CHRONOLOGY

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A.D.
1775—83	Revolt of American Colonies.
1789	French Revolution.
1792	English Embassy at Canton.
1793—94	Reign of Terror.
1797—1815	Napoleon Bonaparte.
1801—25	Alexander I.
1806	Austrian branch of Hapsburgs ended by Napoleon.
1815	Waterloo.   Vienna Congress.
1817—98	Sir Saiyyad Ahmad
1818	Maratha's finally overthrown.
1821	Mexico independent.
1822	Brazil independent.
1824—83	Swami Dayananda Saraswati.
1830, 1848	National  and  Democratic  risings in Europe.
1832, 1867,	1884   Parliament Reforms.
1833	East India Go's opium monopoly in China cancelled.
1839—42	Opium Wars.
1842	Treaty of Nanking.
1842—1900	M. G. Ranade.
1849—73	Livingstone in Africa.
1853	Commodore Perry's adventure : Japan reopened for
foreign intercourse.
1854—56	Crimean War.
1857	Mutiny in India.
1861	United Italy.   Civil War in America.
1861—64	Taiping Revolt.
1866	Peking sacked by Europeans.   Austria defeated by
Germany at Sadowa.
1867—1912	Meiji Era in Japan.
1867—1918	Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
 1869	Suez Canal constructed by Lesseps.
 1870	Murder of missionaries in China:  occupation of
Annam and Tongking by the French and Burma
by the British.
1871	Paris occupied by the Germans after French defeat
at Sedan.   Treaty of Frankfort
1875	The Third Republic in France.
1878	Treaty of Berlin.
1885	Indian National Congress founded.