MKD 1750-1900 (Era #3)

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1756-1763
7 Years War (French and Indian War)
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1767
Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)
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1776
Decl. of Independence (American Revolution)
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1776
Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (capitalism)
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1789
French Revolution Begins
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1796
Jenner’s smallpox vaccine
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1804
Haitian Independence
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1807
British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade
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1807-08
Janissary Revolt
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1815
Congress of Vienna
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1820s
Independence in Latin America
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1825
Erie Canal opens
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1839
1st Opium War in China
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1839-1878
Tanzimat Reform
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1848
Marx & Engles’ *The Communist Manifesto*
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1848-1849
European Revolution
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1853
Commodore Perry “opens” Japan
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1857
Sepoy Mutiny
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1861
Russian “frees” serfs / ends serfdom
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1861-1865
U.S. Civil War
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1861-1870
Italian Unification
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1863
U.S. Emancipation Proclamation
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1869
Suez Canal Opens
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1871
German Unification
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1885
Berlin Conference (“Scramble for Africa”)
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1888
Brazil ends slavery (last in Americas)
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1893
New Zealand grants women suffrage
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1896
Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)
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1898
Spanish-America War (US acquires Phillippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)
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1899-1902
Boer War (British in control of S Africa)