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- 1783 - William Pitt II
becomes English Prime Minister at 24 |
- 1789 -
French Revolution
begins |
- 1793 - French King Louis XVI
and Queen Marie Antoinette executed |
- 1795 -
French Directory |
- 1799
- Napoleon becomes Consul |
- 1804 -
Napoleon becomes Emperor |
- 1805 - Nelson wins at
Trafalgar |
1812: Napoleon defeated in Russia |
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1815: French Monarchy re-established;
Rothschild sons finance Wellington’s army (through Nathan in England) and Napoleon’s army (through Jacob in France); begin policy of funding both sides in wars.
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- 1810 - 1824 - Latin America revolutions create
independent nations |
- 1821
- Mexican Independence |
- 1828 - Greeks win War of Independence
from
Ottoman Empire |
1833: Santa Anna elected President of Mexico |
1834: Slavery abolished in British Empire |
1838: Amschel Mayer Rothschild states, “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." |
| 1840: Upper and lower Canada united |
1848: February Revolution by French workers makes Louis
Napoleon III President of 2nd Republic |
-1853 - 1856 - Crimean War between Turkey, France &
Britain against Russia |
- 1861 - Unification of Italy |
-1863 - French
troops occupy Mexico City Maximilian of Austria proclaimed
Emperor of Mexico
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- 1867 - Dominion of Canada
formed |
- 1870 - 1871 - Franco-Prussian War
unifies Germany |
- 1871 - Trade Unions legalized in
Britain |
- 1875 - Charles Stewart Parnell
begins movement for Irish independence |
- 1884 - 1885 - 15 European nations
partition Africa for "spheres of influence" |
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- 1893 - France adds Laos to
"protectorate" of Indochina |
- 1894 - Dreyfus case splits
France |
- 1898 - 1902
- Cuba occupied by U.S. and released |
- 1904-05 - Russia and Japan at
war |
- 1905 - mini-revolution in
Russia |
- 1910 - British Empire covers
1/5th of world land area |
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- August 3, 1914 - World War One
begins: Germany invades Belgium |
- 1917 - Russian revolutions:
communist U.S.S.R. formed |
- 1919 - Versailles Peace
Treaty |
- 1919 - League of Nations |
- 1923 - Italy becomes first
fascist state |
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- 1927 - Civil war in China |
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- 1930 - Worldwide depression
begins |
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- 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes
Fueher of Germany |
- 1936-39 - Spanish Civil War |
- September 1, 1939 - World War Two
begins: Germany invades Poland |
- 1944 - Normandy landings |
- 1945 - United Nations formed |
- 1947 - British India
becomes Pakistan & India |
- 1948 - Israel created |
- 1948 - NATO formed; Cold War
begins |
- 1947 - 1977 British & French
Empires fracture into new 3rd world nations |
- 1947 - 1990 - Cold War
1959: Cuban revolution |
- 1962
- Cuban missile crisis |
- 1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
- 1967 - Israeli 6-day war |
- 1968 - May Days mini-revolution
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- 1970 - U.S. invades Cambodia |
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- 1975 - South Vietnam surrenders
to North Vietnam |
- 1979 - Revolution in
Iran; Americans held hostage |
- 1980 - Solidarity in Poland |
- 1979 - 1988 - Soviets lose war in
Afganistan |
- 1985 - 1989 - Gorbachev
unravels Soviet system |
- 1989 - 1991- U.S.S.R dissolves
into republics; Cold War over |
- 1990 - 1993 - South Africa
accepts racial equality |
- 1992 - NAFTA formed |
- 1992 - 1999 - Yugoslavia breaks
up; Serbia contained |
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- 2001 - Taliban removed |
- 2003 - Iraq War |
- 2000s - China emerges as
economic giant |
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