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European History Dates 2
Euro History Important Dates from 1793-1902
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10th Grade
01/17/2006

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1793-94
Definition
Execution of Louis XIV-- Reign of Terror
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1799
Definition
Napoleon's coup d'etat overthrows corrupt Directory
Term
1800-1848
Definition
Romantic Era
(Wordsworth, Goya's picture, Delacroix, Hegel, Fichte, Grimm, Goethe, Herder)
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1812
Definition
Napoleon makes his fateful decision to invade Russia because Czar Alexander I is blatantly violating Napoleon's Continental System designed to choke England.
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1815 (Napoleon)
Definition
Napoleon escapes from exile in Elbe and flirts with a new Empire during the infamous "100 days" before being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and the combined forces of the Austrians under Blucher and the English under Wellington
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1815 (Conservatism)
Definition
The forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the Congress of Vienna where Metternich and others try and re-establish the ancien regime. Concert of Europe looks to crush liberalism and nationalism. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
Term
1815-1914
Definition
the "Long Peace" in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of WWI.
Term
1776-1830
Definition
Era of Democratic Revolutions sweep across the New World and western "Liberal" Europe. (for the most part, ends the initial colonial establishments in central and south america)
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1815-1848
Definition
The Age of Metternich
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1819
Definition
Peterloo Massacre in Britain and the repressive Carlsbad Decrees in the German States are examples of goverment opposition to liberalism.
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1832
Definition
Great Reform Bill- extends the franchise and redistricting of the "rotten boroughs" in Britain.
Term
1830s, 40s, 50s, 60s
Definition
Charles Dickens
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1846
Definition
Repeal of the Corn Laws in England- Robert Peel makrks the growth in power of the laissez-faire. Liberal thinking of the industrial capitalists.
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1848 (liberalism/nationalism)
Definition
Revolutions, Revolutions, Revolutions. Despite early success, the ultimate failure of these revolutions causes many to adopt more Realpolitik methods toward unification and social reform,
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1848 (scientific socialism)
Definition
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish thier Communist Manifesto calling for scientific socialism and dialectical materialism. (inevitable working class revolution)
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1853-56
Definition
Crimean War-- Clausewitz and Romantic view of war persists despite the War.
Term
1859-1871
Definition
The Era of National Unification-- Bismarck,etc.
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1855-1881
Definition
Reign of Czar Alexander II of Russia- the Great Emancipator of the serfs.
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1852-1870
Definition
2nd French Empire under Napoleon III in France demonstrates the power of those who oppose French Rupublicanism (military, Church, nobility, and monarchists)
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1869
Definition
J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor publish On the Subjection of Women
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1867
Definition
The Austrians, reeling from their humiliation in the Seven Weeks' War are forced by the Magyars to establish a dual monarchy of Ausgleich. Austria-Hungary
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1870-71
Definition
Ems Dispatch leads to the Franco-Prussian War and German Unification. Italy gains the Papal States.
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January 18, 1871
Definition
Bismarck has achieved the formation of the 2nd German Reich through "blood and iron" and Clausewitzian policies.
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1878
Definition
1st Berlin Congress- Jingoism in Britain over Russian interference in the Balkans almost leads to war.
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1885
Definition
2nd Congress of Berlin meets to establish the rules of European Imperialism. "Scramble for Africa". "Honest Broker". "Victorian English Politics"
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1894
Definition
Dreyfus Affair rocks the French Third Republic with anti-Semitism. This incident is indicative and representative of the growing popularity of anti-Semitism that grow following the idea of Social Darwinism.
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