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Death of Elizabeth I
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Gunpowder plot
A group of people had an idea to kill the King by putting gunpowder under the House of Parliament and they were caught and the leader was brutally beaten. And people celebrate this date by burning effigies of Guy Fawkes -
Death of King James I
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Petition of Right
The Parliament created a group of grievances and prepared a Petition of Right. This petition was brought to the King and it was designed to protect subjects from any taxation that unauthorized by Parliament. There were two groups, the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. Link text -
Charles Declares War
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Battle of Naseby
This was the battle that confirmed who won the war. The Parliamentarians broke their siege at Oxford. The Royalists were forced into battle and go their troops ready. The battle begun and it lasted three hours. Unfortunately for King Charles the Royalists lost. King Charles fled the battle field when it was clear who won the battle, and with the battle ,the war. Link text -
Death of Oliver Cromwell
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Spinning Jenny
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Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate vowed to not leave the Tennis court. They did this because they wanted the King to create a new constitution. The King agreed and eventually they left. -
Storming of Bastille
People stormed Bastille. Bastille stored ammo for guns and Cannons. It also used to be a prison -
The Wives March
The women marched to the Kings Palace. The end result was that the King had to go back to France -
Execution of Louis XVI
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Execution of Marie Antoinette
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Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin.This made slavery more profitable -
The First Locomotive
The first locomotive journey that took place in February. Locomotives were good for England because they are faster than horses. -
The Luddites attack
The luddites destroyed some machines in a factory. Luddites were the group of people that didn’t like what was happening during the industrial revolution -
Parliament Strikes back
Parliament made a law that said that if you attack a factory you could be punished by death. -
Abolition of Child labor
Abolition of child labors laws were passed in 1833 for the factories and 1842 for the mines -
Abolition of Slavery in England
Wilberforce had helped this law come to place. Slavery was finally abolished in 1833 -
Queen Victoria takes the throne
Her father King George III died when she was 8 months -
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
Prince Albert was her first cousin. Sadly he died in 1861. They had a total of 9 children. -
The Telegraph
Samuel F.B Morse created the telegraph. The first message sent was "What hath God wrought?" He sent this in Washington, and it ended in Baltimore. -
Battle of Fort Sumter.
This battle started the war. There were almost no casualties, but until after the fight, someone blew themselves up with a cannon. Confederates won this battle. -
The battle of Antietam
This battle was the bloodiest day of the war. It only lasted one day. This battle was also the first invasion of the North, and the North wins. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This proclamation freed slaves in rebellion states. It also made the war about slavery. Sincr it made the war about slavery, it kept Britain and France from allying with the south -
Lincolns death
John wilks booth went into Fords theater to kill lincoln. Althought he killed Lincoln, his plan to kill 2 other important men failed. After he killed Lincoln he ran away and was shot dead when they found him -
14th amendment
This amendment guaranteed that everyone born in America was granted citizenship. It also granted equal protection over the law. Unfortunately, some laws were made to keep oppressing black people -
The First Telephone Call
Alexander Graham Bell was the one who made the telephone. His first call was to his assistant Thomas Watson. -
Ruther B Hayes President
There were not enough electoral votes between Hayes and his opponent, so there was a compromise. Hayes would be President, and the South won’t recieve any more actions caused by reconstruction. The south won this compromise. -
The light bulb
Thomas Edison was the one who invented the light bulb. Light bulbs improved light in the room. He also invented 999 other inventions. -
Queen Victoria dies
She died at 81. She died on the Isle of Wright. Her son Edward VII took the throne after her death -
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife
They were assassinated by a guy named Garvillo Princip. This event helped start The Great War or World War I -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire. -
Sinking of the Lustitania
Germany sinks one of USA boats. This action could be one of the reasons USA joins the War later. -
The First Battle Somme
This battle was the result of mant deaths. The germans and brtish's casualties added up to 1,000,000 -
Czar Nicholas II gets abdicated
He gets forced out of power because all of his poor decisions. -
Lenin returns to Russia and announces the April Theses.
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America Declares War on Germany
The United States declares war on Germany after many problems they gave America, like the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegraph. -
Provisional forces move against the Bolsheviks in Saint Petersburg
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Lenin closes down the Constituent Assembly.
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed
This treaty made it so Russia can withdraw from the World War. But Russia would have to give up some things like territory. -
The Romanov Family Assassination
The Royal family was assassinated. There were speculations that Anastasia was still alive, but they later found her body. -
The War Is Over
Germany and the Allies end the war with Wilson's 14 points. This meant that the war was over -
The Death of Lenin
This death then leads to a power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin.
