1852: Napolean declares the Second Empire in France
1853-1856: Crimean War
1856: Treaty of Paris
1858: The Italians make a deal with Napoleon III to join forces against Austria (Treaty of Plombieres)
1859: Napoleon made peace with Austria and Cavour gains Lombardy but not Venetia
1860: Savoy & Nice ceded to France
a. Napoleon will not interfere with Italian unification
b. people of central Italy vote to join Sardinia as a nation state
1861: Emmanuel II proclaimed King of Italy; abolishment of serfdom in Russia
1862: Otto von Bismarck appointed chancellor of Germany
1863: Prussian-Danish War
1864: Creation of the Zemstvo in Russia; Marx's First International of Socialists
1866: Austro-Prussian War
a. Italy gained Venetia
1867: Bismarck creates the North German Confederation
1869: Completion of the Suez Canal
1870: Italy gains Rome and completes unification
1871: Franco-Prussian War and Rome captured by Italian troops, Treaty of Frankfurt, Germany unified under the German Empire
1878: King Leopold II of Belgium founds the International Congo Association, leading to the creation of the Congo Free state
1884: Berlin Conference
1890: Bismarck resigns; Wilhelm II crowned the Kaiser
1912: Social Democratic Party becomes the largest in Germany
1853-1856: Crimean War
1856: Treaty of Paris
1858: The Italians make a deal with Napoleon III to join forces against Austria (Treaty of Plombieres)
1859: Napoleon made peace with Austria and Cavour gains Lombardy but not Venetia
1860: Savoy & Nice ceded to France
a. Napoleon will not interfere with Italian unification
b. people of central Italy vote to join Sardinia as a nation state
1861: Emmanuel II proclaimed King of Italy; abolishment of serfdom in Russia
1862: Otto von Bismarck appointed chancellor of Germany
1863: Prussian-Danish War
1864: Creation of the Zemstvo in Russia; Marx's First International of Socialists
1866: Austro-Prussian War
a. Italy gained Venetia
1867: Bismarck creates the North German Confederation
1869: Completion of the Suez Canal
1870: Italy gains Rome and completes unification
1871: Franco-Prussian War and Rome captured by Italian troops, Treaty of Frankfurt, Germany unified under the German Empire
1878: King Leopold II of Belgium founds the International Congo Association, leading to the creation of the Congo Free state
1884: Berlin Conference
1890: Bismarck resigns; Wilhelm II crowned the Kaiser
1912: Social Democratic Party becomes the largest in Germany