• Haiti achieves independence from France • New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery • Lewis and Clark begin their expedition into the Louisiana Territory • Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of France
• British soldiers occupy and burn Washington DC • Napoleon abdicates as Emperor of France • Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden • Major European powers meet at the Congress of Vienna
• The First Constitution of Mexico is enacted • King Kamehameha II and his wife travel to the UK and die of measles • Simón Bolívar is proclaimed the dictator of Peru • British forces capture Rangoon in the Anglo-Burmese War
• The Spanish Inquisition is ended after over 350 years • The Palace of Westminster is destroyed by a fire • The capital of Greece is moved from Nafplio to Athens • York, Canada is incorporated and renamed Toronto
• Samuel Morse sends his first telegraph from Washington to Baltimore • The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti • The Edict of Toleration is passed, allowing Jews to settle in the Holy Land • Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter-Day Saint movement, is killed
• France and the UK formally declare war on Russia in the Crimean War • The Republican Party is founded in the United States • The Bleeding Kansas conflict begins • Britain recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State
• Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander-in-chief of the Union army • Denmark and Prussia go to war over Schleswig and Holstein • The H.L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to sink a ship • The Quebec Conference begins to discuss the Dominion of Canada
• Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom • New York City annexes the Bronx • The Dresden English Football Club is founded • Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive their patent for blue jeans
• The Berlin Conference, set to control colonization in Africa, begins • The Washington Monument is completed in Washington DC • British and Egyptian soldiers successfully lay siege to Khartoum, Sudan • Germany creates colonies in modern-day Togo, Cameroon, and Namibia
• The First Sino-Japanese War, fought over control of Korea, begins • Alfred Dreyfus of France is convicted of treason after being accused of spying for Germany • New Zealand becomes the first country to pass a minimum wage law • Nicholas II becomes the final czar of Russia
• The United States takes over control of the Panama Canal Zone • The Russo-Japanese War begins after a surprise attack on Port Arthur • The World's Fair and Olympics are both held in St. Louis, Missouri • Theodore Roosevelt announces his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
• Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, setting off World War I • The United States occupies and controls Veracruz, Mexico following the Tampico Affair • The Cape Cod canal is opened, turning Cape Cod into an island • Saint Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd
• Joseph Stalin begins a purge of his rivals to seize power following the death of Vladimir Lenin • The First Winter Olympics are held in Chamonix, France • Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK • The Islamic Caliphate is ended, formally finishing the reformation of Turkey
• Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time • Manchuria is invaded by the Japanese and is renamed Manchukuo • Austria is reorganized into a fascist state by Engelbert Dollfuss • The Australian frontier wars end after 146 years of conflict
• 155,000 Allied troops begin the D-Day Offensive • The Allied Powers successfully capture Rome • Iceland declares independence from Denmark • Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt
• Joseph McCarthy is censured following the Army-McCarthy hearings • The first nuclear-powered submarine is launched in the United States • The USSR transfers the Crimean oblast from Russia to Ukraine • Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes Premier of Egypt
• The Palestine Liberation Organization is founded • The Civil Rights Act of [year] is signed into law by President Johnson • Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge into Tanzania • The British Invasion begins with the Beatles appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
• A coup in Portugal ends the dictatorship and restores republican rule • OPEC ends its first oil embargo against the United States, Europe, and Japan • The Terracotta Army is discovered in China • Georges Pompidou, the President of France, dies of cancer
• Coal miners in the United Kingdom begin a strike that lasts for a year • Brunei becomes an independent state • Apple sells the Macintosh computer for the first time • Researchers announce the discovery of the AIDS virus
• Nelson Mandela is elected President of South Africa • The Rwandan genocide begins • The North American Free Trade Agreement goes into effect • The Yemeni Civil war occurs, reunifying the two Yemens into one nation
• U.S. forces begin their attack on Fallujah in Iraq • The UN confirms Vatican City's status as a Permanent Observer • Construction begins on the Freedom Tower and Burj Khalifa • The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine
• The United States and Cuba normalize relations • 11,000 people are killed following an outbreak of the Ebola virus • The Russian Federation 'annexes' Crimea • John XXIII and John Paul II are canonized by the Catholic church
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