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Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille for lampoons of the Regency.
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The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven states.
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Flashpoint of the French Revolution
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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on May 10, 1857.
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From November 1884 to February 1885, European countries met in Berlin to divide Africa among themselves to colonize the continent.
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The first global war begins in Europe.
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The first atomic bomb is used by the United States
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Symbolic event which represented the end of the Cold War
