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World History
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| Event | Person | Event | Person | Event | Person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovered the electrical nature of lightening | Franklin | Used the kite/key experiment | Franklin | French scholar who compiled the first modern encyclopedia | Diderot |
| Wrote "Eligy Written in a Country Churchyard" | Gray | Adopted the Gregorian calendar | Britain and British Colonies | Began in Europe between France, Russia and Poland Saxony | Seven Years War |
| Began between Great Britain and Prussia | French & Indian War | Defeated at Fort Duquesne by French forces and killed | Braddock | Where Braddock was defeated by French forces | Fort Duquesne |
| Led retreat from Fort Duquesne | Washington | Published a dictionary of the english language | Johnson | Johnson's career | Lexicographer |
| Wrote the biography "The life of Johnson" | Boswell | Created a massive tidal wave that flooded the Tagus River | Major earthquake | Site of a major earthquake | Lisbon |
| Flooded by a massive tidal wave | Tagus River | This incident occurred as the nawab of bengal takes Calcutta | The black hole of Calcutta | Forced 146 British subjects into an 18 x 14 foot room | The Nawab of Bengal |
| Number of 146 remained alive | 23 | Invented the sextant | Campbell | Created by extending the arc of the quadrant | sextant |
| Developed the arc of the quadrant in 1731 | Hadley | Breaks French authority in India at the Battle of Plassey and later serves as 1st British Bengalian governor | Clive | Fell to the British | French Canada |
| Defeated by Wolf on the Plains of Abraham at Quebec | Montcalm | Defeated Montcalm in Quebec | Wolfe | German born English composer died leaving behind "The Water Music" "The Messiah" "Music for the Royal Fireworks" | Handel |
| Born Francois Marie Arouet | Voltaire | Published his landmark satire "Candid" | Voltaire | Despite evidence of horrer and degradation still claims "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" | Pangloss |
| Ruled for 60 years | George III | Succeeded by George III | George II | Published his landmark treatises "The Social Contract" & "Emile" | Rousseau |
| "man is born free and everywhere he is in chains" | The Social Contract | About education | Emile | End of the Seven Years Wars | Treaty of Paris |
| Invested in the spinning jenny | Hargreaves | Invented the steam engine | Watt | Began his around the world voyage aboard the Endeavor | Cook |
| Traveled to the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Killed in 1779 by natives at Kealakekua Bay, HI | Cook | Developed the water frame | Arcwright | Uses water power for spinning | water frame |
| Led Spanish Franciscans to begin building missions on the CA coast beginning in San Diego | Serra | First partitioned | Poland | Occurred in response to the Tea Act | Boston Tea Party |
| Passed by Parliament on May 10th | Tea Act | Lightened duties on imported tea to England but kept full duties on tea to the colonies | Tea Act | Died after a reign of 59 years | Louis XV |
| Succeeded by his grandson | Louis XV | Reigned until 1792 with wife, Marie Antionette | Louis XVI | Discovered oxygen | Priestley |
| Called "dephlogisticated air" | oxygen | Discovered chlorine and mangenese, later discoverd citric acid in plants | Scheele | Swedish chemist | Scheele |
| Settled near Albany NY | Lee | Fostered the creation of the Shaker secret of Quakerism "known as Shakers" | Lee | Began at Lexington, Concord, Ticonderoga and Bunker Hill | The American Revolution |
| Wrote "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" | Smith | Supported laissez-faire economics and proposes the theory of the invisible hand | Smith in the Wealth of Nations | Began his "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" | Gibbon |
| Discovered by Herschel as the first plant discovered in the Heavens since ancient times | Uranus | Discovered Uranus | Herschel | Wrote "Critique of Pure Reason" which examined the bounds of human understanding | Kant |
| Russian Czarina who annexed the Crimea after victory over the Ottoman Turks by Gregori Potemkin (annexation approved by the Treaty of Constantinople of 1784) | Catherine the Great | Made history by ascending in a hot air balloon first at Lyons, then over Paris | The Montgolfiers | Became the first to scale Europe's highest mountain, Mount Blanc | Balmart & Paccard |
| Europe's highest mountain | Mount Blanc | Began to cull prisoners out of their prisons and send them via sea to Botany Bay, Australia where they arrived in 1788 | Great Britain | French chemist who developed Charles Law (aka Gay-Lussac's Law) | Charles |
| States that for every degree celsius rise in temperature a gas expands proportional to its volume at 0 C | Charles Law | English portrait painter died leaving "The Blue Boy" "Mr. & Mrs. Andrews" "Miss Richard Brinsley Sheridan" | Gainsborough | Stormed the Bastille | French mob |
| Stormed on July 14, when all 7 prisoners were freed | Bastille | Adopted Declaration of the Rights of Man | French Assembly | Wrote the first modern chemistry text "Elements of Chemistry" guillotined during the upcoming French reign of terror | Lavoisier |
| Led the mutiny aboard the bounty | Christian | Mutiny onboard led by Fletcher Christian | Bounty | Mutinied upon | Captain Bligh |
| The number of people set adrift after the mutiny on the Bounty | 18 | The 18 were set adrift in this ocean | Pacific | Where the mutineers returned to | Tahiti |
| What the mutineers returned for | Native Brides | Where did they establish a colony | Picairn Island | Wrote "Mutiny on the Bounty" | Nordoff and Hall |
| Began he Industrial Revolution in the US | Slater | This began after Slater opened the first textile factory/cotton mill | Industrial Revolution | Where the first textile factory was opened | Rhode Island |
| The first textile factory was based on designes by these two | Arkwright and Hargreaves | The first American to circumnavigate the globe | Gray | Completed by Lanhans | Brandenburgh Gate |
| Died at Salzburg after composing"The Marriage of Figaro" ,"Symphony #41 (Jupiter Symphony) ,"Don Giovanni" ,"The Magic Flute" | Mozart | "The Marriage of Figaro" is based on a play by this man | Beaumarchais | Composed "La Marseillaise" | de Lisle |
| French Anthem | "La Marseillaise" | Overthrown, afterwhich a republic was established | Louis XVI | Guillotined in January | Louis XVI |
| Guillotined in October | Marie Antoinette | Given unlimited power | French Committee of Public Safety | Headed the French Committee of Public Safety | Maximilien and Robespierre ,later also Marat |
| Murdered in his bath | Marat | One of the most famous paintings of David | Death of Marat | Murdered Marat | Corday |
| Invented semaphore | Chappe | Flag communication system | Semaphore | Opened to the public as an art museum for the first time | Louvre Palace |
| Took control of France by Guillotining Danton | Robespierre | Later Guillotined themselves | Robespierre and St. Just | Haitian slaves under him rebel | L'Overture |
| First leader of independant Haiti | Christophe | The first 2 countries in the western hemisphere to declare independance from Europe | USA(1) Haiti(2) | Set in place in France | The Directory |
| Led French Forces to victory over the Austrians at Millesimo and the Piedmonts at Modovi | Bonaparte | Has Savoy and Nice ceded to France | Bonaparte | Conquered Lombardy adn gained tribute from teh Pope and the King of Naples | Bonaparte |
| died of apoplexy | Catherine the Great | succeeded by unstable son | Catherine the Great | ruled Russia until 1801 | Paul I |
| became the first European to reach the West African interior when he reached the Niger River | Park | Scottish adventurer | Park | created a vaccine against smallpox | Jenner |
| inoculated schoolboy James Phipps in 1798 | Jenner | published "Inquiry into the Cause and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae" | Jenner | known for poems "To a Mouse" "My Luv is like a Red, Red Rose" "Auld Lang Syne" | Burns |
| Scottish Poet | Burns | Basis for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" | "To a Mouse" | fell to Napoleon after the Battle of the Pyramids | Cairo |
| destroyed the French fleet at Abukir Bay near Alexandria | Nelson | Battle that destroyed the French Fleet in Egypt | Battle of the Nile | combined to publish "Lyrical Ballads" | Wordsworth & Coleridge |
| ushered in the Romantic Age of LIterature in Britain | Lyrical Ballads | Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Alley and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner were featured | Lyrical Ballads | published "Essay on teh Principles of Population" | Malthus |
| stated that population increases geometrically but food production increases arithmetically | "Essay on the Principles of Population" | found the Rosetta Stone | Napoleon's troops | rock with inscriptions in ancient Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphics | Rosetta Stone |
| Received Louisiana in the 1763 Treaty of Paris | Spain | explored teh Orinoco River | von Humboldt | established a water link between the Orinoco and the Amazon | von Humboldt |
| pioneered teh electric storage battery | Volta | discovered infrared rays | Herschel | defeated the Danish fleet in the Battle of Copenhagen | Parker |
| pretended not to see Parker's signal to retreat | Nelson | Napoleon's brother-in-law | Leclerc | sent by Napoleon to put down an insurrection in Haiti | Leclerc |
| Captured in the Haiti insurrection | L'Ouverture | dies in a French prison | L'Ouverture | opens in London with wax figures of notable and notorious historical figures | Madame Tussaud's wax museum |
| sold the Louisiana territory to the US | Napoleon | postulates his law of partial pressures | Dalton | seventh earl of Elgin | Bruce |
| friezes from teh Parthenon in Athens sent to the British Museum | Elgin Marbles | poem written about the portions of the Parthenon sent to the British Museum | "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" | wrote "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" | Keats |
| second independent republic in the New World | Haiti | defeats the 5000 man force sent by Napoleon | Haiti | crowns himself Emperor in front of Pope Pius VII | Napoleon |
| dies aboard his ship Victory in defeating the French Fleet at Trafalgar | Nelson | told his men "England expects every man to do his duty" | Nelson | has a great victory at Austerlitz | Napoleon |
| who Napoleon fought at Austerlitz | Russians and Austrians | developed the Beaufort Scale | Beaufort | what the Beaufort Scale Measured | Wind speed |
| wrote "Fidelio" "Kreutzer Sonata" 3rd Symphony "Eroica" | Beethoven | Originally dedicated to Napoleon but the dedication is now struck | Eroica | Beethoven's Sixth Symphony | Pastoral |
| Napoleon's older brother | Joseph | Napoleon's younger brother | Louis | Napoleon's brother on the thone in Naples | Joseph |
| Napoleon's brother on teh thone in Holland | Louis | gave sodium and potassium their names | Davy | isolated barium, boron, calcium and strontium | Davy |
| dies, leaving behind such works as "The Surprise Symphony" "The London Symphony" "The Creation Oratorio" | Haydn | Austrian Composer | Haydn | Divorced Josephine because he had no heir | Napoleon |
| Marries Austrian Archduchess maria Luisa in a marriage arranged by Austria's foreign Minister | Napoleon | Creole who led Mexican rebels against Spanish dominion | Hildago | rebels were crushed by Spanish forces and he was executed | Hildago |
| Commemorates Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz | Column in the Place Vendome in Paris | Finished in 1836 it is commemorating Napoleon | Arc de Triomphe | creates his hypothesis that equal volumes of all gases at teh same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules | Avagadro |
| publises "Sense and Sensibility | Austen | wrote "Pride and Prejudice" "Northanger Abbey" and "Emma" | Austen | invaded Russia | Napoleon |
| meets Kutusov at Borodino who retreated, citizens flee and burn everything so he can't get it. | Napoleon | He lost most of his army in a disasterous retreat from Russia | Napoleon | declared ware on Great Britain | US |
| also known as the Battle of the Nations | Battle of Leipzig | ends in defeat for Napoleon | Battle of Leipzig | takes Caracas and becomes virtual dictator in Venezuela | Bolivar |
| builds the first successful steam locomotive | Stephenson | abdicates and is awarded sovereignty of Elba in the Mediterranean | Napoleon | restored to France's throne | Louis XVIII |
| escaped from Elba for 100 days | Napoleon | defeated at Waterloo | Napoleon | defeated Napoleon at Waterloo | Wellesley & von Blucher |
| Wellesley is also known as | Duke of Wellington | where Napoleon is exiled to | St. Helena where he dies | meets to decide post-Napoleonic Europe | The Congress of Vienna |
| represents the Austrians at the Congress of Vienna | Metternich | represents the British at the Congress of Vienna | Castlereagh | represents the French at the Congress of Vienna | Talleyrand |
| represents the Russians at the Congress of Vienna | Alexander I | invents method of paving roads | MacAdam | (blank) | (blank) |