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English Bill of Rights
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Seven Years' War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliament as a direct taxation of North American colonists
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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
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Ratification of Constitution of the United States of America
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Estates General convened for the first time in 174 years in France
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Storming of the Bastille (in Paris)
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National Constituent Assebly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Beheading of King Louis 16th
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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 Assebly gives citizenship to all free people of color in 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 joined French Army in fight against 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 British
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Ear ends between Great Britain and France
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Haiti Constitution
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General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and reinstitute slavery
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New declaration of war between Great Britain and France
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French withdraw troops, Haiti declares independence
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself as emperor of Haiti
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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 emprie reduced in Europe to France alone
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French abolish slave trade
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Monroe declares doctrine against European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monro Doctrine