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East India Company established
A group of merchants who had incorporated themselves into the East India Company were given monopoly privileges on all trade with the East Indies. -
Petition of Rights
It was a constitutional document. It was official in 1628 and was signed by Charles I. It was supposed to make the kind weaker. It’s important because it was supposed to help the people with civil rights. -
Natural Rights
John Locke was another prominent Western philosopher who conceptualized rights as natural and inalienable. Like Hobbes, John believed in a natural right to life, liberty, and property. -
The English Civil War
It was when the royalist and roundheads went against each other in war. It all started when the king’s neglect and ignorance of parliament and its control and power. -
Restoration
In 1660, General George Monck met with Charles II and arrange to restore him in exchange for a promise of amnesty and religious toleration for his former enemies. -
Age of Reason
A time where new ideas and new things; new people gave new ideas. It was also a time when man began to use his reason to discover the world, casting the superstition and fear of the midieval world. -
Intellectual movement
It was the movement of the 17th and 18th century in which ideas concerning reason, nature, and man were synthsesised into a word view that gained wide assent and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. -
James Cook land in Botany Bay (Australia)
Captain James cook was a British explorer. He is well known in Australia for being the first European to achieve contact with the eastern coastline of Australia. In 1770 Cook arrived by boat in Botany Bay, Sydney. -
March of the Women/ The Bread of March
It’s when the women couldn’t afford the bread or the people selling the bread would jack up the prices. -
French Revolution “Bourgeois phase”
The French Revolution was a period of time in France when the people overthrew the monarchy and took control of the government. -
Estate General
Was the first big move for the FR it’s main reason that was called for session was because it was to vote on whether or not to have taxes. -
The National Assembly
It was the start of the French Revolution, a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General. -
The Brunswick Manifesto
I know that the Brunswick Manifesto was supposed to protect the royal family and threaten the people of France, and that it ended up causing many wars when it was supposed to make the people submit. -
Act of Union with Ireland
In 1800 the Act of Union with Ireland brings 100 Irish MPs into Commons, most of whom are sympathetic to abolition. But it was established in 1801. -
Irenland joined the United Kingdom
Legislative agreement uniting Great Britain (England and Scotland) and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor of France
The first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years.Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. -
Slave Trade ( when it was abolished)
Wilberforce became interested in the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the 1780s. He Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and entered the statute books. Nevertheless, although the Act made it illegal to engage in the slave trade throughout the British colonies, trafficking between the Caribbean islands continued, regardless, until 1811. -
The Luddite Rebellion
The Luddite uprising began in Nottingham in November 1811, and spread to Yorkshire and Lancashire in early 1812. The Luddites' main tactic was to warn the masters to remove the frames from their premises. -
Invasion Of Russia “The Big Blunder”
Napoleon lead his grand army to Europe into Russia but Russia avoided Napoleon. So the Russians retreated and burned everything in their path. When Napoleon reached the destination Russia was abandoned so he goes back home. -
The Battle of Borodino
The Russian army technically loses but retreats and stays intact. The French keep field but heavy loses.when Napoleon loses he loses everything even his throne. -
Bill in Parliament
Michael Sadler introduced Bill of Parliament and wanted to limit the hours for the children. Which proposed limiting hours in all
mills to 10 for persons under the age of 18. -
Slavery Abolition Act
In British history act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. -
New Poor Law
The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. In the wake of the Royal Commission's report came the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales. -
Victoria becomes Queen of England
Victoria comes to the throne after the death of William IV.
Victoria became queen at the age of 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV. She reigned for more than 60 years. -
Slavery Abolished in British Empire
Slaves in the British empire started a period of apprenticeship, during which they were obliged to work without pay for their former owners. Abolitionists campaigned against the system and in the Caribbean there were widespread protests. When the apprenticeship period ended in 1838, over 700,000 slaves were freed in the British Caribbean. Plantation owners received about £20 million in government compensation for the loss of their slaves. The former slaves received nothing. -
Treaty of Nanjing (China)
China paid the British an indemnity, ceded the territory of Hong Kong, and agreed to establish a "Fair and reasonable" tariff. The treaty was supplemented in 1843 by the British Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue, which allowed British citizens to be tried in British courts and granted Britain any rights in China that China might grant to other countries. -
The June Days
This event is basically about a a brief and bloody civil uprising in Paris in the early days of the Second Republic. Worker groups in Paris rose up in insurrection. They said that the government had
betrayed the revolution, workers wanted a redistribution of wealth. -
2nd French Republic
In this event its basically about how the Second Republic adopts new Constitution. And wear they also elect a new president which is Louis Napoleon. -
Crystal Palace Exhibition
On October 15, 1851 The Crystal Palace was created. The Crystal Palace of 1851 was the largest enclosed space in the world at the time, 14,000 visitors from around the world saw stuffed elephants and Tunisian bazaars among other items brought back from around the British Empire. -
The Treaty of Kanagawa (Japan)
Concluded by representatives of the United States and Japan at Kanagawa, it marked the end of Japan's period of seclusion. Perry then left Japan in order to give the government a few months to consider its decision. The Treaty of Kanagawa was the first of the treaties signed between Japan and other Western countries in the 19th century. -
Queen VIcttoria's Husband death
Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, dies aged 42. Albert's premature death from typhoid plunged Victoria into a long period of mourning and withdrawal from public life, during which a republican movement gained popularity. Albert had been both a restraining and a guiding force on his headstrong wife. -
The Suez Canal “creation”
An international team of engineers drew up a construction plan, and in 1856 the Suez Canal Company was formed and granted the right to operate the canal for 99 years after completion of the work. On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation. -
The British East India Company *Ended*
Beginning in the early 19th century, the company financed the tea trade with illegal opium exports to China. The original company faced opposition to its monopoly, which led to the establishment of a rival company and the fusion of the two as the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies. -
the Berlin Conference with Africa
The Berlin Conference can be best understood as the formalization of the Scramble for Africa. This British coined the term sometime in 1884. -
Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japan)
All Treaties between Japan and China having come to an end as a consequence of war, China engages, immediately upon the exchange of the ratifications of this Act, to appoint Plenipotentiaries to conclude with the Japanese Plenipotentiaries, a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation and a Convention to regulate Frontier Intercourse and Trade. The Treaties now subsisting between China and the European Powers shall serve as a basis for the said Treaty and Convention between Japan and China. -
start of the Boxer Rebellion (China)
By the end of the 19th century, the Western powers and Japan had forced China's ruling Qing dynasty to accept wide foreign control over the country's economic affairs. In the Opium Wars, popular rebellions and the Sino-Japanese War, China had fought to resist the foreigners, but it lacked a modernized military and suffered millions of casualties. -
Queen Victoria dies
Victoria dies and is succeeded by Edward VII. Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight at the age of 81. As queen-empress she had ruled over almost a quarter of the world's population. Although narrow-minded in some respects, she established firm precedents for a hard-working 'constitutional monarch', operating as a head of state above the fray of party politics. Her death, coming so soon after the end of the 19th century, was truly the end of an era. -
Archduke Assasination
Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated right after his wife was shot in front of him. -
German troops crossed the border into Belgium
In the first battle of World War I, the Germans assaulted the heavily fortified city of Liege, using the most powerful weapons in their enormous siege cannons to capture the city by August 15. Leaving death and destruction in their wake, including the shooting of civilians and the execution of a Belgian priest, whom they accused of inciting civilian resistance, the Germans advanced through Belgium towards France. -
Rasputin downfall
A group of conspirators, including the czar's first cousin, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, and Prince Felix Yusupov, invited Rasputin to Yusupov's palace and fed him wine and cakes laced with cyanide. Though Rasputin eventually became rather drunk, the poison seemed to have no effect. -
Women's day
On International Women’s Day, demonstrators and striking workers – many of whom are women – take to the streets to protest against food shortages and the war. Two days later, the strikes spread across Petrograd. -
Nicholas ll abdicated the throne
The army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were first held at the Czarskoye Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train.
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany.
Leading their respective delegations were foreign ministers Leon Trotsky of Russia, Richard von Kuhlmann of Germany and Count Ottokar Czernin of Austria. -
Germany begins its final offensive of the war. World War 1
The Saint Michael Offensive, named after Germany's patron saint, begins after a five-hour 6,000-gun artillery bombardment as 65 divisions from the German 2nd, 17th and 18th Armies attack the British 3rd and 5th Armies along a 60-mile front in the Somme. -
Germany signs the Armistice at Compiègne, ending World War I.
The First World War ended when an armistice was signed between the Germans and the Allies. At that point, while Germany had no realistic hopes of winning the war. How unfavorable were the terms of Germany's surrender in WW1.The Armistice was an agreement to stop fighting and was signed between France, Britain, and Germany bringing four years of fighting in the First World War to an end.
