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Revolutionary decade in France that transformed the monarchy, political institutions and the social order.

War for independence of the thirteen British North American colonies, fought across North America and beyond.

Series of major European and global conflicts from 1803 to 1815 arising from the rivalry between Napoleonic France and successive coalitions, fundamentally reshaping Europe's political order.

Religious and political transformations that fragmented western European Christianity and reshaped institutions and power.

Global armed conflict from 1939 to 1945, including war in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, mass civilian suffering and major geopolitical change.

Global geopolitical rivalry and ideological competition centered on the United States and Soviet Union from the postwar era to the breakup of the USSR.

Conventional European historical era between late antiquity and the early modern period, with varying local periodization.

The 18 June 1815 battle at which British-led and Prussian allied forces defeated Napoleon, ending the Hundred Days and decisively changing the course of the Napoleonic Wars.

The Roman province containing Alexandria and the wider administrative and cultural setting of the story.

Country in North Africa.

The kingdom whose political independence from England is the central issue of the narrative.