Year 1897

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1858 – 1947★★★★★

Beginning of the British Raj

After the 1857 rebellion, the Government of India Act transfers rule from the East India Company to the British Crown; the Mughal Empire formally ends.

Politics· India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, United Kingdom

1885 – 1908★★★★★

Leopold II's Congo Free State

King Leopold II of Belgium ruled the Congo as a personal possession; its forced-labour rubber regime caused mass deaths until Belgium annexed the territory in 1908.

PoliticsEconomy· DR Congo, Belgium