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| 1825 |
| | | Juan Antonio Lavalleja leads a band of Thirty-three Immortals in Uruguay's fight for independence from Brazil | |
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| 1827 |
| | | Britain, France and Russia, supporting Greek independence, defeat the Turkish and Egyptian fleets at Navarino | |
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| 1832 |
| | | Greece wins independence, with the 17-year-old Otto of Bavaria as king | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Spain between supporters of Ferdinand VII's three-year-old daughter, Isabella II, and of his brother Don Carlos | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Sam Houston destroys a Mexican army near the San Jacinto river, completing the seizure of Texas from Mexico | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Uruguay between the Reds and the Whites, followers respectively of Rivera and Oribe | |
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| 1839 |
| | | A British army invades Afghanistan and instals a puppet ruler, Shuja Shah, as the Afghan amir | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Abd-el-Kader proclaims a holy war against the French in Algeria and begins a military campaign that will last for eight years | |
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| 1839 |
| | | British troops invade China after the Chinese authorities seize and destroy the opium stocks of British merchants in Canton | |
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| 1839 |
| | | British forces capture Hong Kong, which is subsequently ceded to Britain by China at the end of the first Opium War in 1842 | |
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