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Industrial Revolution
was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times. -
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French & Indian War
The French and Indian War is the common U.S. name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America. The war was fought primarily along the frontiers between the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia, and began with a dispute over the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. The war in North America officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1763. -
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Seven Years War
was a global military conflict, involving most of the great powers of the time affecting North and Central America, Europe, the West African coast, India and the Philippines. Also the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War -
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American Revolution
was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
Invention of the Spinning Jenny
The Spinning Jenny is attributed to James Hargreaves. the spinning jenny could supply that demand by increasing the spinners' productivity even more. The machine produced coarse yarn. -
Invention of the Water Frame
Both are credited to Richard Arkwright who patented the technology in 1768. The water frame is derived from the use of a water wheel to drive a number of spinning frames. The water wheel provided more power to the spinning frame than human operators, reducing the amount of human labor needed and increasing the spindle count dramatically. -
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Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
In 1770 is when they got married. The ceremonial wedding of the Dauphin and Dauphine took place on 16 May 1770, in the Palace of Versailles. They both were executed by the guillotine. -
Watt's Steam Engine
Was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum. Improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen engine, -
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French Revolution
was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. The growth of republics and liberal democracies, the spread of secularism, the development of modern ideologies and the invention of total war all mark their birth during the Revolution. -
Storming of the Bastille
lead by Amaria Cahila of the third estate in France, had earlier stormed the Hôtel des Invalides to gather arms and were mainly seeking to acquire the large quantities of arms and ammunition stored at the Bastille.The fall of the Bastille probably created one of the greatest of symbols of the initial stage of the Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France. is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. -
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
Was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. In 1802 he was forced to resign by forces sent by Napoleon Bonaparte to restore French authority in the colony. He was deported to France where he died in 1803. -
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Haitian Revolution
Was a period of conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic. -
Whitney's Cotton Gin
is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seeds, a job formerly performed by hand. The modern version of the cotton gin was created by the American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 to mechanize the cleaning of cotton. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a series of conflicts, the Napoleonic Wars, involving every major European power. forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he escaped Elba and returned to power, but was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena. He died there -
Britian outlaws Slave trade
The Slave Trade Act was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807,The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself and Britain bcame the most aggrisve nation to stop slavery. -
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Congress of Vienna
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Waterloo
Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. The defeat at Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days' return from exile. -
Mexican Independence
From 1815 to 1821, most of the fighting by those seeking independence from Spain was done by isolated guerrilla bands. Mexico won their independence in september 27 1821 -
Brazilian Independence
The Brazilian Independence comprised a series of political events occurred in 1821–1823, most of which involved disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Kingdom. It is celebrated on September 7. -
Dissolution of the Janissaries
In the ensuing fight, the Janissary barracks were set in flames by artillery fire resulting in 4,000 Janissary fatalities, more were killed in the heavy fighting on the streets of Constantinople. The survivors either fled or were executed, and their possessions were confiscated by the Sultan. This even event is now called the Auspicious Incident. The last of the Janissaries were then put to death by decapitation in what was later called the blood tower, in Thessaloniki. -
Invention of the Telegraph
The electromagnetic telegraph is a device for human-to-human transmission of coded text messages. electromagnetic telegraph was created by Baron Schilling in Russia. consisted of a keyboard with 16 black-and-white keys. -
Greek Independence
Greece was finally recognized as an independent nation in May 1832. Greece came under Ottoman rule. So Greece revolted the Turks and started the Greek Revolution and it was a successful win for the Greeks -
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Afrikaners' Great Trek
the emigration of some 12,000 to 14,000 Boers from Cape Colony in South Africa in rebellion against the policies of the British government and in search of fresh pasturelands.It enabled them to outflank the Xhosa peoples who were blocking their eastward expansion, to penetrate into Natal and the Highveld and to carry white settlement north to the Limpopo River. -
End of Atlantic Slave Trade
A successor organisation to the Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1839, committed to worldwide abolition. Its official name was the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. This continues today as Anti-Slavery International. -
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Opium Wars( 1 & 2)
the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842 and the Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860, were the climax of disputes over trade and diplomatic relations between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire. -
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Revolutions in Ausrtria, Germany, Hungary, and Italy
known also as the Spring of Nations, Springtime of the Peoples or the Year of Revolution. the Habsburg Austrian Empire was threatened by revolutionary movements, which often had a nationalist character. The empire, ruled from Vienna, included Austrian Germans, Hungarians, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Croats, Slovaks, Ukrainians/Ruthenians, Romanians, Serbs and Italians, all of whom attempted in the course of the revolution to either achieve autonomy, independence, or even hegemony over nationality -
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Taiping Rebellion
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Commodore Matthew Perry in Japan
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Crimean War
was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula. -
Britain takes over India
The East India Company gradually strengthened its hold, even instituting a court system. British citizens began building an "Anglo-Indian" society within India, and English customs were adapted to the climate of India. -
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Sepoy Rebellion
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Emancipation of the Russian Serfs
The reform, together with a related reform in 1861, amounted to the liquidation of serf dependence previously suffered by peasants of the Russian Empire.Serfs were granted the full rights of free citizens, gaining the rights to marry without having to gain consent, to own property and to own a business. The Manifesto prescribed that peasants would be able to buy the land from the landlords. HHousehold serfs were the worst affected as they gained only their freedom and no land. -
Meiji Restoration
Was a chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868. The Restoration led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure, and spanned both the late Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji period. -
Suez Canal
also known by the nickname "The Highway to India", Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigation around Africa. -
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Imperialization of Africa
Also Scramble for Africa which is the European Nations controlling areas of Afriza and settling in them -
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Boxer Rebellion
was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society". in China between 1898 and 1901, opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity. The uprising took place in response to foreign "spheres of influence" in China, with grievances ranging from opium traders, political invasion, economic manipulation, to missionary evangelism. -
Aswan Dam
Aswan Low Dam, which was first completed in 1902. is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. it was intended to reduce flooding and to support population growth in the lower Nile. The dam provided inadequate flood protection and was raised twice, between 1907–1912 and 1929–1933. -
African National Congress
The founding of the ANC was in direct response to perceived injustice against black South Africans at the hands of the current government in power. -
Overthrow of Qing Dynasty
the Qing dynasty was overthrown in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 , with the last emperor abdicating early in 1912 . The Qing was the last imperial dynasty of China . -
Panama Canal
Built from 1904 to 1914. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the canal had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans. The U.S. controlled the canal and the Canal Zone.
