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Happened:  21 January 1793
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It was a major event of the Revolution.

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Happened: November 21, 1806 and December 17, 1807
Continental System, in the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. The decrees of Berlin and Milan proclaimed a blockade: neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British.

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Happened July 4, 1776
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

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Happened 20: June 1789

On 20 June 1789, the  members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established." It was a pivotal event in the early days of the French Revolution.

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Happened: between 1765 and 1783
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies maintained by force of arms their refusal to submit to the authority of the King and Parliament of Great Britain, and founded the independent United States.

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Born: November 14, 1765, Little Britain Township, PA

Died: February 24, 1815, New York City, NY
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Claremont.

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Born: July 8, 1839, Richford, NY

Died: May 23, 1937, Ormond Beach, FL
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American oil industry business magnate and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history.

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Happened: July 14, 1789

The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.

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Born: March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Died: August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

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Happened: December 16, 1773
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.

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Born: December 8, 1765, Westborough, MA

Died: January 8, 1825, New Haven, CT
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South

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Born: May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany

Died: March 14, 1883, London, United Kingdom
Karl Marx was a German-born scientist, philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy.

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Born: July 9, 1819, Spencer, MA

Died: October 3, 1867, Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Elias Howe, Jr. was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.

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Born: February 9, 1737
Death: June 8, 1809
From: Thetford, United Kingdom
Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.

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Born: October 26, 1759
Died: April 5, 1794
Georges Jacques Danton was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, in particular as the first president of the Committee of Public Safety

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Born: August 29, 1632
Death: October 28, 1704
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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Born: September 6, 1757
Died: May 20, 1834
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, in the U.S. often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War

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Born: May 6, 1758
Died: July 28, 1794
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician. He was one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror

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Born: January 24, 1712
Death: August 17, 1786
From: Berlin, Germany

Frederick II was King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king.

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Born: September 29, 1758
Died: October 21, 1805
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté KB was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy

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Born: September 27, 1722
Death: October 2, 1803
From: Boston MA

Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Born: January 27, 1756,
Death: December 5, 1791

Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical school.

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Born: August 15, 1769,
Died: May 5, 1821
Napoléon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars

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Born: January 30, 1736,
Died: August 25, 1819
While repairing a model Newcomer steam engine in 1764, Watt was impressed by its waste of steam.

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Born: April 13, 1743
Death: July 4, 1826

He is famous for writing the Declaration of Independence and for being the third president of the United States.

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Born: November 2, 1755
Died: October 16, 1793
Was the last Queen of France and Navarre before the French Revolution.After the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the royal family was forced to live under the supervision of revolutionary authorities.

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Born  August 23, 1754
Died  January 21, 1793
Louis was king of France when the monarchy was overthrown during the French Revolution

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Born: January 17, 1706
Died: April 17, 1790

From: Boston, MA

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, free-mason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat