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Sir Isaac Newton publishes
Principia
Why 1815?; The World in 1800: China vs. Western Europe In 1687 Newton published The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, better known by its Latin title of Principia Mathematica. It included theories and close observations of gravity and planetary movement in terms of mathematics. TERM 2
Battle of Waterloo
DEFINITION 2 Why 1815?; The World in 1800: China vs. Western Europe Napoleon's Defeat which was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium. TERM 3
Galileo put under house arrest by the
Inquisition
DEFINITION 3 Why 1815?; The World in 1800: China vs. Western Europe Condemnation by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633 for Heliocentric beliefs at a time where Geocentric beliefs were being founded in the church. TERM 4
Organization of British East India Company
DEFINITION 4 Sites of World Interaction: Voyages of Encounter and Mercantilism-the "Columbian Exchange" The state of Mysore, the Maratha confederation, and the Sikhs of the Punjab were over powered between 1797 and 1853. The India that resulted was a mixture of small and large tributary states and provinces that the British administered directly. TERM 5
Vasco da Gama reaches India
DEFINITION 5 Sites of World Interaction: Voyages of Encounter and Mercantilism-the "Columbian Exchange" In 1498, Vasco da Gama stood on the shores of India. When he returned to Portugal, he carried a cargo worth sixty times the cost of the voyage.
Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the
globe
Sites of World Interaction: Voyages of Encounter and Mercantilism- the "Columbian Exchange" 1519-1522 (1521 Magellan died; survived by a few remaining members of his crew) Magellan proved that the new lands discovered by Columbus were not the outermost territory of the Far East, but an entirely unknown continent that opened on the still greater Pacific Ocean. He was continuing search for a westward route to the Indies died after he made it all the way to the Philippines. TERM 7
Successful slave revolt in Haiti
DEFINITION 7 The Atlantic Slave Trade; "Amistad" (movie clip) The Slave Rebellion of 1791 in Haiti marked the first and only successful slave revolt of its kind in the world. TERM 8
Liberia founded
DEFINITION 8 The Atlantic Slave Trade; "Amistad" (movie clip) Africa's first republic, Liberia was founded in 1822 as a result of the efforts of the American Colonization Society to settle freed American slaves in West Africa. The society contended that the emigration of blacks to Africa was an answer to the problem of slavery and the incompatibility of the races. Over the course of forty years, about 12,000 slaves were voluntarily relocated. Originally called Monrovia, the colony became the Free and Independent Republic of Liberia in 1847. TERM 9
Congress of Vienna
DEFINITION 9 Europe After 1815: The Congress of Vienna and the Pax Britannica The Congress of Vienna assembled in September 1814 bud did not include its work until November 1815. The four great powers conducted the important work of the conference: Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia which formed a Quadruple Alliance which set up barriers to any new French expansion, and established new kingdoms to reestablish Post-Napoleonic Europe. TERM 10
First International Industrial Exhibition in
England
DEFINITION 10 Europe After 1815: The Congress of Vienna and the Pax Britannica The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was conceived to symbolize this industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain.
Commodore Matthew Perry "opens" Japan
Europe and East Asia In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry arrives outside the shores of Japan with numerous massive black ships and demands Japan retract its Exclusion Decree in 1633. TERM 17
Taiping Rebellion
DEFINITION 17 Europe and East Asia The Taiping Rebellion was a widespread civil war in China from 1850 to 1864, led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, against the ruling Qing Dynasty. TERM 18
Opium Wars
DEFINITION 18 Europe and East Asia The Opium War (1839-1842), also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, were the climax of trade disputes and diplomatic difficulties between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire after China sought to restrict British opium traffickers. TERM 19
Sepoy Rebellion
DEFINITION 19 Europe and East Asia The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present- day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region. TERM 20
Meiji Restoration
DEFINITION 20 Europe and East Asia The Meiji Restoration in 1868, also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure.
Berlin Conference
Europe and Africa The Berlineise Conference ( or "Congo Conference") of 1884-85 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. TERM 22
Boer War
DEFINITION 22 Europe and Africa The Boer War, fought in1899-1902, between Dutch farmers and the British challenged the "imperial mission" and is also informally known as "Britain's Vietnam."
