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Australia
Culture
- 1500-1700
- Based on the native people
- 1700-now
- Based on Western culture
- Derived from Britain
Religion
- Not a super religious country only 9% of people go to church weekly
1500s
- Aborigines lived there for about 40,000 years until Europeans arrived
1600s
- Same as 1500s
- Dutch made the first recorded European landing in 1606
1700s
- James Cook sails to Australia and claims it for Britiain in 1770
- In 1783, the British lost their American coonies and so they established a penal colony in Australia
1800s
- Free settles campaigned to the end the shipment of convicts to the Australian colonies
- Gold rush in the 1850s
- 6 colonies gained independence on their own internal affairs but the British Empire still controlled their defense,, trade, and foreign affairs
1900s
- Commonwealth of Australia was formed as a part of the British Empire
- Australians fought with Britain in World War 1 on the Western Front
- Gallipoli campaign
- Many Australians felt that the Gallipoli campaign was the birth of their country, their first major military action as Australians
- During WWII Japanese were attacking the Australian territory of Papua New Guinea
- FOught against them and eventually defeated them
- Australia successfully defended itself with Austrlian troops and thus it was a nation defining moment
2000s
- Olympics were held in Sydney
- 100th anniversary of the Proclamation of Commonwealth of Australia
- After 9/11 Prime Minister John Howard sent troops to Afghanistan (2001)and Iraq (2003/2005)
Argentina
Background
- Colonized by Spain
- Declared independence on July 9th, 1816
- Capital in Buenos Aires
- Government type is republic (democracy)
- Main religion is Roman Catholic
- Population is 43.5 million as of 2016
1400's
- Inca Empire launched an attack and conquered Northwestern Argentina
1500's
- Juan Diaz De Solis first European explorer to visit Argentina but was killed by naties
- Sebastian Cabot built a fort near Rosario
- Santiago del Estero was founded
- Mendoza was founded
- San Juan was founded
- Cordoba and Santa Fe was founded
- Permanent colony was re-established by Spain on the site of Buenos Aires
- Salta was founded
- San Salvador de Jujuy was founded
1600's
- First Jesuit missions to Guarani
- University of Cordoba founded
- Diaguita rebellion
- San Ignacio school in Cordoba
- Portuguese established a trading post across the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires
- City of Tucuman moved
1700's
- Jesuits expelled from Spanish territories
- Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata was established the last to be organized and also the shortest lived of the Viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire
- Establishment of the Commerce Consulate of Buenos Aires Which was mostly a guild of merchants with powers entrusted to them by the king in trade matters
1800's
- British invasions of the Rio de la Plata unsuccessful
- The first battle in Argentine War of Independence
- Loss of Bolivia
- Argentina declares independence
- Battle of Cepeda
- Rio de la Plata declares independence from Brazil
1900's
- Enters WWII on allies side and founding member of United Nations
- Bombing of AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires killing 85
- BIll Clinton designed Argentina as a major non-NATO ally
- LAPA flight 3142 crash at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport resulted in 65 fatalities
2000's
- Duhalde imposes further financial measures
- Former President Carlos Menem wins 1st round of presidential election
- Antarctic Treaty Secretariat
- First disputes of the Cellulose plant conflict
- Cristina Kirchner becomes president of Argentina
United Kingdom
Religion
- Mostly Christian
- Some Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, no religion
1500's
- King Henry VIII crowned
- Battle of Flodden Field- English defeat the Scots and the French
- King Henry gets married to Anne Boleyn
- William Shakespeare is born
Battle of Flodden Field
- Fought between England and Scotland
- Fought in Braxton
- Scots leader- King James IV
- English Leader- Thomas Howard
- Largest battle
1600s
- Treaty of London
- Isaac Newton is born
- First turnpike road was made in 1663
- The last outbreak of the bubonic plague
- Great Fire of London
1700s
- Treaty of Union
- Great Britain created
- Robert Walpole
- 7 years war- Struggles between Great Britain and its bourbon enemies
- George II resisted French attacks in Germany
- Spain and French attack Portugal
- Portuguese resist successfully
- Treaty of Paris
- British Troops sent to American Colonies
- Revolutionary War- fought American colonists but lost and lost the United States territory
1800s
- War of 1812- restricted US trade and Navy's Impressment of American seaman an deep desire to expand territory
- British destroy the Capital
- Treaty of Ghent
- Invention of photography
- Reform act
- Popular entertainments
1900s
- Boer War- Britain defeats 2 South Africa Boer States
- Dutch Cape Colonies- Sparked the Boer States
- World War I
- League of Nations created after
- Anglo-Irish Treaty- Ireland breaks away
- UK known as United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland
- WWII begins
- Winston Churchill becomes prime minister
India
1707 AD
- Aurangzeb
- East India Company
- 6th Mughai Emperor
1721 AD
- Attingal Outbreak
- 140 SOldiers
- Native Indians
- Madras Cyclone
Early 1800
- KNown as British Raj
- India's population is 200 million
- The British now control large parts of India, and Delhi because of the Second Anglo-Maratha War
The Marathas
- They were the only major power left beside the British
- The were a confederacy of 5 major chiefs
- Peshwa
- Gaekwad
- Holkar
- Scindia
- Bhonsale
Pehwa-scindia v Holkar
- The chiefjs had internal argument
- Thi lead to the Peshwa and the Scindia to join forces and fight the Holkar
- Holkar attacked the Pehwa and Scindia at the Battle of Ponna
- Holkar marched through India til he conquered the city of PUne
- After their faction war he set up a nominal leader for the Peshwa and returned home
Second Anglo-Maratha War 1803
- Cause- the nominal leader of the Peshwa was threatening the British rule in India
- Leaders- British
- Gerard Lake
- Arthur Wellesley
- Maratha
- Daulat Scindhia
- Raghoji M Bhonsle
- Yashwantrao Holkar
Battle of Assaye
- It was lead by Wellesley for the British
- British were outnumbered by the combined armies of Maratha
- British ended up winning the battle which was a major victory in the war
MId 1800s
- Slavery ws finally abolished in India in 1833
- 1840- French scholar JOseph de Gobineau, writes "The Inequality of Human Races", which proclaims the Aryan race in the superior race
- 1843 the British conquer Sind region which is known as Pakistan today
- German Christian philologist Max Muller advocates that the term "Aryan" means people from central Asia
First Indian Revolution
- Lasted from May 10, 1857- November 1, 1858 only 1 year 8 months
- Cause- Soldiers didn't wnt to serve overseas
- Victor- British had defeated and stopped the rebellion
- Deaths: 800,000 to 10 million
Late 1800s
- Gandhi was born in 1869
- Group of middle class found the Indian National COngress which is the origin of the government today
Gandhi
- Born October 2, 1869
India
- Was part of the British Empire but by the end of 1947
- India had achieved independence
- Globalization regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network
India Government Today
- Prime Minister: Narandra Modi
- President: Pranab Mukherjee
- Federal Government: Established by: Constitution of India
- November 26, 1949
- January 26, 1950
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lets go back in time to 1200
- Natives there other than that there was nothing going on
Portuguese Discover the Congo
- Diogo Cao sails to the Congo
- Portuguese set up ties with ?
1600-1700
- Trade
- Slaves
1800's Belgian Colonization
- King Leopold II private venture to colonise Kongo
- Henry Stanley (Brit.) navigates the Congo
- River- Atlantic
- Leopold commissions Henry to establish the King's authority
1884-1885
- Recognize Leopold
- Congro basin
- Congro is free
1891-1892
- Belgians conquer Katanga
Eastern Congo wrested from Slave Trade
- Eastern congo overthrow Arab-Swahili slave traders
- Tippu Tip
1908
- Belgian annexes
- Protests
- Belgian control
50's THe Beginning of a Free Congo!
- 1955- Belgian Professor Antoine van BIlsen publishes 30 Year Plan
- Belgium starts to lose control over the Congo due to nationalistic riots in Leopoldville
1960
- Independence
- Mutiny
- Kasavubu
- Lumumba
1961
- Lumumba murdered
- UN Troops
1963
- Tshombe
1964
- Kasavubu
1988- Rebels come in
- Rwanda and Uganda rise up against Kabila to advance on Kinshasa
- Zimbabwe and Namibia send troops to repel them
- Angolan troops also side with Kabila
- The rebels take control
Mobutu Years
- Kasavubu Tshombe ousted in a coup led by Mobutu
- "Republic of Zaire" "See Seko" "River Zaire"
- Nationalize business firms and drives out European companies
- COngo defaults on Belgian loans
- Deterioration of economy
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