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***1689-1789

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The age of enlightenment/reason

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***1776

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-Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations

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1712-1778

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau must be recognized as the link between the Enlightenment and the Romantic Era.

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***1689

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English bill of rights

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***1701-1713

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Wars of Spanish Succession pits France (and Spain) against the Grand Alliance who wish to fight French hegemony

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***1713

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Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession benefits the English, Prussians, and other members of the Grand Alliance opposing the “Sun King.”

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Early 18th Century in England-

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Walpole becomes leader of government as de facto Prime Minister as England develops Party Politics-

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***1698-1725–

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-Peter the Great Begins Westernization of Russia.

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1700-1721-

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Great Northern War between Swedes and Russia ends with Russian expansion and emergence as the Great Baltic power.

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10
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1713-

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The Pragmatic Sanction is signed

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***1740

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Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria come to their respective Hohenzollern and Habsburg thrones and begin German dualisms duel.

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1740-1748

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War of Austrian Succession between Frederick’s Prussia and Maria Theresa’s Austria begins.

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***18th century -

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Rococo art and Mozart

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14
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1756

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Diplomatic revolution

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***1756-63-

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The Seven Years War (known as the French and Indian War in North America) is fought.

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16
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***1780-1790

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Reign of Josef II of Austria

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17
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***1789-1815

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French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

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***May 5, 1789

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The Estates General are summoned by Louis XVI to respond to the economic crisis. This is the first meeting in 175 years.

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***June 20-27–

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the tennis court oath

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20
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***July 14, 1789

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Storming of the Bastille—Symbolic Destruction of the Old Regime Saves the National Constituent Assembly.

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**August 4, 1789-

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Abolition of feudal privileges by National Constituent Assembly

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August 26,1789–

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Publication of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.

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23
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***1790

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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24
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***1790 - 2

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Father of Modern Conservatism”, the Brit Edmund Burk

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25
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***1791-92-

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Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft publish treatises calling for women’s equality.

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1791

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Royal family tries to escape in the “Flight to Varennes”.

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1791, oct 1st

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Legislative Assembly convenes.

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1792

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France declares war on Austria and Prussia as a means of exporting the “universal rights of man” throughout Europe in a “crusading spirit” of secularism and “rationalism”.

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1792, sept 21

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Abolition of monarchy; France becomes a republic.

30
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***1793-94-

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-Radical Phase of the French Revolution (Reign of terror)

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1795

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Thermidorian Reaction quells the Reign of Terror as Robespierre is executed and the Directory takes control.

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***1789-1791–

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Moderate stage of revolution dominated by those members of Third Estate originally summoned to the Estates General;

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***1793-94-

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Radical Revolution eventually led by the Jacobin Party leader Robespierre.

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1795-99-

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Conservative Directory fails to solve financial crisis or famine in France, but Napoleon is winning victories and fame and thus comes to power after abandoning his army in Egypt.

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***1799

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-Napoleon’s coup d’etat overthrows corrupt Directory.

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1804 -

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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of 1st French Empire.

37
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***1804, 2

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England dominates the High Seas for a Century.

38
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***1812

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Napoleon makes the fateful decision to invade Russia

39
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***1789-1848

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Romantic Era

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***1815

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The forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the Congress of Vienna where Metternich and others attempt to re-establish the ancien regime.

41
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***1815-1914

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the “Long Peace” in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of WWI

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***1776-1830

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-Era of Democratic Revolutions Sweep Across the New World and Western “Liberal” Europe—

43
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***1815-1848

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-The Age of Metternich–Reactionary Repression

44
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***1819

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Peterloo Massacre in Britain and the repressive Carslbad Decrees in the German

45
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1820’s

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Both the conflict over the Monroe Doctrine (the English did not want to see a return to Spanish mercantilism) and the Greek Revolution (see Delacroix’s inspirational “The Massacre at Chios” and Romantic attachment to classical Greece) exposes the weakness inherent in any attempt at collective security. In this case, the Concert of Europe agreed to at the Congress of Vienna is splintered.

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1830

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revolutions in Europe

47
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***19th Century—Post-Napoleonic Europe

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Industrial revolution

48
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***1815-1846

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corn laws in effect

49
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***1832–

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Great Reform Bill in Britain

50
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***1819-

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Peterloo Massacre represents repression even in England.

51
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1830’s, 1840’s, 1850’s, 1860’s

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Before George Orwell of the 1930’s, was the social critic and incredible author, Charles Dickens. From “Tale of Two Cities”, “Great Expectations”, “Oliver”, “Christmas Carol”, etc. Dickens was a voice of conscience for England during the Industrial Revolution in England.

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***1838-1848

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Chartists in England call for universal suffrage.

53
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***1798–1848

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Parson Malthus’s “Essay on Population” and David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages” rule the day as the “Manchester School” of economics dominates the “dismal science.”

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***1846-

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Repeal of Corn Laws in England.

55
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***1848-

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Chartists disband quietly considering it was the year of Revolutions.

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1867

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The Reform Bill of 1867 becomes law in England and the franchise is increased by 124%.

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1884

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Reform bill

58
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1850’s and beyond

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scramble for africa

59
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***1848

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Revolution sweeps across Europe and Failure of liberal nationalism.

60
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***1848-

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their Communist Manifesto calling for “scientific socialism” and “dialectical materialism”.

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***1890’s-

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-Fabian Socialist and Evolutionary Socialists Parties grow-