Morelos was a Catholic Priest before the revolution. Once the revolution started he joined as a soldier and rose through the ranks. He became leader of the revolution in 1811 when the former leader was executed by the Spanish.

In 1821 a revolutionary leader named Iturbide managed to do what no one had before, he pulled all the rival factions of the Mexican revolution together in order to fight the Spanish as one. Prior to this there were many small factions fighting against the Spanish as separate entities. Iturbide pulled them together making a force the Spanish could not contend with. Therefore they resigned the campaign and Mexico gained its independence.

Following the end of his military campaigns San Martin settled into the business of ruling in peacetime. As Chile and Argentina were already established nations given the length of time that had passed since their independence he felt they did not need his leadership. Therefore, he stayed in newly conquered Peru to rule the nation as its Protector and its new President.

In advance of the invasion of Portugal by France, the royal family fled to its primary colony of Brazil. The Royal family under King Joao VI stayed in their new home of Rio de Janeiro until  when Joao VI left to return to the throne in Portugal.

Bolivar decided the best way to maintain order following the independence of these three nations was to fuse them into one Gran Colombia. This was with the intention of keeping the government under his watchful eye so as to avoid the region from falling into chaos due to the power vacuum left by the Spanish.

Bolivar would take the position of President of Gran Colombia in 1819 and he would hold onto power until 1830. By the end of his time in office he had grown more conservative and had essentially become a military dictator. He was forced from power in that year and he intended to go into exile in Europe, but died of TB before he could. 

While most Latin American Countries did not launch battles for independence until the late 19th/early 20th centuries, the Haitian Revolution was fought in the late 1700s, ending in 1804.

Anarchists were small groups that could not gather the support for a full scale uprising. So they went about attempting to destroy the government by killing the people who ran it. They did this by shooting and bombing many leaders across Europe in an attempt to cause governments to crumble due to the loss of the leaders needed to run governments. It did not work, and ultimately backfired as these acts brought the ire of the government who sought revenge for the killings.

Sepoys were Indian soliders recruited to fight for the British colonial government and the British East India Company. The British officers forced the Sepoys to partake in practices that were prohibited by both the Hindu and Muslim faith, causing bitterness and eventual rebellion.

The Mfecane was a violent and chaotic period directly relating to King Shaka's military domination of his enemies.

The Mfecane occurred before Afrikaner settlement, but inadvertently aided the Europeans in their settling and colonizing of South Africa by destroying much of the indigenous population.

The Mfecane occurred over a century before Apartheid became the state policy of South Africa.

Fighting between South African nationalists and tribalists occurred during the 1990s, the Mfecane occurred in the early 1800s.

The Debeers company was eventually able to sell South African diamonds globally, but only a century after the Mfecane.