imperialism timeline

  • East India Company

    This was created to serve as a trading body for english merchants, specifically to participate in the East Indian spice trade.It later participated in the slave trade.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in
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    Great Trek

    The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern africa in search of land where they could establish their own homeland, independent of British rule.
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    Opium Wars

    The Opium wars were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century. The first Opium war was fought between the Qing and Great Britain.
  • Treaty of Nanjing

    This was a peace treaty which ended the first Opium war between the United Kingdom and China. China said that this was an unequal treaty
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    David Livingstone missionary work

    David was a Scottish missionary, doctor, abolitionist, and explorer who lived in the 1800s. He was convinced that he needed to reach new people in the interior of Africa and introduce christianity to them, as well as freeing the slaves.
  • Matthew C. Perry in Japan

    Matthew was a commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican.
  • Treaty of Kanagawa

    This treaty was signed between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate.
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    Sepoy Rebellion

    This was major, it was the first war of Independence. It functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
  • British Raj

    This system of governance was instituted after the Indian rebellion, the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria.
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    Suez Canal built

    The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt. It connects the Mediterranean sea to the Red sea through the Isthmus of Suez.
  • Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India

    Benjamin Disraeli, conservative prime minister, had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India.
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    Boer war

    The Boer war was fought between the British empire and two independant Boer states. This war was significant in defining modern South Africa. It brought the British and Bores together in an uneasy alliance.
  • Panama Canal built

    This connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific ocean
  • Indian National Congress formed

    Indian national congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates in attendance.
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    Boxer Rebellion

    The boxer rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that occured in China. This begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government.
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    Open door policy

    The open door policy was a statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1890. It called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and for the support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity
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    Roosevelt Corollary

    The Roosevelt Corollary stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite
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    Revolution of 1911

    This revolution overthrew China's last imperial dynasty and established the Republic of China.