Imperialism

By 5oda_cam

  • Suez Canal Built

    On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation.When it opened, the Suez Canal was only 25 feet deep, 72 feet wide at the bottom, and 200 to 300 feet wide at the surface.

  • David Livingstone found

    David Livingstone was a British Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. And when he was found by H. M. Stanley it sprung the famous quote "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

  • East India Company

    formed to pursue trade with the East Indies but ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and Qing China. the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly trade in basic commodities that included cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The company also ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India.

  • Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India

    In 1877, Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India. India was already under crown control after 1858, but this title was a gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to Britain.

  • Open Door policy

    The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.

  • Revolution of 1911

    The Xinhai Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1911, or the Chinese Revolution, was a revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty, and established the Republic of China.

  • Panama Canal Built

    Building the Panama Canal, 1903–1914. President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Theodore offered columbia ten milion a year for every year it was being built but Columbia wanted more. Preident T. told the people of panama to revolt as they wanted to for a century