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56 Cards in this Set
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1687
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Newton's "Principia"
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1714
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"The Grumbling Hive"
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1723
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"The Fable of Bees"
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1784
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"Oath of the Horatii"
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1787
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The Assembly of Nobles
and "The Death of Socrates" |
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1789
May 5 |
Esatates General convenes
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1789
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French Revolution begins
and "The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons" |
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1789
June 20 |
Tennis Court Oath
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1789
July 14 |
Bastille stormed
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1789
July/August |
The Great Fear
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1789
August 6 |
The Great Victory
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1789
October 5 |
Women's march on Versailles
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1791
June 20-21 |
Flight to Varennes
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1792
April 24 |
Captain Claude Joseph Rouget De Lisle writes "La Marseillaise"
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1792
April |
France declares war on Austria
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1793
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"The Death of Marat"
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1793
January 21 |
Louis XVI is beheaded
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1793
March |
First Coalition is formed
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1794
July |
Thermidorian Reaction
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1795
June |
First Coalition is formally dissolved
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1795
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Directory sends Napoleon to put down revolt
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1796-1799
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"The Sabine Women"
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1798
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Second Coalition is formed
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1799
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Coup formed against the Directory
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1801
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Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII
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1803
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The Louisiana Purchase
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1804
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Napoleon is named Emperor
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1805
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Third Coalition is formed
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1808
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Peninsular Wars with other coups occuring as well
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1812
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Invasion of Russia
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1814
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Napoleon is exiled to Elba as Emperor
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1815
March |
Napoleon begins his last 100 days of freedom
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1815
June |
Battle of Waterloo
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1453
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Constantinople is taken by the Turks
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1494
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Ludovico Sforza is threatened by Naples the Papal States and other countries
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1517
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Johan Tetzel as Bishop Albrecht
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1521
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Martin Luther is excommunicated from the church
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1524
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Peasnts' Revolt
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1572
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William "The Silent" of Orange proposes independance for Netherlands
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1574
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People of Leiden flood their towns to prevent invasion
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1593
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Henry Bourbon (the future Henry IV) accepts Catholicism
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1598
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Edict of Nantes
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1587
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Treaty of Burwick
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1628
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Parliment is reconvened by Charles I
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1642
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Charles I Stuart dismisses the House of Lords
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1649
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"Rump Parliament" is formed by Oliver Cromwell
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1660
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The Commonwealth fails and is done and restoration of the government begins
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1670
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The Secret Agreement with Louis XIV of France
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1688
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The Glorious Revolution
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1689
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English Bill of Rights
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1648
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Siege of Vienna
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1700
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The Great Northern War begins
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1713
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Pragmatic Sanction Document is implemented which says possessions will be passed to the next family member, no matter the gender
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1740
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War of Austrian Succession begins
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1756
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Seven Years War begins
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1772
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The first partition of Poland
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