Battle of Adwa
March 1, 1896
Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II, with a hundred thousand men and modern rifles, crushed an Italian invasion in the northern mountains of Ethiopia. Eleven thousand Italians were killed or captured in a single day. It was the most decisive African victory over a European power in the colonial age. Ethiopia would keep its independence for another forty years.
In context
Also in 1896 (7 other events on record)
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- Plessy v. Ferguson · North America · Politics
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- Marconi Files Wireless Patent · Europe · Technology
- First Modern Olympics · Europe · Culture
- Cross of Gold Speech · North America · Politics
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in War
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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