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7 Years War
Also known as the French and Indian war. Was fought in Europe, Africa, India, North America, South America, the Philippine Islands and lasted 7 years. -
Australia's 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
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. -
Mexico's independence
was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial authorities. Which became known as the Mexican War of Independence, was led by Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos and Amerindians who sought independence from Spain. -
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. Despite a lack of consensus on the exact dates for the beginning and end of this period, many scholars 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. -
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. A call for independence presented by the Brazilian Kingdom. -
Battle of Ayacucho
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. -
Battle of Navarino
Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay, on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force. -
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico. American forces invaded and conquered New Mexico, California, and parts of what is currently northern Mexico. -
Crimean War
The Crimean War is known for the logistical and tactical errors during the land campaign on both sides. -
Austro-Prussian War
War fought in 1866 between the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire and its German allies on one side and the Kingdom of Prussia with its German allies and Italy on the other, that resulted in Prussian dominance over the German states. -
Canada's Independence
the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into a single country within the empire called Canada. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally. -
Franco-Prussian War
Was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria. -
Drefus Affair in France
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. -
Northern Ireland Becomes Independent
Northern Ireland became independent from the remainder of Ireland after years of fighting between Catholics and Protestants. Ireland was partitioned in 1921 under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 between six of the nine Ulster counties in the northeast and the remaining twenty-six counties of the south and west.