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The Enlightenment
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Bacon's Rebellion
An armed rebellion in 1676 led by Virginia settlers and Nathaniel Bacon rebelled against the decree of Governor William Berkeley. The colony's disorganized border structure, combined with gathering objections (including disallowing Bacon to be a part of his own fur trade with the Native Americans), helped to influence a rebellion against Berkeley, who had failed to see to the difficulties of the colonists concerning their safety. -
The High Enlightenment
The High Enlightenment revolved around the talks and publications of the five French “philosophes,” which consisted of Francois-Marie “Voltaire”, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, Comte de Buffon and Denis Diderot. With all those happenings aside, the most important thought going around in this time was the idea that everything in the entire universe could be explained and recorded fairly well. -
The French Revolution
The French Revolution was a powerful time of social and political mayhem in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. The reasons behind the French Revolution were purely enthused by liberal and extreme ideas. The revolution greatly changed the course of modern history, setting off the global decrease of monarchies, swapping them for republics and democracies. Through the Revolutionary Wars, it created a movement of global battles that stretched from the Caribbean to the Middle East. -
Establishment of Australian Native's Association
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
An event that is extensively recognised to have inspired the occurrence of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot dead along with his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg by a Serbian nationalist. This occurred in Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1914. Franz Ferdinand was the nephew of the Emperor Franz Josef. He was also the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
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Battle of Fromelles
This was the first important battle fought by Australian soldiers along the Western Front. The war was fought against a powerful German position, the “Sugar Loaf salient.” The attack was supposed to be a manoeuvre to direct German infantry away from Somme, but ended up in the Germans being chased further down south. A seven-hour preparative bombardment ruined the hope of any surprise attack and, initially, proved unsuccessful in pacifying the defenders who had managed to entrench themselves.
