Western Civilization

By peserrano

  • First Colony: Virginia

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    Age of Enlightenment

  • John Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government

  • Industrial Revolution Starts

  • Treaty of Paris: End of the Seven-year War

  • Stamp Act

    British Parliament imposed the American Colonies a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.

  • Boston Massacre

    “No taxation without representation.”

  • The Tea Act

    It granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. It was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.

  • Growing of Population in Colonies from 2,000 to 2.5 million

  • Midnight Ride

  • Siege of Boston Harbor

    Opening phase of American Independence

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    First military engagement of the American Revolution

  • Battle of Bunkerhill

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Great Britain recognizes American Independence

  • Decline of Monarchy in France - Desire of Participation

  • Bastille Day

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • The Reign of Terror

    Harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution (nobles, priests, and hoarders).
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    Romantic Period

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    Mexican War of Independence

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    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Origin of Species

  • Emancipation Reform in Russia by Zar

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    Beginning of the Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln: "All persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free."

  • End of the Civil War

    Ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States

  • Assassination of Lincoln

  • Franco-Prussian War

  • Freudian Psychoanalysis

  • University Riot in Russia

  • Russia and Japan Go to War

  • October Manifesto

    Nicholas II promised to guarantee civil liberties (e.g., freedom of speech, press, and assembly)

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I.

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    Russian Civil War

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    Red Terror

    Target > Anti-Bolshevik groups, clergy, rival socialists, counter-revolutionaries, peasants, and dissidents.

  • Germany signs the Armistice at Compiègne, ending World War I.

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Stalin Takes Over

  • Wall Street Crash

  • Germany invades Poland. WWII Starts

  • Japan Surrenders. End of WWII

  • Marshall Plan

  • Martin L. King Jr.'s Speech

    “THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT”
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    Sexual Revolution

  • Berlin Wall

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Soviet Union Falls Apart