CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
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A.D. | |
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Rome. The Pan-slavic conference at Prague. All Germany united in a parliament at Frankfort. German unity destroyed by the King of Prussia. | |
1851. | The Great Exhibition of London. |
1852. | Napoleon III Emperor of the French. |
1854. | Perry (second expedition) landed in Japan. Nicholas I occupied the Danubian provinces of Turkey. |
1854-56. | Crimean War. |
1856. | Alexander II of Russia. |
1857. | The Indian Mutiny. |
1858. | Robert Owen died. |
1859. | Franco-Austrian war. Battles of Magenta and Solferino. |
1861. | Victor Emmanuel First King of Italy. Abraham Lincoln became President U.S.A. The American Civil War began. |
1863. | British bombarded a Japanese town. |
1864. | Maximilian became Emperor of Mexico. |
1865. | Surrender of Appomattox Court House. Japan opened to the world. |
1866. | Prussia and Italy attacked Austria (and the south German states in alliance with her). Battle of Sadowa. |
1867. | The Emperor Maximilian shot. |
1870. | Napoleon III declared war against Prussia. |
1871. | Paris surrendered (January). The King of Prussia became William I, "German Emperor." The Hohenzollern Peace of Frankfort. |
1875. | The "Bulgarian atrocities." |
1877. | Russo-Turkish War. Treaty of San Stefano. Queen Victoria became Empress of India. |
1878. | The Treaty of Berlin. The Armed Peace of forty-six years began in western Europe. |
1881. | The Battle of Majuba Hill. The Transvaal free. |
1883. | Britain occupied Egypt. |
1886. | Gladstone's first Irish Home Rule Bill. |
1888. | Frederick II (March), William II (June), German Emperors. |
1890. | Bismarck dismissed. Heligoland ceded to Germany by Lord Salisbury. |