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7 years war
- lasted 7 years
- 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
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Austrailia's Independence
-After European settlement in 1788, Australia was politically organised as a number of separate British colonies, eventually six in all
-Following the formation of the Federal Council of Australasia in 1885 -
Revolution In Haiti
-Slaves rose up in 1791 and by 1803 had driven the whites out of Sant Dominique
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Northern Ireland Becomes independent
-The country shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom
-otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Sea to the east, St George's Channel to the southeast, and the Celtic Sea to the south. -
Mexico's Independence
-was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial authorities which started on 16 September 1810 (Mexico won)
-After the abortive Conspiracy of the Machetes in 1799, the War of Independence led by the Mexican-born Spaniards became a reality with the Grito de Dolores coming only 11 years after the conspiracy -
Brazil's Independence
-brazil's independence from portugal
-disputes between Brazil and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the Brazilian Kingdom. -
Battle of Ayacucho
- took place at Pampa de La Quinua, a few kilometers away from Ayacucho, near the town of Quinua between Royalist and Independentist forces. -Independentist forces were led by Antonio José de Sucre, Simón Bolívar's lieutenant.
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Battle of Navarino
-The naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence
-Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force. -
mexican-american war
- armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. -Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.
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end of Italian unification
-political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century
-Despite a lack of consensus on the exact dates for the beginning and end of this period, many scholars[who?] agree that the process began in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna and the end of Napoleonic rule, and ended sometime around 1871 with the Franco-Prussian War. -
Crimean War
-was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
-The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. -
start and end of the civil war
- The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861. Although the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered on April 9th, technically, there were still Confederate Forces in the field until June. Confederate General Stand Watie surrendered on June 23, 1865 when the last major fighting occurred. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_exact_date_did_the_Civil_W -
Austro-Prussian war
-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.
-The major result of the war was a shift in power among the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian hegemony, -
Canadas independence
-Canada won their independence against Great Britain
-Canada was formed as a federal dominion -
franco-prussian war
-referred to in France as the 1870 War[
-conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. -
Drefus affair in france
- political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s -involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent. Sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having communicated French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, Dreyfus was sent to the penal colony at Devil's Island in French Guiana and placed in solitary confinement.
