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| 1850 |
| | | The British government buys the Danish fortresses on the Gold Coast, including Christiansborg castle in Accra | |
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| 1854 |
| | | The Boers establish the Orange Free State as an independent republic, with its own custom-built constitution | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Animal fat on a new issue of cartridges sparks off the Indian Mutiny, also know as the First War of Indian Independence | |
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| 1857 |
| | | The Boers of the southern Transvaal declare independence as the South African Republic | |
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| 1857 |
| | | After being besieged for five months in Lucknow, the remnants of the British garrison finally escape | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Lucknow is retaken by the British, nearly a year after it fell to the rebels | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The end of the Indian Mutiny is followed by brutal British retaliation | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The India Act places India under the direct control of the British government, ending the rule of the East India Company | |
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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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| 1858 |
| | | Under the Treaty of Aigun, Russia wins from China the valuable Pacific coastline down to Vladivostok | |
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