Events
Hong Kong implements
CDA due to soldiers being
unfit for duty from VDHong Kong becomes an
official British colonyQueensland is
settled by the BritishHavelock Ellis'
Psychology of SexFrench sodomy
laws abolishedCharles Ledger sells a lush
cinchona plant to the Dutch"On the Origin of Species" publishedYugoslavian Civil War:
result of Croat and Bosniak
oppression; focused in Sarajevo;
proxy war once NATO is involvedSewing machine introduced in FranceRoentagen discovers X-raysJazz music
becomes popular
during American
ProhibitionWoodstock: sums up the flower
child era of 1960s; Baby boomers conceivedBritain decriminalizes being gayGandhi's Salt March: promote non-violent
protest against British colonialism; fight for Indian independenceBritish Empire ends with the
release of Hong Kong to ChinaFirst Fashion Week started by Eleanor LambertChristian Dior releases first collection; New LookVoluntary Aid Detachment employs women during WWsHitler's dictatorship beginsUganda released from British protectionPeriods
Meiji Period: rapid westernization and importation of comfort women from China/KoreaTokugawa/Edo Period: Confucian values, feudalism, open prostitutionDarwin's research on the HMS BeagleSepoy Rebellion: Indians against British colonialism; first Indian War of IndependenceBoxer Rebellion: China against British imperialism and an extension of the Opium WarsChinese Civil War: Mao Zedong and Communists vs Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalists; latter end up in TaiwanNigerian Civil War: follows decolonization by Britain; Biafra attempts to break off and control oilfieldsArab Revolt: end of Ottoman Empire as a result of British and Young Turks' interference
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