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Events Before Rizal
Philippine and World Events in the years 1800-1861

Significant Events of the 19th Century
 The collapse of the Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese,
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Holy Roman and Mughal empires. Liberalism became the preeminent reform movement in Europe. The 19th century was an era of invention and discovery, with significant developments in technological advances of the 20th century. The Industrial Revolution began in Europe. The Victorian era was notorious for the employment of young children in factories and mines.

World events (cont.)
 Advances in medicine and the understanding of

human anatomy and disease thus, accelerating population growth in the western world.  Slavery was greatly reduced around the world and banning slavery throughout its domain, and charged its navy with ending the global slave trade.  Britain abolished slavery in 1834, America's 13th Amendment following their Civil War abolished slavery there in 1865, and in Brazil slavery was abolished in 1888.

French Revolution
 A period of radical social and political upheaval in France where the absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years.  The Storming of the Bastille and the subsequent Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was the catalyst of the

French Revolution.  As a result, A republic was proclaimed in September 1792 and King Louis XVI was executed the next year.

The Storming of the Bastille July 14, 1789

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Louis XVI
Executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was the only king of France ever to be executed.

The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
 1804–1814  The First French Empire by Napoléon Bonaparte.  It brought order to France after the French Revolution.  His reign ushered Europe the Napoleonic Wars.  French power rose quickly, conquering most of Europe, but collapsed rapidly after France's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812.  As a direct

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