Latin American wars of independence
1808–1833 · Event
The revolutions that dismantled Spanish and Portuguese rule on the American mainland, from the power vacuum of the Peninsular War to the fall of the last royalist strongholds.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master, Spain
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Around 1808
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Britain abolishes the slave trade (1807)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 (1808)