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wars of opio
There were two wars that lasted from 1839 to 1842 and from 1856 to 1860 respectively, the highlight of the trade conflicts between China and the United Kingdom -
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german unification
It was a patriotic process that took place in the second half of the 19th century, which culminated in the creation of the German Empire on January 18, 1871 -
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Second industrial revolution
It was the second phase of the Industrial Revolution, when capitalism finally matured as an economic system and established its "fundamental pillars", it was a process of technological, scientific, social and economic innovations never seen before -
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Armed Peace Period
It was one of the most notorious causes of the First World War. The continuing tensions between States because of both nationalist and imperialist conflicts resulted in each State allocating a large amount of state capital to the investment of the arms industry and the promotion of the army, all this excessive military spending would eventually lead to bankruptcies. National or not. -
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Italian Unification
It was the historical process that throughout the nineteenth century led to the union of the various states in which the Italian Peninsula was divided, mostly linked to dynasties considered "non-Italian" such as the Habsburgs or the Bourbons. -
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End of the War of Secession
The two sides confronted were the forces of the Northern states (the Union) against the newly formed Confederate States of America, composed of eleven southern states that proclaimed their independence. -
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colonial expansion
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Crisis de 1873
It is the name that is known to a wave of economic panic triggered in the United States by the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia bank, Jay Cooke and Company on September 18, 1873, along with the previous fall of the Vienna Stock Exchange on May 9, 1873 -
Berlin Conference
Held between November 15, 1884 and February 26, 1885 in the city of Berlin, it was convened by France and the United Kingdom1 and organized by the Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck, in order to solve the problems posed by the Colonial expansion in Africa and resolve its distribution. -
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Guerra Anglo-Boer
In the Anglo-Boer war that will last from 1899 to 1902, both political and economic factors inherent in the imperialist phenomenon converged. Cecil Rhodes, businessman and British governor of the Cape, whose goal was to gain dominance of the whole of South Africa stood out as the instigator of the conflict.