unit 6

By Maria Lowenthal

  • american revolution begins

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    haitian revolution

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    inventions of the industrial revolution

  • Free blacks and mulattoes begin to amass wealth and power.

  • sugar Act

  • Thomas Jefferson writes declaration of independence

  • Louis XV outlines new restrictions forFree blacks and mulattoes begin to amass wealth and power.

  • wealth of Nations published

  • David Bushnell invents a submarine

  • The French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille

  • storming of the Bastille

  • women's march of Versailles

  • France accepts a petition of rights for “free citizens of color”

  • The French National assembly dissolves colonial assembly

    he French National Assembly dissolves the Colonial Assembly at Saint Marc. The governor of Saint-Domingue amasses troops to dissolve it by force. The colony is now divided between royalists and patriots; both groups court mulattoes’ support.

  • The Haitian Revolution begins with the Bois Caïman ceremony.

  • The Haitian Revolution begins with the Bois Caïman ceremony.

  • Slaves in the Limbé district stray from the leaders’ plan, and are caught setting fire to an estate.

  • The slaves launch their insurrection in the North.

  • Slaves continue to make demands, but with the entire colonial system at stake, the planters can’t concede.

  • In France, The Republic is declared, abolishing the monarchy.

  • Vicomte de Rochambeau is appointed Governor General of Saint-Domingue

  • execution of Louis XVI

  • The Convention officially abolishes in France and French territories, including Saint-Domingue

  • Jose de San Martin starts to fight with the Spanish navy

  • Simon Bolivar joined the group of patriots that seized Caracas in Venezuela

  • Jose de San Martin boards a ship back to his homeland, Argentina, to take part in the revolution there

  • Simon Bolivar returned to Venezuela, and took command of a patriot army

  • Jose de San Martin takes command of the Army of the North

  • Simon Bolivar took refuge in Haiti's southern territories.

  • Simon Bolivar again invaded Venezuela.

  • The Battle of Maipu

  • independence battle of Bogota

  • Battle of Boyaca, Simon Bolivar defeats Spanish in New Granada

  • Jose de San Martin leaves for Peru

  • Battle of Carabobo when Simon Bolivar defeats the royalists outside of Caracas.

  • Peru declares independence

  • revolution

    Simon Bolivar led the revolutionary forces of Peru in their fight for independence and won a victory over the Spaniards at Auacucho.

  • Upper Peru became a separate state, named Bolivia in Simon Bolivar's honor.

  • Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine

  • invention of Elevator

  • invention of the telephone

  • Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine

  • Motorized movie cameras invented

  • Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier

  • Atanasoff and Berry built the first electronic digital computer