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| 1807 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot | |
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| 1809 |
| | | British commander Arthur Wellesley builds the lines of Torres Vedras, to defend the promontory leading south to Lisbon | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, inherits the throne of Portugal (as Pedro IV) but continues to rule from Brazil | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Pedro I abdicates in Brazil and returns to Europe to recover his Portuguese throne (as Pedro IV) | |
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| 1836 |
| | | The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives from exile in South America to defend the new Roman republic against a French army | |
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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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| 1888 |
| | | Vincent van Gogh invites Paul Gauguin to come and paint with him at Arles, in the south of France | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Within a single 'Black Week' the British forces in South Africa suffer three defeats, at Stromberg, Magersfontein and Colenso | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver | |
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