| A | B |
|---|
| Amethyst symbolized | peace of mind |
| An amethyst is a clear, | purple gemstone |
| Power tends to corrupt and | absolute power corrupts absolutely |
| Magna Carta | The Great Charter |
| The Gulf Stream flows from | the Gulf of Mexico to Europe |
| 1588 was the date of the | Spanish Armada |
| Guild: a medieval association | of craftstmen |
| Calvinist: a follower of the | teachings of John Calvin |
| John Calvin was a leader of | the Protestant Reformation |
| Tyrant: a cruel and unjust | ruler |
| Ship money: coastal towns | had to supply the king with ships |
| Billet: home owners had to | provide soldiers with lodging |
| Court of Star Chamber: a royal | court where people had no legal rights |
| Seditious libel: false and | malicious statements agains the king |
| Habeus Corpus: prisoners must | be brought before a court |
| Regicide: the killing of the | king |
| Test Act: only members of the | Church of England could hold political office |
| Aphra Behn: | Poet, Playwright and Spy |
| Girondist and Jacobin | French Revolution |
| Charlotte Corday | assassinated Jean-Paul Marat |
| Assignats:certificates of money | in Revolutionary France |
| Tocqueville was a French | statesman and author |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | social contract |
| July 14 | Bastille Day |
| Duke of Wellington | leader of the British Army |
| Madame de Stael | opposed Napoleon |
| In Spanish guerrilla means | little war |
| Capital | money invested in a business |
| Jethro Tull invented the | seed drill |
| Franchise | the right to vote |
| William Hogarth | British painter |
| James Watt | steam engine |
| 1763 | Seven Years' War ends |
| 1774 | Louis XVI becomes king |
| 1776 | American Declaration of Independence |
| 1789 | Estates General summoned |
| 1790 | Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
| 1791 | Flight to Varennes |
| 1792 | Convention Meets |
| 1793 | Marie Antoinette executed |
| 1794 | Fall of Robespierre |
| 1795 Napoleon saves the | Convention |
| 1799 Napoleon appointed | First Consul |
| 1802 Death of Toussaint | L'Ouverture |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | Led the slave revolt in Haiti |
| 1804 Civil Code becomes | law in France |
| 1806 Prussians defeated at | the battle of Jena |
| 1808 | The Spanish Campaign begins |
| 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and | Battle of Austerlitz |
| 1812 | Defeat in Russia |
| 1814 | Napoleon abdicates |
| 1815 Beginning of the | Hundred Days |
| 1700 Enclosure Movement | speeds up |
| 1701 Jethro Tull invents | the seed drill |
| 1733 Kay invents | Flying Shuttle |
| 1750 Darby develops | Cast Iron Process |
| 1760 | First canal is built |
| 1764 Hargreaves invents the | Spinning Jenny |
| 1769 Ja,es Watt improves | the steam engine |
| The water frame was used to | speed up the spinning of yard |
| 1785 Steam Powered | Mills in the Textile Industry |
| 1802 First English Factory Acts | passed |
| 1830 Liverpool-Manchest | Railway opens |
| 1834 The Poor Law | Reformed |
| 600 BCE First Native Canadian | culture in the Arctic Region |
| 500 CE Iroquois Acquire | Agriculture |
| 1400 CE Beginning of the | League of Five Nations |
| 1713 The Five Nations are | joined by the Tuscarora |
| 1800 Bison still | roam freely on the Plain |
| 1000 CE Arrival of Leif the Lucky | in Vinland |
| 1014 Freydis Erikdottir leads | expedition to Vinland |
| 1497 Cabot sails to | Newfoundland |
| 1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims | Newfoundland for England |
| 1608 Champlain founds the | Habitation at Quebec |
| 1629 Kirke captures | Quebec |
| 1649 Destruction of the | Huronia Missions |
| 1687 Assassination of | La Salle |
| 1693 Madaleine de Vercheres | defends her seigneury |
| 1713 | Treaty of Utrecht |
| 1731 First westward journey | by La Verendrye |
| 1755 Expulsion of the | Acadians |
| 1759 Battle of the | Plains of Abrahams |
| 1670 Hudson's Bay Company | is chartered |
| 1763 Arrival of Scottish and | American fur traders |
| 1770 Samuel Hearne and | Matonabee search for copper |
| 1774 Perez sails the | coast of British Columbia |
| 1778 Cooke lands at | Nootka |
| 1783 Northwest Company | founded |
| 1793 Alexander Mackenzie | arrives at Bella Coola |
| 1808 Simon Fraser travels | the Fraser to the Coast |
| 1811 Selkirk founds | Red River Colony |
| 1816 Pemmican | War breaks out |
| 1821 The HBC and the | Northwest Company merge |
| 1759 Battle of the | Plains of Abraham |
| 1760 Treaty of Paris ends | Seven Years' War |
| 1763 Royal Proclamation limits | growth of American colonies |
| 1765 Stamp Act | passed |
| 1766 Stamp Act | repealed |
| 1768 Birth of | Tecumseh |
| 1774 Quebec Act | passed |
| 1775 American | Revolution begins |
| 1776 American | Declaration of Independence |
| 1789 | French Revolution begins |
| 1791 Constitutional Act creates | Upper and Lower Canada |
| 1793 British at war with | Revolutionary France |
| 1812 war between British | North America and the USA |
| 1815 end of the War of | 1812 |
| 1832 Susanna Moodie | arrives in Canada |
| 1763 Seven Years War | ends |
| 1774 Louis XVI | becomes king |
