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Gunpowder plot aftermath
After Guy Fawks was hanged his remaining body along with other people involved were stuck on sticks and placed where the public could see it. This served as a warning. Present day, every November 5th people celebrate. They do so by burning effigies of Fawks to celebrate that he failed. -
Gunpowder plot
Guy Fawks was a part of a group of people that wanted to kill the king and parliament. They came up with a plan to blow up the king and parliament during a meeting using 2 tons of gunpowder under parliament building. There were rumors of this that got to the king and Guy Fawks was caught in the action and was jailed and executed. -
The beginning Of The English Civil War
James 1 of England believed that he was chosen by God and has all power. Because of this he did not want to share any power with parliament and began to have problems with them. He died and his son, Charles 1, was worse. Parliament was fed up and made him sign the petition of rights. Even though he signed it he ignored it, he was mad and only called them when he needed more money. It began the war of the Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads. -
How the English Civil War Ended
Oliver Cromwell dies and his eldest son takes over and restores England. He got along with parliament and was named the merry monarch. For awhile things were at peace until Charles 2 needed money. The same process happened with parliament refusing to give him money so he got it in secrecy from Louis of France to convert to Catholicism in exchange. He dies and his son flees and William and Mary of orange to invade and take over. The days of absolute rule in england were over. -
The Enlightenment ideas
The agents of change were merchants. New core values were the following: Individualism, freedom, change, religious tolerance, self-government.The only people that stopped it were the Catholic Church and absolutists kings because they did not want to lose power. -
The Age Of Reason
The scientific revolution convinced many about the power of reason. The scientific method led to discoveries about the physical world. They wondered if they could use the same mindset to find out more about the human nature, -
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary was ahead of her time and argued that woman were not included in the enlightenment slogan, ’’free and equal’’.she believed that men and woman should be equal. Her arguments were often scoffed at even with ‘’enlighten men’’. -
Lady Mary Wortley Montague And inoculation
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Publicized inculcation but this was a old Chinese method of making a small incision and adding a small dose of the illness as a way of immunity, hoping that you receive a mild version and don’t end up dying -
Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah wrote his auto-biography in 1789, the first slave narrative and the first book published in England that was written by an African.Olaudah’s principal reason for writing his narrative was to evoke compassion for the miseries suffered by Africans in the slave trade. -
The estates general meeting
Calling the Estates-General. The Estates-General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems. It ended when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution -
The tennis court oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge taken by Third Estate deputies to the Estates-General. It was sworn in a Versailles tennis court on June 20th 1789. There they pledged not to disband until the nation had drafted and implemented a constitution. -
The storming of the bastille
The Storming of the Bastille was an event that occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789, when revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the prison known as the Bastille. The seized it to take all the gunpowder for guns to defend themselves. -
Woman’s march on versailles
a group of mostly women marched from Paris to Versailles. They were frustrated that the royal family seemed to live in a world of luxury completely separate from their own. The group killed several palace guards and demanded that the king live in Paris amongst the people. Left with no choice, the royal family was forced to follow the mob back to Paris where they were placed under the watchful eye of the new National guards. -
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
The cotton gin made slavery more effective, Separated the seeds from the cotton more quickly and efficiently than a person could. and therefore slaves more valuable, because they could get through a lot more cotton more quickly. If not for the cotton gin, it has been theorized that slavery might have gone away slowly on it’s own without needing to fight in the civil war. -
The reign of terror
The Reign of time during the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place which was also how king Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette were both beheaded. The leader of public safety maxmilien robesperre was also killed by guillotine which is what supposedly ended the reign of terror. -
The creation of interchangeable parts by Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts, popularized in America when Eli Whitney used them to assemble muskets in the first years of the 19th century, allowed relatively unskilled workers to produce large numbers of weapons quickly and at lower cost, and made repair and replacement of parts infinitely easier. -
Napoleon crowns himself emperor
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. Instead, he placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned Josephine Empress -
The abolition of slavery
In 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Bill was finally passed. It became illegal in Britain to buy and sell people.
Parliament gave a round of applause to Wilberforce who had tears running down his face. The politician William Wilberforce had worked very hard to have that happen. -
The luddites
The Luddites were a secret oath-based organisation of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery. The group are believed to have taken their name from Ned Ludd, a weaver from Anstey, near Leicester. In addition to smashing machines, Luddites set mills ablaze and exchanged gunfire with guards and authorities dispatched to protect factories. -
The battle at Waterloo
Napoleon manages to muster a force and returns to France to reestablish himself as emperor for the Hundred Days, but he is decisively defeated at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18. Four days later, Napoleon abdicates for the last time. He is exiled again, this time to Saint Helena, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. -
The 100 days
The Hundred Days, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815. -
Queen Victoria
This era was named after her. She was born may,24, 1819 and ruled for 63 years. At first she was not very popular but she won them over with her character. She also started trends like etiquette and wearing white at weddings. -
Child labor began
Lack of sleep and an averaged eighteen hour work day in Britain and in the U.S. contributed to mistakes and injuries.Some children in Britain and in the U.S. were mentally and physically abused by their supervisors, and their safety was neglected by factory owners who cared only about well being. -
Post Mortem photos
This was a way to remember the dead and this practice began shortly after 1839. They took pictures of the dead propped up and dressed up in nice clothing -
The opium war
Europeans were trading in china. opium from India was smuggled and sold in china. gradually people in china started becoming addicted to the drug. This became a problem. The emperor sent out a soldier to do whatever necessary to stop it. China attacked first which made the Europeans angry and they went to war. China lost and had to give up part of Hong Kong. -
The potato famine
The poor people of Ireland relied on the potato to keep them from starving but when a disease broke out( brought over by foreigners) the potato’s began to rot. As a result many people died or moved away to seek no more starvation. -
The crystal palace and the great exhibition
he Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition which took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851. -
The great stink of 1858
A heat wave in London in July and August of 1858 exacerbated the smell of untreated human and industrial waste that filled the River Thames.The problem had been getting worse for some years, with an ageing and inadequate sewer system that emptied directly into the Thames. This horribly tainted river water was also the main source of drinking water and led to multiple outbreaks of water borne illnesses. -
Queen Victoria and her husbands death
Queen Victoria became obsessed with her husbands death and had all the servant lay his clothing everywhere and she wore black until she died after he died. In her casket she was buried with things that involves Albert -
The Meiji revolt
the political revolution in 1868 that brought about the final demise of the Tokugawa shogunate (military government)—thus ending the Edo (Tokugawa) period -
Alexander graham bell and his telephone
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, from the next room. He did this by using electricity to transmit sound over distance. -
Thomas Edison and the lightbulb
It turned out that baking a piece of coiled cotton thread until it was all carbon was the winning filament. Inside a glass bulb that was almost a vacuum, it was able to stay lit for 13.5 hours. This was how he figured out how to harness the power of the lightbulb. -
The Berlin conference
European leaders met in Berlin to discuss regulating European colonization and trade in Africa. It was also an effort to prevent conflict between European nations. No African were invited. -
The Boxer rebellion
An anti-foreign society called the Society of Righteous and Harmonious, called the “Boxers”,emerged to protest the rising Western presence in China. They were a strong force and went on a rampage, killing foreigners, Chinese Christians, and Chinese who had ties to foreigners.China paid $333,000,000 in damages and had to permit military forces in Peking and Tientsin. -
The boer war
Boers refused to grant political rights to foreigners, including British.Britain tried to make Boer territory part of British empire.In 1899, war broke out.Boer forces were outnumbered.The British defeated the Boers in 1902.Boer territory became the self-governing Union of South Africa -
The wright brothers first flight
The Wright Flyer made the first sustained flight by a manned powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on 17 December 1903. Invented and flown by Orville and Wilbur Wright, in kitty hawk North Carolina. it marked the beginning of the pioneer era of aviation. -
Russo- Japanese war
Russia and Japan both had designs on Manchuria and Korea. They went to war because of the land. Japan destroyed Russian fleet off coast of Korea and won major battles on land although Russians turned the tide on land.Westerners horrified that Japan had defeated a major Western power. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie were Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.Bosnia is at the time was resented by some Bosnians and neighbouring Serbia. As they move through the city in a motorcade Gavrilo Princip opens fire and both are killed.
Austria-Hungary accuses Serbia of being responsible, which lead the European powers into war. -
Battle of the Marne
The First Battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914. It was fought around the Marne River Valley. It resulted in an Entente victory against the German armies in the west. -
Somme the bloodiest battle
The 141-day Battle had more than a million casualties, including about 400,000 dead or missing. It opens on 1 July 1916 as Allied forces aim to relieve pressure on the French, by attacking the Germans hundreds of kilometres to the northwest, around the Somme river.When it is over, the Allies have advanced only a few kilometers. -
The assassination of Rasputin
Rasputin's influence over the tsarina threatened the empire So his assassination was plotted. Prince Felix Yusupov managed to lure Rasputin to his palace and, together with four conspirators, murdered the Siberian in cold blood. He died from drowning after being unsuccessfully poisoned, shot three times and beaten. He was buried in secret to avoid desecration -
The Menshevicks call for nation-wide revolution in Russia
They called for an immediate revolution and transfer of all power to the soviets, which made any re-unification impossible. The Mensheviks wanted to make their movement less elitist than the Bolsheviks. in the belief that it would attract the support of the uneducated workers and peasants. -
Lenin
Ruling by decree, Lenin's Sovnarkom introduced widespread reforms confiscating land for redistribution among the permitting non-Russian nations to declare themselves independent, improving labour rights, and increasing access to education. -
The Russian revolution
The reasons why the Russian revolution came about is because of peasant, worker, and military dissatisfaction with corruption and inefficiency within the czarist regime, and government control of the Russian Orthodox Church. -
America enters the world war
Germany attacked British merchant vessels with u-boat submarines. This pushed the United States to enter the war, angered by the torpedoing of neutral ships in the Atlantic and vessels carrying US citizens. Washington then declares war on Germany on 6 April. -
The Execution of the Romanov family
The Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 17 July 1918. -
Armistice
The Armistice was the ceasefire that ended hostilities between the Allies and Germany on the 11th of November 1918. The Armistice did not end the World War I, but it was the agreement which stopped the fighting on the Western Front while the terms of peace were discussed. -
Stalin
Under Stalin's rule, state power increased to the point of totalitarianism. A series of economic goals to grow industry and improve the economy in the Soviet Union. The main goals were to improve industry, transportation, and farm output.