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Monday, 5 November 2012

Andrew Marr's History of the World - Ep 7

George Stephenson - illiterate until 18?

'Canton'  (China) - trading for tea

Britain grew opium in India to sell to China?

'The Nemesis' - British warship - 'ironclad'

Tolstoy was against serfdom?

Totlstoy freed his serfs.

Oct 1859 - Totlstoy sets up a school to educate serfs?

1860 - Lincoln becomes President

11 Southern States broke away to form the Confederacy

April 12, 1861 - start of the Civil War

January 1, 1863 - Emacipation Proclamation 

April 9, 1865 - The South surrenders

Richmond, Virginia - Confederate Capital

'Sic Semper Tyrannis' - Thus always to tyrants.

1905 - Japan and Russia - war

'Henry Morton Stanley' - first Westerner to chart the Congo River

Leopold II - King of the Belgians

1917 - Germany's new Foriegn Secretary - Arthur Zimmermann - 'one of the most destructive individuals of the 20th century' - Marr

'Zimmermann telegram' - intercepted by Britain











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