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End of Seven Year's war, Great Britain gains control of India 1763

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End of Seven Year's war, Great Britain gains control of India 1763

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The 7 Year's war is also known as the French and Indian War. It was fought between the colonies of Great Britain and New France.

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The conquest of Algeria started during the last days of the Bourbon Restoration by Charles X of France. The point of it was to end Barbary privateering.

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The first Opium War sanded from 1839–1842 was fought between China and Britain. The Opium Wars started because of China’s attempts to end the opium trade.

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The First Opium War Ends with the Treaty of Nanking in 1842

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The First Opium War Ends with the Treaty of Nanking in 1842

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The Treaty of Nanking was signed on August 29. China was required to pay Britain a large indemnity, give Hong Kong Island to the British, and increase the number of ports the British could trade.

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Gustave Courbet paints the "The Stone Breakers" in 1849

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Gustave Courbet paints the "The Stone Breakers" in 1849

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Gustave Courbet was a French painter in the 1800s. The Stone Breakers is an image of two men breaking rocks to show the hard work that citizens experienced.

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Jean Francois Millet paints "The Sower" in 1850

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Jean Francois Millet paints "The Sower" in 1850

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Jean Francois Millet was known as a realist. He highlights social injustice by painting a peasant.

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The Taiping Rebellion in China begins; Chinese civil war against the Manchu rules (Qing Dynasty); millions are killed in 1850

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The Taiping Rebellion in China begins; Chinese civil war against the Manchu rules (Qing Dynasty); millions are killed in 1850

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The Taiping Rebellion began with Hong Xiuquan who believed he was the second son of God. Many peasants, workers, and miners were influenced by propaganda against foreign Manchu rulers.

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Great Exhibition in London celebrates the technological achievements of Great Britain in 1851

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Great Exhibition in London celebrates the technological achievements of Great Britain in 1851

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The Great Exhibition was held inside the Crystal Palace. The latest inventions were displayed from things like to steam engines to the latest cameras.

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Commodore Perry opens up trade with Japan in 1853

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Commodore Perry opens up trade with Japan in 1853

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Commodore Perry is often credited with opening Japan to the western world. The United States used Japan as a base where steamships could restock their coal supply.

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The Sepoy Mutiny against British Rule in India takes place 1857

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The Sepoy Mutiny against British Rule in India takes place 1857

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Sepoy Mutiny is also called Indian Mutiny or First War of Independence. It was widespread but an unsuccessful rebellion against British rule.

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India comes under direct rule by Great Britain in 1858

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India comes under direct rule by Great Britain in 1858

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The British Raj was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent. The region under British control was commonly called British India or the Indian Empire.

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When it opened, the Suez Canal was only 25 feet deep, 72 feet wide at the bottom, and 200 to 300 feet wide at the surface. Ferdinand de Lesseps would later attempted to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama but failed.

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Cecil Rhodes arrives in Cape Town, South Africa in 1870

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Cecil Rhodes arrives in Cape Town, South Africa in 1870

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When Rhodes was 17, he arrived in Durban on 1 September 1870. He brought three thousand pounds that his aunt had lent him and used it to invest in diamond diggings.

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Thomas Cook organizes his first trip around the world. It takes 222 days. 1872

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Thomas Cook organizes his first trip around the world. It takes 222 days. 1872

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Cook formed a partnership with his son in his organized tourism business. He organized a 222-day trip around the world, covering 40,000 km.

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Claude Monet paints "Impression, Sunrise" in 1872

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Claude Monet paints "Impression, Sunrise" in 1872

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Claude Monet created his famous painting, Impression, Sunrise from a scene in the port of Le Havre. He depicts a mist, which provides a hazy background to the piece which is set in the French harbor.

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Edgar Degas paints "The Dance Class" in 1874

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Edgar Degas paints "The Dance Class" in 1874

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The painting depicts dancers at the end of a lesson under ballet master Jules Perrot. Perrot and Degas were friends, and Degas painted the dance class in the Paris Opera a year after it burnt down.

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Great Britain gains control of Suez Canal and begins to establish a protectorate in Egypt in 1875

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Great Britain gains control of Suez Canal and begins to establish a protectorate in Egypt in 1875

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The Suez Canal allowed faster sea transport to India, which increased Britain's interest in the Eastern Mediterranean. Britain established a protectorate to suppress a nationalist revolt that threatened its interests.

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The British military occupied Egypt in 1882 to protect financial interests in the country. Britain won and established a ‘veiled protectorate’ over Ottoman-Egypt until the First World War.

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International Berlin Conference on meets to establish guidelines for European imperialism in Africa from 1884-1885

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International Berlin Conference on meets to establish guidelines for European imperialism in Africa from 1884-1885

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Berlin West Africa Conference, a series of negotiations at Berlin. The major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin in Central Africa.

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Germany controls German East Africa in 1885

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Germany controls German East Africa in 1885

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German East Africa was a former German colony. German influence emerged in the area when Carl Peters obtained treaties over parts of the territory. The German government declared a protectorate over the area and the German East Africa Company was organized to administer it.

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British troops entered Mandalay on November 28, 1885. After three wars gaining various parts of Burma, the British occupied all the area of present-day Myanmar, making the territory a Province of British India.

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Vincent van Gough paints "The Starry Night" in 1889

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Vincent van Gough paints "The Starry Night" in 1889

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The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh. It reflects his view of the countryside from his window.

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Pierre Auguste Renoir paints "Girls at the Piano" in 1892

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Pierre Auguste Renoir paints "Girls at the Piano" in 1892

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Girls at the Piano is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir, a painter in the development of the impressionist style. It completed in 1892 as an informal commission for the Musee du Luxembourg.

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Paul Gauguin paints "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" in 1897

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Paul Gauguin paints "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" in 1897

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This painting was created in Tahiti, and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting is considered "a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels".

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First Zionist Conference meets in Basel, Switzerland in 1897

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First Zionist Conference meets in Basel, Switzerland in 1897

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The year 1897 is when efforts became focused on creating political institutions towards the establishment of a Jewish State.

On 29-31 August 1897, visionary leader Theodor Benjamin Zeev Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress, in Basel, Switzerland.

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The Boxer Rebellion in China against Westerners takes place from 1899-1901

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The Boxer Rebellion in China against Westerners takes place from 1899-1901

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The Rebellion began with the killing of two priests by two Boxer members visiting a German missionary in Juye County, China. The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants

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Open Door Policy is proposed by the United States for China in 1899

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Open Door Policy is proposed by the United States for China in 1899

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Open Door policy was a statement of principles initiated by the United States. It was for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrety.

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Boer War; British crush rebellion by Dutch farmers in South Africa from 1899-1902

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Boer War; British crush rebellion by Dutch farmers in South Africa from 1899-1902

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The Boer War was fought from October 11, 1899, to May 31, 1902, between Great Britain and the two Boer republics. The British won.

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Russo-Japanese War; Japan takes Korea and port Arthur from Russia 1904-1905 

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Russo-Japanese War; Japan takes Korea and port Arthur from Russia 1904-1905 

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Russo-Japanese War, was a military conflict in which Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in East Asia. It became the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.

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The Union of South Africa was created on May 31, 1910. It was made by a constitutional convention in Durban and an act of the British Parliament.

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Manchu Dynasty overthrown; Dr, Sun Yat-Sen is named president of the Chinese Republic in 1911-1912

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Manchu Dynasty overthrown; Dr, Sun Yat-Sen is named president of the Chinese Republic in 1911-1912

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Manchu Dynasty was overthrown during the Chinese Revolution, and created a republic. Sun Yat-Sen is known as the father of modern China and was influential in overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty.