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British acquire South Africa from Dutch
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Bolivar liberates South America from Spain
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Zulu/Boer War
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Opium War
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Treaty of Nanjing
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish the "Communist Manifesto."
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Sepoy Rebellion
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Working class men in Great Britain given the right to vote.
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Dutch discover gold and diamonds in northern South Africa
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Berlin Conference
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Leopold in the Congo. Hutus and Tutsis created.
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Boxer Rebellion
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Kipling's poem "White Man's Burden" published
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Boer War
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Franz Ferdinand assassinated. beginning of WWI
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Amritsar Massacre
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Gandhi's Salt March
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Pearl Harbor bombed. Beginning of US involvement in WWII.
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Hotel Rwanda