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French Revolution
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Napoleon invades Italy
Napoleonic war begins -
Napoleon looses Battle of Leipzig
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Fall of Napoleon
Vienna Peace Settlement -
Greek Struggle for independence beings
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Death of Lord Byron
Died of fever -
Bourbon king overthrown
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Giuseppe Mazzini exiled
Giuseppe Mazzini (1897-1831), born in Genoa -
Treaty of Constantinople
Recognized Greek as an independent state -
Zollverein Formation
A Custom Union -
Frederic Sorrieu Painting
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REVOLUTION
Revolutions in Europe; artisans, industrial workers & peasants revolt against economic hardships.
Middle classes demand constitutions & representative governments.
Italians, Germans, Magyars, Poles, Czechs, etc. demand nation-states. -
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Unification of Italy
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Unification of Germany
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Ernest Speech
Ernest(1823-92) delivered a speech at University of Sorbonne about "What makes a nation" -
Slav & Ottoman
Slav nationalism gathers force in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires