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James Watt improves steam engine which is to become one of the most important invention in the industrial revolution.
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Represenatives from each estate meet to discuss issues although they spent much of there time arguging on there system of voting.
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Third Estate decides to seperate itself and call itself the National Assembly and threatned to proceed with reforms without the other two estates.
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The National Assembly were locked out of there meeting hall so they decided to move there meeting to the king's indoor tennis court. They took an oath to not move an inch until they had a new French Constitution.
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Parisian crowds seized the Bastille due to the gathering of troops around Paris.
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Olympe de Gouge writes this in response to the new French Constitution to ensure rights for women in France.
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France declares war against Austria as the radicals wanted the ideas of there revolution to spread, and the king hoped that with more authority he could regain control.
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The assembly met in order to abolish monarchy and change over to a republic.
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An reign in which 300,000 suspects were arrested 17,000 of whom were executed.
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Eli Whitney creates a machine that makes it much easier to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber. It reduces the time it takes to clean cotton and the southern states make more money from cotton crops.
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Napoleons coup d'etat of the French Government lands him the position of First Consul among the three declared.
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Due to Napoleon giving up controlling the Americas he sells the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
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During in the ceremony it is said that Napoleon took the crown from the Pope and crowned himself emperor for the world to know of his power.
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A battle against the British Navy that again proved to difficult for Napoleon's Navy resulting in another defeat against the British Navy Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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Napoleon invades Russia claiming that he wants Poland from Russias control but his real intentions were more selfish.
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Napoleon suffers a defeat at the hands of British and Prussian leaders, Wellington and Blucher. This defeat seals Napoleons fate as leader of France.
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Napoleon is exiled for the second time for good at Saint Helena due to his constant failures as leader and the people of France going against him.
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Henry Blair patents the corn planter which it makes easier to plant one of the biggest crops of the North and Midwest.
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph which allows messages to be sent quickly over a wire.
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Henry Bessemer invents a process for making steel out of iron. Having a way to make steel quickly and more cheaply helps the production of building and leads to the growth of cities.