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Joseph Ignace Guillotine
Was a French Physician who proposed a better way to kill people in France. Although he didn't invent the guillotine it is named after him, a man named Antoine Louis invented it. Guillotine was against killing people and didn't think the executions were necessary but for some reason they named a killing machine after him .
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- Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a french lawyer and politician has many influence on the French Revolution he was a member of the Jacobins club, he opposed the the death penalty and advocated the abolition of slavery. But he died a terrible death, he tried to commit suicide but failed, Well he tried to kill himself with a pistol but managed to shatter his lower jaw,although some eyewitnesses claimed that Robespierre was shot by Charles- Merda. And it is said that his last word was thank you sir. -
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The treaty of Paris
Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War also known as the french and indian war. -
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Slavery in Ethiopia
Yes I know Africans are mostly known as slaves not holding slaves. But here is a country who actually held slaves. Slavery was fundamental to the social, political and economic order of medieval Ethiopia. This salves came from Nilotic Shanqila. Barya which literally means slave. Ethiopians enslaved Arabs as well as some other tribes of Africa. The largest slavery-driven polity in the Horn of Africa was the Ethiopian Empire. Some of the slaves became part of Ethiopia after the slavery. -
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The stamp act
George Grenville rose in Parliament to offer the fifty-five resolutions of his Stamp Bill. Basically people had to have stamps on every paper and those stamp cost money. Complicatedly Grenville rose in Parliament to the resolutions of his Stamp .The bill was passed on approved by the Lords and two weeks later ordered in effect by the King. And then the people in America were like WHAT we are not getting taxed because of a stamp! This was one of the reason for the American revolution. -
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Actual Americans at the American revolution.
So what happens to the Red Indians which America originally belonged to? They didn't have any say over the American Revolution when other people from other countries were fighting to take their land. Indian matters were reserved to the federal government and Congress was charged with the duty of dealing with all Indian matters. Their land rights were taken away, they were cheated and lied to, they either assimilated, or went onto reservations on lands deemed worthless to American citizens. -
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Bengal famine
Was a famine that affected the lower Gangetic plain of India. The famine is estimated to have caused the deaths of 10 million people, reducing the population to thirty million in Bengal, which included Bihar and parts of Odisha. The famine occurred or was made more severe largely due to the British East India Company's policies in Bengal. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1770 -
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Boston tea party
The boston tea party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. You can imagine what happens after that the British were just like oh no you just did not do that and this is one of the reasons for the American Revolution. BTW Tea is one of the 3 only reasons I make through each day- just saying please don't take points off for this!
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Battle of York Town
General George Washington learned that Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis' army was encamped near Yorktown, VA. After discussing options with his French ally, Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Ponton de Rochambeau, Washington decided to quietly move his army away from New York City with the goal of crushing Cornwallis' isolated force. So they won and this marked the end of the American revolution.
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- Calling together of the Estates General
This was the first meeting since 1614. A general assembly representing the French estates, all the nobility 2nd class and third class met in this meeting. King Louis XVI to propose solutions to his government's financial problems.
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George Washington in office
Washington was elected president a choice of the electors in the elections and He oversaw the creation of a strong, well financed national government that maintained neutrality in the wars raging in Europe. He was appointed by John Adams. He was preceded by James Wilkinson. -
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- Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate which rebelled against the nobles, even though they were forbidden to meet, they made a way and started holding the meeting at a tennis court and this group was called the National Assembly after they separated from the kings and nobles and started meeting alone -
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Bill of rights
The Bill of rights is a name for the ten amendments to the United States constitution. Proposed anti federalists and agreed to give people certain personal freedoms. James Madison wrote them. The bill of rights contributed a lot to the American revolution. We still use some of the amendments. -
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Crazy love story Napoleon + Josephine
Napoleon falls madly in love with a beautiful widow Josephine and she becomes his mistress and he asks her to marry him she was like "meh" I guess whatever I will marry him, so she did.Three days after their wedding he goes to Italy to fight. And Josephine started an affair with a handsome lieutenant.Napoleon hears about this when he was in Egypt and gets heart broken, starts affair with a wife of a junior officer No lovers of Joséphine are recorded, but Napoleon had affairs with several women. -
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The Peninsular war
This was a major blood bath, sometimes funny how people enjoy killing each other. So Napoleon sends troops to occupy Portugal in order to close it off to British trade. Over 500,000 people died!
http://peninsularwar200.org