a poem expressing Keats' excitment at reading Chapman's translation on Homer

Om First looking into Chapman's Homer

Greek Peasant who found Venus de Milo

by realizing that the three messages on it are the same message in Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphics

how the Rosetta Stone was deciphered

elected president of France

Prince Louise Napoleon Bonaparte

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World History

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Event	Person	Event	Person	Event	Person
published Grimm's Fairy Tales including Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, Goldilocks & the 3 Bears, Princess & the Pea, Thumbelina, LIttle Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood & Cinderella	Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm	German linguists and philologists	Grimms	published "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"	Keats
a poem expressing Keats' excitment at reading Chapman's translation on Homer	Om First looking into Chapman's Homer	mistakes Cortez for Balboa in the poem's closing six lines	Becomes independent of Spain, thanks to military efforts of Bernoardo O'Higgins and Jose' de San martin	Helped Chile gain independence	O'Higgins & de San Martin
wrote Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	wrote Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind and Prometheus Unbound	Percy Shelley	defeated Spanish forces and is named president of New Granada, Venezuela and Quito	Bolivar
formed a German Customs Union called the Zollverein	Prussia	included most German states but excluded Austria	Zollverein	promoted free trade among members but institutes a high tariff on non-members	Zollverein
invented the stethoscope	Laennac	finised after 34 years of construction in Madris	The Prado	made teh Royal Spanish Museum	The Prado
made the Prado the Royal Spanish Museum	Ferdinand VII	succeeded by George IV	George III	ruled as regent before becoming King	George IV
discovered the left-hand, right-hand rules of magnetic fields	Ampere	French Scienteist	Ampere	find the 2nd century statue Venus de Milo in an underground chamber on Melos	Yorgos
Yorgos	Greek Peasant who found Venus de Milo	proclaims the independence of Peru	de San Martin	pioneers the electric motor	Faraday
English chemist	Faraday	deciphers the Rosetta Stone	de Champollion	French Egyptologist	de Champollion
by realizing that the three messages on it are the same message in Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphics	how the Rosetta Stone was deciphered	founded in Africa as a haven for freed US slaves	Liberia	published Don Juan	Gordon
Gordon	also known as Lord Byron	wrote The Prisoner of Chillon and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Gordon	Succeeded by his brother, Charles X	Louis XVIII
wrote The Raft of the Medusa	Gericault	painted Napoleon Crossing the Alps, The Oath of the Horatii, The Death of Marat	David	dies after eating poisonous mushrooms	Czar Alexander I
Czar Alexander I was succeeded by his brother	Nicholas I	Reigned until 1855 in Russia	Nicholas I	composed The Moonlight Sonata, The Kreutzer Sonata, Symphony #3 (Eroica), Symphony #6 (Pastoral)	Beethoven
proved that current flowing through an electrical conductor is proportional to the voltage across it an dinverely proportional to its resistance	Ohm	German Scientist	Ohm	Painted The Third of May, 1808; The Nude Maja; The Clothed Maja; The Family of Charles IV	Goya
Compsed The Trout Quintet, The Unfinished Symphony, The Great Symphony	Schubert	Austrian Composer	Schubert	Gains independence after 400 years of Ottoman Rule	Greece
Overthrown by the French	Charles X	Charles X successor	Louis Philippe	Louis Philippe	Citizen King
Liberty at the Barricades was painted in support of this July Revolution	Delacroix	moved a magnet inside a coil, producing an electric current that will lead to the development of the dynamo	Faraday	took the throne of Belgium	Leopold I
embarks on a voyage on the HMS Beagle that will take him to South America and the Galapagos Islands	Darwin	wrote Notre Dame De Paris	Hugo	becomes known as Les Miserables	Notre Dame De Paris
called Islan Malvinas	Falkland Islands	claimed the Falkland Islands	British Gunboats	proposed a large-scale calculating machine he calls an "analytical engine"	Babbage
English mathematician	Babbage	sysstem of raised dots used by the blind for reading is created	Braille	blind since age 3	Braille
wrote Demoncracy in America	de Tocqueville	published Fairy Tales incliding The Princess and the Pea; The Red Shoes; THe Ugly Duckling; The Snow Queen; The Emperor's New Clothes	Anderson	succeeded by his niece, Victoria	William IV
granddaughter of George III	Victoria	war between Great Britain & China	The First Opium War	ended the First Opium War	the Treaty of Nanking
Chinese ced Hong Kong to the British	the Treaty of Nanking	invented the Daguerreotype method of photography	Daguerre	first used daguerreotypes in the US	Morse
satue atop a column in Trafalgar Square, London	Nelson	founds the YMCA in England	Williams	becomes extinct when the last one is killed on Eldy Island, near Iceland	The Great Auk
deciphered ancient Persion cuneiform writing	Rawlinson	what Rawlinson used to decipher cunieform	Behistun Rock	Mexican War began	1846
this crop failed and began a famine in Ireland	potato	led to accelerated migration to the New World	famine	composed A Midsummer Night's Dream & Reformation Symphony	Mendelsshon
Age at which Mendelsshon wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream	17	published The Communist Manifesto	Marx & Engels	Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist Revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains	The Communist Manifesto
elected president of France	Prince Louise Napoleon Bonaparte	forced to resign	Metternich	forced to grant land reforms	William IV
Congress meets to consider German unification	in Frankfurt	proposed an absolute scale for temperatures	Thomson	Thomson	also known as Lord Kelvin
British mathematician	Thomson	composed Polonaise Fantasie and Minute Waltz	Chopin	first ever World's Fair	The Great London Exhibition
Where the Great London Exhibition is housed	The Crystal Palace	proclaims a second French Empire and will rule until 1870	Louis Napoleon	Ruled as Napoleon III	Louis Napeoleon
marries Spanish Countess Eugenie	Napoleon III	publishes the first ever Thesaurus	Roget	Opnes Japan to trade after arriving in Edo Bay	Perry
key battles include Balaclava, Charge of the Light Brigade and the siege of Sevastapol	Crimean War	Ended the Crimean War	Treaty of Paris	wrote poem Charge of the Light Brigade	Tennyson
led the Charge of the LIght Brigade	Brudenell	organizes nurses in the Crimea to form a hospital cutting down on deaths from cholera, dysentery and typhus	Nightingale	had a ruling that made the immaculate conception of the Virgin a truism of Catholicism	Vatican
implies papal infallibility when the Pope is talking on religous matters	Vatican ruling	succeeded by Alexander II	Nicholas I	discovers the falls on the Zambezi River that will be called Victoria Falls	Livingstone
Scottis Missionary	Livingstone	invents the Bessemer Process	Bessemer process	process for refining iron into steel	Bessemer process
Indian Sepoys rebel; a massacre at Cawnpore takes the lives of 211 British women and children	The Sepoy Mutiny	has a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes	Bernadette Soubirous	the bell in the tower of London's Westminster Palace begins chiming the hours	Big Ben
Coinstruction began on this under de Lesseps	Suez Canal	Supervised the construction of the Suez Canal	de Lesseps	Published "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"	Darwin
Translated into English	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Translated "he Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" to English	FitzGerald	Sterilized milk by heating it to 125 degrees Celcius at a pressure of 1.5 atmospheres	Pasteur
Conquered Sicily and Naples to unite Italy	Garibaldi's Redshirts	First king of United Italy	Emannuel II	Emancipated Russian serfs	Czar Alexnader II
Disproved the theory os spontaneous generation	Pasteur	Has its roots in a Pasteur paper	The germ theory of disease	THe source of the Nile	Lake Victoria
Confired that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile	Speke	Prime Minister of Prussia	von Bismark	Violated the Monroe Doctrine	Napoleon III
Archduke of Austria, and offered the Throne of Mexico	Maximilian	Began operation in London	subway system	Created a sensation with his painting "Le Dejeuner se l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)"	Manet
Depicts two clothed men and a nude woman on a picnic	Luncheon on the Grass	One of the most famous statues of antiquity, uncovered in Samothrace, Greece	Winged Victory of Samothrace	Died leaving behind "The Bark of Dante", "Death of Sardanopolis", "Liberty Leading the People", "Tiger Attacking a Horse", "George Sands Garden at Nohant"	Delacroix
ended in China after 14 years; ultimately put down with aid from foreigh troops, including Charles "Chinese" Gordon	The Taiping Rebellion	established by Jean Henri Dunanat at the Geneva Conventio, at which 26 participatory nations pledge themselves to humanitarian rules concerning POWS & wounded soldiers	International Red Cross	shares first-ever Nobel Peace Prize in 1901	Dunant
begins the Slavation Army in London	Booth	discovers value of carbolic acid as an anticeptic	Lister	harnessed the power of nitroglycerin and invents dynamite	Nobel
Swedish engineer/inventor	Nobel	begins publication of War & Peach	Tolstoy	published Crime & Punishment	Dosteoievsky
surrendered to forces loyal to Juarez and is executed by firing squad	Maximilian	painted The Execution of Maximilian	Manet	publishes Das Kapital	Marx
urges and end to private ownership of public utilities, transportation facilities, and manufacturing entities	Das Kapital	composed The Barber of Seville & The William Tell Overture	Rossini	ends the Tokugawa shogunate that has held power since 1603	Japan's Meiji restoration
promises to be guided by a deliberative assembly	Emperor Mutsuhito	built by French enginerr de Lesseps	The Suez Canal	wrote Aidda to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal	Verdi
discovers tiny cells in the pancreas that porduce glycogen and insuline which will be called islets of Langerhans	Langerhans	wires Prussia's Whilhelm I demanding an apology for his persuasion of prince Leopold not to take the Spanish crown.	Napoleon III	prohipbit's Leopold from accepting any future tender of the Spanish crown	Napoleon's wire
edits Napoleon's letter and releases it to the public making it look like Mapoleon is trying to disgrace Kaiser Wilhelm	von Bismark	Napoleon's public letter	Ems Dispatch	declaresd ware on Prussia	France
won the war between France & Prussia	Prussia	ended the war between France & Prussia	Treaty of Frankfurt	published The Principles of Chemistry	Mendeleev
sets the 63 known chemical elements according to atomic weight	The Principles of Chemistry	began archeological excavations on Troy basedon contextual clues in Homer's The Iliad	Schleimann	emperor in the Germany's Second Reich	Kaiser Wilhelm
Chancellor under Germany's Second Reich	von Bismark	von Bismark	The Iron Chancellor	found at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika by New York Herald correspondent Henry Stanley	English missionary David Livingstone

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