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Galileo Galilei
He is an astronomer who invented the telescope which can better discover the sky -
Charels 1 dismissed the parliament
Parliament got fed up with Charles 1 refused to give him money unless he signed the petition of rights which will weaken his power in 1628. Charles 1 refused to sign the document, so he never call parliament again for 11 years. -
John Locke
He is a great philosophy, he believed that people were born good, people have their own rights to liberty, life and property. He also thinks that government suppose to protect people's three rights, if they don't people can overthrow them. This has been used by the founding fathers of The United Sates Of Amercia. -
After the civil war
In the civil war, Charles 1 got defeated by the parliament that led by Cromwell, so he was headed. After e war, England had a period called commonwealth which means no king, the country was ruled by the parliament, Oliver Cromwell led the commonwealth, but he had no democracy he was a military dictator. -
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Neton is English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He discovered the gravity and three laws of motion. -
Glorious revolution
After Cromwell died, James 2 became the king, he learned from Charles 1, he got along with parliament, but he wasn't agree the religious policy of parliament, so the parliament asked the king of Netherlands which is William and his wife Mary. They took over the powers and James 2 escaped to Frence and he never comes back. it's called the glorious revolution. -
Montesquieu
He is a French philosophy, he lives in Paris. He strongly criticized absolute monarchy and he wants democracy. He came up with the idea separation of powers, he thinks that the best way to protect liberty is to divide the power in to three parts legislative, executive and judicial. He also thinks power should be used to check and balance each other. His theory also had a huge influence on the founding fathers of United Sates Of Amercia -
Voltaire
He was a French philosophy, he often writes staire. He thinks that people suppose to have the right to speak. He has a famous quote I will not agree with a word you say but I will defend to the death your rights to say it. -
The first African author
A guy named Olaudh published a book called auto-biography in 1789, he was the first Africans author. -
Call of State General
Louis 16 had a meeting with all the states of people about whether the second state should pay tax or not. -
Tennis Court oath
Louis 16 refused to let the third estate to go inside te meeting building, so they decided to have a meeting of their own. -
Storm of Bastille
The people of France had enough with the king and the Nobel’s, they decided to rebel, so they attacked Bastile which is a prison to get weapons. -
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March on Versailles
A bunch of women break into Versailles because of the high price of bread and forced Louis 16 to come out of the palace of Versailles and stay in Paris as a prisoner. -
The invention of Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitely on 1791, it helps the people to get the seeds out of cotton balls. It highly boosted the production of cottons. But it also make the slavery more. -
Overthrow the king
Louis 16 is not th leader of the country anymore the French people found him guiltily. -
Napoleon’s first win
Napoléon got his first won at Toulon a city of France that was attacked by British that time,he defeated the British and he was considered as a hero. -
LouisAnna purchase
Napoleon sold the huge land owned by France at North Amercia for 500 Million, it’s really cheap it doubled the size of Amercia. -
Napoleon codes
Napoleon came up with a law system we call it napoleon codes it improved the basic education of France and it made some new basic constructions to the cities and towns. But it’s not. Fair for women, women didn’t get the same rights as men. -
Battle of Trafalgar
This battle considered Napoleon’s really loss, the French and Spanish navy got defeated by the BRitish navy lead by Lord Nelson, which is the only guy who defeated Napoleon twice in his life. -
The abolition of slave trade bill
This law passed see by Parliament stoped the slave trade in British Empire, buy and cell people isn’t not allowed anymore. -
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Hundred days
After Napoleon made his biggest mistake which is attack Russia, that wore his troops out. He got defeated and he got exiled to Elba which is a small island next to Italy he escaped out of there and went back to Paris he raised an army got defeated by British and Prussian army, he got exiled again to St. Helena which where he died -
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Charles X
King Charles became the king of France after Louis 18, but the power of the king is now really limited. -
Reform bills of 1832
The Reform Bills of 1832 was made by the English Parliament, it indiceated the votes for men which hugely increased the population of voting. It also indicated the secret ballot. -
Slavery was banned
By the hard work of William Willberforce the slavery was finally banned, and there is no slavery in England and his colonies. It’s really important, because the act freed a lot of people -
The Factory Act
The Factory Act was made by the parliament in 1833, that helped to reduce the number of child labor it limited the hour they can work and the condition of their treatment. -
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Opium War
It’s a war between British and Chinese, British got mad at Chinese people for destroying all their opiums, so they declared a war against China. British won the war, so Chinese government has to sign the treaty of NanJing. Which gave away HongKong and opened ports. It’s a humiliating defeat for Chinese people. -
The Telegraph
In 1840, Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, and he created a series of code that can be sent by the telegraph, we call it The Morse Code, it made Communication so much easier. -
Revolution of 1848
Because the price for food and the financial bubble burst the people are poor and starving, so the revolution of 1848 happened. It happened in a lot of countries. -
The Great Crystal Palace exhibition
To show everyone how strong Britain is and how good are the British goods, they build a glass building called the Crystal Palace to show everyone the glorious things of the empire. -
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Crimean war
It’s a war fought between France Britain Ottoman Empire and Russia. The cause of the war is that Russia wants a warm water port which can make it’s power extend. But Britain and Ottoman Empire didn’t agree with that. Russia got defeated. -
Sepoy rebellion
Sepoys which are he Indians who fought for British started a rebellion against the British Govement. The cause of it is that they thought that British used pig and cow as gun powder. -
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Construction of Suez Canal
Suez Canal was made to connect Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea it made the travel distance between them way shorter and it made it easier for Western world to go to China, India and Japan. -
Albert dies
The husband of Queen Voictoria was dead and Queen Victoria was so sad so that she was wearing black, which kind of started th habit which when your family dead you need to wear black. -
The first telegraph cable in Atlantic
The first telegraph cable was deployed, people can now text each other across the ocean and that’s made communication much easier. -
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Meiji Era
It’s a time period where Japan decided to mordenize their army, technologies and started to trade with other countries. It made Japan’s economy better and it made established a strong army. -
Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India
This year Britain took over he control of India and Queen Victoria became the Empress of India and the Great Britain reached it’s top. -
Edison invented the light bulb
Edison invented the light bulb after so many failed tries, and this invention brought human out of the sulfur of candle and human finally got a good light source. -
Berlin conference
Berlin conference is a meeting that a lot of countries in Europe attended. It divided up the whole Africa and the funny thing is there wasn’t any African leader in the meeting. -
Invention of cars
There was a guy who’s name was Karl Benz and he put an engine on a body and that has wheels he created automobile which was really useful so that people can save a lot of time traveling. -
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress is the first group of nationalism movement in British colonies. -
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The Dreyfus afiair
It’s about when the French government figured out is a German spy in the army the first suspect is their Jutish fixer Dreyfus so they arrested him and they put him in prosion then he actually turns ou to be innocent and he went back to the army. -
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Boxer rebellion
It’s a rebellion started by the society of righteousness and it’s also called the boxer rebellion. The Chinese people started attack foreigners and Chinese Christians. It got put down by an 8-nation army lead by British, USA, Russia, France, Japan, Hungary, Italy and Germany or Prussia. They burned the garden of the Chinese emperor and it made China realized it’s left behind, -
Australia independence
At this day Australia gained it’s independence from British -
Wright brother first flight
This is the first time that human being actually flying in the sky even though it’s only 1 minute but it’s still important. -
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Russo Japanes war
It’s a sea battle between Russia and Japanese. The Japanese crushed the Russian Navy, it gained it’s power and it gained the islands northen of it. The treaty of Portsmouth ended this and T Roosevelt earned the Nobel piece reward. -
T model
Henry Ford released the Th model on this day, it was the first affordable car to everyone and he also introduced the assemble line which increased the speed of production by a lot. -
Germany introduced the Poison Gas as a weapon in WWI
On this day the German soldiers started to use poison gas as a weapon. its high effective and the ability to go across the trenches made it soon a good weapon in the war. people all started to use it and Russia got the most killed out of all the countries. -
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Battle of Verdun
It's a bloody battle between the French troops and the German troops. Germans were winning in the beginning and it destroyed a couple of villages and French front lines but the French came back and defeated them and defend Paris -
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Battle of Somme
It's a bloody war, the British got 600,000 causalities in the first couple of days. The tank was first used in the battle and it's invented by British. it helped the people to push forward a lot. It ended up to be an Alliance's victory and Germany lost it's advantage. -
Death of Rasputin
Rasputin is a bad guy that’s drunk, having relationships with all ladies and believe in a weird religion. He was put to death finally after poison, gun shot, punch and freeze. -
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The civil war of Russia
The red army led by Linin beat the white army which supported the king and they control the whole Russia and changed it to Soviet Union. -
Russia out of WWI
The Bolshevik signed a treaty with Germany to stop Russia in the war although Russia paid a huge price but it still got out of the war and has it’s own peace. -
Execution of Romanov family
The last czar and his family were killed on this day by the bolishvikes. They were told that they are taking a picture of them then a fire squad came in and shot them and killed them. -
The Treaty of Versailles
It's the treaty to end WWI. it was held in the palace of Versailles and it's led by the big four and no German officers were in the meeting. Germany ended up taking of the responsibility to start the war and it lost a lot of lands and it's military got weaken, and they have to pay bills. it causes the WWII -
The Beer Hall Putsch
On this day Hitler was in a beer hall of Munich and declared a revolution and raised about 2000 and try to take over Bavarian Government but he failed and went to prison due to that. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan was a financial help from US to WR in 1924 it helped the WR with her financial problems. -
Lenin’s death
The first leader of USSR died in 1924, so the power his legacy which is the leader of USSR will be chased by Stalin and Trotsky.1 -
Mussolini came to power
In 1925 Mussolini seized power and became a dictator because of a assassination made by his black shirts, and he gained power and formed a fascism government. -
Hitler became the chancellor
Hitler became the chancellor of the WR in 1933. this established a strong back up for his Nazi Party and his follower. And it's the first step to became a dictator/ -
The fire of Reichstag
Reichstag is like the congress of WR. It was burned out and Hitler blame the communist for doing it and he gained power and became a dictator due to this event. -
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Great Terror
The great terror or the great purge was a series of labor camps up in the north. Stalin doesn’t trust anyone so he sent politicians who he thinks have betrayed him to there. -
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The Rape of NanJing
The Japaneses attacked the city of NanJing and the Chinese army surrender so the Japaneses went in the city and started a Massacre and almost all the people that didn't get protected by the Europeans are killed. it's horrible. -
Kristallnacht
This is a event that broke out in Germany and Austria. The Jews' stores were smashed and couple hundreds of people died. -
Start of WWII
Hitler invaded Poland and this is considered the start of WWII. He took over a huge chunk of the land. His action is called lighting war, because his troops are modernized with planes trucks and tanks. -
The first killing operations
This is the first killing operation of the Jews. It took place at a small village called Chelmno. It's German occupied Poland. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
This is a battle between the Germans and the Russians. The Germans tried to take over Stalingrad and they failed. This is considered as the turning point of the war. -
D Day
D Day is called operation overlord, it's a invasion of France. The Allies planed to take over the peaches of the northern French coast and push over in to Paris. There were 5 beaches where they tried to take over and they succeed. This is consider a important event of WWII. -
Hitler's death
Hitler committed suicide after he saw that Germany had no hope to win the war. He was married to Eva before he died. There is a theory about whether he died or not. -
VE Day
VE Day is considered the end of the European war. With Karl Doenitz the next leader of Germany surrendered this is the end of the European war. -
V J Day
VJ Day is the victory in Japan. Japan surrendered after two atomic booms that were dropped in Japan. It was the end of the whole WWII -
Stalin’s death
The executioner has died, over millions of his own people was excited by him, but there were actually people crying for him. Soon the next leader claimed he is evil, so his statues were smashed. -
Independence of Ghana
Ghana gained it’s independence at this time and all the colonies are starting to gain their independence.
