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Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War was a global military conflict between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time affecting North and Central America, Europe, the West African coast, India and the Philippines. -
Haitian Revolution
A period of brutal conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti won and abolished slavery and became a republic. -
Mexican Independence
Bloody fighting raged on until 1821, when Mexico finally succeeded in winning its independence from Spain. -
Brazilian Independence
The Brazilian Independence comprised a series of political events occurred in 1821–1823, most of which involved disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Kingdom. It is celebrated on September 7. -
Battle of Ayacucho
The Battle of Ayacucho was a decisive military encounter during the Peruvian War of Independence. It was the battle that sealed the independence of Peru, as well as the victory that ensured independence for the rest of South America -
Battle of Navarino
The naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–32) in Navarino Bay. It is notable for being the last major naval battle in history to be fought entirely with sailing ships -
Crimean War
The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Duchy of Nassau. -
Start of Civil War
The American Civil War (1861–1865), also known as the War Between the States (among other names), was a civil war in the United States of America. -
End of the Civil War
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Austro-Prussian War
A war fought in 1866 between the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire and its German allies on one side and the Kingdom of Prussia with its German allies and Italy on the other, that resulted in Prussian dominance over the German states. -
Canadian Independence
The term dominion was chosen to indicate Canada's status as a self-governing colony of the British Empire. -
Italian Unification
Italian unification was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century. -
Franco-Prussian War
Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria. -
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
Australia's Independence
Australia was formerly inhabited by notorious criminals which Britain sent there. They became a republic in 1901. -
Northern Ireland becomes Independant
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drefus Affair in France
The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent
