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Haitian Revolution
A time of conflict between the French and the colony of Saint-Domingue. This conflict led to the abolishment of slavery and the establishment of the Republic of Haiti. This was the only revolt successful in gaining complete independence as a nation controlled by African ancestry. The time after the revolution however, saw a two-tiered society in which the haitians were often rural farmers. -
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Argentina and Paraguay Gain Independance
Both Paraguay and Argentina faught against Spain to gain their independance. -
Venezuela Gains Independence
The Venezuelan War of Independence was fought between the First Republic of Venezuela and Spain. In 1811, the Congress of Venezuelan Provinces declared independence from the Spanish Monarchy. -
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Northern and Western South America Liberated by Simon Bolivar
Simón Bolívar was a Venezualen leader who played a key role in struggle for freedom in the hispanic americas. Regarded as a hero in Hispanic america, Simón Bolívar was the first president of Gran Columbia, a union of independant nations in South America. -
Mexico Gains Independance
The people of Mexico fought for their freedom from the Spanish colonial authorities 1810-1821. On August 24, 1821, the Treaty of Cordoba recognized Mexican Independence. Iturbide, a Mexican commander during the war, was then made Emperor of Mexico. -
Brazil Gains Independance
Brazilian Independance was the result of ongoing tensions between the people of Brazil and Portugal. Prince Pedro delivered the news of Independance on September Seventh. -
Indian Mutiny
It began as a mutiny of native soldiers employed by the British East India Company's army, against perceived race-based injustices and inequities, on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions which were mainly centered on north central India along the several major river valleys draining the south face of the Himalayas but with local episodes extending both northwest to Peshawar on the north-west frontier with Afghanistan and southeast.. -
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American Civil War
It was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy." Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states (where slavery had been abolished) and by five slave states that became known as the border states. -
British Ocupation of Egypt
Egypt became part of the British sphere of influence, a situation that conflicted with Egypt's position as part of the Ottoman Empire. In April 1882 France and Great Britain sent warships to Alexandria to bolster the Khedive amidst a turbulent climate, spreading fear of invasion throughout the country. By June Egypt was in the hands of nationalists opposed to European domination of the country. A British naval bombardment of Alexandria had little effect on the opposition which led to the..... -
Berlin Conference Organizes Imperialism in Africa
The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. Called for by Portugal and organised by Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, its outcome, the General Act of the Berlin Conference, is often seen as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa. The conference ushered in a period of heightened colonial activity on the part of the European powers... -
Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia)
The Battle of Adowa, was fought on 1 March 1896 between Ethiopia and Italy near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigray. It was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. -
Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in 1873. By 1897–98 American public opinion grew more angry at reports of Spanish atrocities, magnified by the "yellow journalism". After the mysterious sinking of the American battleship Maine in Havana harbor, political pressures from the... -
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Boer War
The Boer Wars were two wars fought between the United Kingdom and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic).
The First Anglo-Boer War (1880–1881), also known as the "Transvaal War," was a relatively brief conflict in which Boer (Descendants of Dutch settlers. Translates as 'Farmer') successfully rebelled against British rule in the Transvaal, and re-established their independence, lost in 1877, when the Boers fought the.... -
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-colonialist, anti-Christian movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901. The uprising took place in response to imperialist expansion (into China) involving European opium traders, political invasion, economic manipulation, and missionary evangelism. Western, white missionaries and Chinese Christians used their imperialist powers to steal the lands and property of the Chinese peasants to give to the church, and made perverse..... -
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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo–Japanese War was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea.
The Russians sought a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean, for their navy as well as for maritime trade. Vladivostok was only operational during the summer season, but Port..
