Annotated Timeline

By hheartwon

  • The British gained control over the Cape Colony in South Africa from the Dutch.

  • Opium War started

    This was the result of China’s attempt to suppress the illegal opium trade

  • Treaty of Nanjing that ended the first Opium War

  • Indian Revolt started

    This was a major uprising in India against the rule of the British East India Company.

  • Danish War started

  • Austro-Prussian War started

    Known by many as the Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War. Also known in Germany as Deutscher Krieg or Deutscher Bruderkrieg

  • Meiji Restoration

    Tokugawa Shogun lost power and the Japanese Emperor was restored to power.

  • Suez Canal opens

  • Franco-Prussian War started

    The cause of this war was the candidacy of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen for the Spanish throne.

  • Prussia declares a German Empire AKA the Second Reich

  • Otto Von Bismarck becomes Chancellor of Prussia

  • Great Britain occupies Egypt

  • France occupies Dijibouti

  • Berlin Conference

    They sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people.

  • Beginning of the Scramble for Africa

    This was the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers

  • French gain control of Indochina

  • Convention of Constantinople

    Signed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire.

  • Battle of Adwa

    This routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end.

  • Boxer Rebellion

    This rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China.

  • Russo-Japanese War starts

  • Meiji Emperor dies