 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1850 |
| | | The British government buys the Danish fortresses on the Gold Coast, including Christiansborg castle in Accra | |
| |
|
| 1853 |
| | | Russia occupies two Ottoman principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, on the west coast of the Black Sea | |
| |
|
| 1854 |
| | | The Boers establish the Orange Free State as an independent republic, with its own custom-built constitution | |
| |
|
| 1858 |
| | | Napoleon III and Cavour hatch a secret plan at Plombièes to tempt Austria into war in north Italy, and agree how to divide up the spoils | |
| |
|
| 1858 |
| | | The India Act places India under the direct control of the British government, ending the rule of the East India Company | |
| |
|
| 1858 |
| | | Under the Treaty of Aigun, Russia wins from China the valuable Pacific coastline down to Vladivostok | |
| |
|
| 1858 |
| | | Napoleon III sends forces to capture the port of Da Nang, beginning the French colonization of Vietnam | |
| |
|
| 1859 |
| | | A French and Piedmontese army liberates Milan from Austrian rule | |
| |
|
| 1860 |
| | | The treaty of Turin brings much of north Italy under the control of Cavour (for the kingdom of Sardinia), who in return cedes Savoy and Nice to France | |
| |
|
| 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 | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |