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Jun 20, 1000
Rome is founded 753 B.C. (ch 1)
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Jun 20, 1096
The Crusades begin 1096 A.D.(ch 1)
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Jun 20, 1200
The Aztec settle in the valley of Mexico 1200 C. (ch 1)
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Jun 20, 1300
Timbuktu becomes a center of Islamic learning. Early 1300s (ch 1)
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Jun 20, 1440
1440 Johan Gutenburg develops his printing press.(ch 1)
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Jun 20, 1492
1492 Columbus first reaches North America (ch 1)
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Jun 20, 1521
1521 The Spanish destroy the Aztec empire
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Jun 20, 1534
1534 The Reformation begins in England with the Act of Supremacy (ch 1)
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1588 England defeats Spanish Armada (ch 1)
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1607 Jamestown is founded (ch 1)
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(ch 2) 1760 George III became King of Great Britain
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(ch 2) 1765 British Parliament passes the Stamp Act
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(ch 2) 1773 Colonists stage the Boston Tea Party
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(ch 2) 1774 Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts. First Continental Congress convienes
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(ch 2) 1774 Reign of Loius XVI begins in France
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(ch 2) 1775 Second Continental Congress convenes.
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(ch 2) 1776 Colonies declare independence.
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)ch 2) 1776 Adams Smith's The Wealth of Nations is published
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(ch 2) 1781 the british surrender at Yorktown
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(ch 2) 1781 Joseph II allows religious toleration in Austria
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(ch 3) 1802 Tousaint L'Ouveture deafeats french forces sent to recapture Saint Domingue
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(ch 3) 1803 The US purchases the Louisiana Territory from France.
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(ch 5) 1803 Frances takes over Indochina
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(ch 3) 1810 Mexican War of Independence begins.
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(ch 3) 1814 The treaty of Ghent is signed, ending the war of 1812
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(ch 3) 1815 Napoleon is defeated at waterloo
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(ch 3) 1820 Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
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(ch 3) 1821 Mexico wins independence from Spain.
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(ch 3) 1831 William Lloyd Garrison publishes The Liberator.
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(ch 3) 1833 Great Britain abolishes slavery in the empire.
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(ch 3) 1836 Texas establishes itself as a republic, with Sam Houston as its first president.
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(ch 4) 1851 The Great Exhibition opens in London
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(ch 4) 1852 Uncle Toms Cabin is published.
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(ch 4) 1854 Charles Dickins's Hard Times is published.
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(ch 4) 1857 the supreme court rules against Dred Scott,
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(ch 4) 1860 South Carolina secedes
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(ch 4) 1861 Russian serfs emancipated by Czar Alexnder II
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(ch 4) 1861 The Confederacy is formed. The Civil War Begnis,
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(ch 4) 1863 Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg .
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(ch 4) Maximillian of Austria becomes emperor of Mexico 1864
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(ch 4) 1865 Civil War Ends
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(ch 6) 1869 Central Pacific and Union Pacific Complete the transcontinental railroad
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(Ch 5) 1870 Red Cloud, cheif of the Ogala Sioux, states his peoples case in washington D.C.
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(ch 6) 1870 Franco-Prussian war breaks out
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(ch 6) 1875 British Labor Unions win right to strike
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(ch 6) 1876 Alexander Grahm Bell invents the telephone
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(ch 7) 1876 Porfrio Diaz seizes power in mexico
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(ch 6) 1877 Munn vs Illinois establishes gov't regulation of all railroads.
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(ch 6) 1877 Mother Jones supports the Great Strie of 1877
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(ch 8) 1878 Bicyle club is founded in Europe.
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(ch 5) 1879 Suez Canal is opened
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(ch 6) 1879 Thamas Edison invents a lightbuln=b.
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(ch 5) 1881 French occupy Tunisia
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(ch 6) 1882 Us restricts chinese immigrtion
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(ch 6) 1883 Germany becomes to first nation to provide national health insurance.
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(ch 8) 1883 Construction of the Brooklyn bridge is complete.
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(ch 7) 1884 Berlin confrence meets to divide Africa among European Nations.
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(ch 8) 1884 Fifteen nation conference on the division of Africa convenes in Berlin.
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(Ch7) 1885 Indian National congress forms.
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(ch 6) 1886 Haymarket riot turns into public sentiment against unions
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(ch 8) 1888 Electric trolleys are first introduced,
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(ch 5) 1889 Oklahoma opened for settlement; the land rush begins.
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(ch 8) 1889 Barnum and Bailey Circus opens in London.
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(ch 5) 1890 Sioux are massacred at Wounded Knee.
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(ch 8) 1892 Ida, B Walls crusades against kynching
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(ch 5) 1893 Diminished US gold reserve triggers the panic of 1893
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(ch 7) 1893 France establishes Indochina,
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(ch 10) 1893 Business grooups, aided by US marines, overthrow Hawaii's Queen Liliokalani
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(ch 5) 1896 William Jennings Bryan rus for president
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(ch 8) 1896 Supreme court establishes "separate but equal" doctrine i plessy v ferguson.
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(ch 7) 1898 Hawaii is annexed by the United States.
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(ch 10) 1898 Marie Curie discovers radu]ium.
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(ch 10) U.S.S Maine explodes and sinks. Spanish- American war begins,
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(ch 5) 1899 Berlin Confrence divides Africa among Eropean nations
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(ch 8) 1899 Austrian pshychoanalyst Sigmund Freud published The interpretation of dreams.
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(ch 10) 1900 In China, the Boxers rebel.
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(ch 7) 1901 The common wealth of Australia is founded.
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(ch 8) 1901 McKinley is assassinated
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(ch 7) 1903 the Wright Brothers achieve the first successful airplane flight,
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(ch 10) 1903 Panama declares its independence from Colombia
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(ch 7) 1905 Workers revolt in St Petersburg, Russia
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(ch 7) 1908 Oil is discovered in Persia,
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(ch 8) 1908 Henry Ford introduces the odel T
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(ch 7) 1910 The appearance of Halley's Comet causes wide spread panic.
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(ch 10) 1910 The mexican rev. begins.
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(ch 11) 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated.
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(ch 11) 1914 Hollywood, California, becomes the center of movie production in the US
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(ch 11) 1914 Germany declares war on Russia and France. Great Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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(ch 10) 1914 WWI begins in Europe.
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(ch 10) 1914 The Panama Canal opens.
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(ch 11) 1915 German U-boats sink the Lusitania, and 1,198 people die.
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(ch 11) 1915 Alexander Grahm Bell makes first transcontinental telephone call
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(ch 11) 1915 Albert Einstien proposes his general theory of relativity.
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(ch 11) 1916 The battles of Verdumn and the Simme claim millions of lives.
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(ch 11) 1917 The Selective Service Act sets up th draft
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(ch 11) 1917 The US declares war on Germany.
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(ch 11) 1917 Russia withdraws from the war.
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(ch 10) Puerto Ricans becomes US Citizens.
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(ch 10) Mexico revises and adopts contitution.
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(ch 12) 1919 Palmer raids
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(ch 13) 1920 Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote
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(ch 12) 1921 Chinese communist party is founded in Shanghal
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(ch 12) 1921 Sacco and Vanzettie are convicted.
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(ch 12) 1921 Federal-Aid Road Act funds a national highway system.
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(ch 13) 1921 China's communist party is founded
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(ch 12) 1922 Benito Mussolini is appointed prime minister of Italy.
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(ch 13) 1922 Louis Armstrong plays for King Olivers Creole band in Chicago.
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(ch 13) 1922 King Tuts tomb is discovered in Egypt.
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(ch 12) 1923 German Economic Crisis.
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(ch 13) 1923 Time magazine begin its publication
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(ch 13) 1923 Mustafa Kemal becomes first president of new republic or Turkey
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(ch 12) 1924 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, dies.
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(ch 12) 1925 A. Phillip Randolph organizes the Brotherhood of sleeping car porters.
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(ch 13) 1925 The Scopes trial takes place in Tennessee.
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(ch 12) 1926 British Laborers declare a general strike.
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(ch 12) 1926 Hirohit0 becomes emperors of Japan
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(ch 13) 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
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(ch 13) 1927 Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
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(ch 13) 1928 President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico is assassinated.