A Short History of the World Part 36

1760. George III of Britain.

1763. Peace of Paris; Canada ceded to Britain. British dominant in India.

1769. Napoleon Bonaparte born.

1774. Louis XVI began his reign.

1776. Declaration of Independence by the United States of America.

1783. Treaty of Peace between Britain and the new United States of America.

1787. The Const.i.tutional Convention of Philadelphia set up the Federal Government of the United States. France discovered to be bankrupt.

1788. First Federal Congress of the United States at New York.

1789. The French States-General a.s.sembled. Storming of the Bastille.

1791. Flight to Varennes.

1792. France declared war on Austria. Prussia declared war on France. Battle of Valmy. France became a republic.

1793. Louis XVI beheaded.

1794. Execution of Robespierre and end of the Jacobin republic.

1795. The Directory. Bonaparte suppressed a revolt and went to Italy as commander-in-chief.

1798. Bonaparte went to Egypt. Battle of the Nile.

1799. Bonaparte returned to France. He became First Consul with enormous powers.

1804. Bonaparte became Emperor. Francis II took the t.i.tle of Emperor of Austria in 1805, and in 1806 he dropped the t.i.tle of Holy Roman Emperor. So the "Holy Roman Empire" came to an end.

1806. Prussia overthrown at Jena.

1808. Napoleon made his brother Joseph King of Spain.

1810. Spanish America became republican.

1812. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.

1814. Abdication of Napoleon. Louis XVIII.

1824. Charles X of France.

1825. Nicholas I of Russia. First railway, Stockton to Darlington.

1827. Battle of Navarino.

1829. Greece independent.

1830. A year of disturbance. Louis Philippe ousted Charles X.

Belgium broke away from Holland. Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha became king of this new country, Belgium. Russian Poland revolted ineffectually.

1835. The word "socialism" first used.

1837. Queen Victoria.

1840. Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1852. Napoleon III Emperor of the French.

1854-56. Crimean War.

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1856. Alexander II of Russia.

1861. Victor Emmanuel First King of Italy. Abraham Lincoln became President, U. S. A. The American Civil War began.

1865. Surrender of Appomattox Court House. j.a.pan opened to the world.

1870. Napoleon III declared war against Prussia.

1871. Paris surrendered (January). The King of Prussia became "German Emperor." The Peace of Frankfort.

1878. The Treaty of Berlin. The Armed Peace of forty-six years began in western Europe.

1888. Frederick II (March), William II (June), German Emperors.

1912. China became a republic.

1914. The Great War in Europe began.

1917. The two Russian revolutions. Establishment of the Bolshevik regime in Russia.

1918. The Armistice.

1920. First meeting of the League of Nations, from which Germany, Austria, Russia and Turkey were excluded and at which the United States was not represented.

1921. The Greeks, in complete disregard of the League of Nations, make war upon the Turks.

1922. Great defeat of the Greeks in Asia Minor by the Turks.