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Period: 1492 to
Modern History
Starts with the discovered of America by Christopher Colombus and the final it is in th French Revolution -
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Enclosure Acts
It was a series of laws were passed by the British Parliament to authorise this process, which led to a concentration of land ownership. This reorganisation of land benefited the big landowners, who were able to produce more and increase their profits. -
John Kay's flying shuttle
It is the mechanisation process started, which increrased the speed of production and made it possible to weave wider fabrics and spining machines, which significantly increased productivity. -
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First Industrial Revolution
It was a process in which it was developed from the middle of the 18th century starting from the United Kingdom. As a consequence of this process, a series of technological changes took place that had an immense impact on societies. -
James Watt's steam engine
first practical steam engine, becoming one of the driving forces of the Industrial Revolution -
Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
It was an investigation into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, or simply The Wealth of Nations, is the most famous work of Adam Smith and is considered the first modern book on economics. -
Invention of the power loom
It is the last step which dramatically increased fabric production and owered its cost. -
Estates-General meeting
Meeting in Versailles and was chaired by the king and made up of reprensentatives of the nobility, clergy and the Third Estate- -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Which recognised the rights, individual freedoms and equality of all citizens in law and taxation and it is approved by abolished feudalism. -
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Contemporary History
Starts with the French Revolution and continue i the actually. In the Contemporany History the society, the economic and the indrustialitation evolved. -
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French Revolution
The French Revolution it is a revolionarity sucess in more phases. The revolution starts because in France the peope have hungry and the lower class don't have right to pertence the upper class. -
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Constitutional monarchy
The first phase of the Revolution, the moderate bourgeoise tried to reach an argument with the king and the privileged classes make France a constitutional and parlamentary monarchy -
Tennis Court Oath
It was a commitment of union between the 577 deputies of the third estate not to separate until providing France with a Constitution, facing the pressure of the King of France Louis XVI. -
Storming of the Bastille
It is the people of Paris supported the Assembly's proposals and the revolution spread to the countryside, where nobles' homes were burnt (the Great Fear). -
Women's March on Versailles
They protested against the shortage of bread and demanded the king sing the decree abolishing manorialism and they equipped with weapons and tolds. -
First French constitution
Based on the separation of powers , national sovereignty and legal equality, though the king reserved the right veto. -
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Girondin Convention
The more moderate bourgeoisie, controlled the Republic ad it was elected by universal male suffrage. -
Storms of Tuileries Palace
Imprisioned the royal family ahd a republic was declared and the second phase of the Revolution began. -
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Social Republic
The betral by the king and the military invasion led to the revolt by the common people. A republic was declared and the second phase of the Revolution began. -
War of the First Coalition
It is known as the First Coalition to the first coordinated effort of the European monarchies to contain the French Revolution. -
Reing of Terror
Was organised that forced all citizens to join the army. Freedoms were susupended and people opposed to the government were either imprisoned or revolutionarity courts ordered their execution by guillotine. -
Execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoniette were convicted of treason and executed. In impose to the king's death, monarchies in Europe formed an absolutist coalition against France. -
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Jacobin Convention
The most radical sector of the bourgeoisie, endorsed the demands of the popular sectors and seized power. The Revolution had now entered its most extreme phase. -
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Conservative Republic
The moderated bourgeoisie took back control of the Revolution and it entered its third and fnal phase. -
Coup of 18th Brumaire
The coup d'état of Brumaire 18 of the year VII in France refers to the coup d'état on that date of the French republican calendar. -
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The Consulate
It was a period of autocratic and authoritarian rule, Napoleon aspired to put an end to the political instability of the Revolution, consalidate some of the revolutionary principles and promote economic recovery through a government that represented the interests of yhe bourgeoisie. -
Constitution 1800
It is the new political system did not include the separation of the powers or declaration of rights. -
Napoleon crowned emperor
Began his conquest of Europe in 1803 and was crowned emperor by the Pope in 1804. -
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The Napoleonic Empire
Napoleon began his conquest of Europe in 1803 and was crowned emperor by the Pope in 1804. -
Battle of Austerlitz
After France's victory over Austria and Russia, the French troops seemed unstoppabled. -
Treaty of Fotainebeau
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was signed on October 27, 1807 in the French city of Fontainebleau between the respective plenipotentiary representatives of Manuel Godoy, valid of the King of Spain Carlos IV of Bourbon, and Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French. -
Invasion of Spain and Joseph Bonaparte crowned king
In 1808 the French invaded Spain and Jospeh Bonaparte, one of the emperor's brothers , was made king. -
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War of Independence
It was a warlike conflict developed between 1808 and 1814 within the context of the Napoleonic wars, which pitted the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against the First French Empire, whose claim was to install Napoleon's brother on the Spanish throne , José Bonaparte, after the abdications of Bayonne. -
Abdications of Bayonne
The abdications of Bayonne took place on May 5 and 6, 1808 at the Marracq castle in the French city of Bayonne. It is the name by which the successive resignations of the kings Carlos IV and his son Fernando VII to the throne of Spain in favor of Napoleon Bonaparte are known. -
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Luddite movement
It is the first workers to protest in England (early C.19th) and a happened a violent destruction of machinery (responsible for low wages and unemployment). -
1812 Spanish Constitution
The Spanish Constitution of 1812 or Constitution of Cádiz, popularly known as La Pepa, was promulgated by the Spanish General Courts meeting extraordinarily in Cádiz on March 19, 1812. -
Treaty of Vaençay
It is an agreement signed in December 1813 in the castle of Valençay in the French town of the same name (today in Indre), by which the Emperor Napoleon I offered peace and recognized Ferdinand VII as King of Spain, as a result of the defeats suffered in the War of Independence and, especially, the progressive deterioration of the French army and the morale of the soldiers due to the continuous harassment of the Spanish and English troops and the Spanish guerrillas. -
Congress of Vienna
It was an international meeting held in the Austrian capital, convened with the aim of reestablishing the borders of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and reorganizing the political ideologies of the Ancien Regime. -
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The Restoration of absolutism
It is the fight that several European monarchs gave against the ideas of the French Revolution and, especially, against the government of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
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Reing of Ferdinand VII
he was king of Spain between March and May 1808 and, after the expulsion of the "intruding king" José I Bonaparte and his return to the country, again from May 1814 until his death, except for the brief interval in 1823 in which he was dismissed by the Council of Regency. -
Manifiesto de los Persas
It is the denomination by which a document signed on April 12, 1814, in Madrid, by 69 absolutist deputies, is known. -
Holy Alliance Treaty
It was the pact that they signed in September 1815, three months after the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna, at the initiative of Tsar Alexander I, Russia, Francisco I of Austria and Frederick William III of Prussia. -
Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon's flight from Elba and the restoration of the empire could not be tolerated by the allies, who were trying to crush this threat against European peace. The defeat at Waterloo forced Napoleon to his second abdication, after which he was finally exiled at Sta Helena. -
Pronuniamiento of Rafael del Riego
It was the liberal revolution that took place in Spain, the beginning of the 1820 Revolutions. After the Spanish War of Independence, the liberals asked for the return of Fernando VII, they asked him to sign the Constitution of 1812. -
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Greek War of Independence
It was the armed conflict produced by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1830 against the rule of the Ottoman Empire and the late assistance of various European powers such as the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of France and the United Kingdom. -
Holly Aliance intervetion: Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
They were a French military force sent to Spain in 1823 after their agreement at the Verona congress. The objective was to end the Liberal Triennium and return the Spanish throne to Fernando VII. -
Abolish of the Combination
They were English laws that initially prohibited and later regulated workers' associations and strikes. -
Stephenson's Steam locomotive
It was used a steam engine to generate continuous motion of wheels. The new transport system could carry more passengers and goods in less time and at a lower cost. This improvement boosted trade and helped create a large domestic market. -
Revolutions of 1830
It was a revolutionary process that began in Paris, France, with the so-called July Revolution or the Three Glorious, revolutionary days in Paris that brought Louis Philippe I of France to the throne and opened the period known as the July Monarchy. -
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The Age of the revolutions
Period that opens the Contemporary Age, from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century, a period in which a good number of significant revolutionary movements took place. -
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The Belgian Revolution
In the Belgian Revolution of 1830 the inhabitants of the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands rose up against the superiority of the northern provinces, mostly Protestant. -
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Reing of Isabella II
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
It was a civil war that developed in Spain between 1833 and 1840 between the Carlist, supporters of the Infante Carlos María Isidro de Borbón and an absolutist regime, and the Isabelinos or Cristianos, defenders of Isabel II and the regent María Cristina de Borbón, whose government was originally a moderate absolutist and ended up becoming a liberal to gain popular support. -
Zolloverein
The Cust.oms Union of the States of Germany was a customs organization made in 1834 by means of which tariffs were abolished among the members of the German Confederation, with the exception of Austria -
Grand National Consolidated Trades Union
It was an early attempt to form a national trade union confederation in the UK. -
1837 Constitution
The Spanish Constitution of 1837 was promulgated in Spain during the regency of María Cristina de Borbón. -
1845 Constitution
The Spanish Constitution of 1845 was the supreme norm during the effective reign of Isabel II, which replaced the Constitution of 1837 the supreme norm during her minority age. -
Revolutions of 1848
They are historiographical names of the revolutionary wave that ended the Europe of the Restoration. -
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French Second Republic
It was a popular insurrection that took place in Paris from February 23 to 25, 1848. It forced King Louis Philippe I of France to abdicate. -
Invention of the Bessemer converter
Its made it possible to manufacture steel (an alloy of carbon and iron). This was a more flexible material, ideal for constructing machinery, tools, building and public works. -
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Italian Unification process
Italian Unification was the historical process that throughout the nineteenth century led to the union of the various states into which the Italian peninsula was divided, for the most part linked to dynasties considered "non-Italian" such as the Habsburgs or the Bourbons. -
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German Unification process
The unification of Germany was a historical process that took place in the second half of the 19th century in Central Europe and that ended with the creation of the German Empire on January 18, 1871, bringing together various previously independent states. -
First International
It was an organization founded from London in 1864 that initially brought together English trade unionists, French and Italian republican anarchists and socialists. -
Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital
The ultimate aim of this work is, in effect, to discover the economic law that presides over the movement of modern society ", that is, of capitalist, bourgeois society. -
Start of the monarchy of Amadeo I of Savoy
The reign of Amadeo I was the first attempt in the history of Spain to put into practice the form of government of the parliamentary monarchy ("popular monarchy" or "democratic monarchy", as it was called at the time), although it ended with a resounding failure since it only lasted two years (from January 2, 1871, when he was proclaimed King Amadeo I by the Constituent Cortes, to February 10, 1873, when he presented his abdication). -
Proclamation of the 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, when the pronouncement of General Martínez Campos led to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. -
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Reign os Alfonso XII
He was King of Spain between 1874 and 1885. Son of Queen Isabel II and King Consort Francisco de Asís de Borbón, the beginning of his reign put an end to the First Republic and gave way to the period known as the Restoration. -
Second International
It was an organization formed in 1889 by the Socialist and Labor parties who wanted to coordinate their activity.