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    Missouri Compromise 1820

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    Missouri Compromise 1820

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    In 1820, slave-holding states still held a majority in the US Senate. The majority in part derived from the ‘three-fifths’ rule, whereby slaves counted for 60 per cent of free persons in determining representation per state. This precarious advantage was now threatened by the ‘free’ District of Maine’s application for... More
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    Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831

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    Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831

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    Nat Turner was literate, charismatic and highly devout, holding Baptist services for his fellow slaves who dubbed him the ‘Prophet’. Infected by the febrile religiosity, and expectation of the apocalypse, that was sweeping America (both white and black) during the Great Awakening, he began to experience visions. Interpreting a solar... More
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    Nubia Ascendant 728 BCE

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    Nubia Ascendant 728 BCE

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    Rameses XI (1107–1077 BCE) moved his capital from Thebes to Tanis in the Nile Delta at the end of his reign, an acknowledgement of a collapse of control in Upper Egypt. The long Third Intermediate Period ensued; by the 24th Dynasty (732–720 BCE), Osorkon IV ruled little more than a... More
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    Omri’s Dynasty 885 BCE

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    Omri’s Dynasty 885 BCE

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    Omri’s succession took place after the chariot commander Zimri assassinated the legitimate ruler, Elah, and proclaimed himself king. Omri, Elah’s general, was engaged in the siege of Gibbethon against the occupying Philistines when he heard of the regicide. Omri’s army immediately advanced to Tirzah and within a week Zimri had... More
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    Palestine c. 710–664 BCE

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    Palestine c. 710–664 BCE

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    Determined to strengthen the Assyrian Empire and to crush dissent, King Sennacherib (705–681 BCE) turned his attention from Babylon to repress a rebellion in Palestine (701 BCE). King Hezekiah of Judah, the ringleader of the rebels, appealed to Egypt for help. Sidon and Tyre had already fallen and Jerusalem was... More
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    Peasant Discontent 1827–60

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    Peasant Discontent 1827–60

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    Increasingly, Russia’s rulers realized that the condition of serfdom needed to be addressed. Catherine the Great introduced prosecution for mistreatment of serfs by landowners, in the wake of the Pugachev revolt (1773–75). Paul I limited barshchina (service owed to the landowner) to three days a week, and Alexander I introduced... More
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    Persian Armenia c. 450

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    Persian Armenia c. 450

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    By the middle of the 5th century, Persian Armenia had maintained a rather precarious independence for four centuries in the border zones of competing empires, first Rome and Parthia, later the Byzantines and Sassanids. Their kingdom converted to Christianity in 301 but, in 428, accepted the suzerainty of the Zoroastrian... More
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    Pilgrimage of Grace 1536

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    Pilgrimage of Grace 1536

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    The Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) was a revolt sparked by Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries and transfer of Church property to the Crown. It began in Louth, Lincolnshire, and spread to Yorkshire, Cumberland, Lancaster and Westmoreland. On 2 October, angered by the state closure of nearby Louth Park Abbey,... More
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    Poland 1648

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    Poland 1648

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    1648 marked the beginning of the ‘Deluge’ (c. 1648–60), a ruinous phase of uprisings and wars. It began with the Zaporogian Cossack independence struggle against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1648–55, supported by Tatars of the Crimean Khanate and disparate disaffected elements within the region, including the peasants. The rebellion resulted... More
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    Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763–64

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    Pontiac’s Rebellion 1763–64

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    A confederation of Native American warriors, led by the Ottawa chief Pontiac, launched an assault on the British garrison at Detroit in April 1763. The Native Americans were angered by the harsh British treatment of them after the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754–63). Their intention was... More
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    Post-Soviet Ukraine 1991–2022

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    Post-Soviet Ukraine 1991–2022

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    On 21 August 1991 Ukraine withdrew from the Soviet Union; five months later, on 1 December, a referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence was held and was passed by an overwhelming majority of 92.3%. The first decades of independence proved to be fraught with political instability; the majority... More
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    Prayer Book Rebellion 1549

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    Prayer Book Rebellion 1549

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    The Act of Uniformity made it law for Cranmer’s Protestant Book of Common Prayer, published in 1549, to be used in all English churches. Some churches were happy to use the new prayer book, which decreed that all services be conducted in English, while others, while prepared to adhere to... More
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