Must Know Dates 1750 - 1900 Flashcards
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| 312975679 | 1756 - 1763 | Seven Years War (French and Indian War) | 0 | |
| 312975680 | 1767 | Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture) | 1 | |
| 312975681 | 1776 | American Revolution / Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 2 | |
| 312975682 | 1789 | French Revolution begins | 3 | |
| 312975683 | 1796 | Jenner's smallpox vaccine | 4 | |
| 312975684 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 5 | |
| 312975685 | 1807 | British aboliton of Trans-Atlantic slave trade | 6 | |
| 312975686 | 1807 - 1808 | Janissary Revolt | 7 | |
| 312975687 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 8 | |
| 312975688 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 9 | |
| 312975689 | 1839 | First Opium War in China | 10 | |
| 312975690 | 1839 - 1878 | Tanzimat Reforms | 11 | |
| 312975691 | 1848 | European revolutions / Marx and Engles write The Communist Manifesto | 12 | |
| 312975692 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 13 | |
| 312975693 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 14 | |
| 312975694 | 1861 (1) | End of Russian serfdom | 15 | |
| 312975695 | 1861 (2) | Italian unification | 16 | |
| 312975696 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 17 | |
| 312975697 | 1871 | German unification | 18 | |
| 312975698 | 1885 | Berlin Conference division of Africa (begins the scramble for Africa) | 19 | |
| 312975699 | 1893 | New Zealand grants women suffrage | 20 | |
| 312975700 | 1896 | Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) | 21 | |
| 312975701 | 1898 | Spanish-American War (US acquires Phillipines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico) | 22 | |
| 312975702 | 1899 - 1902 | Boer War, British in control of South Africa | 23 |