Wars/Revolutions/Revolts/Uprisings
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| War of the Austrian Succession | 1740 to 1748 | Began when Prussians invaded Austrian Silesia. Maria Theresa of Hapsburg keeps her throne in Austria, but the power of Germany shifts to Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire declines.
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| The Jacobites' Struggles and Revolts | 1701 to 1746 | The Jacobites try to take over the English throne.
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| Seven Years' War | 1756 to 1763 | Austria, France, Sweden, Russia, and Spain fight Prussia, Britain, and Hanover for control of Europe. War ends with the Treaty of Paris.
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| Capture of Acadia | From 1603 (French) to 1750s (British). | Nova Scotia, or Acadia, was captured by the French and later by the British, who sent all of the Acadians out of their land to the colonies.
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| French and Indian War | 1754 to 1763 | The French fight the British. Also ended by Treaty of Paris.
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| King Philip's War | 1675 to 1676 | Wampanoag tribes rise against settlers. Ends after Wampanoag lose (but 10% of males in Massachusetts were killed).
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| King William's War | 1686 to 1697 | English and French settlers fight, but neither achieve much.
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| Queen Anne's War | 1702 to 1713 | English take Acadia and destroy St. Augustine (Spanish).
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| King George's War | 1744 to 1748 | British capture Louisbourg (French fort) and return it for Madras (in India) in 1748.
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| Pontiac's Rebellion | 1763 to 1766 | Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa and a confederacy of Algonquin tribes, attacked places from the Great Lakes to Virginia, killing around 200 settlers. The British made peace with him in 1766 before hiring a Native American to assasinate him in Illinoi in 176
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| American Revolution | 1775 to 1781 | British verses Americans (who want freedom from the crown). Ends with the surrender of the English to the Americans. The British recognize the freedom of the newly-formed States in 1783.
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| Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys' attack | 1775 | Attacked Fort Ticonderoga and win the first colonial victory in the American Revolution.
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| French Revolution | 1790s | (blank)
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| Massacre of the Mamluks | 1811 | The Mamluks ruled Egypt from 1249 to 1517 and again during the 1700s. When Mehmet Ali Pasha conquered them in 1811 and controlled Egypt, he invited the commanders to a banquet in Cairo where they were massacred.
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| Pugachev's Rebellion | 1773 to 1774 | Rebels took city of Kazan and promised to abolish serfdom, tax, landlords, and military service but Pugachev was defeited.
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| Russia gains Black Sea Coast | 1792 | Ottomans no longer control Black Sea and Russia builds powerful navy.
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| Russia annexes Crimea | 1783 | Ottomans no longer have control of Crimea (Russians had already taken Azov from them earlier)
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| Capture of Rangoon | 1824 | British commander Sir Archibald Campbell leads 11,000 soldiers to capture Burmese capital of Rangoon in revenge for Burmese king's attack on British's Indian lands.
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| Anglo-Burmese war | 1824 to 1826 | Britain fights Burma because Burma had supported Britain's enemies living close to Bengal.
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| Reign of Terror | September 1793 to July 1794 | Around 18,000 people guillotined during Reign of Terror.
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| Storming of Bastille | July 14, 1789 | Outbreak of revolution begins when Parisians storm the Bastille, prison where many popular leaders were impisoned by king. "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity."
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| Napoleonic Wars | 1797 to 1815 | Napoleon tries to change all of Europe but is finally exiled when Britain opposes him.
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| Napoleon is exiled to Elba | 1814 | Napoleon is exiled to Elba, but escapes.
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| Battle of Waterloo | 1815 | Napoleon's last battle in Belgium, where he is defeated.
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| Napoleon's death on St. Helena | 1821 | Napoleon dies in exile on St. Helena.
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| Slaves' Revolt | 1791 to 1804 | National Assembly in Paris gives vote to slaves in Santo Domingo. Plantation owners refuse. 100,000 slaves rebelled. Napoleon sent troops and a long civil war was led by Toussaint l'Ouverture, ex-slave who declares himself ruler of the island in 1801.
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| "Maroon" Slave Revolt (Jamaican) | 1739 | (blank)
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| Nat Turner's revolt in Virginia | 1831 | Led to new laws to control slaves.
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| Mutiny of Indian soldiers in British army | 1857 | Started as a result of a famine. Many were massacred, but the mutiny was stopped by the British.
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| British East India Company annexes Sind and the Punjab. | 1843 to 1849. | (blank)
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| British East India Company fights the Marathas. | 1803 to 1818. | Marathas ruled central India. The B.E.I.C. broke their power.
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| Revolt in Latin America | 1808 to 1825 | As a result, many free countries in South America and Central America were created.
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| Unrest in Britain | 1811 to 1832 | As a result of terrible factory working conditions and unemployment threats caused by creating of machines.
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| Peterloo Massacre | 1819 | In St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, England, unarmed people were killed who had gathered to listen to Henry Hunt, campaigner for political change.
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| U.S. annexes Texas | 1845 | (blank)
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| War of 1812 | 1812 to 1814 | Americans tired to invade Canada unsuccessfully. British burned down Washington D.C. Treaty was signed in 1814, returning all territories.
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