By the 1870s polar exploration was...
In 1881 France alarmed Italy by...
When gold was discovered in the...
In the late nineteenth century...
In 1894 peasants and followers of...
In 1894 Nicaragua annexed the...
Japanese gains in the Treaty of...
In March 1896 Anglo-Egyptian forces...
When the Japanese defeated China in...
By 1898, the long-running Cuban war...
In late 1897 the Anglo-Egyptian army...
In July 1898, while the British were...
