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1756-1763
7 Years War (French & Indian War)
1767
Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)
1776
Declaration of Independence
1776
Smith writes Wealth of Nations
1789
French Revolution begins
1798
Jenner's smallpox vaccine
1804
Haitian independence
1807
British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade
1807-1808
Janissary Revolt
1815
Congress of Vienna
1820s
Independence in Latin America
1839
1st Opium War in China
1839-1878
Tanzimat Reforms
1848
Marx & Engles' The Communist Manifesto
1848-1849
European Revolutions
1853
Commodore Perry opens Japan
1857
Sepoy Mutiny
1861
End of Russian serfdom
1861-1865
U.S. Civil War
1861-1870
Italian Unification
1863
U.S. Emancipation Proclamation
1871
German Unification
1885
Berlin Conference
1893
New Zealand grants women suffrage
1896
Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)
1898
Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)
1899 -1902
Boer War (British gain control of S Africa)
1905
Russo-Japanese War
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution
1911
Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)
1914-1918
World War I
