The Age of Revolutions Formula Sheet

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Year	Event
1607	Jamestown colony in Virginia
1764	Tax on sugar and molasses
1765	Stamp Act
1770	Boston Massacre
1773	Boston Tea Party
1774	Intolerable Acts; Quebec Act
4 July 1776	Declaration of Independence
1777	Battle of Saratoga
1781	British surrender at Yorktown
1783	Treaty of Paris
20 June 1789	Tennis Court Oath
14 July 1789	Storming of the Bastille
26 August 1789	Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
2 September 1792	September Massacres begin
21 January 1793	Execution of Louis XVI
4 February 1794	Slavery abolished in French lands
1799 / 1804	Napoleon's coup / crowned Emperor
1804	Haiti independent
1819	Angostura congress; Peterloo Massacre
1822	Brazil independent
1830	Liverpool-Manchester railway
1871	Unification of Germany
1886	Haymarket Massacre, Chicago

Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence; Thomas Paine - Common Sense
William Howe - British commander; George Washington - American commander, first president
Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes - Tennis Court Oath; Robespierre - Jacobins; Danton - Cordelier Club
Olympe de Gouges - rights of women; Roget de Lisle - La Marseillaise
Toussaint L'Ouverture, Dessalines - Haiti; Bolivar - Gran Colombia; Hidalgo, Morelos - Mexico; San Martin - Argentina
John Kay, Hargreaves, Arkwright, Crompton, Darby, Newcomen, Watt, Stephenson, Fulton, Brunel, McAdam - inventors
Samuel Slater - father of the American Industrial Revolution

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