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| 1858 |
| | | Napoleon III sends forces to capture the port of Da Nang, beginning the French colonization of Vietnam | |
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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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| 1861 |
| | | Lagos, on the coast of Nigeria, is annexed as a British colony when the royal family prove unable or unwilling to end the slave trade | |
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| 1862 |
| | | John McDouall Stuart reaches the north coast of Australia at Van Diemen's Gulf seven months after setting off from Adelaide | |
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| 1863 |
| | | France establishes a protectorate over Cambodia | |
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| 1864 |
| | | The island of Corfu is ceded by Britain to the kingdom of Greece | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The Canadian nation is called the Dominion of Canada – the first example of 'dominion status' | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Britain annexes Basutoland (now Lesotho), the kingdom of the Sotho leader Moshoeshoe | |
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| 1868 |
| | | An uprising against Spanish rule in Cuba sparks off a Ten Years' War | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Britain, France and Italy take joint control of the finances of a bankrupt Tunisia | |
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