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English Bill of Rights
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Period: to
Revolutions
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Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Stamp Act passed by British Parlament as a direct taxation of North American colonists
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Sons of Liberty and others organize to protest and resist the Stamp Act
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Repeal of Stamp Act
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Townsend Act, new revenue taxes on North American colonists
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Riots in Boston met with violence by British troops
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Boston Tea Party
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First Continental Congress
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Declaration of Independence
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American and French representatives sign two treaties in Paris: a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and a Treaty of Alliance
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National Constituent Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America
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Estates General convented for the first time in 174 years in France
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Storming of the Bastille, prison (and army) in Paris
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Beheading of King Louis XVI
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Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue
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U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states
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French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in the colony of Saint Domingue
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France declares war on Austria
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France declares war on Great Britain
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All slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight against the British
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Toussaint leads troops against the British
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French colonial forces defeated by Toussaint
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Toussaint negotiates peace with the British
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War ends between Great Britain and France
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Constitution for Haiti
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General Leclerc sent by Naploeon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery
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New delaration of war between Great Britain and France
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French withdraws troops; Haitians declare independence
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti
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U.S. President Jefferson declares economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain.
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French occupation of Spain
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British end the slave trade
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Declarations of self-government in most Latin American colonies
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French expelled from Spain
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Napoleon defeated and French empire reduced in Europe to France alone
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French abolish slave trade
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U.S. President Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine