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It was an international conflict for the succession to the throne of Spain after the death of Carlos II -
The Seven Years' War was a series of international conflicts that occurred between early 1756 and late 1763 to establish control over Silesia and for colonial supremacy in North America and India. -
The American War of Independence was a war that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. -
On July 4, 1776, delegates from the Third Colonies, meeting in Philadelphia, drafted the Declaration of Independence for the United States of America. This declaration expresses the principles that promoted their revolt. -
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other European nations that faced supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime. -
The angry population of Paris stormed the Bastille prison, a former fortress that had become a symbol of royal despotism. Its fall into the hands of the people was the vibrant beginning of the French Revolution. -
Napoleon Bonaparte put an end to the revolutionary process with a personal regime that, invested with imperial power, tried to impose French rule and the ideas of the Revolution throughout Europe. His military genius and the superiority of his army were instruments of an excessive ambition that, finally, succumbed to the combined reaction of the European nations. -
The industrial revolution was the result of a set of technological changes that occurred in Great Britain in the mid-18th century, and which led to a profound transformation of the economy and society. -
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States of America from March 4, 1861 until his assassination in 1865. -
The term imperialism refers to the attitude, doctrine or action that leads to the dominance of one state over another or others through the use of military, economic or political force.