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Galileo Discovers Planets
Through the invention of telescope, Galileo discovered that planets revolve around the sun. This sparked the beginning of questioning science, religion and government. -
Battle of Edgehill
This was the first battle of the english civil war in which forces loyal to the english parliament (commanded by Robert Devereux). Of the 26,000 men involved in the battle, 1,000 died and 2,000 were injured. -
The tennis court oath
This signified the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI. It also inspired a wide variety of revolutionary activity in the months afterwards. -
Call of the Estates General
King Louis XVI calls forth the Estates General together for the first time in a long time. Featuring the clergy, the noblemen and the test of France together. -
Meeting of the Estates General
The French economy was in chaos by the late 1780s. The decades of war had drained the treasury, and the country was nearly bankrupt. To raise maoney, Louis XVI decided that the people, including the French aristocrats, should pay more taxes. But the aristocrats blocked Louis XVI's plan. In desperation, Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General to address the economic crisis. -
Tennis Court Oath
After being removed fro the the estates general, the third estate forms the National Assembly. They then swear to the tennis court saying that they will no leave. -
Storming of the bastille
This event inspired other French people to take up arms against the king and the nobility. Storming of Bastille became a nationlist symbol, because they helped share a sense of belonging to a nation. It became a central part of their national myth. -
Abolition of feudalism
A small group of deputies prepared a suprise move in the assembly with the abolishment of feudalism. With legal privilege replaced by legal equality, it proceeded to map the principles of the new order of France. -
March in Versailles
Persian market woman lead to March of versailles to protest about scarcity and high price of bread. -
Reign of terror
Many people were horrified by some brutal acts that were taking place and by the execution of the king and the queen. Fearing opposition within the country, revolutionary leaders began a crackdown that became known as the Reign of Terror. -
Napoleon crowned as emperor
Bonaparte chose to become emperor of France, the civilians that voted also agreed. They held a ceremony for him at a nearby cathedral where the pope gave him the crown, which was also like giving him power over the church. -
Invasion of russia
This invasion started with Napoleon's troops crossing over a river to attack Russia. Bonaparte thought that by keeping The Russians away from Britain that they could give peace to France. While the French invaded the land Russians used the scorched earth tactic and burned villages, towns, and crops to keep the French troops from living off the land. -
The hundred days
This was the period between Bonaparte's return to exile (March 20, 1815) and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII (July 8, 1815). There was lots of campaigns to try to keep Napoleon in rule, but he was declared an outlaw and had been defeated. -
Reform Bill
At the beginning only male people could vote and one thing they did was to relax property requirements so men of the middle class could also vote. The Reform Bills were a series of proposals to reform voting in the British parliament. -
factory act
Factory Act to improve conditions for children working in factories. Young children were working very long hours in workplaces where conditions were often terrible. There is where the child labor took place. People made children to work long hours in the factories. -
New Poor Law
the new poor law was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Whig government of Earl Grey. It was meant to reduce the cost of looking after the poor and impose a system which would be the same all over the country. -
The treaty of Nanjing
The Treaty of Nanking was a peace treaty which ended the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and Qing Dynasty in China. China paid the British an indemnity, ceded the territory of Hong Kong, and agreed to establish a “fair and reasonable” tariff. -
Opium War
It started when the Chinese government confronted foreign merchant ships and demanded their surrender and their illegal cargo. The battles that happened due to the opium that was being trate to the Chinese in a illegal way because it was converted in a kind of drug to them, took place at the sea. They battled at the sea. -
crystal palace and the great exhibition
the crystal palace and the great exhibition was a memorable and influential cultural event and an international exhibition. It showed off all the new innovations coming from the British empire. It was meant to be a global display of art and manufacturing. -
The treaty of Kanagawa
On March 31, 1854, the first treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. The Treaty was the result of an encounter between an elaborately planned mission to open Japan and an unwavering policy by Japan's government of forbidding commerce with foreign nations. The outcomes of the treaty included opening trade with American vessels in some Japanese ports, protection for American sailors and vessels in Japan, and the formation of a US consulate in Japan. -
The mourning period
For 12 months and a day, women wore a palm black dress which covered the entire body, including a cap. After one year women could switch their dress fabric. They were forbidden from socializing during this 28-month period. -
The London Necropolis
Parliament passed the act creating the London Necropolis and National mausoleum company, a name later shortened to the London Necropolis company. -
The Battle of Antietam
This battle remains the bloodiest single day in american history. A decisive engagement that halted the confederate invasion of Maryland, a durance that was regarded as one of the greatest confederate threats to Washington D.C. -
Meiji Period
The Meiji Era was the 44-year period of Japan's history from 1868 to 1912 when the country was under the rule of the great Emperor Mutsuhito. Also called the Meiji Emperor, he was the first ruler of Japan to wield actual political power in centuries. The main goal of the Meiji Restoration was to rapidly modernize Japan to a point of equality with other major powers. -
Phonograph/ fist phone
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant, Thomas A Waston from the next room. They used electricity to transmit sounds over distance. -
The Automobile
A german mechanical engineer Karl Benz designed and built the world’s fist practical automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. Many others came up with various other versions, but these early cars were not very practical for spread use. -
Fist Sino Japanese War
The first sino Japanese war was fought between the Qing Empire and the Empire of Japan, primarily over influence of Korea. The Chinese sent in troops to Korea. The Japanese saw this as China breaking the Tientsin Convention, the war began. This War broke out in Korea, following the Tonghak rebellion and the Chinese government's involvement at the request of the Korean king. -
The first radio
Macaroni has primarily been created with developing the first radio in 1895 using electromagnetic waves. His ideas took shape in 1895 when he sent a wireless Morse Code message to a source more than a kilometer away. Nikola Tesla made many contributions to the invention of the first radio. -
The first Moving pictures
The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film, showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it's just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie. -
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The main cause of the Russo-Japanese War was the territorial claims both countries made on Manchuria and the Empire of Korea. The Russians wanted at all costs an ice-free port in the region, which would provide access to the Pacific ocean. -
The March revolution
Russia was once again on • the edge of a revolution.
As the new year began
and conditions in Russia • continued to worsen, the Russian people clearly wanted a change. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates Russian throne
Shortly after Rasputin's death, Czar Nicholas Il is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change. -
The Abandonment of the Constituent Assembly
Lenin promised to hold elections for a Parliament to be known as the Constituent Assembly. Lenin renamed the Bolshevik Party as the Communist Party in order to win wider support. Lenin was not prepared to share power with anyone. This was the first step in setting up a Communist dictatorship. -
The October Revolution
Armed Bolshevik of the political party seized power in the capital of Russia, Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). Russia was now the first communist country in the world. After the revolution, Russia exited World War I by signing a peace treaty with Germany called the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. -
Joseph Stalin’s Rise to Power
Joseph Stalin served on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Stalin had continued to move up the party ladder, and in 1922 he became secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, a role that enabled him to appoint his allies to government jobs and grow a base of political support. He also became dictator of the Soviet Union. -
The Death of Nicholas and His Family
Nicholas Il and his wife and the five
children were tricked into going into the cellar of the
house. Then the Bolsheviks lined up a firing squad and fired
continually and brutally at them until they were dead.
apparently using their bayonets on some of them who
didn't die quickly enough. The bodies were doused with sulfuric acid and buried in a shallow grave in a forest outside the city. -
Reform act of 1928
The Act widened suffrage by giving women electoral equality with men. There was little opposition in Parliament to the bill and it became law on 2nd July 1928, and as a result, Women over 21 years old gained the right to vote.