Ancient Regime

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  • Period: 1501 to

    ancient regime

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    First Industrial Revolution.

    Steam engine (James Watt, 1776).
    Power loom (Cartwright, 1785).
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    Industrial revolution

  • James Watt

    Steam engine

  • french revolution

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Luis XVI

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    Reign of Terror

  • Maximilien Robespierre

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    Napoleonic era

  • Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor of France

    Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor of France

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Congress of Vienna

    Congress of Vienna

  • First liberal revolutions in Spain, Greece and Italy.

    First liberal revolutions in Spain, Greece and Italy.

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    Revolutions of 1820, 1830 and 1848

  • Revolution of 1830

    July Revolution in France: overthrow of Charles X, establishment of Louis Philippe as "bourgeois king."
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    Second Industrial revolution

  • Revolution of 1848

    Revolution of 1848

    Fall of Louis Philippe and proclamation of the Second French Republic.
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    Second Industrial Revolution.

    Thomas Edison: Incandescent lamp (1879).
    Nikola Tesla: Alternating Current (1880s).
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Incandescent lamp