Period 3: Age of Revolutions to World War I (All Dates Reviewer)
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1717
Abraham Darby smelts iron using partially burnt coal
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1733
John Kay’s flying shuttle
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1764
James Hargreaves’s spinning jenny
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1769
Richard Arkwright patents the water frame
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1774
James Watt patents the first steam engine
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1776
Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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1779
First iron bridge completed in Shropshire, England
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1785
Power loom invented by Edmund Cartwright
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1789
Jeremy Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
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1790
Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
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1793
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
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1798
Thomas Malthus’s Essay on Population
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1807
British Parliament votes for the end of the slave trade
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1807
First passenger train line
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March 15, 1815
Napoleon escapes from Elba
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May 15, 1815
Battle of Waterloo marks end of the Hundred Days
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1815
Napoleon sent into exile on St. Helena
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1817
David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy
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1819
Peterloo Massacre in Great Britain
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1819
Combination Acts ban union activity
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1820
Troppau Protocol (agreement among Eastern Great Powers to oppose revolutionary states)
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1820
Rebellion in Spain put down with French support in 1824
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1821
Beginning of Greek revolt
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1821
Death of Napoleon
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1823
Revolt in Naples
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1824
Charles X becomes King of France
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1825
Decembrist revolt in Russia
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1829
George Stephenson invents the early locomotive, the Rocket
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1830
Charles X issues July Ordinances
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1830
July Revolution topples the last French Bourbon monarch
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1830s
Cholera outbreak in Europe
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1831
Charles Darwin begins five-year voyage that will take him to the Galápagos Islands
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1832
Sadler Committee looks into child labor in Great Britain
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1832
Great Reform Bill
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1833
Slavery banned within the British empire
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1833
Factory Act
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1833
English Poor Law
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1834
Robert Owen establishes the Grand National Consolidated Union
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1835
David Friedrich Strauss’s The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
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1835
Daguerreotype (early form of photograph) invented
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1837
Beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria
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1838
Beginning of the Chartist movement
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1839
First in a series of Opium Wars between Great Britain and China
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1840
Napoleon’s body brought back to France for reburial
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1840
Joseph Proudhon writes the anarchist tract What Is Property?
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1842
British gain control over Hong Kong
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1846
Repeal of the Corn Laws
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1846
Irish potato famine
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1847
Liberia established as independent African republic
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February 1848
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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February 1848
Overthrow of Louis Philippe
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March 1848
Unrest in various German states
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March 1848
Nationalist revolts break out throughout Austrian Empire
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March 1848
Charles Albert of Savoy goes to war against Austria
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May 1848
Meeting of the Frankfurt Parliament
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1848
“June Days” uprising in Paris
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December 1848
Louis Napoleon elected president of the Second Republic
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1851
Louis Napoleon stages coup against the Second Republic Crystal Palace Exhibition
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1852
Development of the safety elevator
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1852
David Livingstone begins exploring the African interior
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1852
Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
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1852
Establishment of the Second Empire by Napoleon III
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1854
Charles Dickens publishes Hard Times
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1854
Start of the Crimean War
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1856
Development of Bessemer process for manufacturing steel
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1856
Synthetic dyes developed
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1857
Flaubert publishes his masterpiece, Madame Bovary
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1857
Indian Rebellion
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1858
Jews allowed to enter the British Parliament
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1859
Darwin’s On the Origins of Species
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1859
France and Piedmont-Sardinia go to war against Austria
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1859
Garibaldi invades the Kingdom of Two Sicilies
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1861
Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first King of Italy
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1861
Alexander II emancipates the serfs
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1863
Opening of the Salon des Refusés (art rejected by the jury of the Official Paris Salon)
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1864
Establishment of the First International in London
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1864
Prussia and Austria go to war against Denmark
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1866
Italians seize Venetia from Austria
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1866
Austro-Prussian War
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1867
Establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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1867
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
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1869
Suez Canal completed
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1869
John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
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1870
Doctrine of Papal Infallibility
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1870
Rome becomes capital of Italy
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1870
Franco-Prussian War
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1870
French Third Republic created
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1871
Establishment of the German Empire
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1871
End of the French Second Empire
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1871
Paris Commune
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1871
Darwin’s The Descent of Man
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1874
Typewriters invented
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1874
Claude Monet paints Impression: Sunrise
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1875
Constitution establishes the French Third Republic
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1876
Serbia becomes independent
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1876
Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone
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1877
Thomas Edison’s phonograph
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1877
Queen Victoria becomes empress of India
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1877
Russo-Turkish War
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1878
Congress of Berlin
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