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The Suez Canal lis completed in 1669
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In the 1700s an Agrigarian Revolution began that changed agricultural practices
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In 1760 James Watt, a scottish engineer, emproves teh steam engine, which also improved the cotton industry
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In 1764 James Hargreaves invents a machine called the Spinning Jenny.
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The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and took several decades to spread to other western nations
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An invention called the water-powered loom was invented to keep up with the spinning jenny
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In 1799 Richard Trecithick's created the first high-powered steam engine. Also in 1804 his steam engine runs on an industrial rail line for the first time
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In 1807 Robert Fulton built the first Paddle-Wheel steam boat called the Clermont
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The congress of vienna meets to arrange a final peace settlement
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In the 1830s liberals overthrow the Bourbon monarch, Charles X , and establish a constitutional monarchy
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In 1839 the opium war begins in China
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The Revolution erupts in Europe , beginning with the overthrow of Loui Philippe
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Punch Magazien compares an Irish and an American family through a comic in an article called, "Emigration, a Remedy."
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A republic called the Second Republic was set up in 1848. It had a single legislature that was elected by universal male suferage, and the president was also chosen by them.
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Charles Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (Louis-Napoleon) won a resoundin victory in the second republic
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1865 marks the surrender of of the confederate forces,which means the end of the civil war
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dual monarchy was created in Austria-Hungary during the year 1867
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In 1870 married women finally earn the right to own some property.
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German unification is achieved under William the first in 1871
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the constitutuion of the new imperial journey that Otto Von Bismark began in 1871
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The third republic gained a republican constitution in 1875
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Europe's first birth control clinic was founded in Amsterdam in 1882.
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In 1887 America finally controled the sugar industry on the Hawaiian Islands
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Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters founded the womens social and political union.
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a massive procession of workers went to the winter palace in st. petersburg to present a petition of grievances to the czar. Troops opened fire killing hundreds. This is refered to as Bloody Sunday and caused many workers to go on strike.
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