Term 2 Flashcards

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1
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1689

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English Bill of Rights

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1776

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Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations

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2
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1701-1713

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Wars of Spanish Succession

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3
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1713

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Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession

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4
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1740

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Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria begin German dualisms duel

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4
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1698-1725

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Peter the Great Begins Westernization of Russia

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5
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18th century

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Rococo Art and Mozart

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6
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1756-63

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The Seven Years War

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7
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1780-1790

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Reign of Josef II of Austria

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8
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May 5, 1789

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The Estates General are summoned by Louis XVI

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9
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June 20-27

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The Tennis Court Oath

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10
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July 14, 1789

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Storming of the Bastille

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11
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August 4, 1789

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Abolition of feudal privileges by National Constituent Assembly

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12
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1790 (2)

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“Father of Modern Conservatism”, the Brit Edmund Burke predicts violent future of French Revolution

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12
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1790 (1)

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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13
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1791-92

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

14
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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

14
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1793-94

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Radical Phase of the French Revolution

15
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1793-94

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Radical Revolution eventually led by the Jacobin Party leader Robespierre

16
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1799

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Napoleon’s coup d’etat overthrows corrupt Directory

17
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1804

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England dominates the High Seas for a Century

18
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1812

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Napoleon makes the fateful decision to invade Russia

19
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1789-1848

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Romantic Era

20
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1815

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Congress of Vienna

21
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1815-1914

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the “Long Peace” in Europe

22
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1776-1830

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

23
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1815-1848

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The Age of Metternich

24
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1815-1846

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Corn Laws In Effect

25
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1819

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Peterloo Massacre

26
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19th Century

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Industrial Revolution

27
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1832

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Great Reform Bill in Britain

27
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1838-1848

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Chartists in England call for universal suffrage

28
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1798–1848

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David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages”

29
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1848 (1)

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Revolution sweeps across Europe and Failure of liberal nationalism

30
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1846

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Repeal of Corn Laws in England

31
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1890’s

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Fabian Socialist and Evolutionary Socialists Parties grow

31
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1848 (2)

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their Communist Manifesto