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| 1787 |
| | Delegates meeting in Philadelphia agree a final draft for a US consitution, to be submitted to the states for ratification | |
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| 1788 |
| | The constitution of the United States is ratified by the states, but it is immediately agreed that amendments will be desirable | |
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| 1788 |
| | The ministers of Louis XVI reluctantly announce that the estates general will meet in 1789, for the first time since 1614 | |
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| 1791 |
| | The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, are ratified by the states | |
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| 1792 |
| | The first political parties, Hamilton's Federalists and Jefferson's Republicans, emerge in the USA | |
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| 1800 |
| | Republican Thomas Jefferson and Federalist Aaron Burr have an identical number of Electoral College votes in the US presidential election | |
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| 1812 |
| | The Spanish Cortes in Cadiz produces a strikingly liberal new constitution for Spain | |
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| 1821 |
| | Bolívar defeats the Spanish at Carabobo and liberates, for the second time, his native city of Caracas | |
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| 1822 |
| | After defeating the Spanish at Pichincha, Antonio José de Sucre enters Quito and liberates Ecuador | |
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| 1824 |
| | The Republican party in the USA splits into National Republicans and Democratic Republicans | |
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