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| 1857 |
| | | Animal fat on a new issue of cartridges sparks off the Indian Mutiny, also know as the First War of Indian Independence | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The end of the Indian Mutiny is followed by brutal British retaliation | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The India Act places India under the direct control of the British government, ending the rule of the East India Company | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, is deposed by the British and exiled to Rangoon, in Burma | |
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| 1885 |
| | | A secret revolutionary group (Union and Progress, later known as the Young Turks) is formed in Salonika in the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Young Turks of Salonika organize a successful uprising against the autocracy of the Ottoman sultan | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria declares his country's independence from Ottoman rule and calls himself Tsar Ferdinand I | |
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| 1912 |
| | | A national uprising against Turkish rule in Albania launches a full-scale Balkan war | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya | |
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| 1912 |
| | | An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia | |
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