1861 Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed King of Italy.
1862 Otto von Bismarck becomes Prime Minister of Prussia.
1863-67 France occupies Mexico. Homestead Act.
1864 Danish-Prussian War results in quick Prussian victory. Prussia and Austria respectively rule Schleswig and Holstein.
1866 Austro-Prussian War breaks out over the Austrian administration of Holstein. Prussian victory in seven weeks. 3rd Māori War. 3rd Italian War for Independence.
1867 Dual Monarchy established in a compromise between Austria and Hungary. US purchases Alaska claims Aleutian Islands & annexes Midway Island.
1869 Japanese Boshin War, Suez Canal completed. Transcontinental Railroad completed.
1870 the Italian state annexed Rome. Italian unification completed. France declares war on Prussia over Ems dispatch. France was defeated at Sedan and Emperor Napoleon III captured. Third French Republic proclaimed.
1871 Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles.
1873 3rd Anglo-Ashanti War.
1874 Benjamin Disraeli becomes the Conservative PM. Britain annexed Fiji Islands.
1875 Britain took control of the Suez Canal, creating a British protectorate over Egypt. Dakota Gold Rush.
1876 Victoria proclaimed Empress of India. Belgium claimed the African Congo.
1877 Reconstruction ends.
1878-79 2nd British-Afghan War.
1879 Zulu War.
1880 France claims Tunis. 1st Boer War. Art Nouveau style appears
1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, France controlled Algeria, claiming French Somaliland. Chinese Exclusion Act.
1884 Sudan Mahdi War.
1884-1885 Germany established a protectorate over Southwest Africa, Togoland, Cameroons and East Africa. Britain claims British Somaliland, Sino-Franco War.
1885 Berlin Conference-Bismarck establishes “ground rules” for dividing Africa. 3rd Burma War. Serbo-Bulgarian War
1886 Britain made Burma a province of India after winning the 3rd Anglo-Burma War. Haymarket Riot, American Federation of Labor formed.
1887 Britain claims Nigeria.
1888 Kaiser Wilhelm II ascends to the throne of the German Empire.
1889 Italy claimed Italian Somaliland, Britain claimed Northern and Southern Rhodesia’s.
1890 Kaiser Wilhelm II “retires” Otto von Bismarck, 1st Fanco-Dahomean War, Britain established the colony of Uganda, Ghost Dance War, Sherman Anti-trust Act.
1892 2nd Franco-Dahomean War.
1893 Franco-Siamese War, France takes Laos, with Cambodia & Vietnam the area is called French Indochina.
1893-94 1st Matabelle-Spanish War.
1894 Britain claims Zimbabwe. 1st Sino-Japanese War, Japan takes Taiwan from China, becoming a European style colonial power.
1895 Britain established the colony of Kenya, 1st Italian-Abyssinian War.
1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War.
1895-96 4th Anglo-Ashanti War.
1896-99 English Sudanese War, England claims the entire Sudan.
1897 Greco-Turkish War
1898 Britain obtains a 99-year lease for Hong Kong from China. Spanish American War-US “liberates” Cuba, takes Puerto Rico, Guam & Philippines. US annexes Hawaii. Fashoda Incident-France and Britain divide all unclaimed North Africa.
1899-1902 2nd Boer War, Britain invents the concentration camp.
1899 'Open Door Policy' in the Far East, 1st Hague Peace Conference. US annexes Wake Island.
1899-1913 Philippine-American War
1900 5th Anglo-Ashanti War (War of the Golden Stool), Boxer Rebellion-united armies of Europe & Japan crush the Chinese, capturing & looting Peking. US annexes American Samoa.
1901 Death of Victoria age 81. Aside from Ethiopia, Japan, Persia, Siam and parts of China the entire world is under European control.
By 1910 Queen Victoria’s grandchildren were on the thrones of the following states:
Wilhem II, Kaiser of the German Empire, George V King of Great Britain, Emperor of India, Nikolai II Aleksandrovich, Tsar of All the Russia's, Maud Queen Consort of King Haakon VII of Norway
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