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The American Revolution began with the battle of Lexington.
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The American Revolution formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
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The War of 1812 began do to Britain's failure to withdraw toops from the Great Lake area.
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This was thought to be the end of the War of 1812.
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The actual end of the War of 1812 was after the battle of New Orleans.
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The first opium war began with the seizure of Hong Kong by the British.
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The First Opium War ended because of British victory. The Treaty of Nanking was signed to signal the end of hostilities.
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The second Opium War began when the Chinese seized a British ship and arrested the sailors.
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The Sepoy Rebellion mainly started because of the greasing of riffel cartridges with cow and pork fats. The muslim guns were greased with pork fat and had to be bitten into to use. When the British refused to take back the guns a mutiny formed.
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The Treaty of Tianjin was signed to end conflit.
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Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India.
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WWI began with the assasination of the Archduke of Austria Hungry and his wife.
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The Easter Rebellion was mounted by Irish republicans with the goal of ending Bristish rule in Ireland.
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The total rebellion only lasted 6 days but gained major power of Ireland.
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WWI ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
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The Irish Free State was the state established as a dominion under the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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The Salt March was a campaign of nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.
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Gandhi continued on this march to produce salt without paying the tax.
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The Irish Free State ended when the citizens voted to replace the 1922 constitution. It was succeeded by the modern state of Ireland.
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WWII began because Germany invaded Poland without warning.
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On this date Japan surrendered ending WWII.
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The partition of India was set forth in the Indian Independence Act 1947.
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Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting.
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Rodesia gains its independence from Britian and becomes Zimbabwe.
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New Hebrides gained independence and became Vanuatu.
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British Honduras became know as Belize.
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The end of the British Empire happened when Britian ended their presence in Hong Kong
