Important Dates Flashcards

1
Q

when did James Hargreaves invent the spinning jenny?

A

1764

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2
Q

james watt perfects the steam engine

A

1765

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3
Q

french revolution

A

1789

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4
Q

fall of the bastille prison

A

july 14th

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5
Q

blake prints songs of innocence

A

1789

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6
Q

tensions between jacobin extremists and girondin moderates

A

1789-92

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7
Q

French monarchy overthrown

A

1792

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8
Q

louis xvi, marie antoinette killed; france declares war on britain

A

1793

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9
Q

robespierre guillotined

A

1794

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10
Q

blake prints songs of innocence and of experience

A

1794

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11
Q

France aids netherlands and german states

A

1794

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12
Q

france aids italy

A

1796

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13
Q

france aids switzerland

A

1798

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14
Q

Napoleon stages a coup

A

1799

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15
Q

napoleon becomes first consul

A

1799

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16
Q

Napoleon declares himself emperor

A

1804

17
Q

England and france stop war

A

1815

18
Q

thomas paine flees to france

A

1792

19
Q

12 london radicals arrested for treason

A

1794

20
Q

gov suspends right of habeas corpus

A

1794

21
Q

gagging acts

A

1795

22
Q

Lyrical Ballads published

A

1798

23
Q

combination act

A

1799

24
Q

corn laws

A

1815

25
Q

peterloo massacre

A

1819

26
Q

six acts

A

1819

27
Q

percy shelley writes “Sonnet: England in 1819”

A

1819

28
Q

1st reform bill passes

A

1832