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FLYING SHUTTLE
flying shuttle, Machine that represented an important step toward automatic weaving. It was invented by John Kay in 1733. -
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Reign of Charles IV
Charles IV acceded to the throne shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution -
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is a historical process which began in Great Britan around 1760 and is when industrial capitalism emerged -
SPINNING JENNY
The spinning Jenny was a spinning machine, invented by James Hargreaves at Stanhill, near Blackburn in Lancashire, England. This device drastically reduces the work required for yarn production. -
WATER FRAME
A hydraulic spinning machine is a type of spinning machine driven by a water wheel. Developed in Great Britain during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution by Richard Arkwright, -
INVENTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE
It was invented by James watt in1769. It used coal as fuel. Steam power became the new source of power for machines. -
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American Revolutionary War
The American colonists refused the increase of taxes from the U.K. governers. So they started a revolution to become independent -
U.S. Declaration of Independence
The colonists proclaimed the Declaration of Independence of the United States of Ameria when Great Britain finally recognised the independece of the Nation. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was a treaty a treaty which would legally finish with the American War of Independence -
POWER WEAVING LOOM
A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed and patented in 1785 by Edmund Cartwright -
Adoption of the U.S. Constitution
The American Constitution is finally in use -
The calling of the Estates General
The king Louis XVI decides to call together the Estates General for increasing taxes and finishing with the crisis. -
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French Revolution
Is the start of the Modern Age. The revolutionaries implements Enlightement ideas for fight the political, economical and social crisis. A new regime is stablished. -
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National Assembly
After arguing with the king about a new voting system and refusing it, the members if the Third State declared themselves the true representatives of the Nation. They demanded a constitution and they formed a National Assembly -
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Constituent Assembly
After the King´s agreement with the Third state demands. The constituyent Assembly writes France it´s first Constitution. -
Initiation of riots
Protesters begin to riot in the streets of Paris and they attack the Bastille (a famous political prison) -
Declaration of The Rights of Man and The Citizen
The constituent Assembly implemented legal forms in reaction of the protests and riots. This declaration stated that all men are born free and equal in their rights. -
Women´s protest in Versalles
A group of Parisian women organises a protest march to the King´s country palace in Versalles, near Paris to demand the high prices of bread. They attacked the palace and presented their demands to the king. The next day the king and his court returned to Paris -
Constitution adopted
The Constitutional Assembly adopted a constitution modificating the French state as a constitutional monarchy. -
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Legislative Assembly
A new assembly is elected. Is dominated by the Jacobins and the Girondins. The king is opossed about the reforms of the new assembly. -
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Convention
After abolishing monarchy and declaring France a republic. A new assembly is made after an election. The name of the new one is The Convention -
Republic is declarated
Louis XVI asks Austria for support against the Legislative Assembly. In response the assembly abolishes the monarchy and declared France a republic. -
Execution of Louis XVI
After the election of a new assembly (the Convention).Louis XVI is accused of treason by the convention and is executed -
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The Terror
other European countries declares war with France. Under the leadership of Robespierre, the Jacobins imposes a dictatorship known as the Terror. 42,000 people were executed -
TREATY OF BASEL
The Treaty of Basel (1795), is an agreement between France and Spain that restored to Spain peninsular territory lost during the Franco-Spanish War (1793–1795) and gave France Santo Domingo. -
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The Directory
The middle class gains the control of the country. The directory, a more conservative government composed of five numbers is stablished. -
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The Consulate
General Napoleon Bonaparte makes a military coup and stablishes the consulate. It is formed with two leaders and Bonaparte himself as First Consul. -
TREATY OF SAN ILDEFONSO
The Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800 was a secret agreement signed between Spain and France during the Napoleonic Wars. Through this treaty, Spain agreed in principle to exchange its North American territory of Louisiana for territories in Tuscany. -
Adoption of the Napoleonic Civil Code
Napoleon adopted a set of laws that applied iqually to all citizens. It introduced new legal concepts like marriage, divorce, adoption and public education. -
Napoleon´s Coup
Napoleon declares himself as Emperor of France.
His policy achievements includes the Domestic policy (The Civil Code) and the International policy, Napoleon imposes revolutionary policies in all the countries he conquers. -
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Napoleonic Empire
It was the government established by Napoleon Bonaparte after the dissolution of the First French Republic in 1804. It is also the first French Empire. -
INVENTION OF THE LOCOMOTIVE
The invention of the locomotives was developed by Richard Trevithick in 1804. -
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Vienna`s Congress
Prussia, Russia, Austria and England meet in Vienna between 1814 and 1815 to define relations between European states. -
Battle of Trafalgar
It was a naval battle which was leaded by the United Kingdom, Austria, Russia n´Napoles for bring down Napoleon´s European power. -
Battle of Austerlitz
It was a battle which took part in Austerlitz (czech Republic) where was fighting Napoleon against Russia n´Austria. Napoleon won the fight -
Stablishment of the Continental Blockade
Napoleon decreed, from his Palace in Berlin, a blockade of the British Isles and forbade all British goods and commerce entering the continent. -
REVOLT OF ARANJUEZ
The Aranjuez Mutiny occurred between March 18 and 19, 1808 in the streets of this Madrid town. The riot broke out in protest against Manuel Godoy's policies. -
LAUNCH OF THE FIRST STEAMSHIP
1807 Fulton's Clermont, the first Passenger Steam-boat in the world took passengers from New York to Albany” -
Treaty of Fontainebleau
This treaty gives French permission to pas trough Spain on their way to attack Portugal. -
UPRISING OF THE PEOPLE OF MADRID
Second of May Uprising took place in Madrid, Spain, on 2–3 May 1808. The rebellion, mainly by civilians, with some isolated military action[4] by junior officers, was against the occupation of the city by French troops, and was violently repressed by the French Imperial forces -
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Spanish war of Independence
The war started when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1808 by transiting through Spain -
ABDICATIONS OF BAYONNE
The Abdications of Bayonne took place on 7 May 1808 in the castle of Marracq in Bayonne when the French emperor Napoleon I forced two Spanish kings—Charles IV and his son, Ferdinand VII—to renounce the throne in his favour. -
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Reign of Joseph I
After Bayona´s abdications, Napoleon invades Spain and makes his brother Joseph I the new king of Spain -
New King of Spain
The french forces that occupies Spain send Carlos IV and his son to France. they renounce their rights to the spanish throne in favour of Napoleon, so Napoleon makes his brother Joseph Bonaparte the new king of Spain -
BATTLE OF BAILÉN
La batalla de Bailén se libró durante la Guerra de la Independencia Española y supuso la primera derrota en campo abierto de la historia del ejército napoleónico. -
APPEARANCE OF THE LUDDITES
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers which opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving machinery, often by destroying the machines in clandestine raids. -
APPROVAL OF "LA PEPA"
Constitution of Cádiz or La Pepa,[1] was the first Constitution of Spain and one of the earliest codified constitutions in world history. -
TREATY OF VALLENÇAY
The Treaty of Valençay was an Treaty of Peace and Friendship between King Ferdinand VII and Bonaparte -
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Absolutist Sexenio
All the monarchs who had been overthrown from their thrones by Napoleon recovered them, once again establishing absolutist regimes in Europe. -
Defeat of Napoleon in Waterloo
Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated by Great britain in the Battle of Waterloo. -
Creation of the Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance was a coalition created by the monarchist great powers of Russia, Austria, and Prussia. It was established after the ultimate defeat of Napoleon -
INDEPENDENCE OF ARGENTINA
The Congress of Tucumán, made up of representatives of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, declared Independence. -
INDEPENDENCE OF CHILE
The Act of Independence is signed, a document through which Chile solemnly declares its independence from the Spanish monarchy. -
CREATION OF THE FIRST TRADE UNIONS
By the 1810s, the first labour organizations to bring together workers of divergent occupations were formed. Possibly the first such union was the General Union of Trades -
INDEPENDENCE OF COLOMBIA
An altercation between Creoles and officials of the Spanish Crown over the loan of a vase resulted in a popular revolt that began the independence process in Colombia. -
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Trienio Liberal
It constitutes the intermediate stage of the three into which the reign of Fernando VII is conventionally divided, being after the Absolutist Sexennium and before the Ominous Decade. -
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Unification of Italy
the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and most of the Papal States started to join the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia -
INDEPENDENCE OF PERU
The main residents of Lima signed the Act of Independence of Peru. In a public ceremony, when General San Martín proclaimed the independence of Peru in the Plaza Mayor of Lima. -
INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICO
The independence of Mexico was the consequence of a political and social process resolved by weapons that put an end to Spanish rule through a civil war. -
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Omnious Decade
This period is characterized by the persecution of liberalism -
FIRST COMMERCIAL TRAIN
On September 27, 1825, Locomotion No. 1 became the world's first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, in North East England. -
PRAGMATIC SANCTION
Pragmatic sanction is the pragmatic sanction promulgated by the King of Spain that concerns fundamental aspects of the State, regulating issues such as dynastic succession or others. -
SECOND LIBERAL REVOLUTIONARY WAVE
The Revolution of 1830 was a revolutionary process that began in Paris, France, which contemplates the emergence of the labor movement and the political movement demanding the extension of suffrage called Chartism. -
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Regency of Maria Christina
The regency of María Cristina de Borbón constitutes the first period of the minority of Isabel II of Spain -
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Reign of Isabella II of Spain
The reign of Isabel II is the period in the contemporary history of Spain between the death of Ferdinand VII in 1833 and the triumph of the Revolution of 1868, which forced the queen to go into exile. -
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First Carlist War
The first Carlist war was a dynastic and political conflict. Thus, it was a fight to defend the rights of both pretenders to the throne and the confrontation between two political factions: absolutists and liberals. -
EXPROPRIATION OF MENDIZÁBAL
The confiscation of Mendizábal consisted of the expropriation of ecclesiastical lands and their public auction. -
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Chartists Movements
Chartism was a radical popular movement that emerged in the United Kingdom from 1838 to 1848 and expressed the agitation of the working class, due to the changes derived from the Industrial Revolution. -
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Regency of Espartero
The Espartero regency was the last period of the minority of Isabel II of Spain -
First Liberal Revolutionary Wave
the various national movements pioneered by educated middle classes alongside the revolts of the poor, unemployed and starving peasants and workers in Europe. -
THIRD LIBERAL REVOLUTIONARY WAVE
Year of Revolutions are historiographical names of the revolutionary wave that ended Restoration Europe. They were also characterized by the importance of nationalist demonstrations and the beginning of the first organized demonstrations of the labor movement. -
DRAFTING OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848. -
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German Unification
It was the union process established by the Congress of Vienna that began to group the 39 German States into a confederation of sovereign States under the presidency of the House of Austria. -
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First International
The International Workers' Association (IWA) or First International was an organization founded in London in 1864 that initially brought together English trade unionists, anarchists and French and Italian republican socialists. -
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Serranos´s Provisional Government
The Provisional Government of 1868-1871 was the transitional executive that was formed in Spain after the triumph of the Revolution of 1868 that ended the reign of Isabel II. -
CONSTITUTION OF 1869
reflected the progressive and democratic set of ideals: it returned to the concept of national sovereignty as its source, which strengthened representative institutions. It ended with the reign of Isabella II. -
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Reign of Amadeus of Savoy
The reign of Amadeo I is part of the period of the Democratic Sexennium which begins with the Revolution and ends with the First Spanish Republic. -
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First Spanish Republic
The First Spanish Republic was the political regime in force in Spain from its proclamation by the Cortes on February 11, 1873, until December 29, 1874. -
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Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution was a process of technical innovations and economic transformations that began approximately 1870 and lasted until the start of the First World War in 1914. -
FOUNDATION OF THE PSOE
In their start, The PSOE followed the marxist ideologies. It was founded by Pablo Iglesias. -
EXPROPRIATION OF MADOZ
Declared in a state of sale all rural properties, urban properties, censuses and forums belonging to the State, the clergy and any others belonging to dead hands. -
FOUNDATION OF THE CNT
The National Confederation of Labor is a confederation of unions with anarchist ideology. It was founded by the second congress of the Catalan union Solidaridad Obrera -
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Second International
The Second International was an organization formed in 1889 by the socialist and labor parties who wished to coordinate their activity. -
SPINNING MULE
The spinning mule, also originally known as a "muslin spinner," was a machine used to spin cotton and other fibers.