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Europe (1848-1871)
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1846
Beginning of Europe's last major food crisis and famine throughout the
Continent.
1848
Karl Marx publishes the Communist
Manifesto.
February 24, 1848
Revolution in France; overthrow of the monarchy of King Louis-Philippe;
proclamation of the creation of the French Second Republic.
March 1848
Uprisings in some German states; granting of constitutional reforms in Prussia.
March 1848-June 1849
Revolutions in Italy.
April 1848
Revolutions in Vienna, Budapest, and Prague.
May 1848
Frankfurt Assembly meets and proposes a plan for the unification of Germany;
Prussian king refuses to take the crown.
December 1848
Louis Napoleon wins presidential election in France.
1853-1856
Crimean War.
1859
Austria declares war on the Kingdom of Sardinia, allied with France.
1859
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural
Selection.
1860
Sardinia annexes provinces in central Italy after plebiscites; France
receives Savoy and Nice.
March 3, 1861
Emancipation of Russian serfs.
March 14, 1861
Kingdom of Italy proclaimed with King Victor Immanuel II as king.
1861-1865
American Civil War.
1863
Maximilian crowned emperor of Mexico; Prussia and Austria at war with Denmark
over Schleiswig and Holstein.
1866
Seven Weeks' War between Prussia and Austria; Italy acquires Venetia.
1867
Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital.
July-September 1870
Franco-Prussian War ends with capitulation of French Second Empire.
September 20, 1870
Italy annexes Rome.
January 18, 1871
German Empire proclaimed.
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