Europe in Turmoil Formula Sheet

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Year	Event
1755	Morally's Code de la Nature
1814	Napoleon abdicates, exiled to Elba
1815	Waterloo (Belgium); Congress of Vienna
1819	Factory Act in Britain
1824	Labour unions legalised in England
1830	July Revolution in France (26 July ordinances of Charles X)
1831	Mazzini's Young Italy
1834	Zollverein; Grand National Consolidated Trades Union
1837	Northern Star founded
1848	February Revolution; Communist Manifesto; bloody June days (24-26 June)
1852	Louis Napoleon becomes Napoleon III
1859	Solferino; Villa Franca (11 July); Treaty of Zurich
1861	Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed ruler of Italy (May)
1864	Denmark defeated; International Working Men's Association
1865	Convention of Gastein
1866	Seven Weeks' War; Sadowa; Treaty of Prague
1867	Das Kapital vol. I
1870	Battle of Sedan (2 September)
1871	Treaty of Frankfurt; Paris Commune; Rome joins Italy
1873	Vienna Stock Market collapse; Long Depression begins
1875	Third Republic in France (January)
1889	Second International (Paris); London dock strike
1892	Homestead strike
1894	Pullman Strike

Concert of Europe: Austria, Prussia, Russia and Britain preserving order after Napoleon.
Phalansteres: Fourier's co-operative communities.
Anarchism: abolition of the state and a voluntary, co-operative society.
Risorgimento: the resurrection of Italian spirit, named after Cavour's paper.
Red Shirts: Garibaldi's Italian Legion (1843).
Zollverein: Prussian customs union.
Blood and iron: Bismarck's policy for German unity.
Gilded Age: USA from the 1870s to 1900.

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