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This Russian capital is founded in 1703
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St Petersburg
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Prose satire written by Jonathan Swift in 1726
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Gulliver's Travels
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Revolutionaries seized control over a political prison on 14 July 1789
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Storming of the Bastille
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This king privately concedes that "America is lost!" in 1783
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George III
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Clothes are often decorated like this with motifs created using a needle and yarn
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embroidered
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Ahmad Shah Durrani founds this empire also known as the Afghan Empire or the Sadozai Kingdom
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Durrani
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In 1776 in Bavaria, Adam Weishaupt founds this secret society whose name translates to "enlightened"
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Illuminati
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First name of the scientist who studied gravity and was knighted in 1705
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Isaac
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This explorer is the first European to land on the Hawaiian Islands
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Cook
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These territories are invaded by the Mongol tribes of the Dzungars
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Kazakh
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Women's undergarment which keeps the skirt extended in a desired shape
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hoop skirt
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In this city, treaties which end the Seven Years' War (1763) and the American Revolutionary War (1783) are signed
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Paris
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The Habsburg monarchy makes the first step to abolish this feudal practice
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Serfdom
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A composer who wrote Don Giovanni or The Magic Flute
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Mozart
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The Ottoman empire undergoes this period of peace and prosperity (1718-1730)
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Tulip
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This German kingdom is constituted by Frederick I in 1701
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Prussia
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Birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ajaccio
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Navigational tool, also called a reflecting quadrant, developed by John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey
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octant
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Glass device with mercury in it invented by D. G. Fahrenheit in 1714
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thermometer
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An emotional artistic movement of J. W. von Goethe, R. Burns and others
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Romantic
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Russia annexes this region in 1783
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Crimea
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This council which oversees the French language is suppressed for a few years in 1793
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Académie Française
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This empress modernizes roads, encourages the construction of the University of Moscow and the Winter Palace and chooses not to execute anybody
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Elizabeth
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This German-British baroque composer writes Messiah, Water Music and Zadok the Priest
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Handel
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This rebellion against the Manchu dynasty in China is initiated by a movement of the same name (1796-1804)
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White Lotus
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