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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a period of time where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect culturally conditions of the times. -
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
He was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. His leadership led to the free black state of Haiti, -
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French and Indian War
Name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756 the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War. -
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Seven Years War
It involved most of the great powers. The war was driven by the antagonism between the British Empire and the Bourbons (in France and Spain), resulting from overlapping interests in their colonial and trade empires. -
Britain takes over India
India was colonized by Britain in 1757. The Industrial Revolution was beginning and Great Britain needed raw materials and resources. Therefore, economic profit was a huge driving force behind England's actions regarding India. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
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Watt's Steam Engine
It was the next great step in the development of the steam engine. It was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure. -
Invention of the Spinning Jenny
The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning frame. It was invented c. 1764 by James Hargreaves. -
Invention of the Water Frame
The water frame is the name given to the spinning frame, when water power is used to drive it. Both are credited to Richard Arkwright who patented the technology in 1768. -
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte was a military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution. -
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. -
Storming of the Bastille
Bastille was captured, French Revolution begins. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. -
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Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution was a period of conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which resulted in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic. -
Whitney's Steam Engine
The modern version of the cotton gin was created by the American inventor Eli Whitney in 1794 to mechanize the cleaning of cotton -
Britain outlaws slave trade
The Slave Trade Act was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the long title "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade". -
Mexican Independence
Mexico declared independence in 1810 but Spain did not recongize that independence untill September of 1821. -
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Congress of Vienna
The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. -
Battle of Waterloo
The defeat at Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days' return from exile. -
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Invention of the Telegraph
Went through many changes but mainly became popular in 1835 when Samuel Morse created a way to send messages through wires called the "Morse code" -
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Brazilian Independence
The Brazilian Independence comprised a series of political events occurred in 1821–1823, most of which involved disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Kingdom. It is celebrated on September 7. -
Dissolution of the Janissaries
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Afrikaners' Great Trek
The Great Trek was an eastward and north-eastward migration away from British control in the Cape Colony during the 1830s and 1840s by Boers -
Greek Independence
The war for Greek Independence against the Ottoman Empire lasted from 1821 to 1830. -
End of Atlantic Slave Trade
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended the atlantic slave trade. -
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Opium Wars
War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government’s refusal to permit the importation of opiuminto its territories. The victorious British imposed the onesided Treaty of Nanking on China.
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The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China, lasting from 1856–1860 -
Revolutions in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Italy
They were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe that began in France, with the French Revolution of 1848, and soon spread to most of Europe and parts of Latin America. The uprisings represented a demand for more liberalism and democracy, and were led by a coalition of middle classes and workers, who faced off against the aristocracies. -
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Commodore Matthew Perry in Japan
In advance of his voyage to the Far East, Commodore Perry read widely amongst available books about Tokugawa Japan. His research even included consultation with the increasingly well-known Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold, who had lived on the Dutch island of Dejima for eight years before retiring to Leiden in the Netherlands. -
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Taiping Rebellion
The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. -
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Crimean War
It was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire, French Empire, British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was a long running contest over territories of the declining Ottoman Emprie. -
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Sepoy Rebellion
The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs; also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. -
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Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigation around Africa. -
Emancipation of the Russian Serfs
The emancipation of the russian serfs was the first and most important of liberal reforms effected during the reign of Alexander II of Russia. The reform amounted to the liquidation of serf dependence previously suffered by peasants of the Russian Empire. In some of its parts, the serfdom was abolished earlier. -
Meiji Restoration
The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism. -
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Imperialization of Africa
Imperialization in Africa was a process of invasion, attack, occupation, and annexation of African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period, between 1881 and World War I in 1914. -
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion took place in China between 1898 and 1901, and was an uprising involving opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity. -
African National Congress
An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it changed its name in 1923. Though it was banned and its leaders were jailed for many years, it eventually helped bring majority rule to South Africa. -
Overthrow of Qing Dynasty
By the early 20th century, mass civil disorder had begun and continuously grown. The Wuchang Uprising succeeded on October 10, 1911, which led to the creation of the new central government, the Republic of China -
Panama Canal
One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the canal had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and treacherous route via either the Strait of Magellan or Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America. -
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Aswan Dam
Construction of the High Dam became a key objective of the Egyptian Government following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, as the ability to control the flood waters, and harness the hydroelectric power that it could produce, were seen as pivotal to Egypt's industrialisation