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Major World Events in 16th Century
»Great Britain and Ireland merged to become the United Kingdom (1801).
»Louisiana Purchase, US purchased France's N. America Colonies (1803).
»UK defeated French and Spanish fleets and dominanted the seas (1805).
»Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, and was exiled to St. Helena (1815).
»Antarctica was discovered (1820).
»Opium War, China ceded Hong Kong to UK (1840 - 42).
»First telegraph line in the world between Baltimore and Washington connected (1844).
»Mexican American War, US gained the nowaday Southwestern US (1848).
»Taiping rellellion in China ended with 20 million people dead (1864).
»American Civil War (1861 - 65).
»US purchased Alaska from Russia (1867).
»Canadian Confedration formed (1867).
»First Transcontinental Railroad completed in US (1869).
»Suez Canal openned (1869).
»Aspirin was discovered (1889).
»First commercial film was released (1894).
»Olympic Games revived in Greece (1896).