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rise from 13 million to 24 million 1729-1797 Lifespan of English political philosopher Edmund Burke 1730-1795 Life of Josiah Wedgwood 1732-1799 Washington serves as leader of the United States 1733 John Kay develops the flying shuttle 1740-1850 Steel production is improved 1744-1803 Life time of Francois Dominique Toussaint, led Haitian Revolution 1744-1803 Lifetime of Johann Gottfried von Herder who sang the praises of the German Volk and their powerful expressive language 1745-1797 Lifespan of Olaundah Equiano, freed slave 1754-1763 French and Indian War between Britain and France 1756-1763 Seven Years War occurs 1760s American colonists protest British rule 1759-1797 Lifetime of English writer Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1833 Lifespan of William Wilberforce, a prominent English philanthropist and spokesman for anti-slavery movement 1762 Rousseau writes The Social Contract 1765 Watt invents the steam engine 1765 James Watt patents an improved steam engine 1765-1825 Life of Eli Whitney who made the cotton gin 1768 Corsica is annexed by France 1769-1821 Life of Napoleon Bonaparte who became dictator of France 1770-1820 The U.S. slave population goes from 500,000 to 2,000,000 1775 Battle of Lexington 1776 Continental Congress declares American independence. Francois Dominique Toussaint becomes a free man. Smith writes the Wealth of Nations 1778-1850 Lifespan of Jose de San Martin who helps revolutions in the Americas 1778-1842 Lifespan of Bernardo OHiggins who liberated Chile 1779 Samuel Crompton develops the spinning mule 1797 Eli Whitney introduces interchangeable parts to the manufacturing process 1780s European Christian moralists voice opposition to slave 1780s Leaders from the rebellious colonies draft a constitution that entrust responsibility for general issues to a federal government 1781 Britain surrenders to the United States. Large numbers of British loyalists move to Canada 1782-1840 Lifespan of John George Lambton 1783 Peace of Paris, Britain recognized American Independence 1783-1824 Lifespan of General Augustin de Iturbide who ruled Mexico 1783-1830 Lifespan of Simon Bolivar who helped with revolutions in the Americas 1785 Cartwright invents the power loom 1787 Constitution of United States wrote 1789-1791 the National Assembly reconfigures French society 1789 Parisians storm the Bastille 1789-1807 Sultan Selim III rules 1789 6,000 Parisian women march to Versailles to protest the high price of bread. French Revolution occurs 1790s Cromptons mule becomes the main device for spinning cotton 1790s Pistol-wielding members of the Republican Revolutionary Women patrol the streets of Paris 1791 Civil war breaks out between white settlers and gens de coleur.Slave revolt occur. Haitian Revolution 1792 France declares war on Austria and Prussia. Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1793 Toussaint builds a strong, disciplined army. Whitney invents the Cotton gin. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed 1794 Robespierre is executed 1795-1799 the Directory tries to resolve problems in revolutionary France 1797-1876 Lifetime of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna 1797 Toussaint leads an army of 20,000 that controls Saint-Dominique 1798 Napoleon invades Egypt 1799 Napoleon overthrows the Directory 1799 Napoleon joins the Directory 1800 Peninsulares population is 30,000 1800 More than a thousand steam engines are used in Britain 1800-1900 British population rises from 10.5million to 37.5 million 1801 Toussaint promulgates a constitutions that grants equality and citizenship to residents of Saint-Dominique. - The Concordat is signed between France and the Catholic Church 1802 Napoleon crowns self-emperor. Napoleon sends 40,000 troops to restore French authority in Saint-Dominique 1803 Saint-Dominique declares independence from France. Napoleon Bonaparte needed funds to protect revolutionary France from its enemies. Louisiana Purchase occurs 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark expeditions occur 1804 Created Haiti as the second independent republic in the western hemisphere. Napoleon writes the Civil Code. Haiti is established. Napoleon promulgated the Civil Code, a revised body of civil law, which helped stabilize the French government 1805-1848 Muhammad Ali builds an army based on European armies 1805-1872 Lifetime of Giuseppe Mazzini who formed a group called Young Italy

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1806-1872 Lifetime of President Benito Juarez 1806-1873 Lifespan of English philosopher John Stuart Mill who created early liberalism 1807 Parliament passes Wilberforces bill to end the slave trade. Napoleon invades Spain and Portugal 1808 United States ban commerce of slaves 1809-1865 Lifetime of Abraham Lincoln 1809-1839 Mahmud II rules 1810 Revolts against Spanish rule break out in Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico 1810-1825 Creole movements lead to independence to all Spanish colonies in the Americas 1811-1816 Luddites protest low wages and unemployment 1811-1888 Lifetime of Argentinian president, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 1811 Simon Bolivar takes up arms against Spanish rule 1812 Napoleon invades Russia. War of 1812 occurs. Napoleon is defeated by Russia 1814 Napoleon abdicates his throne by British, Austrian, Prussian, and Russian armies. France bans commerce of slaves. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled 1814-1815 Congress of Vienna restores European balance of power 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo. Stephenson builds the first steam powered locomotive 1815-1902 Lifespan of womens rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1891 Lifetime of John A. McDonald who was the first prime minister of Canada 1817 The Netherlands bans commerce of slaves 1819 Simon Bolivar creates an army that crushes the Spanish army in Colombia 1820s Some South American counties create a republic called Gran Colombia 1820s The power loom replaces hand weavers 1820 Missouri Compromise is signed 1820s most property qualifications had disappeared in American politics 1820 Muhammad Ali becomes the effective ruler of Egypt 1821 Napoleon dies 1821 Colonial rule ends in Mexico 1822-1834 Emperor Pedro I rules 1823 Creole elites dispose of General Augustin and create a republic 1824 Lord Byron dies 1826 Mahmud proposes a new European style army 1828-1829 Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire 1829 Slavery is abolished in Mexico 1829 George Stephensons locomotive, the Rocket, attains a speed of 45 kilometers per hour 1830 Gran Colombia is disbanded 1830s Half a million people work in the cotton industry 1830 Greek achieves independence from the Ottomans 1830-1870 13,000 miles of railroads are laid in Britain 1830 Indian Removal Act moves all American Indians to Oklahoma 1830-1915 Lifetime of Dictator Porfirio Diaz 1830 Independence of Greece 1830s Underground Railroad is established. Quebec is threatened by the amount of British people that move to Canada 1832 Reform Bill expands electorate to House of Commons 1832-1867 Lifetime of Archduke Maximilian 1832 Parliament gives suffrage to all males 1833 Sandford writes on middle class womens roles. Slavery ends in the British Empire. Parliament provides 20,000,000 pounds sterling as compensation to slave owners. Factory Act restricts employment of women and children in textile factories 1835-1852 Juan Manuel de Rosas rules Argentina 1836 Texas declares independence from Mexico 1838 Central American Federation splits into different countries 1838-1839 Trail of Tears occur where thousands of Indians perished 1839 John George Lambton creates the Durham Report 1840-1867 Canadian government allows territories to rule themselves 1839 Mahmud II dies 1839-1876 Tanzimat Era occurs 1840 Site of conflict between Euro-American and indigenous peoples moves to the plains region west of the Mississippi 1840s Westward expansion of Am1840 Stanton goes to London to attend an antislavery conference but finds out that women are b arred from participating. Irish potato famines occur. Parliament passes child labor law. Chinese migration to America grows 1840-1914 25,000,000 European migrants land on American shores 1842 Mines Act restricts employment of women and children in mines 1844-1885 Lifetime of Louis Riel 1845 The United States accepts Texas as a new state. Sarmiento writes Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism. Spain bans commerce of slaves 1846-1848 Mexican-American War occur 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed. Stanton organizes the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. Marx writes the Communist Manifesto. France abolishes slavery. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish Manifesto of the Communist Party 1849-1915 Life of Sergei Witte 1849 California Gold Rush occurs 1850s European migrants to the U.S. numbered 2,300,000 1850-1860 Britain and France laid legal foundations for corporations 1850s -1860s 25,000 Chinese immigrants move to Hawaii

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1850 Few businesses have more than 1,000 employees. Ottoman Empire promulgates a commercial code 1850s La Reforma limits power of military and Catholic Church in Mexico 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition in London 1852-1875 200,000 Chinese immigrants move to America 1853-1856 The Crimean War occurs 1854 Allied forces mounted a campaign against Sevastopol in the Crimean Peninsula 1855 -1881 Tsar Alexander II reigns 1856 Bessemer converter developed 1857 Mexican Constitution is created 1858 Ottoman Empire promulgates a penal code. Fraser rush occurs. Lincoln predicted that a house divided cannot stand 1859 Cavour expels Austria from Italy 1860 Garibaldi gives southern Italy to King Emmanuelle. Russia has 700 miles of railroads. Railroads link St. Louis and Chicago 1860-1904 Lifespan of Theodor Herzl 1860 Abraham Lincoln becomes President 1860-1861Eleven southern states withdraw from the Union 1861-1865 American Civil War occurs 1861 Juarez is forced out of Mexico City. Tsar abolished the institution of serfdom 1862 Bismarck appointed Prime minister of Prussia. Mexican forces beat back French invaders 1863 Ottoman Empire promulgates a maritime code. President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation 1864-1870 Prussia wars with Denmark, Austria, and France 1865 The United States abolishes slavery 1867 Last documented ship to carry slaves across the Atlantic Ocean arrives in Cuba. Napoleon withdraws his troops from Mexico. North America Act joins Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. British Canadians try to settle the Northwestern Territories. Independence of Serbia 1867-1877 Reconstruction occurs 1869 Transcontinental railroad is completed in the U.S. 1869 Purchase of Northwestern Territories from the Hudson Bay Company 1870-1876 Ottoman Empire promulgates a civil code 1870s-1880s a major outbreak of civil strife occurs in Canada 1870s iron and steel industries emerge in Pennsylvania and Alabama. Colonists pacify the most productive lands and force indigenous people to assimilate into Euro-American society 1870 Riel assumed presidency of Canada 1870-1900 Large-scale labor unions emerge alongside big business 1871 Bismarck sponsors German industrialization. King Wilhelm proclaims self-emperor of the second Reich 1873 Jose Hernandez write The Gaucho Martin Fierro 1876-1911 Porgirio Diaz rules Mexico 1876-1909 Abdul Hamid II rules as sultan 1876 Lakota Sioux Indians annihilate American forces in The Battle of Little Big Horn 1877 A massive rail strike shuts down 2/3 of American railroads 1878-1923 Lifetime of Francisco (Pancho) Villa 1879-1919 Lifetime of Emiliano Zapata 1880-1890 4,000,000 Italian immigrants move to Argentina 1880 75% of American steel went to the railroad industry 1880s Pennsylvania Railroad employs 50,000 people. Chinese migrants work on the Pacific Railway. Railroad managers have to keep track of more than 50 time standards 1881 Massacring of Jews occurs in all Russian territories. Education becomes mandatory in England 1882 Ottoman state becomes bankrupt and accepts foreign administration of its debt. U.S. government halts migration from China 1883 Railroad companies divide North America into four zones 1885 Riel organized a military force and starts Northwestern Rebellion. Transcontinental Railroad is completed in Canada 1886 Cuba abolishes slavery 1887 The Dawes Severalty Act is created 1888 Brazil abolishes slavery 1890 Battle at Wounded Knee Creek occurs 1891-1904 Trans-Siberian railroad built 1892-1903 Count Sergei Witte serves as finance minister for Russia 1894 Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of spying for Germany 1896-1914 3,000,000 migrants settle in Canada 1896 Herzl publishes the pamphlet Judenstaa 1900 Japan becomes the most industrialized country in Asia. Population of Americas reaches 145 million. Russia has 36,000 miles of railroads. Russia produces half of the worlds oil and its steel production was fourth in the world .20, 000 kilometers of track have been placed 1903-1914 2,700,000 eastern European migrants settle in Asia 1908 U.S. government halts migration from Japan 1909-1918 Mehmet V Rashid becomes sultan 1909 Young Turks usurp throne from Abdul Hamid 1911-1920 Mexican Revolution occurs 1913 Henry Ford introduces the assembly line to the manufacture of automobiles 1914 British investments in Canada was $2,500,000,000 while American was $700,000,000. World War 1 begins.