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The British gained control of the Cape Colony
British forces landed on the Cape Peninsula in June 1795, and occupied Cape Town. Their purpose was to secure the settlement before it fell into the hands of Napoleon. After the Battle of Waterloo (1814) the Cape formally became part of the British Empire. -
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Opium Wars
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of opium and China's sovereignty. The clashes included the First Opium War and the Second Opium War. -
Treaty of Nanking
The Treaty of Nanking was a peace treaty which ended the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China on 29 August 1842. It was the first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treaties. -
Indian Revolt
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India during 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. -
Otto Von Bismarck became Chancellor of Prussia
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck and Duke of Lauenburg, known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. Germany became a modern, unified nation under the leadership of the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), who between 1862 and 1890 effectively ruled first Prussia and then all of Germany. -
Danish Wars
The Second Schleswig War, was the second military conflict over the Schleswig-Holstein Question of the nineteenth century. The war began on 1 February 1864, when Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig. -
Austro-Prussian War (Seven Wars)
The Austro-Prussian War or Seven Weeks War, was a war fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being supported by various allies within the German Confederation. -
Tokugawa Shogun lost power and the Japanese Emperor was restored to power.
In 1868 the Tokugawa Shogun , who ruled Japan in the feudal period, lost his power and the emperor was restored to the supreme position. The emperor took the name Meiji ("enlightened rule") as his reign name; this event was known as the Meiji Restoration. -
Suez Canal Opens
On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation. Ferdinand de Lesseps would later attempt ,(unsuccessfully), to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. When it opened, the Suez Canal was only 25 feet deep, 72 feet wide at the bottom, and 200 to 300 feet wide at the surface. -
Franco Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and later the Third French Republic, and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. -
Prussia declares a German Empire (The Second Reich)
The Second Reich was the Hohenzollern Germany, from the unification of Germany following the Franco-Prussian War (1870 - 1871) and crowning of Wilhelm I as German Emperor at the Palace of Versailles, with Otto von Bismarck as the first Reichskanzler, to the abdication of Wilhelm II in 1919 following the German defeat in the First World War. -
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Beginning of the Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa was the occupation, division, and colonization of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914. It is also called the Partition of Africa and by some the Conquest of Africa. -
Berlin Confrence
The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference or West Africa Conference, regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. -
French gain control of Indochina
France obtained control over northern Vietnam following its victory over China in the Sino-French War. French Indochina was formed on 17 October 1887 from Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina (which together form modern Vietnam) and the Kingdom of Cambodia; Laos was added after the Franco-Siamese War in 1893. -
Convention of Constantinople
The Convention of Constantinople was a treaty signed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire on 29 October 1888. In the 1880s, Britain had recently acquired physical control over the Suez Canal and Egypt. -
Battle of Adwa
The Battle of Adwa was fought on 1 March 1896 between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray. This climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, was a decisive defeat for Italy and secured Ethiopian sovereignty for a few decades more. -
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising, or Yihetuan Movement was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty. -
Russo Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. -
Meiji Emperor Died :(
Emperor Meiji, suffering from diabetes, nephritis, and gastroenteritis, died of uremia. -
Great Britain occupied Egypt
Formal protectorate (1914–22) In 1914 as a result of the declaration of war with the Ottoman Empire, of which Egypt was nominally a part, Britain declared a Protectorate over Egypt and deposed the Khedive, replacing him with a family member who was made Sultan of Egypt by the British. -
France occupied Dijbouti
After France fell to Germany during the second year of World War II, the Vichy government of France seized control of French Somaliland in 1940. In 1942 British troops instituted a blockade on Djibouti City's port, forcing the Vichy French to surrender. The British occupied the city until 1943.