colonialism

The completion of the original Aswan Dam fundamentally changes Egypt’s irrigation system.

The Suez Canal is completed under French supervision and becomes one of the world’s most important waterways.

Guano, one of the main export goods in South America in the mid-nineteenth century, becomes a central cause of the Chincha Islands War.

Following the emergence of its colonial forest service, France establishes the first forest reserves to manage the precious tropical rain forests in Cochinchina (present-day Vietnam).

More than three million Bengali perish in a famine that remains one of the worst catastrophes in the history of modern India.

More than 10,000 people are killed during the earthquake in the Bihar region of Eastern India.

The Sharda Canal is the last major British colonial irrigation project completed in the United Provinces of India.

The Act is the first British legislation to encompass all of India’s forests and waterways.

The passage of the first forest regulations in India under British rule leads to the establishment of the Imperial Forest Service.

The outbreak of the Spanish Influenza kills more than twelve million people in India.