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SmallPox
Smallpox enters the body through the lungs and is carried in the blood to the internal organs and skin where it multiplies. It can kill 10 to 30% of the total population, the most feared Andy greatest killer in human history. The first recorded infection was in Egypt in 1350. SmallPox is the earliest disease found to induce lifelong immunity. -
Queen Elizabeth dies
After the death of Queen Elizabeth, she had no relatives to take the throne. But later on, parliament found a person from Scotland who could take the throne. His name was James I. -
Gunpowder Plot
The gunpowder plot was a plot against King James I. The people that were involved in this plot were Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes. They planned to blow up King James I in the House of Parliament. King James finally found out about this and sent soldiers to go find them. They found Guy Fawkes by the gunpowder, and took him away and tortured him to death. -
English Civil War
There was a war between parliament and King Charles I about if or if not he should have divine rights. It was the fight between roundheads and royalists. -
Execution of King Charles I
King Charles was hated among many. He was the ruler of England , Scotland and Ireland, the three kingdoms, until he got executed. -
Glorious Revolution
The approval of Mary and William of Orange taking the throne in allied this the Glorious Revolution because they had peace all their reign. -
Enlightenment
The enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement. There were many philosophers, for example: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes. -
Olaudah Equiano
First black slave to publish his first novel in England -
The Battle of Bastille
It happened because the third estate got angry about paying taxes so they decided to fight back. They did this by bombarding the tower of bastille and they ended up winning the battle and taking over the tower. -
The Execution of King Louis XVI
King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. He made the hour and a half journey through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la Révolution, where the scaffold for his execution was assembled. -
The Congress of Vienna
It was an assembly in 1814–15 that reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. It began in September 1814, five months after Napoleon’s first abdication and completed its “Final Act” in June 1815, shortly before the Waterloo campaign and the final defeat of Napoleon. The settlement was the most-comprehensive treaty that Europe had ever seen. -
The Hundred Days
Napoleon returned while the Congress of Vienna was sitting. Seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw, and the four Great Powers and key members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150,000 troops into the field to end his rule. This set the stage for the last conflict in the Napoleonic Wars, the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, the second restoration of the French kingdom, and the permanent exile of Napoleon. -
Birth of Queen Victoria
Queen Victorian was born in 1837. She was a princess up until her 18th birthday, when she became queen. Her reign lasted a little over 63 years. She was on the throne longer than any British Monarch until Queen Elizabeth II passed her. She was the most powerful woman, but didn’t support women’s rights. She held an icon of motherhood, but hated pregnancy, childbirth, and babies. Although, she had nine children of her own. She later died in 1901. -
Germ theory
Louis Pasteur was the man who made the breakthrough in linked germs to disease. He made his discovery by accident, in 1857 when investigating why sugarbeet soured unexpectedly. He proved that the sugarbeet soured because of germs carried in the air. He devised an experiment to prove this. Even though his experiment supported what he was saying there were a number of people who simply refuse to believe what he was saying. -
Dr. David Livingstone
From Scotland, first white man to do humanitarian and religious work in south and central Africa. His fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile river was founded on the belief that if he could tell the age of mystery, his fame would give him influenced and the East African Arab Swahili slave trade. -
Mensheviks
The Mensheviks were one dominant faction in the Russian socialist movement, the other being the Bolsheviks. The factions emerged in 1903 following a dispute in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party between Julius Martov and Vladimir Lenin. -
Model “T” Ford
In the 1800s, Germans developed the automobile but it was much too expensive. Henry Ford set out to build a car that everybody could afford to buy. It was slow, ugly, and difficult to drive, and was nicknamed then “Tin Lizzie” by the American people. Why it was most attractive was because it’s price never increased; it started at $1200 in 1909, the only $295 in 1928. By 1929, Ford was producing more than one car per minute. -
Communist Leader Lenin
Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Lenin left and then came back because he was a great leader to the bolsheviks. He helped overthrow the government that was after the Romanov’s. -
Women’s Party
In 1917, Emmeline Pankhurst formed the Women’s Party. She formed this party with her daughter, Christabel. It was created for mainly four reasons. The first reason was equal pay for equal work; this meant that she wanted the same amount of money as a man would get for doing the same thing. The second reason was Equal marriage and divorce laws. The third reason was equality of rights and opportunities in public service. The last reason was a national system of maternity benefits. -
October Revolution
It was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. The success of the October Revolution transformed the Russian state into a soviet republic. -
The Assassination of the Romanov’s
After Czar Nicholas II stepped down from his throne, him and his family were moved to the winter palace. They were held hostage there for a while before movingly up to a mountain home. After several months of being imprisoned in their own home, the Bolsheviks decided to assassinate the Romanov’s. All of them were claimed to be dead the day of the assassination. -
Anastasia Romanov
Anastasia Romanov was a grand duchess of Russia. She was apparently assassinated along with her family, but a woman who resembled her quite well was found. The woman didn’t claim to be Anastasia at first, but Anna Anderson. She later on claimed to be Anastasia and lived her life being her. Scientists discovered the “real” Anastasia’s body where her other family was. -
Uprising of Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from the mid–1920s until 1953 as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He killed many people, including Vladimir Lenin. -
Death of Trotsky
He was a Soviet revolutionary, Marxist theorist and politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism. Trotsky took part in the 1917 October Revolution, immediately becoming a leader within the Communist Party. He was one of the seven members of the first Politburo.uncortunatkey, not everyone liked him, so they decide do to kill him. -
Stalin’s death
Stalin was getting pretty old Andy sick and that was sign for death. Stalin was diagnosed with a cerebral Hemorrhage. A Cerebral Hemorrhage is an emergency condition in which a ruptured blood vessel causes bleeding inside the brain. During Stalin’s funeral, many people cried; not because they wanted to, but because they were scared of what was going to happen to them.
