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It is nearly imposible to set an exact date of when the Enlightenment began, because it was an age where culture and Religion became more important to people.
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The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transport, mining, and technology occured.
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The French Revolution lasted 10 years and happend when France went from a monarchy ruled by King Louis XVI to a republic ruled by the people.
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The National Assembly was constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General. It was ended in Sept 1791 to be replaced by the new Legislative Assembly
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The Tennis Court Oath was a result of the growing angry because of the Third Estate in France in the face of King Louis XVI's financial irresponsibilities.
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This document writen by the National Assembly and is in the French constitution of 1791 as a preamble.
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The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which resulted in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Republic of Haiti.
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On August 22nd, 1791, the blacks of the North entered into a rebellion, killing all whites they met and setting the plantations on fire. The French, however, quickly captured Bouckman, and beheaded him, bringing the rebellion under control.
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Reign of Terror lasted from September 1793 until the fall of Robespierre in 1794. It was an age where many people where killed by the guillotine because of Robespirres cruel way of ruling France.
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Napoleon had become the First Consul of France, using a coup d’état.
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The 1801 Constitution of Haiti,was made known because of the Haitian Revolution that had begun in 1791.
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The Peninsular War was a military conflict between France and the allied powers of Spain.
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Congress of Vienna, which assembled in 1814–15 and reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
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Boxer Rebellion started in 1898, where groups of people in northern China began to band together into a secret society known as "Righteous and Harmonious Fists" called the "Boxers" by Western press.
