Abolition of slavery in the British Empire
Some 800,000 enslaved people are set free
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The British Parliament abolished slavery in almost all of the empire's colonies, freeing some 800,000 people, mostly in the West Indies. The act crowned a long abolitionist campaign and set an example for other nations.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 21 years earlier
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 20 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 5 years earlier
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 6 years later
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 6 years later
Africa
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 2 years later
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 14 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 18 years earlier
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 14 years earlier
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 2 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — 6 years later
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 20 years later
Americas
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — 11 years earlier
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — 2 years later
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — 5 years later
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — 13 years later
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — 13 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 34)
- Charles Darwin (aged 24)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 24)
- Karl Marx (aged 15)
- Queen Victoria (aged 14)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 12)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 5)
- Katsushika Hokusai (aged 73)
- Andrew Jackson (aged 66)
- Francis II (aged 65)