NY Regents 10.4: Imperialism

Guangzhou, China sits right where this pattern points — a great port on the Pearl River Delta, its harbor opening onto the warm waters of the South China Sea along the coast of the vast Qing empire…

This is Canton — today called Guangzhou — in southern China, sitting at the head of the Pearl River delta where it opens into the South China Sea, exactly the coastal gateway the title clue…

This uprising erupted in Guangzhou, a major port city in southern China, sitting in the Pearl River delta just inland from the South China Sea — exactly the southern interior region where rebel…

In June–July 1857 at Cawnpore (today Kanpur), a British garrison and civilians endured a three-week siege, then attempted to evacuate by boats at the Satichaura Ghat on the Ganges; most were killed…

On 14–20 September 1857, East India Company forces assaulted and recaptured Delhi from the rebel forces who had held it since May. The final assault began on 14 September from a ridge to the…

On 17 November 1857, relief forces under Sir Colin Campbell finally broke the siege of the British Residency in Lucknow, the capital of the former kingdom of Awadh, situated on the Gomti river in the…

This is Meerut, a garrison city on the great Gangetic plain of northern India — sitting exactly where the Himalayan foothills flatten into the wide, river-laced lowlands that stretch toward the Bay…

On 17 June 1858, Lakshmibai, the queen of Jhansi and one of the leading figures of the 1857–58 uprising, was killed in battle near Gwalior in what is now Madhya Pradesh, India. She had led her forces…

London, the capital of the United Kingdom, sits on the River Thames in southeastern England — the large island off northwestern Europe's Atlantic coast, separated from France by the English Channel…

On 18 April 1859, Tatya Tope — one of the most effective guerrilla commanders of the 1857–58 uprising — was captured by betrayal in the forests near Sipri (now Shivpuri) in what is now Madhya…

This event unfolded in Tokyo, the capital of Japan — an island nation curving along the western Pacific, separated from the Asian continent by the Sea of Japan. In 1868, Emperor Meiji was restored to…

On 1 January 1877, a grand imperial assembly — a Durbar — was held on the plains north of Delhi near the Yamuna river in what is now north-central India. The Viceroy Lord Lytton presided and…

This event took place in Berlin, the capital of modern Germany — a city sitting on the North European Plain, far from any mountain barrier, with the Rhine flowing to its west and the Baltic Sea coast…

Isandlwana is a rocky hill in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa — sitting inland from the Indian Ocean, between the great Drakensberg mountain escarpment to the west and the coastal lowlands to…

This event unfolded in Ulundi, in what is now KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa — on the southeastern edge of the African continent where interior grasslands slope toward the Indian Ocean. In 1879, British…

In 1883, the Ilbert Bill — a legislative proposal by Law Member Courtenay Ilbert — attempted to allow senior Indian judges to preside over cases involving Europeans in rural districts. The bill was…

The event took place in Berlin, Germany — a city sitting on the broad North European Plain, roughly midway between the Rhine River to the west and the Oder River to the east, deep in the heart of the…

This event is anchored in Brussels, the capital of Belgium — a small, low-lying country on northwestern Europe's coast, squeezed between France to the south, Germany to the east, and the North Sea to…

From 28–31 December 1885, seventy-two delegates met in Bombay (now Mumbai) at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College to hold the inaugural session of the Indian National Congress. The gathering was…

The battle unfolded in the waters near Pyongyang, in what is now North Korea, at the narrow sea corridor separating the Korean peninsula from the Japanese archipelago — the same strait the title clue…

Shimonoseki, Japan — a port city perched at the far southwestern tip of Honshu, exactly where the narrow Kanmon Strait separates Japan's largest island from the island of Kyushu, and where the Korean…

This battle took place at Adwa, in northern Ethiopia — on the high plateau of the Horn of Africa, where the continent's northeastern corner reaches toward the Arabian Peninsula across the Red Sea and…

This battle took place at Omdurman, Sudan, on the west bank of the Nile River in northeastern Africa — exactly where that great river winds through the Saharan desert, thousands of kilometres from…

This standoff took place at Fashoda, a remote outpost in what is now South Sudan, sitting on the west bank of the Nile as it flows northward through the heart of northeast Africa — exactly the arid…

This event unfolded in Beijing, the capital of China — a city seated on the North China Plain where the Yellow River's basin stretches south and the Mongolian plateau rises to the north. In…

This conflict centred on Pretoria, the administrative capital of what is now South Africa — a city sitting on the highveld plateau in the far south of the African continent, where the Atlantic and…

This atrocity unfolded in Okahandja, in what is now Namibia — a vast, arid country on Africa's southwestern Atlantic edge, inland from the cold Namib Desert coast and bordered by the Kalahari to the…

The conflict centered on Manchuria — the broad, flat, river-laced plain in what is now northeastern China, wedged between the Korean peninsula to the south and the Russian Far East to the north, with…

On 16 October 1905, the partition of the Bengal province — dividing it into a Hindu-majority west and a Muslim-majority east — took official effect under Viceroy Lord Curzon. In Calcutta, located in…

On 30 December 1906, the All-India Muslim League was founded at a gathering held at the Shahbag estate in Dacca (now Dhaka), then the capital of the newly created Eastern Bengal and Assam province…

On 26–27 December 1907, the twenty-third session of the Indian National Congress in Surat erupted into a violent confrontation between the moderate faction led by Gopal Krishna Gokhale and the…

On 30 April 1908, Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki threw a bomb at what they believed was the carriage of a despised judge in Muzaffarpur — a town on the flat Gangetic plain of what is now Bihar…

On 25 May 1909, the Indian Councils Act — commonly called the Morley–Minto Reforms after Secretary of State John Morley and Viceroy Lord Minto — received royal assent in London, the capital of the…

On 12 December 1911, King George V and Queen Mary attended the Delhi Durbar — the most spectacular of three such assemblies — held in a great tent city on the plain north of Delhi near the Yamuna…

On 23 December 1912, as Viceroy Lord Hardinge rode on an elephant at the head of a ceremonial procession marking the first state entry into the newly designated capital, a bomb was thrown from a…

In late 1913, the Ghadar Party — meaning 'revolt' or 'mutiny' — was founded in San Francisco, California, USA, by Har Dayal, Sohan Singh Bhakna, and other South Asian migrants, mostly Punjabi farmers…

On 23 July 1914, the Japanese-chartered steamship Komagata Maru, carrying 376 passengers — mostly Sikh and Muslim men from the Punjab — was refused entry to Canada after two months anchored in…