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British acquire South Africa from Dutch |
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Bolivar liberates South America from Spain |
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Zulu/Boer War |
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Opium War |
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Treaty of Nanjing |
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish the "Communist Manifesto." |
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Sepoy Rebellion |
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Working class men in Great Britain given the right to vote. |
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Dutch discover gold and diamonds in northern South Africa |
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Berlin Conference |
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Leopold in the Congo. Hutus and Tutsis created. |
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Boxer Rebellion |
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Kipling's poem "White Man's Burden" published |
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Boer War |
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Franz Ferdinand assassinated. beginning of WWI |
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Amritsar Massacre |
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Gandhi's Salt March |
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Pearl Harbor bombed. Beginning of US involvement in WWII. |
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Hotel Rwanda |
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