stated that population increases geometrically but food production increases arithmetically

"Essay on the Principles of Population"

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World History

pp.17-20

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)

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