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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 |
| | 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 last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, is deposed by the British and exiled to Rangoon, in Burma | |
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| 1861 |
| | Lagos, on the coast of Nigeria, is annexed as a British colony when the royal family prove unable or unwilling to end the slave trade | |
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| 1862 |
| | John McDouall Stuart reaches the north coast of Australia at Van Diemen's Gulf seven months after setting off from Adelaide | |
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