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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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46 |
Political instability, Enlightenment influence, and national bankruptcy were three of the many causes of the French Revolution. |
History > European |
01/12/09 |
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47 |
Queen Victoria came to the English throne in 1837, after the death of her uncle, William IV. |
History > European |
10/16/08 |
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48 |
Sir Isaac Newton is considered the Father of Calculus. |
History > European |
12/28/08 |
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49 |
The Black Death resulted in population decline, decline of Church influence, and disruption of trade. |
History > European |
01/29/09 |
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50 |
The Black Death, or Black Plague, spread to Europe during the 1340s. |
History > European |
10/05/08 |
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51 |
The Carlsbad Decrees was published by Klemens von Metternich to stop the spread of enlightened thought. |
History > European |
02/15/09 |
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52 |
The Concordat of Bologna gave King Francis I of France the right to appoint benefices, which allowed France to decide who was to lead the Catholic Church in France. |
History > European |
12/30/08 |
|
53 |
The Credit Mobilier of Paris was founded by Isaac and Emile Pereire, two young Jewish journalists from Bordeaux. |
History > European |
02/05/09 |
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54 |
The Cult of the Supreme Being, created by Maximilian Robespierre, was a religion based on deism. |
History > European |
01/13/09 |
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55 |
The Defenestration of Prague occured when some Catholic nobles were shoved out of a window and onto a pile of manure; it also signaled the start of the Bohemian Phase of the Thirty Years' War. |
History > European |
12/30/08 |
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56 |
The Enclosure Acts was one reason for the start of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. |
History > European |
02/07/09 |
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57 |
The French Estates General was a legislative assembly consisting of the First Estate (the clergy), the Second Estate (the nobility), and the Third Estate (the commoners/everyone else). |
History > European |
01/12/09 |
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58 |
The future Henry VIII became heir apparent to the English throne at the age of ten. |
History > European |
09/28/08 |
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59 |
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in the Crystal Palace, a building made entirely of glass and iron. |
History > European |
02/05/09 |
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60 |
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union, mostly used during Stalin's reign. |
History > European |
03/31/09 |
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