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  1. 1204 Crusaders sack Constantinople ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Second, when Constantinople be gan to falter-sacked by crusaders in 1204-Kiev's economy based on con necting nodes of commerce shrank. ●●
  2. 1204 Crusaders sack Constantinople ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The sacking by crusaders of Constantinople in 1204 and the displacement for some decades of the Byzantine emperor into Anatolia created long-lasting bitterness. Crusades establishe... ●●
  3. 1513 Machiavelli writes The Prince ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Machiavelli wrote The Prince around 1513, a foundational work of political philosophy dedicated to Lorenzo di Medici. ●●
  4. 1614 Fama Fraternitatis published ai_extracted 1 cit. Levenda describes the publication of the Fama Fraternitatis in 1614, announcing the existence of the Rosicrucian order and sparking the 'Rosicrucian Furore' across Europe. ●●
  5. 1720 Collapse of the South Sea Bubble ai_extracted 1 cit. It was upon these solid foundations that Britain’s “credit” rested, despite early uncertainties, considerable political opposition, and a financial near-disaster like the collapse of the famous South ●●
  6. 1778 War of the Bavarian Succession ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The brief and ultracautious campaigning in the War of Bavarian Succession (1778–1779), when Prussia opposed Austria’s attempt at expansion, merely confirmed this widespread wish to avoid the costs of ●●
  7. 1853 Commodore Perry's black ships reach Japan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The entire military system ossified for two centuries, so that when Commodore Perry’s famous “black ships” arrived in 1853, there was little that an overawed Japanese government could do except grant ●●
  8. 1853 Commodore Perry's black ships reach Japan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Commodore Matthew Perry’s “black ships” in 1853 and presents a paradigmatic case of what Samuel Huntington labeled “defensive modernization. ●●
  9. 1877 Edison invents the phonograph ai_extracted 1 cit. have been vinyl, but in this case it was copper, plated with gold. This analog means of capturing, preserving, and reproducing sound was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison, who called it phonography. ●●
  10. 1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa ai_extracted 1 cit. Following on a series of congresses that since 1 8 1 5 had tried to regulate the political order of Europe (chapters 8 and n), the Berlin Confer ence... ●●
  11. 1900 First Pan-African Conference meets in London ai_extracted 1 cit. Racializing ideologies were also challenged on the empires' global scale when, for instance, the first pan-African Conference met in London in 1900, b... ●●
  12. 1913 Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After six more months of haggling over minor details, Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law on December 23, 1913, establishing the twelve-bank Federal Reserve System and... ●●
  13. 1913 J.P. Morgan dies in Rome ai_extracted 1 cit. Six weeks after the report was issued and just past midnight on March 31, 1913, Morgan died at the Grand Hotel in Rome. His partners attributed the death of the great titan to... ●●
  14. 1913 Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act ai_extracted 2 cit. no story In December 1913, President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, providing the government with a central bank and freeing it of reliance on the House of Morgan in emergencies; the new Federal Reserv... ●●
  15. 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ai_extracted 1 cit. no story power, and the casus belli as accidental as the preceding diplomacy had been reckless. On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Habsburg throne, ●●
  16. 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The origin of World War I usually is attributed to the assassina- tion of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian nationalist in 19 ●●
  17. 1922 Assassination of Walther Rathenau ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 24 June 1922 Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, architect of the fulfillment policy, was murdered by right-wing reactionaries. His killing deepened the panic that sent the mark into free fall. ●●
  18. 1922 Assassination of Walther Rathenau ai_extracted 1 cit. no story right-wing extremists gunned down Walther Rathenau, the Weimar Republic’s first Foreign Minister, a physical chemist and industrialist friend of Einstein and a highly visible Jew. ●●
  19. 1923 French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In early 1923, after Germany fell behind on reparations, forty thousand French and Belgian troops invaded and occupied the industrial Ruhr valley. The precipitating incident was a failure to deliver telephone poles. ●●
  20. 1923 French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In January 1923, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr, Germany’s industrial heartland, without consulting th ●●
  21. 1953 Operation Ajax overthrows Mossadegh ai_extracted 1 cit. The United States Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated Operation Ajax, overthrowing Iran's democratic government and installing a long dictatorship. ●●
  22. 1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Nigeria was granted independence from Britain in 1960, it was bequeathed a democratic constitution that provided for regular elections. ●●
  23. 1993 First World Trade Center bombing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A bomb exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring more than a thousand. The plot traced back to a blind Egyptian sheik whom the CIA had helped admit to the United States. ●●
  24. 1993 First World Trade Center bombing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Al-Qaeda’s ambitious campaign began with attacks on American and allied facilities in the Middle East and Africa. A 1993 attack on the World Trade Center displayed the organization’s global ambitions. On September 11, 2001, the offensive reached its ●●
  25. 2010 European sovereign debt crisis ai_extracted 2 cit. no story These weaknesses were made painfully evident in the European debt crisis of 2010–2013. ●●