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Queen Elizabeth’s l death
She died at the age of 69 after a reign of 45 years. Some people think she died of blood poisoning. She died at Richmond palace after become a legend in her life. -
James l becomes king
After queen Elizabeth l dies, James l takes her place as king. He moved south immediately, and would have liked his two kingdoms to be completely united. But before he become king of England, he was king of Scotland. -
The gunpowder plot
The gun plot was a plot against king James the I and the parliament. A group of Catholics were going to blow up parliament on the 5th of November when all the parliament officials and the king would meet together. Someone soon told the king about it and when they went to go check they found Guy Fawkes there, ready to light the powder. -
John Locke was born
John Locke, (born August 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England—died October 28, 1704, High Laver, Essex), English philosopher whose works lie at the foundation of modern philosophical empiricism and political liberalism. -
Hobbs death
Thomas Hobbs died December 4, 1679 from a stroke. He was an English philosopher, scientist, and historian, best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan. -
The glorious revolution
This is when king William and queen Mary become rulers of England. They were able to become king and queen because: Mary was the daughter of James ll and they were both Protestant, which parliament loved. -
John kay
John Kay was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his namesake, who built the first "spinning frame.” He was brown on June 17, 1704 in Walmersley, Bury, United Kingdom. -
Death of king louis XIV
Death of Louis XIV, 1715 1st September 1715. After a week of agonising pain, four days before his 77th birthday, Louis XIV died in Versailles just after 8.15 am on 1 September. He had been king for 72 years, the longest reign in the history of France. -
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor who lived and worked in Lancashire, England. He invented the spinning Jenny. He was born on December 13, 1720 in Oswaldtwistle, United Kingdom. -
James cook
He claimed New Zealand and part of Australia for Great Britain in 1769 and 1770. He called Australia New South Wales. -
Oliver Evans
Oliver Evans was born on September 13, 1755. He was an American inventor, engineer, and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans to build steam engines and an advocate of high-pressure steam. -
Mary Wollstonecraft was born
Mary Wollstonecraft, married name Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, (born April 27, 1759, London, England—died September 10, 1797, London), English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. -
Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" and the "Father of the American Factory System.” He set up textile factories in New York from memorizing the plans from England. He was born on June 9, 1768 -
Napoleon was bron
On August 15, 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born. He was born in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. He was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the de facto leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804. -
The tennis court oath
The third estate claimed to be a national assembly. They went and locked themselves in one of the king's many tennis courts and did not want to come out until the king gave them a written constitution. They stayed there for a couple of days until the king finally gave “in” on what they wanted. He did not actually give them a written constitution, he only said that to please them. -
The storming of the bastille
Bastille was a prison for political people. It was not in use during the storming of the bastille. This day was also the starting of the French Revolution. Men and women both came for gunpowder. 18 died, 23 were wounded, and 7 guards were killed. -
The declaration of rights of man and citiznes
They made the declaration of rights of man and of the citizens. They were promoting things they wanted in the new France: Liberty, Property, and Resistance of men. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, and the people would create the laws. -
The bread march
The price of bread went way too high. Too much for a family to be able to buy. So a big group of women marched to the castle of Versailles all the way from paris. The palace guards were overwhelmed. They forced the king and his family to go and live in paris. The king and his family still lived in a very rich and luxurious house but they were under house arrest. The king also lost a great deal of his power. -
Samuel F.B. Morse
Samuel F.B. Morse was born on August 27, 1791. He was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age, Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. -
Matthew Calbraith Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry was a commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War. He played a leading role in the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. -
Olaudah Equiano
He died in March 31, 1797. Olaudah Equiano, known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from, according to his memoir, the Eboe region of the Kingdom of Benin. Enslaved as a child in Africa, he was taken to the Caribbean and sold as a slave to a Royal Navy officer. In 1789 he was the first black man to write his own auto-biography. -
Napoleon took over
The Government was in distress so napoleon launched a Coup d' etat (take over) and it was sucsessful. -
Dr. David Livingstone
David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian. -
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria was born on May 24, 1819 in London, United Kingdom. She ruled over England and ruled for almost 64 years. The longest in British history. -
Albert, Prince consort
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the consort of Queen Victoria from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Albert was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. -
Napoleon dies
In October 1815, Napoleon was exiled to the remote, British-held island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. He died there on May 5, 1821, at age 51, most likely from stomach cancer. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur ForMemRS was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. -
The “iron horse” race
The race on August 28, 1830, between Peter Cooper's diminutive Tom Thumb locomotive and the horse-drawn Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad car demonstrated the superiority of steam power. -
abolition bill of slavery
The abolition bill of slavery was passed on August 1, 1834. act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. -
Sakamoto Ryōma
Sakamoto Ryōma was a Japanese samurai and influential figure of the Bakumatsu and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period. He was a low-ranking samurai from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an active opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate after the end of Japan's sakoku isolationist policy. -
Sir Henry Stanley
Stanley was a Welsh-born American journalist and explorer, famous for his search for David Livingstone and his part in the European colonisation of Africa. Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands on 28 January 1841 in Denbigh, Wales. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885. -
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was an English political activist. She is best remembered for organising the UK suffragette movement and helping women win the right to vote. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
The Berlin conference
The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, also known as the Congo Conference or West Africa Conference, regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. -
Start is WWI
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914) was the main catalyst for the start of the Great War (World War I). After the assassination, the following series of events took place: July 28 - Austria declared war on Serbia. -
First 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 in a collection of skirmishes around the Marne River Valley. It resulted in an Entente victory against the German armies in the west. -
Rasputin dies
On the night of December 29, 1916, Yussupov and Pavlovich lured Rasputin to Moika Palace in St. Petersburg. The would-be killers first gave the monk food and wine laced with cyanide, however, when Rasputin seemingly failed to respond to the poison, they shot him at close range and left him for dead. -
Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the throne
During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. -
Russian revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war. -
Tsar and his family die
In Yekaterinburg, Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty. Crowned in 1896, Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve among a people desperate for change. -
WWI ends
In 1918, the infusion of American troops and resources into the western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies' favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies on November 11, 1918. World War I was known as the “war to end all wars” because of the great slaughter and destruction it caused. -
Stalin takes power
Grigory Zinoviev successfully had Stalin appointed to the post of General Secretary in March 1922, with Stalin officially starting in the post on 3 April 1922. -
Lenin dies
Lenin died on January 21, 1924 at the age of 53 years. Although some doctors suggested that the origin of his health problems was neurosyphilis, the autopsy findings were consistent with a severe atherosclerosis. This process might account for his recurrent ischemic strokes. -
Wall Street crashes
Just five days after nearly 13 million shares of U.S. stock were sold in one day in 1929, an additional 16 million shares were sold this day, called “Black Tuesday,” further fueling the crisis known as the Great Depression.