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Expansion of rural industry in Europe
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War of the Spanish Succession
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Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg
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Newcomen develops the steam engine
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Attendance at elementary schools mandatory in Prussia
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Government run foundling homes established
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Last appearance of the bubonic plague in western Europe
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Townsend introduces four-year crop rotation
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Kay invents the flying shuttle
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War of the Austrian Succession
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War of the Austrian Succession
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Montesquieu publishes The Spirit of Laws
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Illegitimacy explosion
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Diderot & d'Alembert publish the Encyclopedia
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Harwicke Act abolishes secret marriages
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Seven Years' War
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Coudray publishes the Manual on the Art of Childbirth
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Rousseau publishes The Social Contract and Emile
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Louis XV orders Jesuits out of France
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Hargreaves invented the cotton-Spinning Jenny
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Arkwright invents the water frame
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Encyclopedia Britannica is published
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Watt patents the steam engine
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Paine publishes Common Sense
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Smith publishes Wealth of Nations
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Crompton combines Spinning Jenny w/water frame
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Industrial Revolution
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Cartwright invents the power loom
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Calonne proposed a revamping of the economic system of France
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Frebch Revolution
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Estates General convened at Versailles
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National Assembly is formed
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Tennis Court Oath
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Great Fear
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Storming of the Bastille
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Equality in taxation in France
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National Assembly issues Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
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Women march on Versailles
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National Assembly confiscated church lands and property
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Constitutional monarchy & a national church
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Legislative Assembly convenes
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Royal family attempts to flee France
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Declaration of Pillnitz
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New Constitution for France
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Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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The gap in technology was widened
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France declares war on Austria
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Parisian mob storms the Tuileries & takes Louis XVI prisoner
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September Massacres
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France is declared a republic
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Whitney invents the cotton gin
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Reign of Terror
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Economic controls are created to help the poor in France
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Louis XVI sentenced to death
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France declares war on Britain, Holland, and Spain
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Sruggle between Girondists and the Mountain
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Committee of Public Safety
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Price controls instituted in France
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Thermidorian reaction
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Death of Robespierre
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The Directory writes a New Constitution
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Directory rules France inefficiently and ineffectively
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Jenner performs first smallpox vaccination
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Napoleon defeated Austrian armies
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Thomas Malthus writes the Essay on the Principle of Population
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Second Coalition is formed
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Combination Acts
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Napoleonic era
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Napoleon overthrows the Directory
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Voters approve Napoleon's constitution
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Bank of France is founded
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Treaty of Luneville
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Concordat with Pope Pius VI
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Treaty of Amiens
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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Battle of Austerlitz
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British slave trade abolished
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Treaties of Tilsit
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Fulton drives the steamboat Clermont
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Strike of Manchester cotton spinners
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Stael publishes On Germany
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Napoleon invades Russia
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Russia, Prussia, Austria, & Britain form the Quadruple Alliance
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Napoleon abdicates & is exiled to Elba
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Bourbon monarchy is restored
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Congress of Vienna meets
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Napoleon escapes Elba
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The Holy Alliance is formed
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Second Peace of Paris
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Carlsbad Decrees
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“Battle of Peterloo”
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Congress of Troppau
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Revolution in Spain and the kingdom of Two Sicilie
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Austria crushes a liberal revolution in Naples
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French armies restore the Spanish regime
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Combination Acts repealed
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Delacroix paints the Massacre at Chios
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Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII in France
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The first railroad in Great Britain
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Stephenson's Rocket is the first important railroad
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Greece gains independence from the Ottoman empire
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A revolution begins in France
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Charles X repudiates the Constitutional Charter
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Comte publishes the System of Positive Philosophy
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Hugo publishes the Hunchback of Notre Dame
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The Great Reform Bill
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The Factory Act
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Telegraph is developed & Chartist movement is born
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The Mines Act
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Great Potato Famine in Ireland
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Ten Hours Act
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Revolutions break out in Italy, France, Hungary, Austria, Russia, and Prussia
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Frankfort assembly selects Frederick Wilhelm as emperor
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Navigation Acts are repealed
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Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor Napoleon III