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Europe 1832
First Egyptian-Ottoman War
In return for assisting the Ottoman Empire in Greece, Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali - nominally an Ottoman governor - demanded he be ...
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Europe 1832
Battle of Konya
After defeating the Ottoman Empire in Syria in 1831-32, Muhammad Ali's Egyptian army invaded the Turkish heartland of Anatolia ...
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Europe 1833
Convention of Kütahya
The 1832 Egyptian victory over the Ottoman Empire at Konya left Constantinople defenseless, driving the Sultan to request Russian support ...
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Europe 1833
Liberal Wars
When King João VI of Portugal died in 1826, a succession dispute arose between the king's eldest son, Pedro ...
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Europe 1834
First Carlist War
Opposition to liberal reforms in Spain led to an uprising in 1833, with the pro-absolutist Carlists supporting the claim of ...
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Europe 1840
Second Egyptian-Ottoman War
The Ottoman army attempted to reconquer Syria in 1839, but was routed by the Egyptians. To make matters even worse ...
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Europe 1840
Oriental Crisis
The Egyptian rejection of the 1840 London Convention led to the Oriental Crisis, threatening the collapse of the Ottoman Empire ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1911
Neukamerun
In 1911 France sent troops to suppress a rebellion in Morocco. Germany promptly claimed the 1906 Algeciras Agreement had been ...
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Australasia 1914
Conquest of the German Pacific
The Great War opened in the Pacific with a string of easy victories for the New Zealanders and Australians as ...
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Southern Asia 1915
Ottoman Raids in Persia and Sinai
The defeat at Sarikamish did not end smaller scale Ottoman offensives, with one Turkish unit even managing to briefly capture ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1915
Conquest of Kamerun
Despite the setbacks of 1914, by 1915 the Allies had managed to secure the coast of the German colony of ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1916
East African Campaign
By March 1916 the Allies had conquered all of the German colonial empire except for German East Africa. That month ...
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Southern Asia 1916
Pacification of South Persia
Back in Persia, the Ottomans had rolled back the Russian offensive and taken Hamadan. However the British were finally prepared ...
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Southern Asia 1917
Mesopotamian Campaign
The securing of South Persia allowed the British to return their focus to Mesopotamia. In early 1917 they recaptured Kut ...
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Southern Asia 1917
Sinai Campaign and Battle of Aqaba
While the British were advancing on Baghdad, they were also reconquering the Sinai Peninsula and ending the Ottoman threat to ...
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Southern Asia 1919
Amritsar Massacre
Despite the end of World War I, the British remained concerned about the threat of revolutionary activity in India and ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1920
Africa and the Peace Treaties
Fighting continued in East Africa for a few days after the end of World War I in Europe, until news ...
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Southern Asia 1922
Saudi Expansion
Since its foundation in 1902, the Saudi state in Nejd had grown to cover much of the Arabian interior. In ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1922
League of Nations Mandates
Following the Treaty of Versailles the newly-formed League of Nations granted the victorious Allies mandates over the colonies they had ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1925
Campaign of the Sultanates
In 1922 Mussolini's National Fascist Party gained power in Italy and immediately began pushing for a stronger colonial policy ...