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Chapter 4: Ruling the waves
by Collins
1788 United States Constitution is approved 1789 (July) The Storming of the Bastille, Paris 1789 Olaudah Equiano publishes his autobiography 1792 France declares war on Austria and Prussia 1793 George Macartney’s British embassy to China 1798 United Irishmen Uprising takes place
1789 (May) The EstatesGeneral meet 1789 (August) French National Assembly passes the Declaration of the Rights of Man 1791 The Bill of Rights is approved
1824 Battle of Ayacucho expels last Spanish viceroy from Latin America 1821 Greek War of Independence begins 1819 Peterloo Massacre takes place in Manchester 1793 Louis XVI is executed 1799 Napoleon becomes First Consul of France
1815 Napoleon is fi nally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo 1811 First Luddite attacks take place in Nottingham 1805 Napoleon wins the Battle of Austerlitz 1800 Dutch government takes control of Dutch East Indies from the VOC
1801 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is created
1803 The Louisiana Purchase
1822 Brazilian Independence declared by Prince Pedro
1820 The Missouri Compromise 1815 Congress of Vienna
1812
Napoleon invades Russia
1807 British Parliament passes the Slave Trade Act 1804 Trevithick builds the fi rst functioning steam train 1804 Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French
1857 The Indian Rebellion begins in Meerut 1860 Camillo di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi launch their Italian unifi cation campaigns 1861 Tsar Alexander II announces emancipation of the serfs in Russia 1862 Sumatra and southern Borneo added to the Dutch East Indies 1866 Telegraph wire is laid beneath the Atlantic
1859 Brunel’s SS Great Eastern is launched 1861 Cixi comes to power in Beijing
1862
Homestead Act
1864 Taiping Rebellion defeated by armies loyal to the Qing 1866 Diamonds are found in Cape Colony
1884 British Parliament passes Gladstone’s Third Reform Act
1882 British Army occupies Egypt
1878 Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II reverses the Tanzimat reforms and constitution 1876 The Great Sioux War and indigenous victory against US Army at Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 Leopold II founds the International African Association 1869 The fi rst transcontinental railroad is completed
1871 Franco–Prussian war ends and Germany is unifi ed
1875 British Parliament passes the Public Health Act
1876 Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India
