Incident, or Second Moroccan Crisis was a brief crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in July 1911.
  • I Balkan War

    I Balkan War
    The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire.
  • II Balkan War

    II Balkan War
    The Second Balkan War was a conflict that broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece
  • Beginning of WW1

    Beginning of WW1
    On 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.