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7 Years War
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Australia's Independence
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Revolution in Haiti
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Mexico's Independence
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Brazil's Independence
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Battle of Ayacucho
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Battle of Navarino
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Crimean War
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Austro-Prussian War
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Canada's Independence
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End of Italian Unification
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Fanco-Prussian War
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Drefus Affair in France
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. -
Northern Ireland Becomes Independent
In 1922, after the Irish War of Independence and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the larger part of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom to become the independent Irish Free State; and after the 1937 constitution, Ireland. The six north eastern counties, known as Northern Ireland, remained within the United Kingdom.