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It was a stage that developed after the Middle Ages throughout the 15th and 18th centuries, and it was before contemporary times. This space of time was dominated by ideals that were framed in the progress of Western society, communication, domination and reason.
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Thanks to this machine, the trade developed and the market economy rised.
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British laws which enclosed open fields and common land and created legal property rights.
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Machine that represented an important step towards automatic weaving.
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It was a process of economic, social and technological transformation that started at the second half of the 18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain and then, it spread throughout the rest of Europe.
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Is a seminal book that represents the birth of free-market economics.
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The power loom was significant because it used mechanization to automate much of the weaving process.
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It begins (more or less) in 1945 and continues to the present.
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They were the members of the political group of the French Revolution whose headquarters was in Paris
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It was a general assembly (chaired by the king) that represented the French estates of the kingdom: the clergy, the nobility, and the bourgeoisie (Third Estate).
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It was a revolution in France that started in 1789 and ended 1799.
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It was a revolution in France that started in 1789 and ended 1799.
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The Tennis Court Oath was a commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles.
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It was the first major act of violence in the French Revolution by the revolutionaries against Louis XVI and the French Monarchy. The storming of the Bastille started the French Revolution.
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It was a document from the French Revolution with human civil rights set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789.
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On the morning of October 5, 1789, a large group of women in a Paris marketplace began a revolt. They protested against the high price and shortage of bread and the deficiency of rights.
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It was the revolutionary government’s first attempt at a written constitutional document. Motivated by Enlightenment ideas and the American Revolution, it was intended to define the limits of power in the new government.
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The Constitution of 1791, the first written constitution of France, turned the country into a constitutional monarchy following the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.
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It was a political group which was made up of several deputies from Gironde.
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The First Coalition was formed between 1792-1797 when the forces of Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Prussia, Sardinia, Holland and the Netherlands felt incited to unite against France, because of the decree that assisted in recovering liberty and the execution of Louis XVIII.
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It was like the storming of Bastille but in this, the people of Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, the official residence of Louis XVI and the home of the Legislative Assembly. This attack took place of the end of the Bourbon monarchy in France.
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King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.
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It was a period in were a lot of massacres and numerous public executions took place.
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It was the highest level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire until the start of the Napoleonic Empire.
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Napoleon Bonaparte led a military coup against the French Directory in Paris.
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It was a national constitution of France, which established the form of government known as the Consulate.
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Period in were Napoleon conquered many places of Europe, to make that possible, they used new military tactics.
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Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor.
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The Treaty of Fontainebleau was a secret agreement signed on 27 October 1807 in Fontainebleau between King Charles IV of Spain and the French Emperor Napoleon.
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King of Spain in 1808 and from 1814 to 1833. Between 1808 and 1813, during the Napoleonic Wars, Ferdinand was imprisoned in France by Napoleon. Ferdinand was the son of Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma.
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Armed conflict as a consequence of the entry of Napoleonic troops into the Iberian Peninsula with the excuse of invading Portugal. It constituted a spontaneous and heroic response of the peninsular people to the Napoleonic military occupation. In an unequal armed confrontation, the people took to the mountains and into the streets, killing French people.
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The Abdications of Bayonne took place on 7 May 1808 when the French emperor Napoleon forced Charles IV and his son, Ferdinand VI to renounce the throne in his favour.
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Joseph Bonaparte was made king by his brother Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Luddites were textile workers rebelled against the introduction of machinery.
The first noticeable riots occurred in 1811. The Luddites activity emerged against a backdrop of economic struggle from the Napoleonic Wars which impacted negatively on the working conditions already experienced in the new factories. Some of the ideas and requests of the Luddites were: the introduction of a minimum wage, taxes which would enable funds to be created for workers’ pensions, etc. -
Also known as the Constitution of Cádiz and as La Pepa, was the first Constitution of Spain and one of the earliest constitutions in world history. The Constitution was ratified on 19 March 1812 by the Cortes of Cádiz, the first Spanish legislature that included delegates from the entire nation.
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Treaty between Napoleon and King Ferdinard VII of Spain. It's aim was to disentangle France from the Peninsular War, the treaty was rejected by the Spanish Council of Regency.
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Several meetings between France, Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria. They met at the Congress of Vienna. All of them wanted to stop the spread of liberal ideas and restore absolutism in Europe.
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Manifesto de los Persas is a document signed on April 12, 1814, in Madrid, by 69 absolutist deputies, led by Bernardo Mozo de Rosales.
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The congress of Vienna was the place in wich the powers that defeated Napoleon met in.
The Holy Alliance Treaty was created and signed at the Congress of Vienna by the crowned heads of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Its purpose was to re-establish the principle of hereditary rule and to suppress democratic and nationalist movements, which sprung up in the wake of the French Revolution. -
The Franco-Austrian War of 1859 was the agent that began the physical process of Italian unification.
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It was a battle in Belgium in which the British and Prussians defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte. This marked the decline of the Napoleonic Empire.
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On January 1, 1820, Lieutenant Colonel Rafael del Riego proclaimed the Constitution of Cádiz, in Cabezas de San Juan, province of Seville. The successive pronouncements that take place in Spain as of February will contribute to the success of the uprising.
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It was an armed conflict produced by the Greek revolutionaries against the dominance of the Ottoman Empire and the late assistance of various European powers such as the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of France, and the United Kingdom.
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The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium.
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The English Combination Acts forbade workers to organize for the purpose of obtaining higher wages or controlling work-place conditions. The acts were abolished in 1824 as the result of a campaign led by Francis Place and Joseph Hume. A wave of strikes following repeal aroused organized opposition from manufacturers, and a new version of the Combination Act was passed in 1825.
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It was one of the first steam locomotives with a wheel arrangement.
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Between this period some revolutions took place:
Revolutions of 1830: The revolutionary wave of 1830: this movement started in France and dispersed throughout Europe. This rebellions were against conservative kings and governments by liberals and revolutionaries.
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The Belgian Revolution was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium.
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Isabella II was the daughter of Ferdinand IV who became queen thanks to the Pragmatic Sanction that her father signed against the "Salic Law".
Her reign was divided in 5 phases:
-Regency of Maria Christina 1830-40.
-Regency of Espartero 1840-43.
-The Moderate Decade 1843–54.
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The first Carlist war was a civil war that developed in Spain between 1833 and 1840 between the Carlist, supporters of the Infante Carlos María Isidro de Borbón (absolutist regime) and the “isabelinos”, defenders of Isabel II and the regent María Cristina de Borbón, whose government was originally moderate absolutist and ended up becoming liberal to gain popular support.
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It was a German term meaning 'customs union'.
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Founded in 1834 by delegates of societies nation-wide in response to calls of Derby artisans and labourers ‘locked out’ for belonging to ‘combinations’.
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It was the constitution of Spain from 1837 to 1845. Its principal legacy was to restore the most progressive features of the Constitution of 1812 and to entrench the concepts of constitutionalism, parliamentarism, and separation of powers in Spain.
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The Constitution of 1845 replaced the more liberal constitution established in 1837. Imposed by the Moderate Party when it took control of parliament, the Constitution of 1845 drastically constricted suffrage.
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Made by Carlos Luis Napoleón Bonaparte. In this, big reforms were produced, such as: male suffrage, the definitive abolition of slavery in the colonies and the right to work.
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The Bessemer procedure was the first chemical manufacturing process to serve the mass production of steel.
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In the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France. In 1871 he unified Germany into a nation-state, forming the German Empire.
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It was an organization founded from London in 1864 that initially brought together English trade unionists, French and Italian republican anarchists and socialists. Its aims were the political organization of the proletariat in Europe and the rest of the world, as well as a forum for examining common problems and proposing lines of action. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Mikhail Bakunin collaborated on it.
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Is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics by Karl Marx.
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Amadeo I was an Italian prince who reigned as king of Spain from 1870 to 1873. He was elected by the Cortes as Spain's monarch in 1870, following the deposition of Isabel II, and was sworn in the following year. Amadeo's reign was fraught with growing republicanism, Carlist rebellions in the north, and the Cuban independence movement. He abdicated and returned to Italy in 1873, and the First Spanish Republic was declared as a result.
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Was the short-lived political regime that existed in Spain between the parliamentary proclamation on 11 February 1873 and 29 December 1874 when General Arsenio Martínez-Campos's pronunciamento marked the beginning of the Bourbon Restoration in Spain. The Republic's founding started with the abdication as King on 10 February 1873 of Amadeo I. On 11 February of the same year, the republic was declared by a parliamentary majority made up of radicals, republicans and democrats.
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Alfonso XII of Spain was king of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885. After a revolution that deposed his mother Isabella II from the throne in 1868, Alfonso studied in Austria and France. His mother abdicated in his favour in 1870, and he returned to Spain as king in 1874 following a military coup against the First Republic.
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The Second International was an organization formed in 1889 by the Socialist and Labor parties that wished to coordinate their activity. Unlike the First International, there was no General Council to direct it, but the parties were independent to apply the policy they decided in their respective States.
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A socialist state is a sovereign state constitutionally dedicated to the establishment of socialism.
