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English Bill of Rights
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Seven Year's Way Peace Treaty between Great Britain and France
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Stamp Act passed by British Parliment as a direct taxation of North American colonists
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Repeal 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 Assembly and French Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Beheading of King Loius 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 was on Austria
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France delcares 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 British
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War ends between Great Britian and France
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Constitution for Haiti
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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
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French withdraw 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 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