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England

Enclosure Acts

1604 - 1800

Long Parliament

1640

English Civil War

1642 - 1651

Charles I Executed

1649

Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector

1649

Oliver Cromwell dies

1658

Isaac Newton's "Principia"

1687

Glorious Revolution

1688

Locke's "2nd Treatise of Government"

1689

Kay's flying shuttle invented

1704

Watt's steam engine invented

1712

Hanoverian Dynasty begins

1714

Hargreaves Spinning Jenny Invented

1764

William Pitt the Elder becomes Prime Minister

1766

Arkwright's water frame invented

1769

William Pitt the Younger becomes Prime Minister

1783

Cartwright's power loom invented

1784

Malthus' Idea on population

1798

Luddites protest against new machines

1811

Corn Laws Passed

1815 - 1846

Jeremy Bentham's ideas about Utilitarianism

1824

Reform Bills of 1832/1867/1884

1832 - 1884

Chartists

1834 - 1848

Poor Law of 1834

1834

Queen Victoria Coronation/Abdication

1838

Corn Laws Repealed

1846

Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"

1859

Gladstone becomes Prime Minister in Britain

1868

Other (Multiple)

Baroque Art movement

1600

Golden Age of the Dutch Republic

1600 - 1702

Thirty Years War

1618 - 1648

King Gustavus Adolphus dies

1642

Rembrandt paints "Night Watch"

1642

Northern Wars

1645 - 1721

The Fronde

1649 - 1652

Vermeer paints "The Astronomer"

1668

Act of Union with Ireland

1707

Act of Union with Scotland

1707

Fredrick the Great's rule

1740 - 1786

Irish Potato Famine

1740 - 1741

War of Austrian Succession

1740 - 1748

Seven Years War

1756 - 1763

Rousseau's "Emile"

1762

First Partition of Poland

1772

American Revolution

1775 - 1783

Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"

1776

Second Partition of Poland

1793

Third Partition of Poland

1795

Impressionist Movement

1800 - 1880

Literary and Artistic Realism

1800 - 1900

Romanticism

1800 - 1850

Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages

1817

Gree Independence of 1832

1832

Danish War

1848 - 1851

Early Utopian Socialist ideas emerge: Charles Fourier, Louis Blanc

1848

Marx & Engels "The Communist Manifesto"

1848

Revolutions of 1848: France, Gemany, Austria, Italy

1848

Post-Impressionism

1880 - 1900

Pasteur's Germ Theory

1885

Kipling writes "White Man's Burden"

1899

France

French Classicism

1600 - 1700

Descrate's "Discourse on Method"

1637

Louis XIV's Reign begins

1643

Versailles is constructed

1664

Baptiste Colbert made French Minister of Finance

1665

War of Spanish Succession

1701 - 1714

Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"

1748

Diderot's "Encyclopedia"

1759

Voltaire's "Candide"

1759

Treaty of Paris 1763

1763

French Revolution

1787 - 1799

Abbe Sieyes "What is the Third Estate?"

1789

Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

1789

Tennis Court Oath

1789

Civil Consitution of the Clergy

1790

Declaration of Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

1791

Committee of Public Saftey

1793

King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed

1793

Robespierre is executed

1794

Louis XVII

1795

The Directory

1795 - 1799

Napoleonic Wars

1799 - 1815

Napoleon Code

1804

Continental System

1806

Charles X Coronation/Abdication

1825

Louis Phillip Coronation/Abdication

1830

Baron Haussmann remodels Paris

1848 - 1870

Bloody June Days

1848

Louis Napoleon elected president

1848

Revolutions of 1830 in France

1848

Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat

1851

Louis Napoleon --> Napoleon III as emperor

1870

Third Republic of France

1870 - 1940

Paris Commune resists Prussia

1871

Boulanger Affair

1886 - 1889

Dreyfus Affair

1894 - 1906

Emile Zola's "J'Accuse"

1898

Russia

Peter the Great's rule begins

1682

St. Petersburg is constructed

1712

Catherine the Great begins her rule

1762

Pugachev's Rebellion

1773 - 1775

Decembrist Revolt

1825

Crimean War

1853 - 1856

Alexander II frees serfs in Russia

1861

Alexander II assassinated

1881

Germany

Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion

1609

Peace of Westphalia

1648

Maria Theresa's rule

1740

Joseph II's rule

1765 - 1790

Friedrich List's Economic Nationalism

1784 - 1846

Declaration of Pilnitz

1791

Confederation of the Rhine created

1806

Burschenscaften formed

1815

Carlsbad Decrees

1819

Zolverein Formed

1834

Frankfurt Assembly

1848

William I crowned German Emperor

1861

Bismarck's "iron and blood speech"

1862

Austro-Prussian War

1866

Augsleich

1867

Franco-Prussian War

1870 - 1871

Bismarck made chancellor of Germany

1871

Bismarck's Kulturkampf

1871

German Unification complete

1871

Congress of Berlin

1878

Italian States

Galileo put on trial

1633

Congress of Vienna

1814 - 1815

Garibaldi gives S. Italy to Cavour to join with the N. Lands

1848

Mazzini advocates for talian Unification

1848

Victor Emmanuel crowned king of Italy

1849

Cavour begins unification process in Italy

1859

Italian Unification Complete

1871