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USA Declaration of Independence
The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America. -
Mexican Independence Movement
The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict, lasting over a decade, which had several distinct phases and took place in different regions of the Spanish colony of New Spain. -
Opium Wars
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Great Qing and the British Government and concerned their imposition of trade of opium upon China. The wars were between 1839 and 1842, and 1856 and 1860. -
Tanzimat
It was a series of governmental reforms between 1839 and 1876 that sought to centralize and rationalize Ottoman rule and capture more tax revenues for the military defense of the empire. -
Crimean War
The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. -
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. -
Meiji Restoration
Was an event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. -
Boers War
The Second Boer War was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa. It is also known variously as the Boer War, Anglo-Boer War, or South African War. It ended in 1902. -
Colonization of Congo
The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. ... With support from a number of Western countries, Leopold achieved international recognition for a personal colony, the Congo Free State, in 1885. -
Fall of the Qing Dynasty
When the last Chinese dynasty—the Qing dynasty —fell in 1911–1912, it marked the end of the nation's incredibly long imperial history.
