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7 Years War
Was a global conflict that was between 1756 and 1763.The war was driven by the antagonism between the British Empire and the Bourbons , resulting from overlapping interests in their colonial and trade empires, and by the antagonism between the Hohenzollerns and Habsburgs, resulting from territorial and hegemonial conflicts in the Holy Roman Empire. -
Canada's Independence
After Seven Years war France gave alot of land to british, the British pretty much left the natives alone and let them do their thing -
Revolution in Haiti
The Haitian Revolution was a period of brutal conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, leading to the elimination of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the first republic ruled by people of African ancestry. Although hundreds of rebellions occurred in the New World during the centuries of slavery, only the St. Domingue Slave Revolt, which began in 1791, was successful in achieving permanent independence under a new nation. -
Mexico's indpendence
On the night of the May 18, 1822, a mass demonstration led by the Regiment of Celaya, which Iturbide had commanded during the war, marched through the streets and demanded that their commander-in-chief accept the throne. The following day, the congress declared Iturbide emperor of Mexico. On October 31 Iturbide dissolved Congress and replaced it with a sympathetic junta. -
Brazil's Independence
The Brazilian Independence comprised a series of political events occurred in 1821–1823, most of which involved disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Kingdom. -
Battle of Ayacuho
Decisive Independentist Victory
Capitulation of the Royalist Army
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Battle of Navarino
A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force. It is notable for being the last major naval battle in history to be fought entirely with sailing ships. The Allied ships were better armed than their Egyptian and Ottoman opponents and their crews were better trained, contributing to a complete victory. -
Mexican-American War
Was a war between America and Mexico because America claimed Texas as theirs. America won, and made the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Crimean War
War sparked by what on first glance appears to be a trivial disagreement over the Christian shrines of Jerusalem, but that was actually the result of long term European tensions. Truece that was agreed on the Treaty of Paris. -
Start of Civil war
11 Slave states decalred their secession from the rest of the united states, states known as the confederacy. They were fighting to keep their independence. -
End of the Civil war
it was a Union victory,and the Territorial integrity of the United States of America was preserved. reconstruction began and
Slavery was abolished -
Austro-Prussian War
The major result of the war was a shift in power among the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian hegemony, and impetus towards the unification of all of the northern German states in a Kleindeutschland that excluded Austria. It saw the abolition of the German Confederation and its partial replacement by a North German Confederation that excluded Austria and the South German states. -
Franco-Prussian War
The conflict was a culmination of years of tension between the two nations, which finally came to a head over the issue of a Hohenzollern candidate for the vacant Spanish throne, following the deposition of Isabella II in 1868. Was a decisive German victory. -
End of Italian Unification
Despite a lack of consensus on the exact dates for the beginning and end of this period, many scholars who agree that the process began in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna and the end of Napoleonic rule, and ended sometime around 1871 with the Franco-Prussian War. The last città irredente however, did not join the Kingdom of Italy until after World War I. -
Drefus Affair in France
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer serving in the French artillery, was found guilty of spying for the Germans and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. In the next few years the discovery of new evidence led a number of people to the realization that a serious miscarriage of justice had taken place. -
Ausralia's independence
By the middle of the 19th century, these had achieved virtually complete internal self-government under their own colonial Parliaments, with the "mother country" looking after their defence and such foreign relations as they had, and making only the occasional more direct intervention in their affairs.