Empires (Ottoman, Russian, British India, Chinese)

  • 1453

    Conquest of Constantinople

  • 1529

    First Ottoman siege of Vienna

  • The East India Company is formed

  • Acquired territory in Bombay

  • Qing conquest of the Ming

    Transition from Ming to Qing dynasty
  • Period: to

    Rule of Peter the Great

  • Presidency capitals of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta

  • Russia became an Empire

  • Anglo-French War in India

  • Battle of Plassey

  • First Partition of Poland

    by Russia, Prussia and Habsburg Austria
  • Period: to

    Warren Hastings Governor of Bengal

  • Crimea no longer Ottoman vassal state

  • Annexation of Crimean Khanate by Russia

  • Period: to

    Russo-Turkish war 2

  • Second Partition of Poland

    by Russia, Prussia and Habsburg Austria
  • 'Mutiny" at Vellore

  • Napoleon in Russia

  • Congress of Vienna

  • Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864

  • Period: to

    Crimean War

  • Indian Rebellion

  • Period: to

    Rebellion in India

  • Queen Victoria becomes the Empress of India

  • Bulgaria is partially autonomous

    • by the treaty of Berlin O.E. is losing territories
  • French invade Tunisia

    O.E. is losing territories
  • British invade Egypt

    O.E. is losing territories
  • Indian National Congress formed

  • Russo-Japanese War

    because Russia was expanding to Manchuria
  • O.E.: Constitutional monarchy is declared

  • Xinhai Revolution

    End of Qing dynasty. Republic of China established.
  • Period: to

    WW1

  • Armenian genocide

  • Jalianwala Bagh Massacre

  • Turkey proclaimed a republic

  • India and Pakistan self-governing