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French citizens storm into the Bastille. They start to demolish it in order to signify the Revolution has begun.
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Toussaint Louverture leads slave revolt in Haiti. The island home to many slaves, controlled by France, a prosperous sugar plantation, slaves attack white owners and claim the land as their own.
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The Haitians claimed independence with help from Toussaint Louverture.
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Napoleon becomes emperor of France.
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Simon Bolivar liberates Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, & Bolivia. Simon Bolivar was an elite creole planter that then became a military general. He aimed to liberate all these territories and create a unified Latin America
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Jose de San Martin liberates Argentina and Chile. San Martin was a creole officer who had training in some European armies. After liberating both lands he met with Boliver and let him take over the operation to make a united Latin America
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A priest names Miguel Hidalgo inspires revolution in Mexico
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Mexico gains their independence from Spain
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Mazzini forms a secret society called Young Italy
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Management of tariffs in German speaking states. Taxes among all German speaking states are dissolved in order to encourage trade among the German states and increase relations of all states. Issued by Otto von Bismarck.
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Prussia battles with Denmark for Schleswig and Holstein. They do this in order to claim the lands for a united Germany and because they were recognized as German speaking even though they were claimed by Denmark, a Dutch speaking land. Prussia also did this in order to display their power to Northern German speaking states so they would join the Kingdom of Germany.
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Camillo Cavour is appointed to be prime minister
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Italy aids France and England in the Crimean War. The Italian do this in order to gain a seat at the peace conference. They then can make an alliance with France so that when Italy goes to claim its lands from Austria France will be able to aid them in the battle.
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Red Shirts take control of Sicily and add it into the Sardinian empire. Giuseppe Garibaldi's Red Shirts storm on to Sicily in order to add it to the Italian Empire because it was recognized as an Italian speaking state.
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Emanuel the second is crowned king of unified Italy
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Otto von Bismarck is appointed to be prime minister
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Otto Von Bismarck gives the Blood and Iron speech
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Prussia wars with Austria. They do this in order to display their power once again to the German speaking states that haven't joined united Germany in the area of the battle.
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Prussia demonstrates their power by causing France to start a war with them. Otto von Bismarck tinkers with a letter that was sent out to France to make them think that Germany is insulting them. Prussia fights the battle with them so that the German speaking states on the border of France would join Germany instead of continuing an alliance with France.
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The Second Reich, which is unified Germany is the dominance of Europe. This reign of dominance was reached from the major battles that Prussia led in order to make a united Germany which lead to Germany being the main power of Europe initially causing it to be recognized as the Second Reich.
