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Mikołaj Wiśniew ki - Briti h Civilization 2024-25 Guidelines for the Exam BRITISH COLONIALISM TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS - TOWARDS the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Jethro Tull Invention of team power: Robert Boyle >> Thoma Newcomen >> Jame Watt Development of the Textile Indu try: William Lee >> Richa...

Mikołaj Wiśniew ki - Briti h Civilization 2024-25 Guidelines for the Exam BRITISH COLONIALISM TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS - TOWARDS the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Jethro Tull Invention of team power: Robert Boyle >> Thoma Newcomen >> Jame Watt Development of the Textile Indu try: William Lee >> Richard Arkwright >> Edmund Cartwright (power loom!) 1. Jamaica: The Engli h captured Jamaica from the Spani h in 1655 Henry Morgan Ri e of lavery on Jamaica under Engli h rule: In 1662 there were about 400 Negro lave on the i land / In 1775 – over 192500 John Newton 1772 - Somer et Ca e 1807 - Abolition of the Slave Trade 1833 - Abolition of Slavery in the Briti h Empire Thoma Clark on / William Wilberforce 2. India: Carnatic War 1748-1763 "Black Hole of Calcutta" Siraj ud-Daulah v. Robert Clive / Battle of Pla ey (1757) Battle of Buxar - Treaty of Allahabad (1765) 1769-70 – The Great Famine in Bengal War with My ore under Richard Welle ley, 2nd Earl of Mornington – Governor General of India 1798-1805. Hi brother, Arthur Welle ley – later Duke of Wellington – fought in India during thi time. Battle of Miani - Annexation of Sindh (1843) General Napier Anglo-Sikh War (1846-49) - Annexation of Punjab Doctrine of Lap e - Annexation of Awadh (1856) William Jone Thoma Babington Macaulay - Engli h Education Act (1835) 1857 Indian Rebellion ICS – Indian Civil Service Indian National Congre - Mahatma Gandhi & Jawaharlal Nehru 1935 – Government of India Act Lord Loui Mountbatten – la t Viceroy of India 1947 – Partition of India 3. Africa: Egypt: AFRICA: External debt forced Egypt’ ruler, I ma'il Pa ha, to ell hi country' hare in the Suez Canal (opened 1869) for £4,000,000 to the United Kingdom in 1875 / Occupation of EGYPT – 1882 King Farouk of Egypt overthrown in the 1952 Egyptian Revolution Gamal Abdel Na er Pre ident of Egypt 1956-70 Anthony Eden – Briti h Prime Mini ter 1955-1957 Suez Canal Cri i – November 1956 South Africa: 1795 - Cape Colony - taken over by the British from the French (former Dutch colony) 1838 - The Great Trek begin (Battle of Blood River) 1842 - Briti h annexation of Natal John William Colen o 1868 - diamond di covered near Kimberley (Orange Free State) 1879 - Battle of I andlwana 1880-81 - Fir t Boer War (Paul Kruger, Battle of Majuba Hill) 1886 - di covery of gold in the Tran vaal 1896 - The Jame on Raid 1899-1902 - Second Boer War (Battle of Spion Kop, concentration camp , Emily Hobhou e) Rhode ia: Cecil Rhode (1853-1902) King of Diamond & Prime Mini ter of Cape Colony 1890-96 1899 – Briti h South Africa Company e tabli hed 1890 - Annexation of Ma honaland, Fort Sali bury e tabli hed (modern-day Harare, capital of Zimbabwe) Matabele War 1893-94 – 1896-97 / Leander Starr Jame on (1853-1917) DECOLONIZATION: Ian Smith, Prime Mini ter of Southern Rhode ia (1964-79) 1965 - Rhode ia' Unilateral Declaration of Independence ( o-called UDI) 3. Pale tine: 1920-1948 - Pale tine under the Briti h mandate Thoma Edward Lawrence („Lawrence of Arabia”) Syke -Picot Agreement - May 1916 ZIONISM - Theodore Herzl / Chaim Weizman 1917 - Balfour Declaration 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Pale tine - „White Paper”: May 1939 1948 Arab-I raeli War - Nakba Irgun Walter Guinne – Re ident Mini ter of State in Cairo, A a inated – Nov. 6, 1944 July 22, 1946 – The King David Hotel bombing 1948 - Briti h withdrawal from Pale tine / 1948 Arab-I raeli War 4. Au tralia: January 26th, 1788 – Fir t Fleet (Between 1788-1867 ca 140.000 people tran ported to Au tralia) Iri h Rebellion - 1798 -> Iri h political pri oner ent to Au tralia: Ca tle Hill Convict Rebellion – 1804 – led by Philip Cunningham John Macarthur (1767-1834) Pioneer of wool production in Au tralia 1808 - Rum Rebellion (coup again t Governor William Bligh) Lachlan Macquarie Famou convict : Franci Greenway, Mary Reibey Tran portation of convict to Au tralia ended in 1852