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Heliocentrism and Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the idea which indicates that sun was actually the center of the universe instead of the Earth. This theory is called Heliocentrism and he published it. Before him people believed in Geocentrism for years. -
Jupiter's moons
Galileo Galilei discovered 3 starts on the night of Jan 7 1610, then on the other days he discovered sometimes one of the stars is missing he then came up with the conclusion that they are the moons of Jupiter. His observations of the satellites of Jupiter caused a revolution in astronomy. -
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The commonwealth of England
The commonwealth period started when Charles I was executed and ended when Charles II gained power. England was led by Oliver Cromwell and his son. -
Charles I was excuted
On this day, the old king Charles I was executed by he Parliamentarians were led by Oliver Cromwell, who won against the king’s Royalist forces. -
Cromwell's death
The Lord protector of England Scotland and Ireland since 1653 has died. He left his son on throne but his son was not as great as him, so Charles II took over the throne really quick. -
The publish of Letters Concerning the English Nation
Letters Concerning the English Nation is a book by Voltaire, this book is base on everything he saw at his 3 year trip in England. This book attacked the French Government on it's law making and policies. It is actually first published in English. -
James Watt's steam engine
James Watt improved the efficiency of steam engine by a lot which kicked out the age of steam. -
Meeting of the state general
It's a meeting to vote on whether they should text the second estate or not. This led to the tennis court oath. -
storming of Bastille
The French people attacked Bastille to get ammo and this was consider the start of the revolution. -
March of the women
It's a protest that women of Paris put up against the King, because of the bread is too much that they can't afford. -
The national convention
It's the first act was the formal abolition of the monarchy. It also offers French assistance to any subject peoples who wished to overthrow their governments. -
Law of suspects
It's an act that was published by Robespierre this law indicates that those who that shows signs of being the enemies of liberty should be killed. -
The invention of Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitely on 1791, it helps the people to get the seeds out of cotton balls. It highly boosted the production of cottons. But it also make the slavery more. -
Napoleon code
It was the civil law of the French. Some of it's idea still exists in French's law today. -
Coronation of Napoleon I
Napoleon is now the Emperor of France. He crowned himself instead of crowned by the Pope. -
The abolition of slave trade
This law passed see by Parliament stopped the slave trade in British Empire, buy and cell people isn’t not allowed anymore. -
Battle of Waterloo
This is a battle between French army led by Napoleon and several armies led by Wellington. Napoleon was defeated and this led to his second exile to St.Helena -
slavery is banned
By the hard work of William Wilberforce the slavery was finally banned, and there is no slavery in England and his colonies. It’s really important, because the act freed a lot of people -
Reform bill of 1832
The King officially proved The Reform Bill of 1832, this bill gave votes for all man, there will be payment for the member of parliament. -
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Opium War
It’s a war between British and Chinese, British got mad at Chinese people for destroying all their opiums, so they declared a war against China. British won the war, so Chinese government has to sign the treaty of NanJing. Which gave away HongKong and opened ports. It’s a humiliating defeat for Chinese people. -
The Telegraph
In 1840, Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, and he created a series of code that can be sent by the telegraph, we call it The Morse Code, it made Communication so much easier. -
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The Potato Famine
In September 1845 as leaves on potato plants suddenly turned black and curled, then rotted. -
Revolution of 1848
Because the price for food and the financial bubble burst the people are poor and starving, so the revolution of 1848 happened. It happened in a lot of countries. -
The Great Crystal Palace exhibition
To show everyone how strong Britain is and how good are the British goods, they build a glass building called the Crystal Palace to show everyone the glorious things of the empire. -
Louis Napoleon became the king
President Louis Napoleon declared a hereditary 2nd French Empire and took the title Napoleon III. He ruled until his defeat during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and he was captured. -
Sepoy rebellion
Sepoys which are he Indians who fought for British started a rebellion against the British Govement. The cause of it is that they thought that British used pig and cow as gun powder. -
The first telegraph cable in Atlantic
The first telegraph cable was deployed, people can now text each other across the ocean and that’s made communication much easier. -
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Construction of Suez Canal
Suez Canal was made to connect Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea it made the travel distance between them way shorter and it made it easier for Western world to go to China, India and Japan. -
Albert dies
The husband of Queen Voictoria was dead and Queen Victoria was so sad so that she was wearing black, which kind of started th habit which when your family dead you need to wear black. -
Second Reform Act doubles the electorate
This Reform Act was passed by a minority Conservative government led by Frederick, Earl of Derby. It virtually doubled the electorate, enabling one-third of adult males in Britain and one-sixth in Ireland to vote in parliamentary elections. -
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Meiji period
It’s a time period where Japan decided to mordenize their army, technologies and started to trade with other countries. It made Japan’s economy better and it made established a strong army. -
New law introduces secular school boards
This bill, introduced by the Liberal member of parliament WE Forster, was to extend opportunities for education available to the children of the poor. The act permitted new school boards to be set up where existing education provision in 'voluntary schools', controlled by the churches, was inadequate. -
Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India
This year Britain took over he control of India and Queen Victoria became the Empress of India and the Great Britain reached it’s top. -
Edison invented the light bulb
Edison invented the light bulb after so many failed tries, and this invention brought human out of the sulfur of candle and human finally got a good light source. -
Invention of cars
There was a guy who’s name was Karl Benz and he put an engine on a body and that has wheels he created automobile which was really useful so that people can save a lot of time traveling. -
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress is the first group of nationalism movement in British colonies. -
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Boxer rebellion
It’s a rebellion started by the society of righteousness and it’s also called the boxer rebellion. The Chinese people started attack foreigners and Chinese Christians. It got put down by an 8-nation army lead by British, USA, Russia, France, Japan, Hungary, Italy and Germany or Prussia. They burned the garden of the Chinese emperor and it made China realized it’s left behind. -
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The Boer War
Boers refused to grant political rights to foreigners, including British. Britain tried to make Boer territory part of British empire. -
Australia independence
At this day Australia gained it’s independence from British -
Wright brother first flight
This is the first time that human being actually flying in the sky even though it’s only 1 minute but it’s still important. -
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Russo Japanese War
It’s a sea battle between Russia and Japanese. The Japanese crushed the Russian Navy, it gained it’s power and it gained the islands northen of it. The treaty of Portsmouth ended this and T Roosevelt earned the Nobel piece reward. -
Germany introduced the Poison Gas as a weapon in WWI
On this day the German soldiers started to use poison gas as a weapon. its high effective and the ability to go across the trenches made it soon a good weapon in the war. people all started to use it and Russia got the most killed out of all the countries. -
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Battle of Verdun
It's a bloody battle between the French troops and the German troops. Germans were winning in the beginning and it destroyed a couple of villages and French front lines but the French came back and defeated them and defend Paris. -
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Battle of Somme
It's a bloody war, the British got 600,000 causalities in the first couple of days. The tank was first used in the battle and it's invented by British. it helped the people to push forward a lot. It ended up to be an Alliance's victory and Germany lost it's advantage. -
Death of Rasputin
Rasputin is a bad guy that’s drunk, having relationships with all ladies and believe in a weird religion. He was put to death finally after poison, gun shot, punch and freeze. -
Russia out of WWI
The Bolshevik signed a treaty with Germany to stop Russia in the war although Russia paid a huge price but it still got out of the war and has it’s own peace. -
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk
To successfully impose Communist control in Russia, Lenin realized that he would have to bring Russia out of the First World War. He feared that the war might bring about an end to Communist rule. -
Execution of Romanov family
The last czar and his family were killed on this day by the bolishvikes. They were told that they are taking a picture of them then a fire squad came in and shot them and killed them. -
The Treaty of Versailles
It's the treaty to end WWI. it was held in the palace of Versailles and it's led by the big four and no German officers were in the meeting. Germany ended up taking of the responsibility to start the war and it lost a lot of lands and it's military got weaken, and they have to pay bills. it causes the WWI -
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The Kronstadt revolt
Discontent amongst the peasants led to violence in the cities. Workers went on strike, in spite of the death penalty for striking. -
The Beer Hall Putsch
On this day Hitler was in a beer hall of Munich and declared a revolution and raised about 2000 and try to take over Bavarian Government but he failed and went to prison due to that. -
Mussolini came to power
In 1925 Mussolini seized power and became a dictator because of a assassination made by his black shirts, and he gained power and formed a fascism government. -
Hitler became the chancellor
Hitler became the chancellor of the WR in 1933. this established a strong back up for his Nazi Party and his follower. And it's the first step to became a dictator. -
The fire of Reichstag
Reichstag is like the congress of WR. It was burned out and Hitler blame the communist for doing it and he gained power and became a dictator due to this event. -
Kristallnacht
This is a event that broke out in Germany and Austria. The Jews' stores were smashed and couple hundreds of people died. -
Start of WWII
Hitler invaded Poland and this is considered the start of WWII. He took over a huge chunk of the land. His action is called lighting war, because his troops are modernized with planes trucks and tanks. -
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Treblinka
It is estimated that between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were killed in its gas chambers, along with 2,000 Gypsies -
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Battle of Stalingrad
This is a battle between the Germans and the Russians. The Germans tried to take over Stalingrad and they failed. This is considered as the turning point of the war. -
D-Day
D Day is called operation overlord, it's a invasion of France. The Allies planed to take over the peaches of the northern French coast and push over in to Paris. There were 5 beaches where they tried to take over and they succeed. This is consider a important event of WWII. -
VE Day
VE Day is considered the end of the European war. With Karl Doenitz the next leader of Germany surrendered this is the end of the European war. -
V-J Day
V-J Day is the victory in Japan. Japan surrendered after two atomic booms that were dropped in Japan. It was the end of the whole WWII
