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Bastille Day
The storming of the Bastille a voilent event that leads to the french revolution. -
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Toussaint l'Oventure leads slave revolt
He formed an army of former slaves and trained them in guerilla warfare and successfully ended slavery. -
Hati wins independance
After his defeat of Napoleons colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti. -
Napoleon becomes emperor of France
Napoleon held a plebiscite and French voters strongly supported him. -
Father Miguel Hidalgo inspires revolution in Mexico
On September 16, 1810, Father Hidalgo rang the church bell to announce a revolution. -
Jose de san Martin liberates Chile
San Martin defeated the last large Spanish force on Chilean soil at the battle of Maipu. -
Jose de san Martin liberates Argentina
Argentinas people rose up against Spanish rule to fight against Spanish rule and fought against royalist forces to the loyal spanish crown. -
Simon Bolivar liberates Venezuela
The colonists rebelled against high taxes and a lack of self-rule, the colonists claimed independence as Napoleon invaded spain. -
Simon Bolivar liberates Colombia
Bolivars campaign to liberate new granda was part of the Colombian and Venezuelan wars of independence and was one of the many military campaigns fought by Simón Bolívar. -
Simon Bolivar liberates Equador
ndependence was finally achieved by Simón Bolívar, the Venezuelan liberator who marched southward from Caracas, freed Colombia in 1819 and supported the people of Guayaquil when they claimed independence -
Simon Bolivar liberates Peru
After securing Chilean independence, with a fleet commanded by the adventurous Lord Cochrane, he invaded Peru and declared independence -
Mexico gains independence
The revolutionary tract called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land, and racial equality. -
Simon Bolivar liberates Bolivia
Bolivian Independence, achieved after centuries of Spanish colonial rule. -
Guisseppi Mazzini creates "Young Italy"
Was a political movement for Italian youth under the age of 40 founded by Guisseppi. It also ended rade barriers between various Italian states. -
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Zollverein
The aim of Zollverein was to bind the Germans economically into a nation. The Union abolished the tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over thirty to only two. -
Camillo Cavour becomes prime Miniester
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Italian Role in Crimean War
A war fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, and Ottoman Turkish. Religious differences were certainly a catalyst in the Crimean War. -
Garibaldi's Red Shirts capture Sicily
Rosolino Pilo exhorted Giuseppe Garibaldi to take charge of an expedition to liberate Southern Italy from Bourbon rule. At first, Garibaldi was against it, but eventually agreed -
Bismarck Becomes Prime Minister
Bismarck was sent to Russia as Prussian ambassador, and not long thereafter he moved to Paris as ambassador, with 11 years of experience he then gained title of prime miniester. -
Blood and Iron Speech
Was the speech given by Otto von Bismark at the time he was prime minister. It was about the unification of the German territories. -
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War with Denmark
when Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig. Denmark fought the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire. -
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War with Austria
revolutionaries wanted war because they thought that war would unify their country and had a genuine to spread the ideas of the revoultion -
Victor Emmanuel ii is crowned king of unified Italy
He worked to free Italy from foreign control and became a central figure of the movement for Italian unification.