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This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
The Long Depression was a worldwide price and economic recession, beginning in 1873 and running either through March 1879, or 1899, depending on the metrics used. [1] It was most severe in Europe and the United States, which had been experiencing strong economic growth fueled by the Second Industrial Revolution in the decade following the American Civil War.
The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain. In Britain, the Panic started two decades of stagnation known as the " Long Depression " that weakened the country's economic leadership. [ 1 ]
1700–1721 Great Northern War – 30,000 Russians killed in action [2] 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession – 1,251,000 killed in action [1] 1703–1711 Rákóczi's War of Independence; 1707–1708 Bulavin Rebellion; 1712 Toggenburg War; 1714–1718 Venetian-Ottoman War; 1715–1716 Jacobite rising of 1715
The post-Napoleonic Depression was an economic depression in Europe and the United States after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. In England and Wales, an agricultural depression led to the passage of the Corn Laws (which were to polarize British politics for the next three decades), and placed great strain on the system of poor relief inherited from Elizabethan times.
The 1800s (pronounced "eighteen-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1800, and ended on 31 December 1809. The term "eighteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1800 to 31 December 1899 (the years beginning with "18"), and is almost synonymous with the 19th century (1801–1900).
It was also manifest in the markets of Europe, Latin America and the United States. An infusion of gold reserves from the Banque de France saved the Bank of England from collapse. [1] The panic has been called the first modern economic crisis not attributable to an external event, such as a war, and so the start of modern economic cycles.
This post-war policy was preceded by an inflationary policy during World War I, when many European nations abandoned the gold standard, forced [citation needed] by the enormous costs of the war. This resulted in inflation because the supply of new money that was created was spent on war, not on investments in productivity to increase aggregate ...