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Period: Mar 31, 1504 to Jan 23, 1516
King Ferdinand and Isabella
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Period: Apr 22, 1509 to Jan 28, 1547
King Henry VIII
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Period: Jan 16, 1547 to
Ivan the Terrible
Ruled as the Tsar of Russia. -
Period: Jan 16, 1556 to
King Phillip II
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Period: Nov 17, 1558 to
Queen Elizabeth I
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Thirty Years War
- The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars fought by various nations for various reasons, including religious, dynastic, territorial, and commercial rivalries. -
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English Civil War
- The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists, mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. It was part of the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- Changes: the execution of King Charles I in 1649, 11 years of republican rule in England, and the establishment of Britain's first standing national army.
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King Louis XIV
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Peter the Great
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The Glorious Revolution
- The Glorious Revolution refers to the events of 1688–89 that led to Catholic King James II of England being deposed and replaced on the throne by his Protestant daughter Mary II and her husband William III, Prince of Orange.
- The Glorious Revolution led to the establishment of an English nation that limited the power of the king and provided protections for English subjects
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War of the Spanish Succession
- The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict after the death of Charles II
- The Austrians gained most of the Spanish territories in Italy and the Netherlands. As a consequence, France's hegemony over continental Europe was ended, and the idea of a balance of power became a part of the international order due to its mention in the Treaty of Utrecht.
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Seven Years war
- The Seven Years' War was a global conflict involving most of the major European powers and many smaller European states, as well as nations in Asia and the Americas.
- Results: France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain, while Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holdings overseas.
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Louis XVI
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Women's March on Versailles
- stripped away the remaining independence of King Louis XVI, ending France's absolute monarchy and ushering in a short-lived period of constitutional monarchy
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Meeting with the Estates-General
- a meeting of the three estates within French society which included the clergy, nobility and the peasant classes
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Tennis Court Oath
- The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge that was signed in the early days of the French Revolution and was an important revolutionary act that displayed the belief that political authority came from the nation's people and not from the monarchy.
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Storming of the Bastille
- happened in Paris, France, when revolutionary insurgents stormed and seized control of the medieval armoury, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
- The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights”, which were specified as the rights of liberty, private property, the inviolability of the person, and resistance to oppression
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Execution of King Louis XVI
- was publicly guillotined
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Reign of Terror
- a period of the French Revolution when a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response
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Maximillian Robespierre's execution
- executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd
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Napoleon Crowns himself emperor
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Peninsular War
- the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars
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French Invasion of Russia
Napoleon and his troops invade Russia. The campaign failed however, because Napoleon and his men ran out of food and could not survive the harsh weather conditions. -
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
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Napoleon dies
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Emperor Nicholas II (Romanov)
Emperor of Russia