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A Peoples History of the World Flashcards

1
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Australopithecus walks on 2 legs

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4 million years ago

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Clearly human species, Homo erectus.

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1.5 to .5 million years ago

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First ‘modern humans’ - Homo sapiens sapiens

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150,000 years ago

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Modern humans in Middle East

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80,000 years ago

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Modern humans cross to Australia

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40,000 years ago

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Modern humans arrive in Europe

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30,000 years ago

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Modern humans establish Americas

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14,000 years ago

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First agricultural revolution

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10,000 years ago

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9
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Old Kingdom Egypt

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5000 years ago

3000 BC

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10
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Alarick’s Goths sack Rome

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410

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Sui Dynasty rises in China

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581

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T’ang Dynasty rises in China

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618

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Mohammed takes Mecca

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630

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14
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Abbasid revolution

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750

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15
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Mongols Sack Baghdad

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1258

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16
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Mongols Conquer China

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1279

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17
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‘Crusaders’ capture Jerusalem

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1099-1187

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18
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‘Crusaders’ sack Byzantium

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1204

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19
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Columbus crosses Atlantic

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1492

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20
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Ottomans conquer Constantinople

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1453

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21
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High point of Italian Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Macchiavelli

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1450-1520

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Lutheran Reformation sweeps southern Germany

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1518-1525

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23
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Cortes conquers Aztecs

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1519-1521

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24
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Mongul conquest of northern India

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1529

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25
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Pizarro conquers Inca Empire

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1532

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26
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Copernicus publishes a theory of the universe after 30 year delay

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1540

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Ivan the Terrible centralises power in Russia, begins conquest of Siberia

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1544-84

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28
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Wave of witch-burning

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1560-1630

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29
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Shakespeare writes first plays

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1590’s

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30
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Giordano Bruno burnt at stake by Inquisition

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1600

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31
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Kepler in Prague calculates orbits of planets accurately

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1609

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32
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Galileo uses telescope to observe moon

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1609

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33
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Thirty Years War begins in Bohemia

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1618

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34
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First English colonies established in North America

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1620’s and 30’s

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35
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Harvey describes circulation of blood

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1628

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36
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Galileo condemned by Inquisition

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1637

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37
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Descartes/ Discourse on Method begins ‘rationalist’ school of philosophy

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1637

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38
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Rembrant paints in Amsterdam

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1630’s to 60’s

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39
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End of Thirty Years War

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1648

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40
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Hobbes’ Leviathan - materialist defence of conservative politics

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1651

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41
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Beginning of plantation slavery in Americas, 20,000 black slaves in Barbados

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1653

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42
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England wins wars against Holland, takes Jamaica

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1655

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43
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Boyle discovers law of gases, defends theory of atoms

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1662

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44
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Newton completes revolution in physics

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1687

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45
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Whites and blacks unite in Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia

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1687

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46
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Century mongol empire breaks up in India

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18th cent

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47
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Unification of England and Scotland

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1707

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48
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Voltaire publishes first philosophical work

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1734

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49
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Century Bach develops counterpoint and fugue form in music

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18th cent

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50
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Century Rousseau publishes Discourse on the Origins of Inequality and The Social Contract

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18th cent

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51
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Voltaire publishes satirical novel Candide pouring scorn on optimism

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1759

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52
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Century of ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ of David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith

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18th cent

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53
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Britain defeats France in war over control of new colonial lands

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1763

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54
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Watt and Boulton build first generally applicable steam engines

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1775

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55
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Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations preaches order based on ‘free labour’ and ‘free trade’

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1776

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56
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Declaration of Independence declares ‘all men are created equal’ (but is silent over question of slavery)

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1776

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57
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Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro

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1786

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58
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Mozart: Don Giovanni

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1787

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59
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Boston Tea Party

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1773

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60
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Fighting at Lexington and Bunker Hill

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1775

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61
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British defeat at yorktown

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1781

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62
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Storming of Bastille, beggining of French Revolution

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1789

63
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Slave revolt in St Domingue (Caribbean island of Hispaniola)

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1791

64
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French revolutionary war, Battle of Valmy, execution of king

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1792

65
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Jacobin gov led by Robespierre rule France and ‘Terror’ begins

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1793

66
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Rising against British rule in Ireland, formation of Orange Order to combat it

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1798

67
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Napoleon takes all power in France

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1799

68
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Beethoven’s Eroica symphony

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1804

69
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Napoleon becomes emperor

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1805

70
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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind

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1807

71
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Britain bans slave trade

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1807

72
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First risings against Spanish rule in Mexico and Venezuela.

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1810

73
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Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

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1815

74
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World’s first passenger railway

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1830

75
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Faraday discovers electric induction

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1831

76
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Opium War against China

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1839-42

77
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Great Irish Famine

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1846-49

78
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The Communist Manifesto

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1847

79
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British complete conquest of northern India

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1843-56

80
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Darwin’s The Origin of Species

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1859

81
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American Civil War begins

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1861

82
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Lincoln declares end of slavery

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1863

83
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Defeat of American South in Civil War

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1865

84
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Nobel discovers dynamite

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1866

85
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Franco-Prussian War. Fall of Louis Bonaparte

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1870

86
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Paris Commune, workers control city, then Republican government attacks city, killing thousands.

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1871

87
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First electric machine

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1873

88
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Troops withdraw from Southern states of US, rise of ‘Jim Crow’ segregation

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Mid 1870’s

89
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Carve up of Africa

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1880’s

90
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Spanish-American War

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1898

91
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Boer War - British set up first concentration camps

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1899-1902

92
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Mendel’s genetic theory gains publicity, 16 years after his death

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1900

93
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First airplane

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1903

94
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Russia loses war with Japan

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1904

95
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Revolution in Russia

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1905

96
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Industrial Workers of World founded

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1905

97
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Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

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1905

98
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Mexican Revolution

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1911

99
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Balkan Wars

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1912-13

100
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Ford mass production car plant

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1913

101
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Outbreak of First World War

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1914

102
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Russian Revolutions, mutinies in French army and German navy, US enters WWI

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1917

103
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Civil war in Germany and Versailles Treaty ends WWI

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1919

104
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Italian Fascists given power

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1922

105
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Nazi putsch

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1923

106
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Heisenberg’s quantum theory

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1925

107
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Massacre of workers in Shanghai

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1927

108
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Leon Trotsky exiled

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1927

109
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Stalin takes all power

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1928

110
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Wall Street Crash

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1929

111
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Revolution is Spain

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1931

112
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Hitler takes power

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1933

113
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Hitler takes Austria, Munich agreement annexes portions of Czechoslovakia

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1938

114
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German invades Poland and WW2 begins

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1939

115
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France falls and Italy enters WW2

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1940

116
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Hitler attacks Russia

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1941

117
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Japan attacks US fleet at Pearl Harbor

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1941

118
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Nazis draw up plans for Holocaust

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1942

119
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed

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1945

120
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First computer

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1947

121
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Beginning of Cold War. Marshall Plan, Prague coup, Berlin airlift, Yugoslav split with Russia, McCarthyism in US. Chinese People’s Liberation Army enters Beijing.

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1947-49

122
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Korean War

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1950

123
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Indonesian independence from Dutch

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1950

124
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Mau Mau rebellion against Britain in Kenya

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1952-57

125
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Death of Stalin

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1953

126
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US explodes H-bomb

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1953

127
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Geneva agreement ends war in Korea and divides Vietnam

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1954

128
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CIA overthrows Guatemalan government

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1954

129
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Montgomery bus boycott starts civil rights movement in US

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1955-56

130
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Egypt nationalises Suez Canal, attacked by Britain, France and Isreal. Khrushchev denounces Stalin. Hungarian Revolution

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1956

131
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Nationalist revolution in Iraq

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1958

132
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Castro’s rebels take Havana

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1959

133
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Abortive CIA invasion of Cuba. First split between Russia and China. US ‘advisers’ in Vietnam.

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1961

134
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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962

135
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Military coup in Indonesia, half a million people killed

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1965

136
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Founding of Black Panthers

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1967

137
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Tet Offensive in Vietnam

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1968

138
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Strikes bring down Gomulka in Poland. Election of Allende in Chile. US invasion of Cambodia, students shot dead at Kent State University.

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1970

139
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Outbreak of world recession

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1974

140
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CIA sponsors civil war in Angola

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1976

141
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Turmoil in China after death of Mao, first market reforms

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1976-77

142
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Iranian Revolution, ‘Islamic Republic’. Sandinistas take power in Nicaragua. Russia invades Afghanistan.

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1979

143
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Iraqi war against Iran with US backing

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1980

144
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First PC’s using silicon chip

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1980

145
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Cruise missiles in Europe. ‘Second Cold War’. Civil war in El Salvador, US Contra terrorism against Nicaragua. Polish military crush Solidarnosc.

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1981

146
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Falklands War

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1982

147
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US invasion of Grenada

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1983

148
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Glasnost permits first free debate for 60 years in USSR

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1987

149
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Tiananmen Square protests in China, miners’ strike in Russia, political revolutions across Eastern Europe. Rise of Milosovic in Serbia. US invasion of Panama. Scientists begin to warn about danger of ‘greenhouse effect’.

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1989

150
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US-led war against Iraq. Failed coup in Russia, disbandment of USSR. Civil war in Yugoslavia and Algeria.

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1991

151
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Famine and civil war in Somalia. Civil war in Tajikistan. Slump in Russian economy.

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1992

152
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Black rule in South Africa

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1994

153
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Strikes rock French government in 199_?

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1995

154
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US-led war against Serbia

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1999

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