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Mexico gains its independence from Spain on September 16, 1821.
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Allan Octavian Hume is born on June 6, 1829.
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In 1855, a group of reformers overthrew and exiled Santa Anna, and he didn't return.
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The Great Rebellion of 1857 (also called the Indian Mutiny, Sepoy Rebellion, and First War of Independence) began as a mutiny by Bengal army soldiers, or sepoys, against their commanders in the army of the British East India Company.
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In 1884, German chancellor Otto von Bismark called together the major western powers of the world to negotiate questions and end confusion over the control of Africa.
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The British divided Zululand into 13 smaller states. This encouraged disputes between the chiefs and eventually there was civil war. In 1887 the British made Zululand a colony.
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A group called the boxers start a rebellion against anti-Christian and foreign movement in the Shandong province.
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By 1914, the conference participants had fully divided Africa among themselves into fifty countries.
