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The British colony was preceded by an earlier Dutch colony of the same name, the Kaap de Goede Hoop, established in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company.
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The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of opium and China's sovereignty.
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The Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing) was a peace treaty which ended the First Opium War (1839–42) between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China on 29 August 1842.
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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India during 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown
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he Second Schleswig War (Danish: 2. Slesvigske Krig, German: Deutsch-Dänischer Krieg) was the second military conflict over the Schleswig-Holstein Question of the nineteenth century.
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Seven Weeks' War, also called Austro-Prussian War, (1866), war between Prussia on the one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other.
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the Tokugawa shôgun ("great general"), who ruled Japan in the feudal period, lost his power and the emperor was restored to the supreme position.
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On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation.
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The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870
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The Second Reich was the Hohenzollern Germany, from the unification of Germany following the Franco-Prussian War
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The man who did most to unite the German states was Otto Von Bismarck.
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also known as the Race for Africa or Partition of Africa was a process of invasion, occupation, colonization and annexation of African territory
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History of Egypt under the British. The history of Egypt under the British lasts from 1882, when it was occupied by British forces during the Anglo-Egyptian War, until 1956
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The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference (
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France obtained control over northern Vietnam following its victory over China in the Sino-French War
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The Convention of Constantinople was a treaty signed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire
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The Battle of Adwa was fought on 1 March 1896 between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray.
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The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising, or Yihetuan Movement was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China
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was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.
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Cause of death: Uremia
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France, which had colonized the country, had named it French Somaliland.