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  • 1543

    Start of Scientific revolution

  • 1543

    The first great modern work on the fabric of the human body

    published by Vesalius
  • 1543

    Copernicus sets the heliocentric theory

  • Period: 1543 to

    Scientific revolution

  • Galileo Galilei demonstrates the properties of gravity

  • Creation of Telescope

    Italy, Galileo determines there are planets by the cration of the telescope
  • Period: to

    enlightenment

  • Spirit of the laws

    Montesquieu writes "spirit of the laws" which explained a new and better form of government

  • Britain government started charging taxes on the colonies

    Britain government started charging taxes on the colonies (americans) because the british said that the colonies 13 colonies were part of Britain, so they had to pay their corresponding taxes. Of Course the americans weren't happy with this, for two reasons, one because the taxe was very high, and also because they had no representation in the courthouse back in England.

  • The protest

    The protest started in 1770, which lead to the Boston tea massacre, this massacre only had 5 dead people. There was another protest in which the americans threw a million dollars worth of tea into the boston port in protest of the decision of the British government of not removing the taxes and still not have representation back in England. This was called (Boston Tea Party).

  • War between Breatish and American

    Several years later the British and the Americans finally got into an actual war which lasted 8 years (1775-1783). The americans won the war in 1783 when the british surrender, and both sides signed the peace trade. the americans removed the government with a king and replaced it with one that didn’t had it, which was a pretty crazy idea of government in the world in those years. And that is how the American revolution finished in 1783

  • End of war

  • The Bastille was stormed

    The Bastile represented the French authority
  • Period: to

    French revolution

    Location, France, mostly Paris
    A) Louis XVI was the king of France that inherited his father´s debt and added to
    it by heavily spending the country´s money while France was involved in the
    American Revolution. Due to this he wanted to increase the tax pay of the third
    estate, which were the vast majority of the population with less privileges than
    the first or second estate so the people from the third revolted against him and
    therefore started the french revolution.
  • Period: to

    French Revolution (2)

    B) Marie Antoinette was Louis XVI´s Austrian wife. Their marriage was seen as
    a bond between both countries; Marie Antoinette began spending a lot of
    money on superficial things such as parties, dresses and food and contributed a
    lot to the debt France had which then resulted in the French Revolution.
    C) Napoleon Bonaparte marked the end of the French Revolution around 1799
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    French revolution outcomes

    A) Louis XVI was a weak ruler that lead France to its revolution by not being
    able to implement reforms and manage the monarchy´s debts.
    B) Inequality of three estates angered the people from the third (peasants,
    merchants, all of the population except nobility and clergy).
    C) There was a famine in the 1780’s that lead to food shortage and had the
    French people starving and poor
  • Period: to

    napoleonic empire

    Goegraphical location: France

  • Napoleon becomes the First Consul of the new french government

    (start of napoleonian empire)

  • Joseph Bonaparte becomes king of Spain and Murat king of Naples

  • Napoleon divorces his wife Josephine

  • Napoleon Dies

  • Sources

    TEA, TAXES, AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: CRASH COURSE WORLD HISTORY #28
    YouTube. (2012). Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution: Crash Course World History #28. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw [Accessed 15 Aug. 2017]. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
    En.wikipedia.org. (n.d.). American Revolutionary War. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War [Accessed 15 Aug. 2017].

  • more sources

    Primary source:
    - “Everything conspires to render the present period in France critical: the [lack]
    of bread is terrible: accounts arrive every moment from the provinces of riots
    and disturbances, and calling in the military, to preserve the peace to the
    markets” —Arthur Young, Travels in France During the Years 1787-1789
    - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/french-revolution/
    source-1/

  • even more sources

    Secondary source:
    - "The Beginning of the French Revolution, 1789," EyeWitness to History,
    www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2007).
    - World History Textbook http://m.sparknotes.com/history/european/scientificrevolution/timeline.html http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/napoleon/timeline.html