IMPERIALISM
1500-1800 Old Imperialism Africa
1815 Battle of Waterloo 1806 Britain displaces Boers
1859 Charles Darwin ‘Origin of Species’ 1830 Great Trek
1870-1900 New Imperialism 1875 Britain buys shares in Suez Canal (Egypt = bankrupt)
1870-71 Franco-Prussian War 1876 IAA founded
1871 German uni 1877 Zulu Wars
1873 Dreikaiserbund 1878 Leopold sends Stanley to Congo
1873-96 Long Depression 1880 Wahabbist Revolution
1879 Austro-German Alliance 1881 Battle of Obeid
1882 Triple Alliance 1880-81 1st Boer War
1887 Reinsurance Treaty 1881 Pretoria Convention
1893 Franco-Russian Alliance 1881 Egyptian uprising
1899 1st Hague Conference 1882 Britain controls Egypt
1904 Entente Cordiale 1884 Berlin Conference
1907 2nd Hague Conference 1884 Bismarck annexes SW Africa
1907 Anglo-Russian Agreement 1886 Gold discovered in Transvaal
1907 Triple Entente 1889 Naval Defence Act
1912 Haldane Mission 1890 Bismarck dismissed
1895 Cecil Rhodes colonises Rhodesia
1895 Jameson Raid
Asia
1895 Kruger Telegram
1839-42 1st Opium War
1896 Battle of Adowa
1842 Treaty of Nanking
1898 Fashoda Crisis
1868 Meiji Restoration
1899 Boer Ultimatum
1885 Tientsin Treaty
1899-1902 2nd Boer War
1894 Korean rebellion
1902 Treaty of Vereeniging
1894-95 Sino-Japanese War
1904-08 Nama + Herero genocides
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki
1905 1st Moroccan Crisis
1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
1906 Conference at Algeçiras
1900 Yangtze Agreement
1911 2nd Moroccan Crisis (Agadir Crisis)
1901 Boxer Protocol
1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance
1904 Japan attacks Port Arthur
USA
1904-05 Russo-Japanese War
1783 US independence from Britain
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
1823 Monroe Doctrine
1914 WW2
1890 US frontier closed
1915 21 Demands
1893 Economic depression
1895 Cuban revolt against Spain
1898 Spanish-American War
1915 Lusitania sunk
1917 German unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 Zimmerman Telegram
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1500-1800 Old Imperialism Africa
1815 Battle of Waterloo 1806 Britain displaces Boers
1859 Charles Darwin ‘Origin of Species’ 1830 Great Trek
1870-1900 New Imperialism 1875 Britain buys shares in Suez Canal (Egypt = bankrupt)
1870-71 Franco-Prussian War 1876 IAA founded
1871 German uni 1877 Zulu Wars
1873 Dreikaiserbund 1878 Leopold sends Stanley to Congo
1873-96 Long Depression 1880 Wahabbist Revolution
1879 Austro-German Alliance 1881 Battle of Obeid
1882 Triple Alliance 1880-81 1st Boer War
1887 Reinsurance Treaty 1881 Pretoria Convention
1893 Franco-Russian Alliance 1881 Egyptian uprising
1899 1st Hague Conference 1882 Britain controls Egypt
1904 Entente Cordiale 1884 Berlin Conference
1907 2nd Hague Conference 1884 Bismarck annexes SW Africa
1907 Anglo-Russian Agreement 1886 Gold discovered in Transvaal
1907 Triple Entente 1889 Naval Defence Act
1912 Haldane Mission 1890 Bismarck dismissed
1895 Cecil Rhodes colonises Rhodesia
1895 Jameson Raid
Asia
1895 Kruger Telegram
1839-42 1st Opium War
1896 Battle of Adowa
1842 Treaty of Nanking
1898 Fashoda Crisis
1868 Meiji Restoration
1899 Boer Ultimatum
1885 Tientsin Treaty
1899-1902 2nd Boer War
1894 Korean rebellion
1902 Treaty of Vereeniging
1894-95 Sino-Japanese War
1904-08 Nama + Herero genocides
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki
1905 1st Moroccan Crisis
1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
1906 Conference at Algeçiras
1900 Yangtze Agreement
1911 2nd Moroccan Crisis (Agadir Crisis)
1901 Boxer Protocol
1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance
1904 Japan attacks Port Arthur
USA
1904-05 Russo-Japanese War
1783 US independence from Britain
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
1823 Monroe Doctrine
1914 WW2
1890 US frontier closed
1915 21 Demands
1893 Economic depression
1895 Cuban revolt against Spain
1898 Spanish-American War
1915 Lusitania sunk
1917 German unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 Zimmerman Telegram
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