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Britain gets South Africa
Britain had begun to takeover future South Africa which it had begun in 1814 with the annexation of the Cape Colony -
Greek Independence
Greece had gained independence from the Ottoman Empire -
First Opium Wars
The United Kingdom ceded the island of Hong Kong in perpetuity because the Treaty of Nanking was concluded. -
Second Opium War
British fought towards legalization of the opium trade, to expand coolie trade, to open all of China to British merchants. -
Indian Rebelion of 1857
British East India Trading Company had dominated India. BEIT used Sepoys as the rule-enforcing "militia." Citizens became angered when the cartridges were changed from beef and pork fat to enfield rifles. -
Britain gets Egypt
Britain gets control of egypet over its fearce rivals France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy -
The Boxer Rebellion
"The Boxers" was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan. The Boxer rebellion was a peasant uprising of very early 1900s that attempted to drive all foriengers.