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.