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1817 - New Holland becomes Australia
1819 - Florida ceded by Spain to US
1831-33 - discovery of Endrby's Land in antarctic
1846 - Van Dieman's Land becomes Tasmania (so. of Australia)
1856 - Burton and Speke discover Lake Tanganyika
1857 - John Speke discovers Lake Victoria
1867 - Alaska sold by Russia to US
1868 - Austro-Hungarian Empire established
1869 - Suez Canal complete
1878 - Serbia, Montenegro and Romania independent
1878 - Cyprus became British
1885 - Congo Free State (Congo Staat)
1891 - North and South Dakota divided and Indian Territory in Oklahoma
1902 - Boer War ends - Eng. acquires So. African states
1902 - Cuba independence
1903 - Panama independence
1905 - End of the Swedish-Norwegian Union (Norway independent); Sakhalin Island divided between Japan and Russia
1907 - Eastern Oklahoma was called Indian Territory
1908 - Bulgaria becomes independent kingdom
1912 - Albania independent
1914 - opening of the Panama Canal
1917 - Finland independence
pre1914 Leningrad was named St. Petersburg
1914 -1924 Leningrad was named Petrograd
1924 - Leningrad appears
1918 - Yugoslavia created
1918 - Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia independence
1920 - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia independence
1922 - Russia changes to Soviet Union
1923 - Turkey independent
1924 - Christiana, Norway renamed Oslo
1928 - Peiping changed to Peking
1929 - Yugoslavia name change
1930 - Constantinople becomes Istanbul
1932 - Saudi Arabia, Iraq independent
1932-45 - Japan seizes Manchuria; renamed Manchuokuo
1934 - Italian East Africa merged Somaliland, Eritrea and Ethiopia
1936-41 - Ethiopia occupied by Italy, renamed Italian East Africa
1935 - Persia becomes Iran
1937 - Burma separates from India
1938 - Germany annexes Austria
1938 - Bolivia loses Gran Chaco to Paraguay
1939 - Bohemia (currently Czech Republic) occupied by Germany; Slovakia independent
1939 - France returns Hatay to Turkey
1941 - Slovenia divided between Italy and Germany; Croatia independent
1942 - Ecuador loses Oriente to Peru
1944 - Lebanon independent
1946 - Philippines independent from United States
1947 - India independent; East and West Pakistan created
1948 - Israel created; Republic of Ireland independent
1953 - Korea divided into North and South
1953-63 - Central African Federation
1954 - Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia independent; Sudan independent
1956 - Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan independent
1958-61 - Egypt and Syria united as United Arab Republic
1960 - French West Africa divides into independent countries and ceases to exist; Congo and Somalia independent
1961 - Sierra Leone, Tanzania (Tanganyika) independent
1962 - Uganda, Algeria, Jamaica independent
1963 - Kenya independent
1964 - Malawi and Zambia independent; Rhodesia divided
1965 - Rhodesia independent
1966 - Botswana and Guyana independent
1971 - Bahrain independent
1975 - Angola and Mozambique independent