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33 Cards in this Set
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1619
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Dutch established trading post at batavia in Java
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1620s
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Sultan of Mataram's attacks on Batavia fail
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1652
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First Dutch settlement in south africa at Cape Town
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1661
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British port-trading center founded at Bombay
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1690
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Calcutta established at center of British activities in Bengal
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1707
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Death of Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb; beginning of imperial breakdown
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1739
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Nadir Shah's invasion of India from Persia
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1740-1748
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War of Austrian Succession; global British-French struggle for colonial dominance
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1750s
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Civil war and division of Mataram; Dutch became the paramount power on Java
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1756-1763
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Seven Years' War, British-French global warfare
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1757
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Battle of Plassy; British dominant power in Bengal
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1769-1770
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Great Famine in Bengal
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1775-1782
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War for independence by American colonists; another British-French struggle for global preeminence
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1786-1790
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Cornwallis's political reforms in India
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1790-1815
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Wars of the Revolution and Napoleonic era
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1798
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Napoleon's invasion of Egypt
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1815
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British annex Cape Town and surrounding area
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1830
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Decision to give support for English education in India; English adapted as the language of Indian low courts
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1850s
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Boer republics established in the Orange Free State and Transvaal
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1853
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First railway line constructed in India
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1857
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Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay universities founded
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1857-1858
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"Mutiny" or Great Rebellion in north India
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1858
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British parliament assumes control over India from the East India Company
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1867
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Diamonds discovered in Orange Free State
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1869
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Opening of the suez Canal
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1879-1890s
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Partition of West Africa
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1879
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Zulu victory over British at Isandhlawana; defeat at Rourke's Drift
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1882
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British invasion of Egypt
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1885
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Indian National Congress Party founded in India; gold discovered in the Transvaal
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1890s
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Partition of East Africa
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1898
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British-French crisis over Fashoda in the Sudan
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1899-1902
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Angolo-Boer War in South Africa
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1914
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Outbreak of World War l
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