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HI 102 mid-term dates
1543-1919
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Undergraduate 3
03/14/2010

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1620
Definition
Pilgrims arrive in New World
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1662
Definition
Halfway Covenant
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1715
Definition
Age of Enlightenment
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1734
Definition
Great Awakening begins in America
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1776
Definition
Declaration of Independence
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1789
Definition
US Constitution Ratified
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1793-1794
Definition
Reign of Terror
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1803
Definition
Louisiana Purchase
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1815
Definition
Battle of Waterloo
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1848
Definition
Revolution/ Second Republic
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1871
Definition
Wilhelm I declared  kaiser of a united Germany/ Rome becomes capital of a united Italy
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1914-1918
Definition
WWI
Term
1915
Definition
Sinking of Lusitania
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1916
Definition
Battle of Verdun/ Battle of Jutland
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1919
Definition
Confernce of Versailles/ League of Nations formed/ Lenin organizes Third International
Term
1543
Definition
Copernicus
Term
1687
Definition
Newton- universal law of gravitation
Term
1776
Definition
James Watt/ 1st practical steam engine
Term
1785
Definition
Edmund Cartwright- power loom
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1837
Definition

Samuel Morse- telegraph

John Deere- steel plow

Term
1903
Definition
Wright brothers~ 1st successful airplane flight
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1592
Definition
Shakespeare
Term
1678
Definition
Bunyan~ Pilgrim's Progress
Term
1742
Definition
Handel~ "Messiah"
Term
1850
Definition

Hawthorne~ The Scarlet Letter

Dickens~ David Copperfield

Term
1800
Definition
Act of Union- joins England and Ireland
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1840
Definition
David Livingstone goes to Africa
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1854
Definition
Commodore Matthew Perry persuades Japan to open it doors to Western trade
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1878
Definition
William Booth organizes Salvation Army
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1882
Definition
American Red Cross founded
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1871
Definition
Wilhelm I declared kaiser of a united Germany/ Rome becomes capital of a united Italy
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1914-1918
Definition
WWI
Term
1915
Definition
Sinking of Lusitania
Term
1916
Definition
Battle of Verdun/ Battle of Jutland
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1919
Definition
Conference of Versailles/ League of Nations formed/ Lenin organizes Third International
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