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1688 Glorious Revolution (England) 1712 Peter I moves Russian capital to St. Petersburg 1776 Declaration of Independence 1787 US Constitutional Convention 1789 Storming of Bastille (French Revolution) 1804 Haiti achieves independence 1807 Abolition of Slave Trade in British Empire 1815 Battle of Waterloo (Allies defeat Napoleon); Congress of Vienna c. 1820 Latin American states achieve independence 1848 Year of Revolutions in Europe; Marx & Engels publish The Communist Manifesto; Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls 1850-64 Taiping Rebellion 1857 "Sepoy Rebellion" (India) 1861 Alexander II frees the serfs (Russia); American Civil War begins 1871 Unification of Germany 1884-85 Berlin Conference sets off the "Scramble for Africa" 1910-20 Mexican Revolution 1914-18 World War I