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Haitian independence
Dessalines declared the nation independent and renamed it Haiti. Haiti then emerged as the first black republic in the world, and the second nation in the western hemisphere to win its independence from a European power. -
The congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna created a balance of power, restored monarchies, and created a new political map of Europe. -
End of the Franco-Prussian war
German states led by Prussia defeated France, the war resulted in the creation of a unified Germany. -
Conference or Berlin
The Berlin Conference spanned almost four months of deliberations, from 15 November 1884 to 26 February 1885. By the end of the Conference the European powers had neatly divided Africa up amongst themselves, drawing the boundaries of Africa much as we know them today. -
Boxer rebellion
The boxer rebellion was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty. -
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand and his wife were in the third car of a motorcade traveling through Sarajevo to the Town Hall when him and his wife were shot and killed -
The Armenian Genocide
Britain and France launched a naval attack followed by an amphibious landing on the Gallipolli peninsula -
Sinking of the Lusitania
less than a year after World War I erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The British intercepted a not from Germany to Mexico asking for help if the U.S. entered WW1. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I.