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| 1701 |
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| ・スペイン継承戦争勃発 The War of the Spanish Succession began. |
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| ・プロイセン, 王国に昇格 Prussia was granted the status of a kingdom. |
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| 1703 |
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| ・ピョートル大帝, サンクト･ペテルブルグを建設 Peter the Great of Russia founded St. Petersburg. |
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| 1707 |
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| ・アウラングゼーブ帝没し, ムガール帝国凋落へ The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb died, and the Empire would soon decline rapidly. |
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| ・イングランドとスコットランド合同し, グレートブリテン連合王国成立 The United Kingdom of Great Britain was established by the union of England and Scotland. |
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| 1713 |
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| ・ユトレヒト条約によりスペイン継承戦争終結 The War of the Spanish Succession ended with the Peace of Utrecht. |
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| 1721 |
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| ・ウォルポール, 初代英国首相に Robert Walpole became the first prime minister of Britain. |
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| 1736 |
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| ・サファヴィー朝ペルシャ滅亡 The end of the Safavid dynasty, which had been virtually conquered by the Afghans (アフガン族) in 1722. |
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| 1740 |
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| ・オーストリア継承戦争勃発 (-48) The War of the Austrian Succession began. |
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| 1756 |
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| ・七年戦争勃発 (-63) The Seven Years' War began. As a result of a diplomatic revolution (外交革命), France and Austria were now allies. |
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| 1764 |
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| ・ハーグリーヴズ, ジェニー紡績機を発明 James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny, one of the earliest of the innovations that would lead to the Industrial Revolution (産業革命). |
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| 1772 |
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| ・第一次ポーランド分割 The first partition of Poland by Prussia, Austria, and Russia. |
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| 1773 |
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| ・ボストン茶会事件 The Boston Tea Party. A Boston mob threw into the harbor a cargo of tea brought from Britain. |
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| 1775 |
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| ・アメリカ独立戦争勃発 The American War of Independence started with the Battle of Lexington and Concord (レキシントン･コンコードの戦い). |
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| 1776 |
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| ・アメリカ独立宣言 The Declaration of Independence was issued on July 4. |
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| 1782 |
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| ・チャクリ朝[バンコク朝]成立 The Chakkri [Bangkok] dynasty was established in Thailand after Ayutthaya was conquered by the Burmese in 1767. |
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| 1783 |
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| ・パリ条約でイギリスがアメリカの独立を承認 Britain recognized American independence in the Treaty of Paris. |
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| 1789 |
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| ・ワシントン, アメリカ合衆国の初代大統領に George Washington became the first president of the United States of America. |
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| ・フランスで三部会開催 The Estates General convened in France for the first time in more than 170 years. |
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| ・バスティーユ襲撃によりフランス革命開始 The French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille on July 14. |
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| ・国民議会設立 The National Assembly was organized in France. |
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| ・フランス人権宣言 The Declaration of the Rights of Man. |
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| 1791 |
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| ・立法議会召集 The Legislative Assembly convened in France. |
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| 1792 |
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| ・フランス革命戦争勃発 The French Revolutionary Wars began. |
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| ・国民公会召集 The National Convention convened in France. |
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| 1793 |
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| ・ルイ 16 世処刑 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette (マリー･アントワネット) were guillotined. |
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| ・ロベスピエール率いるジャコバン派による恐怖政治 The Reign of Terror set in with the Jacobins led by Robespierre in power. |
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| ・第二次ポーランド分割 The second partition of Poland. |
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| 1794 |
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| ・ロベスピエール失脚 Robespierre fell from power and was executed. |
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| 1795 |
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| ・総裁政府発足 The Directoire, led by five directors (総裁), was established in France. |
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| ・第三次ポーランド分割 The third partition of Poland removed the country from the map of Europe. |
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| 1796 |
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| ・カジャール朝ペルシャ成立 The Qajar dynasty was established in Persia with the coronation of a shah at the new capital Tehran (テヘラン). It had set out to reunite the country in 1779 and conquered its rival faction in 1794. |
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| 1799 |
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| ・ナポレオンが統領政府を樹立 General Napoleon Bonaparte established the Consulate with the Coup d' tat of 18 Brumaire (ブリュメール18日のクーデター). Napoleon became the premier of the three consuls (統領). |
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| 1801 |
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| ・イギリス(グレートブリテン連合王国)とアイルランドの合同 The union of Great Britain and Ireland. |
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| 1804 |
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| ・ナポレオン法典公布 The Napoleonic Code was promulgated. |
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| ・ナポレオン, 皇帝に Napoleon assumed the title of emperor. |
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| 1805 |
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| ・トラファルガーの海戦 The British fleet under Admiral Nelson (ネルソン) defeated the French at the Battle of Trafalgar. |
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| ・アウステルリッツの戦い(三帝会戦) Napoleon defeated the combined army of Russia and Austria at the Battle of Austerlitz (the Battle of the Three Emperors). |
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| 1806 |
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| ・神聖ローマ帝国の解体 The Holy Roman Empire, long extant only in name, ceased to exist officially when the Emperor Francis II (フランツ 2 世) gave up the imperial crown and became Francis I of Austria. |
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| 1812 |
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| ・ナポレオン, ロシア遠征に失敗 Napoleon's invasion of Russia ended in failure. |
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| 1812-15 |
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| ・米英戦争 The War of 1812 between the United States and Britain. Peace was concluded at the end of 1814. |
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| 1813 |
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| ・ライプツィヒの戦いでナポレオン敗北 Napoleon lost the Battle of Leipzig (the Battle of Nations). |
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| 1814 |
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| ・ナポレオン退位し, エルバ島に Napoleon was forced to abdicate and was exiled to the island of Elba. Louis XVIII (ルイ 18 世) restored the monarchy in France. |
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| 1814-15 |
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| ・ウィーン会議 The Congress of Vienna. |
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| 1815 |
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| ・ナポレオンの百日天下 Napoleon regained power for the Hundred Days. |
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| ・ワーテルローの戦い Napoleon was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon was deported to the island of St. Helena. |
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| 1825 |
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| ・ロシアでデカブリストの乱 The Decembrist uprising in Russia. |
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| 1830 |
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| ・フランスで七月革命 The July Revolution in France replaced King Charles X (シャルル10 世) with Louis-Philippe (ルイ･フィリップ), the Duke of Orlans. |
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| 1837 |
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| ・イギリスでヴィクトリア女王即位 Accession of Queen Victoria in Britain. |
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| 1840-42 |
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| ・アヘン戦争 The first Opium War. Britain subjugated China with its superior weapons. The war ended with the Treaty of Nanking (南京条約). |
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| 1848 |
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| ・フランスで二月革命 The February Revolution established the Second Republic (第二共和制) in France. |
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| ・ドイツで三月革命 The March Revolution in Germany expelled Metternich (メッテルニヒ), the virtual political leader of Austria. |
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| 1851-64 |
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| ・太平天国の乱 The Taiping Rebellion. |
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| 1852 |
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| ・ナポレオン 3 世がフランスに第二帝政樹立 Napoleon III established the Second Empire in France. |
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| 1853-56 |
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| ・クリミア戦争 The Crimean War. |
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| 1855 |
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| ・アフリカ探検家リヴィングストン, ヴィクトリア滝に到達 British explorer David Livingstone reached the Victoria Falls in Africa. |
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| 1856 |
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| ・アロー戦争 The seizure of the ship Arrow led to the Arrow War (the second Opium War) between Britain and China. It ended with the Treaty of Tianjin (天津条約). |
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| 1857-59 |
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| ・セポイの反乱 The Indian Mutiny (the Sepoy Mutiny). |
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| 1858 |
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| ・イギリス, ムガール帝国を滅ぼしインドの直接統治を開始 Britain began its direct rule of India. The East India Company was dissolved and the last Mughal Emperor was deposed. |
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| 1859 |
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| ・イタリア統一戦争 Sardinia, under King Victor Emmanuel II (ヴィットリオ･エマヌエーレ 2 世), started the War of Italian Unification against Austria. |
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| 1860 |
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| ・北京条約 The Treaty of Beijing. |
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| 1861 |
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| ・イタリア王国成立 The Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed under King Victor Emmanuel II. |
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| 1861 |
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| ・南北戦争 (-65) The Civil War broke out in the United States. |
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| 1862 |
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| ・リンカーン, 奴隷解放宣言を発する President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The final version was issued in 1863. |
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| 1865 |
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| ・リンカーン暗殺. 憲法改正により奴隷制廃止 Lincoln was assassinated. Slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. |
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| 1866 |
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| ・普墺戦争(七週間戦争) The Austro-Prussian War (the Seven Weeks' War). Prussia defeated Austria in seven weeks. |
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| 1869 |
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| ・スエズ運河開通 The completion of the Suez Canal. |
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| 1870 |
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| ・普仏戦争 (-71) The Franco-Prussian War. Napoleon III (ナポレオン 3 世) was taken prisoner at Sedan (セダン). The Second Empire (第二帝政) collapsed and was replaced by the Third Republic (第三共和制). |
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| 1871 |
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| ・ドイツ統一され, 第二帝国成立 The unification of Germany. At the Palace of Versailles (ヴェルサイユ宮殿), the victorious Germans crowned Prussian King William II as the German Emperor William I (ヴィルヘルム 1 世), founding the Second Reich. |
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| ・米人記者スタンリー, アフリカで消息を断っていたリヴィングストンと会見 American reporter Henry Morton Stanley found Livingstone, who had been missing in Africa. |
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| 1894 |
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| ・ドレフュス事件 The Dreyfus Affair. |
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| 1898 |
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| ・ファショダ事件 The Fashoda Incident. Britain and France clashed over colonial interests in Africa. |
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| ・米西戦争 The Spanish-American War, which led to the acquisition of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico by the US. |
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| 1899 |
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| ・ブール戦争 (-1902) The Boer War in South Africa between Britain and the Boers. |
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