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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  

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