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This is a non-exhaustive chronology of colonialism-related events, which may recensed political events, cultural events, as well as important global events which have influenced the colonization and the decolonization.
15th to 18th century
19th century to World War I
- 1804-1813: Uprising in Serbia against the presence of the Ottoman Empire
- 1810-1820s: South American Wars of Independence
- 1810-1821: Mexican War of Independence
- 1815-1817: Serbian uprising leading to Serbian autonomy
- 1821-1823: Greek War of Independence
- 1822: Independence of Brazil proclaimed by Dom Pedro I
- 1823: British abolish slavery in the West Indies
- 1830: Start of the French conquest of Algeria
- 1834: Beginning of the Boers' Great Trek
- 1839-42: First Opium War and First Anglo-Afghan War
- 1846-1848: Mexican-American War, which results in the Mexican Cession
- 1848: Spring of Nations in Europe
- 1848: Decree-law Victor Schoelcher which abolish slavery (permanently) in the French colonial empire
- 1852-60: Second Opium War
- 1853-55: Publication of Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (one of the first, major formulation of racial theories [1])
- 1854-56: Crimean War
- 1854- Convention of Kanagawa after Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan
- 1857: Uprising in India against British occupation, which leads to the creation of the British Raj
- 1861-1867: French intervention in Mexico ordered by Napoleon III
- 1870: Franco-Prussian War
- 1870-80s: Conquest of the Desert in Argentina, led by Julio Argentino Roca
- 1877-1878: War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire and March 3, 1878 Treaty of San Stefano
- 1878: Treaty of Berlin recognising the independence of Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and the autonomy of Bulgaria
- 1878-1881: Second Anglo-Afghan War
- 1879: Anglo-Zulu War
- 1880-81: First Boer War
- 1881: Indigenous Code in Algeria
- 1882: Triple Alliance between Italy and the German-Austrian Dual Alliance
- 1883: Publication of The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
- 1884-85: Berlin Conference (UK, France, Germany) which sets the right of conquest for the scramble for Africa
- 1885: Foundation of the Indian National Congress
- 1885: Treaty of Simulambuco (between Portugal and the N'Goyo Kingdom).
- 1887: France creates the Indochinese Union
- 1888: Lei Áurea ("Golden Law") on May 13 in Brazil which abolish slavery
- 1889: Foundation of the Republic of Brazil
- 1889: British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes chartered by the British government to seek treaties and administer territory between the Limpopo River and African Great Lakes.
- 1890: Cecil Rhodes sends the Pioneer Column into Mashonaland, starting the process of annexing the territory which became Southern Rhodesia
- 1891: The Stairs Expedition to Katanga kills its king, Msiri and obtains treaties from his successors for the territory to become the possession of Leopold II of Belgium
- 1894: Franco-Russian Alliance, breaking France's isolation by Bismarck
- 1895: Treaty of Shimonoseki between Japan and China and Triple Intervention
- 1895: Creation of French West Africa (AOF)
- 1895-96: First Italo–Ethiopian War
- 1896: Anglo-Zanzibar War (on August 27)
- 1897: Punitive Expedition led by British Admiral Harry Rawson against Benin, which brings to an end the highly sophisticated West African Kingdom of Benin
- 1898: Fashoda Incident
- 1898: On July 25, 1898 at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States with a landing at Guánica. Following the outcome of the war, Spain was forced to cede Puerto Rico, along with Cuba, the Philippines, and Guam to the United States under the Treaty of Paris (1898)
- 1899: Publication of Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden, as well as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness [2]
Interwar period
- 1919: Foundation of the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference and creation of the League of Nations Mandates (Iraq and Palestine — including Transjordan — are passed to Great Britain's control, Lebanon and Syria to France; the Cameroons and Togoland are split between the UK and France; Ruanda-Urundi goes to Belgium and Tanganyika to the UK; Nauru and New Guinea to Australia; the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the South Pacific Mandate to Japan; Samoa to New Zealand and South West Africa to South Africa)
- 1919: Third Anglo-Afghan War
- 1919: Non-Cooperation Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi
- 1920: San Remo conference in April
- 1920: Treaty of Sèvres on August 10 between the Triple Entente (UK, France and Russia) and the Ottoman Empire; Mustafa Kemal leads the Turkish War of Independence leading to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne
- 1922: Creation of the Soviet Union
- 1923: Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey by Mustafa Kemal on October 29
- 1924: British Empire Exhibition
- 1925: Foundation of the Algerian Star of North Africa by Messali Hadj
- 1921-1926: Rif War in Morocco, led by Abd el-Krim
- 1927: May 19 Treaty of Jedda accords independence to Saudi Arabia led by king Abdul Aziz
- 1927-1928: Publication of André Gide's Travels to Congo [3].
- 1931: Paris Colonial Exposition
- 1931: South Africa gains independence from Britain
- 1932: Independence of Iraq
- 1933: Portuguese Colonial Act
- 1933: Publication of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-Grande & Senzala ("The Great House and the Slave Quarters" - 1933 [4])
World War II : Cold War until the Détente
- World War II
- 1941: Atlantic charter signed by president Roosevelt
- 1941: Foundation of the Viet Minh by Ho Chi Minh
- 1941: Syria proclaims its independence from Vichy France, which is recognized in 1944
- 1942: Quit India Movement called for by Gandhi on August 9
- 1943: Independence of Lebanon
- 1944: Nelson Mandela joins the African National Congress
- 1945: Sétif massacre in Algeria on May 8
- 1945: Proclamation of the independence of Vietnam by Ho Chi Minh
- 1945: Foundation of the Arab League on March 22 (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen)
- 1945: Fifty states sign the Charter of the United Nations on June 26
- 1945-1950: Chinese Civil War between the nationalist Kuomintang and the Communist Party led by Mao Zedong
- 1946-54: First Indochina War
- 1947: Official start of the Cold War (see Cold War (1947-1953) and Cold War (1953-1962))
- 1947: Independence of India and of Pakistan on August 15
- 1947: UN Resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine in favor of a Two-state solution.
- 1947: French repression of the Malagasy uprising. 90 to 100 000 killed.
- 1948: Declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14 and first Arab-Israeli War
- 1948: Colonial exhibition in Belgium
- 1949: Proclamation of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong
- 1951: Publication of Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism (second section dedicated to imperialism)
- 1952: Alfred Sauvy coins the term "Third World"
- 1953: US Operation Ajax against Mossadegh in Iran
- 1954: US Operation PBSuccess against Guatemalean president Arbenz
- 1954-62: Algerian War
- 1955: Bandung Conference
- 1955: Creation of the Latin American Episcopal Conference in Rio de Janeiro
- 1956: Suez Crisis between Israel, the UK and France against Egypt, after Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company
- 1957: Algerian independence militant Larbi Ben M'Hidi murdered in prison, early March
- 1958: Foundation of the United Arab Republic as a first step toward a Pan-arab nation; it is formed by Egypt and Syria (until 1961). Creation also of the short-term Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan.
- 1959: Cuban Revolution
- 1959: Independence of Morocco and Tunisia
- 1960: Independence of French colonies in Africa; the United Nations (UN) reach 99 members states
- 1961: Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on January 17
- 1961: Formation of the Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas on April 18 in Casablanca, Morocco (PAIGC, MPLA, FRELIMO and MLSTP)
- 1961: Creation of the Non-Aligned Movement
- 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion
- 1961: Soviet premier Khrushchev declares that the Soviet Union would support all "national liberation movements"
- 1961: Publication of Frantz Fanon' The Wretched of the Earth
- 1961: October 17 Paris massacre
- 1961-74: Portuguese Colonial War; See also Angolan War of Independence (1961-1989)
- 1962: March 18 Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War
- 1962: Sino-Indian War from September to November
- 1962: Cuban missile crisis in October, which marks the climax of the Cold War and leads to the Détente
1963 to the fall of the Berlin Wall
- 1963: Assassination of Sylvanus Olympio on January 13, first president of Togo; he is replaced by Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who ruled over Togo until his death in 2005
- 1965-1973: Vietnam War
- 1965: Assassination of Mehdi Ben Barka, leader of the UNPF and of the Tricontinental Conference
- 1965: Joseph Mobutu becomes the dictator of the Democratic Republic of Congo until his overthrow in 1997 by Laurent-Désiré Kabila
- 1967: Assassination of Che Guevara in Bolivia.
- 1969: Assassination of Eduardo Mondlane, leader of the FRELIMO
- 1970s: Independence of the former Portuguese colonies, following the April 25, 1974 Carnation Revolution and the Portuguese Colonial War
- 1971: Independence of Bangladesh following the war with Pakistan
- 1971: Publication of Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America [5]
- 1971: Publication of Gustavo Gutiérrez's A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation [6]
1990s-2000s
See also
References
- ^ Pierre-André Taguieff, La force du préjugé. Essai sur le racisme et ses doubles, 1987 (p.22, 23, 125, 134, 136, 137, 150, 151, 158, 300, 307, 324, 338, 340, 499, 501, 522, 523, 524, 525, 530, 534, 535, 556, 582) (French)
- ^ Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate all the brutes, 1992
- ^ Voyage au Congo suivi du Retour du Tchad, in Lire, July-August 1995 (French)
- ^ Raízes de Gilberto Freyre by Thomas E. Skidmore in Journal of Latin American Studies (2002), 34: 1-20 Cambridge University Press
- ^ "Writer Without Borders" July 14, 2006 In These Times (English)
- ^ Gustavo Gutiérrez gana premio Príncipe de Asturias, Agencia Peru, 30 April 2003 (Spanish)
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