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The factory system emerges (1760s-1840s)
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Invention of the spinning jenny (1764)
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Invention of the steam engine (1765)
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Storming of the Bastille (1789)
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
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Reign of Terror (1793-1794)
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Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1815)
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Congress of Vienna (1815)
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The railway age (1820s-1830s)
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Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914)