absolutism/ Revolutions

  • Period: Jun 28, 1491 to Jan 28, 1547

    King henry Vlll

    King of england
  • Period: Jan 20, 1497 to Jan 23, 1516

    King Ferdinand and isabella

    King of spain
  • Period: Jun 28, 1509 to Jan 28, 1547

    King Henry Vlll

    King of England
  • Period: Sep 7, 1533 to

    Elizabeth l

    Queen of England
  • Period: Jan 16, 1547 to

    Ivan the terrible

    King of Russia
  • Period: Jan 16, 1556 to

    King philip ll

    King of spain
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    Thirty Years War

    The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648.
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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.
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    LouisXlV

    King of france
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    Peter the Great

    He was giant king of russia.
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    The Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution, is the term used for the events leading to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688, and replacement by his daughter Mary II and her husband and James' nephew William III of Orange, de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic.
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    War of the Spanish Succession

    The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1714.
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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.
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    Louis XVl

    King of France
  • May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General

    May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General
    The opening of the Estates General, on 5 May 1789 in Versailles, also marked the start of the French Revolution. On 4 May 1789 the last grand ceremony of the Ancien Régime was held in Versailles: the procession of the Estates General. From all over France, 1,200 deputies had arrived for the event.
  • Storming of the Bastille

    Storming of the Bastille
    Definition. The Storming of the Bastille was a decisive moment in the early months of the French Revolution (1789-1799). On 14 July 1789, the Bastille, a fortress and political prison symbolizing the oppressiveness of France's Ancien Régime was attacked by a crowd mainly consisting of sans-culottes, or lower classes.
  • Tennis Court Oath

    Tennis Court Oath
    On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace. The vote was "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established".
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Declaration of the Rights of Man
    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
  • Women's March on Versailles

    Women's March on Versailles
    The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
  • Execution of King Louis XVI

    Execution of King Louis XVI
    When a final decision on the question of a respite was taken on January 19, Louis was condemned to death by 380 votes to 310. He was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution in Paris on January 21, 1793. Nine months later his wife met the same fate.
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    Reign of Terror

    The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.
  • Maximillian Robespierre's execution

    Maximillian Robespierre's execution
    On July 27, 1794, Robespierre and a number of his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. The next day Robespierre and 21 of his followers were taken to the Place de la Révolution (now the Place de la Concorde), where they were executed by guillotine before a cheering crowd.
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    Peninsular War

    The Peninsular War was 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. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
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    French Invasion of Russia

    The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, the Army of Twenty nations, and the Patriotic War of 1812 was launched by Napoleon Bonaparte to force the Russian Empire back into the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.
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    French invasion of russia

    Napoleon and his troops invaded russia. The campaign failed because napoleon and his troops ran out of food and couldn't stand the harsh weather.
  • Napoleon is exiled to Elba

    On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
  • Napoleon dies

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    Nicholas ll

    King of russia