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1775
 
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Delegates from the states reassemble in Philadelphia, with hostilities against the British already under way in Massachusetts      
1775
 
    
Delegates to the Continental Congress make a final bid for peace, sending the Olive Branch Petition to George III       
The Olive Branch Petition of 1775
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1776
 
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Virginia's motion for independence from Britain is passed at the Continental Congress of the colonies with no opposing vote      
Liberty Bell, Philadelphia
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1813
 
   
In a treaty with Russia and Prussia at Reichenbach, Austria agrees to declare war on France      
1848
 
  
The second Anglo-Sikh war begins when a British army invades the Punjab to suppress a local uprising     
1849
 
    
A British victory at the Battle of Gujarat effectively ends the second Anglo-Sikh war, and is followed by annexation of the Punjab       
1856
 
   
An incident aboard the Arrow, flying a British flag, gives the British the pretext to launch the Second Opium War      
1858
 
   
The Treaty of Tientsin, ending the Second Opium War, gives European powers new rights to intervene in Chinese affairs      
1860
 
    
British and French forces occupy Beijing and burn the imperial summer palace, at the end of the Second Opium War       
1862
 
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Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee defeat a Union army in the second battle of Bull Run or Manassas