19 century

  • Congress of Vienna

    Congress of Vienna

    The Congress of Vienna was a series of international meetings to discuss and agree on a new layout of the European political and constitutional order.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    It is a United states foregin policy position that opposes eruopean colonialism in the western hemisphere
  • First Opium War

    First Opium War

    The british were smuggling opium from there indian colonies into chinese ports against the wishes of the chinese goverment
  • Revolutions Across Europe

    Revolutions Across Europe

    The revolutions in eruope spread over the course of a year, for rights and revulting against monarchy and such other political matters
  • U.S Civil War

    U.S Civil War

    fought between the Union (the North) and the Confederacy (11 Southern states that seceded) primarily over the issues of slavery and states rights
  • Dominion of Canada Created

    Dominion of Canada Created

    Uniting the provinces that make up todays Canada under one federal goverment
  • Meiji Restoration

    Meiji Restoration

    in 1868 the tokugawa shogun who ruled Japan in the feudal period, lost his power and the emperor was restored to the supreme position
  • Suez Canal Opens

    Suez Canal Opens

    a human made waterway the cuts north/south across the lsthmus of suez in egypt
  • German Unification

    German Unification

    Just like america germany formed from many smaller independent states to form the germany we know today.
  • Berlin Conference

    Berlin Conference

    a meeting where 14 european countries, along with the united states, established rules for colonizing africa to prevent conflict among themselves.
  • Second International Founded

    Second International Founded

    It was a meeting in paris to discuse and promote international soildarity, provide a unified voice for workers rights, and encurage collictive action
  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion

    The Boxer rebellion was an anti foreign, anti colonial, and anti christian uprising in China from 1899 to 1901 led by the Righteous and Harmonious Fists society or "Boxers"