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Period: 1469 to 1469
Isabella & Ferdinand unify Spain
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Period: 1509 to 1547
Henry VIII resigns in England
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Period: 1558 to 1558
Elizabeth I reigns England
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Edict of Nantes
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Edict of Nantes
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Don Quixote was published
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Don Quixote was published
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Thirty Years war
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Petition of Right Signed
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Petition of Right signed
a document setting out specific individual protections against the state. -
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The Long Parliament
they thought the king was forcing them to disband so they moved to a tennis court and took an oath. The oath was to never separate until a written constitution had been established for France. -
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Louis XIV reigns as king of France
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Peace of Westphailia is signed
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Peace of Westphalia is signed
ending the Thirty Years' War -
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Thomas Hobbes published “Leviathan”
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Charles II regions England
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Peter the Great's reign as czar of Russia
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Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII -
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John Locke publishes “Two Treatises of Government”
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English Bill of Rights
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English Bill of Rights signed
signed by William III and Mary II -
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Daniel Dafoe publishes “Robinson Crusoe”
Written with a combination of Epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms -
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Jonathan Swift publishes “Gulliver’s Travels”
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Frederick II reigns Prussia
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Baron de Montesquieu publishes “The Spirit of Laws”
It is a comparative study of three types of government: republic, monarchy, and despotism. -
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Sabastian Bach height of his career
Mass in B minor -
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Denis Diderot published his “Encyclopedia”
a reference book -
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Seven Years War
the conflict between France and Great Britain -
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Voltaire publishes “Candide”
best known work by Voltaire, reveals a world of horror and folly. -
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George III reigns England
first true British monarch, -
Jean Jacque Rousseau publishes “Social Contract”
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Catherine Great reigns Russia
1762- 1796, expanded her empires border. -
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Jean Jacque Rousseau publishes “Social Contract”
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Joseph ll reigns Austria
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Joseph II reigns Austria
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Massacre
conformation in Boston, deadly riot. -
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Boston Tea Party
political protest by the Sons of Liberty. -
Intolerable Acts
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Intolerable Acts
a series of four laws -
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Battle of Lexington & Concord
first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War. -
Adam Smith publish "Wealth of Nations"
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Adam Smith publishes “Wealth of Nations”
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Declaration of Independence signed
founding document of the 13 colonies. -
Declaration of Independence signed
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Battle of Yorktown
surrender at yorktown started at 10:30 am -
Treaty of Paris
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Treaty of Paris
ended the war of the American Revolution -
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US Constitution ratified
longest living written character of government. -
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
set by France’s National Constituent Assembly. -
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Tennis Court Oath
a key movement that sent off the French Revolution -
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Storming of the Bastille
revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armory -
Women's march at Versailles
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Women’s march on Versailles
a riot that took place during the French Revolution -
Declaration of the Rights of Women
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman
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National Convention Formed
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Radical Phase (French Revolution)
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National Convention Formed
it was established to replace the previous legislative bodies. -
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Radical Phase (French Revolution)
France was made a republic and abolished the Monarch -
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Mary Wollstonecraft published “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women's equality. -
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Reign of Terror (French Revolution)
a period in the French Revolution when people in France were arrested for not supporting the revolution. -
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Committee of Public Safety
was created by the Convention. -
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Five Man Directory created
a five-member committee in the first French republic -
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Battle of Trafalgar
British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars -
Battle of Austerlitz
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Battle Austerlitz
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Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor
ruled and was also an architect -
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Battle of Leipzig
known as the battle of the nations -
Battle of Leipzig
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Napoleon exiled to Elba
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Congress of Vienna
series of diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree on a layout of the European political and constitutional order -
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Napoleon exiled to Elba
he was exiled to the island of Elba -
Napoleon exiled St. Helena
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Napoleon exiled to St. Helena
he was exiled after he was defeated by the British.