Ch8 and 10 timeline

  • 7 Years War

    It began in Europe when Frederick the Great invaded Saxony on 29 August 1756. The Seven Year War has its origins in the power struggles among the European Great Powers that went on for years .
  • Revolution in Haiti

    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.
  • Mexico's Independence

    The movement, which became known as the Mexican War of Independence, was led by Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos and Amerindians who sought independence from Spain.
  • 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. It is celebrated on September 7.
  • Battle of Ayacucho

    It freed Peru and ensured the independence of the nascent South American republics from Spain. The revolutionary forces, numbering about 6,000 men—among them Venezuelans, Colombians, Argentines, and Chileans, as well as Peruvians—were under the leadership of Simón Bolívar’s outstanding lieutenant, the Venezuelan Antonio José de Sucre.
  • Battle of Navarino

    Fought during greek war of independence,
  • Mexican-American War

    united states and mexico went to war
  • End of Italian Unification

    The political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century.
  • Crimean War

    The Crimean War is known for the logistical and tactical errors during the land campaign on both sides (the naval side saw a successful Allied campaign which eliminated most of the ships of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea).
  • Start and End of Civil War

    Ended April 9 1865
  • Austro-Prussian War

    Was Fought for 7 weeks
  • Canada's Independece

    France ceded almost all of its territory in mainland North America.The new British rulers left alone much of the religious, political, and social culture of the French-speaking habitants, guaranteeing the right of the Canadiens to practice the Catholic faith and to the use of French civil law through the Quebec Act of 1774.
  • Franco-Prussian War

    between second frwench empire, and the kingdom of prussia
  • DRefus Affair In France

    Political scandal that divided france in the 1890's
  • Austrailia's Independence

    Australia was politically organised as a number of separate British colonies, eventually six in all. 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.
  • Northern Ireland Becomes Independent

    Northern Ireland was for many years the site of a violent and bitter ethno-political conflict—the Troubles—which was caused by divisions between nationalists, who are predominantly Roman Catholic, and unionists, who are predominantly Protestant.