Tema 3 By Francisco dedi 8 Period: 1870 to 1914 Imperialism 1871 Meeting between Henry Morton Santley and David Livingstone 1876 Coronation of Queen Victoria I as Empress of India 1882 British occupation of Egypt, which becomes a protectorate 1885 Berlin Conference. Distribution of Africa among the colonial powers. The Congo becomes the personal possession of King Leopold II of Belgium 1888 Isaac Peral tested his submarine 1895 Sino-Japanese War 1899 Second Anglo-Boer War 1900 Boxer Rebellion and assault on foreign delegations in Beijin 1905 Russo-Japanese War 1905 Russian Revolution 1907 Treaty of Saint Petersburg between the British and Russians for the division of Central Asea 1914 Sarajevo Beginning of the World War I Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1916 Battles of Verdun and the Somme 1917 United States' entry into the Great War. Russian withdrawal 1917 February Revolution 1917 October Revolution 1918 The armistice is signed. End of World War I 1918 Brest Litovsk Peace Period: 1918 to 1921 Russian Civil War 1919 The start of the Paris conference. The peace Treaties were signed: Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Trianon, Neuilly and Sèvres 1922 Creation of the Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)