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Use Cases
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1850-1900
Events
1851
1851
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Great Exhibition- Grand display of the products of the Industrial Revolution, especially the British innovations [3.1]
1854
1854
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Start of the Crimean War, military conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France and Sardinia
1856
1856
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Development of the Bessemer Process for manufacturing steel.
1859
1859
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Darwin’s Origins of Species was considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
1859
1859
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France and Piedmont-Sardinia go to war against Austria.
1861
1861
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Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first King of Italy.
1861
1861
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Alexander the 2nd, the emperor of Russia, emancipates the Serfs
1863
1863
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Opening of the Salons.
1864
1864
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Louis Pasteur- Germ Theory- Increased medical advances in fighting diseases allowed for Europeans to further cement their control of areas which were inaccessible due to the danger of diseases in the region. [3.5]
1866
1866
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Italians seize Venetia from Austria.
1866
1866
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Austro-Prussian War was fought between the German confederation under the leadership of Austria and Germany.
1869
1869
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Suez Canal, which took 10 years to complete, completed
1870
1870
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Franco- Prussian War was a conflict between the 2nd French empire and the German states.
1871
1871
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German Unification- After the Franco-Prussian war and careful diplomacy by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Germany united under Kaiser Wilhelm I. [SP #5]
1874
1874
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Claude Monet paints Impression: Sunrise
1877
1877
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Queen Victoria becomes the Empress of India
1878
1878
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Congress of Berlin, meeting of the representatives of the Great Powers and the 4 Balkan states.
1879
1879
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A Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary formed.
1881
1881
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Assassination of Alexander the Second
1884
1884
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German Unification- After the Franco-Prussian war and careful diplomacy by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Germany united under Kaiser Wilhelm I. [SP #5]
1885
1885
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Internal Combustion Engine generated power by the burning of fuels.
1885
1885
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Friedrich Nietzsche and his ideas exerted am influence on Western philosophy. .
1894
1894
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Beginning of the Dreyfus Affair, a scandal that involved the accusing of Dreyfus.
1897
1897
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The First meeting of the Zionists in Switzerland occurred.
1898
1898
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Marie and Pierre Curie Discover Radium- New views and discoveries in science were challenging the objective view of nature as Newton had described it. [3.6]
1899
1899
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Rudyard Kipling - White Man’s Burden- A poem expressing the idea of Social Darwinism and the idea that Europeans should conquer the rest of the world because they were a naturally superior people [IS #4]
1900
1900
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Sigmud Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams