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Date
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Event
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Topics
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Details |
1809 |
Abolition: Sugar prices rise. Senegal, Marinique, and Cayenne captured by the British. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
Details |
1810 |
The Portuguese agree, under British pressure, to abolish the slave trade gradually. The revolutionary government of Caracas proclaims
abolition. Mexican revolutionaries proclaim emancipation. Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Bourbon, and the Ile de France are captured by the British. Sugar prices rise. The slave trade shows signs of new vigor. |
*Abolition
*France
*Colonialism |
Details |
1811 |
Parliament makes slave trading a felony. Spain's revolutionary Cortes debates abolition and receives Cuban objections. Java is captured by the British and the slave trade to that island ends. Sugar prices fall sharply through 1811. |
*Abolition
*Spain
*Colonialism |
Details |
1812 |
Abolition: A registry of slaves is begun in Trinidad. Sugar prices begin to rise. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
Details |
1813 |
Sweden agrees to abolition on obtaining Guadeloupe from the British. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
Details |
1814 |
Abolitionists prepare to lobby the Congress of Vienna. The treaty of Paris restores the French slave trade for five years. A mass petition ensues in Britain. Britain begins a strong diplomatic effort for total international abolition. The Dutch accept abolition before their colonies are restored. The French agree to a restriction of the slave-trade coast. Guadeloupe and Martinique are returned to France. Sugar prices reach record heights. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism
*France |
Details |
1815 |
Bonaparte decrees abolition in France during the Hundred Days and the restoration government accepts the decree. Britain secures a declaration against the slave trade at the Congress of Vienna. Sugar prices continue high. Slave trade to Cuba begins to rise sharply. |
*France
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
Details |
1816 |
Abolition: Slave uprising in Barbados incurs brutal retaliation. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
Details |
Mar 1823 |
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland meets for the first time. |
*Colonialism |
Details |
1831 |
Abolition: Massive slave revolt in Jamaica with retaliations against slaves and sympathetic missionaries. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
Details |
July 31, 1833 |
Abolition of Colonial Slavery: The British Emancipation Act prohibits slavery in British Colonies, with provision for a 6-year "apprenticeship"; 800,000 slaves freed; owners compensated with over 20 million pounds. The Bill took effect in 1834. Unfortunately, the Act included a clause requiring slaves to serve an apprenticeship to their former owners, a clause which was first abolished in various colonies and then revoked entirely in the Immediate Abolition Act of 1838. |
*Colonialism
*Abolition |
Details |
1839 |
War with China; Hong Kong captured. |
*China
*Colonialism |
Details |
1839 |
Annexation of Aden by Britain. |
*Colonialism |
Details |
1839 - 1840 |
First Afghan War. |
*Colonialism |
Details |
1841 |
China: Opium War with Britain. |
*China
*Colonialism |
Details |
1841 - 1842 |
Second Afghan War. |
*Colonialism |
Details |
1843 |
British annexation of Natal. |
*Colonialism |
Details |
1845 |
Expedition to Madagascar. |
*Colonialism |
Details |
1845 - 1846 |
India: War with Sikhs. |
*India
*Colonialism |
Details |
1849 |
India: Sikhs surrender; Britain annexes Punjab. |
*India
*Colonialism |
Details |
1850 |
British purchase of Danish forts along the African Gold Coast. |
*Colonialism |