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(1799-1815) Napoleon, leader of France gains power and conquers much of Europe.
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Europe.
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The four powers that defeated Napoleon gather to seek balance of power.
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This political and social movement combined the different states in the Italian peninsula.
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The end of the Napoleonic Wars. The great leader was defeated due to not being prepared when troops suffer in The Netherlands
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The railway opens between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester. 35 miles long.
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The Greek war of Independence was a successful revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Greece had help from other nations such as Russia.
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Her time was known as the Victorian era and was the longest known reign in history.
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The potato crops failed over successive years in Ireland. The famine lasted six years and killed over 1 million people in Ireland and caused another million to flee.
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Countries of Europe such as France and Italy have many failed revolts against monarchies.
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This was the start of what is called the British Raj. It was when the crown of Britain (Queen Victoria at the time) owned the East India Company from 1848-1947
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The Greater Poland Uprising was a revolt against Prussian power. It was unsuccessful.
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This nation's revolutions led to the making of the French Second Republic. Near the end of these events, Louis Napoleon was elected.
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In 1848, a time of many European revolutions, people expressed discontent through protests and rebellions. The working class wanted improvements to working and living conditions.
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In this military conflict, the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, and others.
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Henry Bessemer develops the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively.
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This book was a piece of literature that introduced evolutionary biology.
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This leader abolished serfdom, a system that had been ever present in Russia since 1649. This reform was necessary for progress.
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(1867-1918) The constitutional union of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Austrian Empire was a result of a compromise in 1867.
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The British North America Act of 1867 united three British colonies into one by the name of Canada.
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Alfred Nobel creates a strong explosive and obtains patents.
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This canal after ten years of construction. It was open to navigation and stretched 100 miles across the isthmus of Suez.
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A conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon the Third and the Kingdom of Prussia.
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Germany had been made up of 300 separate states, but now it was one nation.
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This political pamphlet is considered one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It talks about an approach to the class struggle and the problems of capitalism.
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This ruler of Russia was killed by a bomb thrown by revolutionaries on the streets of St. Petersburg.
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This conference regulated trade and colonization in Africa. It happened at the same time of Germany's emergence as an imperial power.
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This french officer was sentenced to life in prison after his alleged crime of passing military secrets to the Germans.