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The first Africans slaves are brought to the colonies.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony legalizes slavery.
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*The Great Wall of China is finished.*
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The first slave rebellion takes place in Virginia.
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The first riot among slaves, Stono Rebllion, in South Carolina.
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The first encyclopedia is published in Paris, France.
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*The British Empire in India begins.*
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*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart tours Europe as a six year old prodigy.*
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A runaway slave, named Crispus Attucks, is first person killed in the American Revolution, at the Boston Massacre.
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Jean Baptiste DuSable is the first resident of Chicago.
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The Constitution of the United States is signed.
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*The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille.*
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Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Law.
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*Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed in France.*
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*The Rosetta Stone is discovered in Egypt.*
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Ohio creates "Black Codes" to counteract the rights of free blacks.
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Lewis and Clark head west to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
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*The United Kingdom abolishes slavery (England).*
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The United States outlaws the slave trade.
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At the Battle of Tippecanoe, Indigenous peoples, led by Tecumseh, fight and lose a major battle opposing white settlements in the area.
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Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders after a devastating loss at the Battle of Waterloo.
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*Mexico abolishes slavery.*
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The Erie Canal opens, making New York the "Empire State".
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Nat Turner leads a rebellion of enslaved people in Virginia. It is the deadliest slave rebellion in history.
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Cherokee people are forced out of their homeland in Georgia, along the Trail of Tears.
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The Supreme Court frees the enslaved people from the "Amistad".
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The Mexican-American war begins.
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The Compromise of 1850 allows Utah and New Mexico to either permit or ban slavery.
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The election of U.S. Republican president, Abraham Lincoln leads southern states to secede.
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President Lincoln makes the Emancipation Proclamation, stating that all "persons held as slaves...shall be free."
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Confederate General Robert E. Less surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.