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Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution was a series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804. The conflicts involved Haitian slaves, colonists, the armies of the British, French colonizers, and a number of other parties. Haitian people struggled to win independence from France and thereby became the first country to be founded by former slaves. This revolution is often described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere due to the fact slave freedom was taken by force in Haiti. -
Latin American Wars of Independence(North, Simon Bolivar)
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Latin American Wars of Independence (North,Simon Bolivar)
The final victory of Latin America patriots over Spain and the fading loyalists began in 1808 with the political crisis in Spain.Creoles and peninsulars began to search for power across Spanish America.The juntas came out on top ruling in the name of the Spanish king. However loyalists later then put them down. Over the next decade and a half Spanish Americans had to defend with arms. By 1821 Simon Bolivar a wealthy Venezuelan creole, had won Venezuela's independence with a decisive victory.. -
Mexican War of Independence
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Mexican War of Independence
A Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla led a call for revolution from the town of Dolores on September 16,1810 officially starting the Mexican Revolution. It was a conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities. This movement was led by Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos, Zambos, and Amerindians who sought independence from Spain. Mexico won and gained independence from Spain which led to the expulsion of the Spanish colonial government and the Treaty of Cordoba. -
Italian Unification
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The Unification of Germany
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The Unification of Germany
Germany had been fragmented into as many as 300 separate states ever since the Investiture Struggle in the Middle Ages. Germany had also suffered from foreign wars and aggression due to Napoleon's previous rule. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck would be the man who would lead Prussia in Germany's unification. He was a man of immense size, strength, intellect, and iron will. Bismarck was no lover of democracy he believed in decisive policies of "blood and iron'' to create a German nation. -
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Latin American Wars of Independence(South, San Martin)
There were two leaders who had pushed much of South America to independence. Those two leaders were Simon Bolivar who survived defeats ans exile and Jose de San Martin, they decided to work together. Jose de San Martin helped win the independence for Argentina in 1816 and also for Chile in 1818. Simon Bolivar had led their combined forces or armies to great victory in 1824, and this victory had gained independence for all of the Spanish colonies. -
Brazilian Independence
This first began when Portugal founded Brazil in the 18th century and then declared it their land. When Napoleon fell King Dom Joao VI went back to Portugal leaving his son Pedro I and he believed that he could change and make Brazil a better place. Dom Pedro had then declared Brazil's independence from Portugal. The formal recognition later came with a treaty signed by both Brazil and Portugal in late 1825. -
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. The Romanticism time period had lasted from 1830 to 1865. This movement or time period focused on a variety of characteristics including sensibility, love of nature, sympathetic interest in the past, and romantic criticism and primitivism. Romanticism marked an artistic literary movement that was partly a revolt against social and political norms. -
Greek Revolution
This event was created when Greece went through war and conflict with the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman empire was trying their best to overcome and hopefully overthrow the Greek empire so that they could claim the land as their own. In other words this war was a war of conquering and defending a nation. -
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Italian Unification
In Piedmont Victor Emmanuel ll governed with a parliament whose democratic majority refused to ratify the previous peace treaty with Austria. The Proclamation of Moncalieri favorably contrasted Victor's policies with those of other Italian rulers and permitted elections. However the voracious Liberals installed a new cabinet under Massimo d' Azeglio. D' Azegilo introduced the Siccardi law, which curtailed the power of the ecclesiastical courts. In October 1850 Camillo Benso di Cavour entered.
