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Europe
1770s-1840s - Age of Revolution 1770s-1870s - First Industrial Revolution 1774 - James Watt's first rotary steam engine 1776 - Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations 1789-1815 - French Revolution 1791-1792 - Constitutional state in Poland-Lithuania 1800 - British Act of Union 1804 - Crowning of Napoleon as Emperor of France 1810-1811 - Height of Napoleon's empire 1815 - Defeat of Napoleon at Battle of Waterloo; Congress of Vienna 1821-1830 - Greek war of Independence 1830-1831 - Wave of revolutions across Europe 1831 - Formation of Young Italy movement by Mazzini 1845-1846 - Irish potato famine 1848 - Wave of revolts across Europe; The communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels 1851 - Great Exhibition in London 1859-1870 - Unification of Italy 1862-1871 - Unification of Germany 1870s-1914 - Second Industrial Revolution
The Americas
1770s-1840s - Age of Revolution 1773 - Boston Tea Party 1776 - American Declaration of Independence 1776-1783 - American Revolution 1783 - British recognition of U.S. independence 1787 - U.S. constitutional convention; Northwest Ordinance for forming new states 1791-1894 - Haitian Revolution 1808 - Move of Portuguese royal family to Brazil 1810-1811 - First Mexican revolution 1810-1826 - Spanish-American wars of independence 1816 - Argentina independence 1821 - Founding of Gran Colombian republic by Bolivar 1822 - Mexican independence; Dom Pedro emperor of Brazil 1830 - Independence of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador 1839 - Division of Central American states
United States
1787 - U.S. constitution 1803 - Louisiana Purchase 1812-1814 - U.S. - British War of 1812 1823 - Monroe Doctrine 1825 - Completion of Erie Canal 1846-1848 - U.S. - Mexican war 1848 - U.S. acquisition of Texas, California, and New Mexico 1849 - California gold rush 1861-1865 - Civil War 1862 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation 1867 - U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia 1869 - Completion of transcontinental railroad 1898 - U.S. incorporation of Hawai 1898-1902 - Spanish-American War 1902 - U.S. colonisation of Philippines 1903 - First powered flight by Wright Brothers
Latin America
1823-1889 Abolition of slavery 1842 - End of trans-Atlantic slave trade by most nations 1861-1872 - Benito Juarez president of Mexico 1862-1867 - French Occupation of Mexic 1876-1911 - Diaz dictatorship in Mexico 1879-1884 - War between Chile and Peru-Bolivia 1886 - Abolition of slavery in Cuba 1889 - Brazilian Republic 1889 - Abolition of slavery in Brazi 1895-1898 - Cuban revolt against Spai 1898-1902 - Spanish-American War 1901 - Platt Amendment to Cuban constitution 1910-1920 - Medical Revolution 1912 - U.S. intervention in Nicaragua 1914 - Completion of Panama Canal
Canada and Oceania
1763 - British defeat of French forces in Canada 1774 - British recognition of French culture and laws in Quebec 1770s - Cook expeditions to Polynesia, New Zealand, and Australia 1788 - First British penal colony in Australia 1792 - First British settlers in New Zealand 1812-1814 - U.S. - British War of 1812 1840s-1900s - Western colonisation of Pacific islands 1850 - Treaty of Waitangi 1851 - Discovery of gold in Australia 1867 - Canadian Confederation 1885 - Canadian transcontinental railroad 1901 - Australian Commonwealth 1907 - New Zealand self-government
