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Date |
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| 1 | 1787 | - 1787: U.S. Constitution signed
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| 2 | 1789 | - 1789: French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille; in U.S. George Washington elected President
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| 3 | 1791 | - 1791: U.S. Bill of Rights ratified
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| 4 | 1792 | - 1792: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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| 5 | 1793 | - 1793: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed beginnning the Reign of Terror in France
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| 6 | 1794 | - 1794: Kosciusko's uprising in Poland quelled by the Russians
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| 7 | 1796 | - 1796: Jenner discovers smallpox vaccine
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| 8 | 1808 | - 1808: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
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| 9 | 1815 | - 1815: Battle of Waterloo crushes Napoleon
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| 10 | 1819 | - 1819: Bolivar defeats Spainish forces at Boyaca
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| 11 | 1826 | - 1826: Niepce takes first photograph
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| 12 | 1833 | - 1833: Slavery abolished in British Empire
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| 13 | 1842 | - 1842: Long uses ether as first anesthetic
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| 14 | 1859 | - 1859: Darwin's On the Origin of Species;Lenoir buids the first practical internal combustion engine
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| 15 | 1862 | - 1862: Pasteur's experiments lead to germ theory; Salon des Refuses introduces impressionism
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| 16 | 1867 | - 1867: Japan ends 675-year shogun rule
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