Monroe Doctrine

Name: Monroe Doctrine
Start: 1823
Location: Washington

1823 · Washington · Americas · Politics

The US declares the Americas closed to European colonization

On 2 December 1823 President James Monroe told Congress that any European attempt to colonize the Western Hemisphere or to meddle in its new republics would be seen as hostile to the United States. In return the US promised to stay out of Europe's affairs.

State: United States of America

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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Europe

1804 Coronation of Napoleon — 19 years earlier
1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 9 years earlier
1816 Year Without a Summer — 7 years earlier
1821–1829 Greek War of Independence — 2 years earlier
1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 22 years later

Eastern Europe & Russia

1807 Treaties of Tilsit — 16 years earlier
1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 11 years earlier
1812 Battle of Borodino — 11 years earlier

Middle East

1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 5 years later
1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 16 years later
1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 16 years later

Africa

1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 19 years earlier
1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 18 years earlier
1830 France invades Algiers — 7 years later
c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 12 years later
1847 Liberia declares independence — 24 years later

Asia

1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 8 years earlier
1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 6 years earlier
1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 4 years earlier
c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 8 years later
1839–1842 First Opium War — 16 years later