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Third Coalition of Austria and Prussia created, British destroy combined French and Spanish navies, Battle of Austerlitz, Peninsular Campaign
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The Quadruple Alliance meets to decide new European borders from 1814-1815
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Napoleon final major defeat against Seventh Coalition
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A war began in 1821 for Greek independance, it ended and Greece was acknowledged as independant May, 1832
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A railway was opened to the public in 1830 connecting Liverpool to Manchester
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Upon the death of her Father, William IV who had no other children, Victoria was Queen'd until death and in 1876 she gained the aditional title of Empress
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The well known Irish potato famine that killed around 25% of the population occured between 1845 and 1852
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In 1847 (?) the Bessemer process was invented to aid metallurgy.
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Britains rule over India began in 1847 and lasted until 1858
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Series of Republican revolts against European Monarchies
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Karl Marx and Friederich Engels published the Communist Manifesto, a political pamphlet regarding Communism, in 1848
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A war lasting 3 years that was a loss for Russia against France, the Ottomans, Britain, and Sarginia
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Charles Darwin officially publishes the Origin of Species, which is considered the foundation of evolution of biology, in 1859
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(vaguely) In February 18, 1861, Italy unified
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In 1863, Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite, and patented it in 1866.
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Britain gains control of Canada in 1863, 4 years later they grant self-rule to it
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Constitutional union of the Austrian and Hungarian Empires in 1867 until 1918
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The French opened the Suez canal in Egypt in the summer of '69
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Often referred to as the War of 1870 by the French, the Franco-Prussian War began July 19, 1870 and lasted May 10, 1871, between the Second French Empire and the German Confederation
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At the end of the War of 1870, Germany became unified through victory
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Czar Alexandar II of Russia was assassinated in 1881
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The Berlin Conference, outlining the scramble for Africa, regulated European Colonization and trade in Africa
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Beginning in 1894, Alfreyd Dreyfus had controversy spread about him and in 1906 he was convicted of treason for communicating French military secrets and given a Life Sentance