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7 years war
- lasted for 7 years
- involving most of the great powers of the time affecting North and Central America, Europe, the West African coast, India and the Philippines.
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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 -
Revolution in Haiti
-Slaves rose up In 1791 and by 1803 had driven the whites out of Saint-Domingue
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Northern Ireland Becomes Independent
-During British rule and initial independence, Ireland was one of Western Europe's most impoverished countries and suffered high levels of emigration
-contrast to many other states during that period, it remained democratic and financially solvent. -
Mexico's independence
-Mexico Independence — from Spain
-After the abortive Conspiracy of the Machetes in 1799, the War of Independence led by the Mexican-born Spaniards -
brazil's independence
-brazil's independence from portugal
-disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Kingdom. -
Battle of Ayacucho
-took place at Pampa de La Quinua, a few kilometers away from Ayacucho, near the town of Quinua between Royalist and Independentist forces.
-Independentist forces were led by Antonio José de Sucre, Simón Bolívar's lieutenant. -
Battle of Navarino
-The naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence
-Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force. -
mexican-american war
- an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S -Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.
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End of the Italian unification
- 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[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.
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Crimean war
-conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
-The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire -
start and end of the civil war
- known as the War Between the States (among other names), was a civil war in the United States of America. -Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy
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austro- prussian war
-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.
-The major result of the war was a shift in power among the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian hegemony -
Canada's Independence
- Canada won thier independence from Great britian
- Canada was formed as a federal dominion.
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franco-prussian war
-referred to in France as the 1870 War
-conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. -
dreyfus 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.
