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| Execution of Louis XIV-- Reign of Terror |
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| Napoleon's coup d'etat overthrows corrupt Directory |
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Romantic Era
(Wordsworth, Goya's picture, Delacroix, Hegel, Fichte, Grimm, Goethe, Herder) |
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| Napoleon makes his fateful decision to invade Russia because Czar Alexander I is blatantly violating Napoleon's Continental System designed to choke England. |
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| Napoleon escapes from exile in Elbe and flirts with a new Empire during the infamous "100 days" before being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and the combined forces of the Austrians under Blucher and the English under Wellington |
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| The forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the Congress of Vienna where Metternich and others try and re-establish the ancien regime. Concert of Europe looks to crush liberalism and nationalism. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. |
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| the "Long Peace" in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of WWI. |
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| Era of Democratic Revolutions sweep across the New World and western "Liberal" Europe. (for the most part, ends the initial colonial establishments in central and south america) |
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| Peterloo Massacre in Britain and the repressive Carlsbad Decrees in the German States are examples of goverment opposition to liberalism. |
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| Great Reform Bill- extends the franchise and redistricting of the "rotten boroughs" in Britain. |
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| Repeal of the Corn Laws in England- Robert Peel makrks the growth in power of the laissez-faire. Liberal thinking of the industrial capitalists. |
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| 1848 (liberalism/nationalism) |
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| Revolutions, Revolutions, Revolutions. Despite early success, the ultimate failure of these revolutions causes many to adopt more Realpolitik methods toward unification and social reform, |
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| 1848 (scientific socialism) |
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| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish thier Communist Manifesto calling for scientific socialism and dialectical materialism. (inevitable working class revolution) |
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| Crimean War-- Clausewitz and Romantic view of war persists despite the War. |
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| The Era of National Unification-- Bismarck,etc. |
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| Reign of Czar Alexander II of Russia- the Great Emancipator of the serfs. |
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| 2nd French Empire under Napoleon III in France demonstrates the power of those who oppose French Rupublicanism (military, Church, nobility, and monarchists) |
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| J.S. Mill and Harriet Taylor publish On the Subjection of Women |
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| The Austrians, reeling from their humiliation in the Seven Weeks' War are forced by the Magyars to establish a dual monarchy of Ausgleich. Austria-Hungary |
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| Ems Dispatch leads to the Franco-Prussian War and German Unification. Italy gains the Papal States. |
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| Bismarck has achieved the formation of the 2nd German Reich through "blood and iron" and Clausewitzian policies. |
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| 1st Berlin Congress- Jingoism in Britain over Russian interference in the Balkans almost leads to war. |
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| 2nd Congress of Berlin meets to establish the rules of European Imperialism. "Scramble for Africa". "Honest Broker". "Victorian English Politics" |
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| Dreyfus Affair rocks the French Third Republic with anti-Semitism. This incident is indicative and representative of the growing popularity of anti-Semitism that grow following the idea of Social Darwinism. |
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