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118 Cards in this Set
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East India Company formed |
1600 |
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King James I's reign |
1603-1625 |
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KJV Bible |
1611 |
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Beginning of Industrial Revolution |
1760-1840 |
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Lord Bentinck |
1774-1839 |
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The "long 19th century" |
1789-1914 |
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Dutch abolish slave trade in Africa |
1795 |
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Napoleon invades Egypt |
1798 |
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Thomas Babington Macauley |
1800-1859 |
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Slave trade declared illegal in Great Britain |
1808 |
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Karl Marx |
1818-1883 |
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Stamford Raffles arrives in Singapore |
1819 |
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Friedrich Engels |
1820-1895 |
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British attack lower Burma |
1826 |
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Macauley's "Minute on Education" and Boers' Great Trek in southern Africa |
1830s |
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French seize Algeria |
1830 |
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King Leopold |
1835-1909 |
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Queen Victoria's Reign (born: 1819) |
1837-1901 |
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Sultan of Oman establishes capital at Zanzibar |
1840 |
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David Livingstone arrives in Africa |
1841 |
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Austria-Hungary-Emperor Francis Joseph |
1848-1916 |
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"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx |
1848 |
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Victor Emmanuel II |
1849-1878 |
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Count Cavor becomes prime minister of Piedmont |
1852 |
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British rail network opens in northern India |
1853 |
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Sepoy Rebellion |
1857 |
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French attack Vietnam |
1858 |
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Suez Canal |
1859-1869 |
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"Self-Help" by Samuel Smiles |
1859 |
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Garibaldi's invasion of the Two Sicilies |
1860 |
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King William of Prussia |
1861-1888 |
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Kingdom of Italy proclaimed |
March 17, 1861 |
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Archduke Ferdinand |
1863-1914 |
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Slavery abolished in the US |
1863 |
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Danish War |
1864 |
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Italy's annexation of Venetia and Austro-Prussian War |
1866
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Ghandi |
1869-1948 |
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Franco-Prussian War |
1870-1871 |
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Italy's annexation of Rome |
1870 |
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Lenin |
1870-1924 |
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Germany-Bismark as chancellor |
1871-1890 |
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Victoria became empress |
1877 |
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German Empire proclaimed |
January 18, 1871 |
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Zanzibar slave market closed |
1873 |
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British establish Gold Coast colony |
1874 |
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France-Republican constitution |
1875 |
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Russia-Tsar Alexander III |
1881-1894 |
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British establish informal protectorate over Egypt |
1881 |
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FDR (presidency 1933-1945) |
1882-1945 |
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Berlin Conference on Africa |
1884 |
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Charles Gordon killed at Khartum |
1885 |
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Emperor William II |
1888-1918 |
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Adolf Hitler |
1889-1945 |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
1890-1969 |
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Russia-Tsar Nicholas II |
1894-1917 |
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Matebele Uprising
and British and French agree to neutralize Thailand |
1896 |
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Heart of Darkness and Confrontation at Fashoda and Commodore Dewey defeats Spanish fleet in Manila Bay |
1898 |
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Boer War |
1899-1902 |
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White Man's Burden - Kipling |
1899 |
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French create Indochinese Union and Great Britain-formation of Labour Party |
1900 |
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Ferdinand and Sophie marry |
June 28, 1900 |
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Lenin's exile in Switzerland |
1900-1917 |
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Russia-Russo Japanese War |
1904-1905 |
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Casement Commission report on the Belgian Congo |
1904 |
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Russia Revolution |
1905 |
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Bosnia annexed |
1908 |
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Union of South Africa established |
1910 |
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Great Britain - National Insurance Act |
1911 |
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Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand |
June 28, 1914 |
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Austria declared war on Serbia |
July 28, 1914 |
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WWI |
1914-1918 |
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Battle of Tannenberg |
August 26-30, 1914 |
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First Battle of the Marne |
September 6-10, 1914 |
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Battle of Masurian Lakes |
September 15, 1914 |
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Battle of Gallipoli begins |
April 25, 1915 |
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Lusitania sunk |
May 7, 1915 |
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Italy declares war on Austria Hungary |
May 23, 1915 |
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Battle of Verdun |
February 21-December 18, 1916 |
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US enters the war |
April 6, 1917 |
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Lenin announced new soviet government with himself as the head |
November 8, 1917 |
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Last German offensive |
March 21-July 18, 1918 |
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Second Battle of the Marne |
July 18, 1918
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Allied counteroffensive |
July 18-November 10, 1918 |
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Armistice between Allies and Germany |
November 11, 1918 |
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Hitler's rise to power |
1919-1933 |
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Fascio de Combattimento established by Mussolini |
1919 |
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Versailles Peace Treaty |
June 28, 1919 |
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First successful fascist movement by Mussolini |
1920s |
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Mussolini made prime minister of Italy |
1922 |
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USSR formed |
1922 |
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"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque |
1929 |
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Hitler became chancellor of Germany |
1933 |
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The Nazi State |
1933-1939 |
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Hindenburg died and Hitler became the sole ruler of Germany |
August 2, 1934 |
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WWII |
1939-1945 |
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Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland |
September 28, 1939 |
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Blitzkrieg against Denmark and Norway |
April 1940 |
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Blitzkrieg against Belgium, Netherlands, and France |
May 1940 |
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France surrenders |
June 22, 1940 |
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Battle of Britain |
Fall 1940 |
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Nazi seizure of Yugoslavia and Greece |
April 1941
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Germany invades the Soviet Union |
June 22, 1941 |
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Attack on Pearl Harbor |
December 7, 1941 |
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Battle of the Coral Sea |
May 7-8, 1942
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Battle of Midway Island |
June 4, 1942 |
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Allied invasion of North Africa |
November 1942 |
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German surrender at Stalingrad |
February 2, 1943 |
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Axis forces surrender in North Africa |
May 1943 |
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Battle of Kursk |
July 5-12, 1943 |
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Allied invasion of mainland Italy |
September 1943 |
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Allied invasion of France |
June 6, 1944 |
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Hitler commits suicide |
April 30, 1945 |
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Germany surrenders |
May 7, 1945
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
August 6, 1945 |
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Japan surrenders |
August 14, 1945 |
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Indian independence |
1947 |
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Things Fall Apart |
1958 |
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Beyond the Beautiful Forevers |
2012 (story begins in 2008) |
