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English Bill of Rights
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Seven Years' War Peac Treaty between Great Britian and France
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliament. Sons of Liberty and others protest Stamp Act
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Repeal of Stamp Act
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Townsend Act, New revenue taxes on North America 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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Treaty of Amity and Commerce (between N.A. and France) and Treat of Alliance.
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National Assembly and French Delclaration of Rights of Men
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Beheading of King Louis 14th, Slave Rebellion in Saint Domingue, and U.S. Bill of Rights ratified by states.
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French National Assembly gives citizenship to all free people of color in colony of Saint Domingue and France declares war on Austria
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France declares war on Great Britain and all slaves on Saint Domingue emancipated by the French Revolutionary authorities to join the French army and fight againest the British
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Toussaint leads troops againest 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 and Constitution for Haiti is made
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General Leclerc sent by Napoleon to subdue colony and re-institute slavery
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New declaration of war between Great Britain and France and French withdraw trrops: Haitians declare independence
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France and Jean-Jacques Dessalines crowns himself emperor of Haiti.
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U.S. president Jefferson declars economic boycott of Haiti, France, and Great Britain.
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French occupation of Spain and 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 againest European interference with the new republics in the Americas, known as the Monroe Doctrine.