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7 years war
The war was driven by the antagonism between the British Empire in personal union with Hanover and the Bourbons in France and Spain, resulting from overlapping interests in their colonial and trade empires, and by the antagonism between the Hohenzollerns in Prussia and Habsburgs Holy Roman Emperors and archdukes in Austria, resulting from territorial and hegemonial conflicts in the Holy Roman Empire. -
australia independence
After European settlement in 1788, 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. -
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. The Haitian Revolution is regarded as a defini -
mexico independence
The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial authorities which started on 16 September 1810. 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. It started as an idealistic peasants' rebellion against their colonial masters, but ended as an unlikely alliance between Mexican ex-royalists and Mexican guerrilla in -
end of italian unification
was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century. -
brazil independence
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battle of navarino
A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force. -
battle of ayacucho
Battle of Ayacucho was a decisive military encounter during the Peruvian War of Independence. It was the battle that sealed the independence of Peru, as well as the victory that ensured independence for the rest of South America. It is thus also considered the end of the Spanish American wars of independence. -
mexican american war
The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
crimean war
The Crimean War is known for the logistical and tactical errors during the land campaign on both sides -
start and end of civil war
The American Civil War also known as the War Between the States was a civil war in the United States of America. 11 Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy. Led by Jefferson Davis the Confederacy fought for its independence from the United States. The U.S. federal government was supported by twenty mostly-Northern free states in which slavery already had -
austro-prussian war
The major result of the war was a shift in power among the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian -
canada"s independence
On June 20, 1868, Governor General the Viscount Monck issued a royal proclamation asking for Canadians to celebrate the anniversary of the confederation However, the holiday was not established statutorily until 1879, when it was designated as Dominion Day, in reference to the designation of the country as a Dominion in the British North America Act. The holiday was initially not dominant in the national calendar; up to the early 20th century, Canadians thought themselves to be primarily -
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 -
dreyfus affair in france
The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent. Sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having communicated French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris Dreyfus was sent to the penal colony at Devils Island in French Guiana and placed in solitary confinement. -
northern ireland becomes independent
two jurisdictions in 1921 The country shares its only land border with Northern Ireland which is part of the United Kingdom and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean the Irish Sea to the east St Georges Channel to the southeast and the Celtic Sea to the south
