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Where to categorize or find maps of Europe made in the last 70 years. Modern map shows Category to use Europe in modern times Category:Maps of Europe or its subcategories Europe in history: Category:Maps of the history of Europe or its subcategories
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
The 1870s (pronounced "eighteen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1870, and ended on December 31, 1879. The trends of the previous decade continued into this one, as new empires, imperialism and militarism rose in Europe and Asia.
18 July 1866: A new transatlantic telegraph cable between North America and Europe is successfully completed. 1870: Telegraph lines from Britain are connected to India. 20 November 1871: Service to Winnipeg opens. [114] 1871: Practical duplex telegraphy system, allowing two messages to be sent over wire at the same time, one in each direction.
This is a list of sovereign states in the 1870s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1870 and 31 December 1879. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty .
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
Imperial powers in 1800 Imperial powers in 1914. 1816 – Nepal ceded 1/3 of its territory to the East India Company as part of the Sugauli Treaty. 1818 – The occupation of Dutch settlements in India by the British is ended; Malabar is annexed to British India, while Coromandel is ceded to the Netherlands.
The Spanish–American War broke out in 1898, in the aftermath of the explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor. The U.S. defeated Spain by the end of the year, and won control of Puerto Rico in the ensuing peace treaty. In the Foraker Act of 1900, the U.S. Congress established Puerto Rico's status as an unincorporated territory.