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| 1856 |
| | | An incident aboard the Arrow, flying a British flag, gives the British the pretext to launch the Second Opium War | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The Treaty of Tientsin, ending the Second Opium War, gives European powers new rights to intervene in Chinese affairs | |
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| 1860 |
| | | British and French forces occupy Beijing and burn the imperial summer palace, at the end of the Second Opium War | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee defeat a Union army in the second battle of Bull Run or Manassas | |
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| 1864 |
| | | President Lincoln is re-elected for a second term, thanks largely to recent Union successes on the Civil War battlefields | |
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| 1878 |
| | | Three British armies invade Afghanistan, beginning the second Anglo-Afghan War | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The British withdraw from Afghanistan, having achieved nothing in the Second Anglo-Afghan War | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Stephen Crane succeeds handsomely with his second novel, The Red Badge of Courage, set in the American Civil War | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Bulgaria launches the Second Balkan War, in the end to the great detriment of Bulgarian interests | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Balkan states and the Ottoman empire agree an armistice in Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War | |
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