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19th Century Timeline

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1. Charles Darwin's journey on the HMS Beagle.






2. Volleyball is invented






3. Famine in Persia is believed to have caused the death of 2 million.






4. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






5. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






6. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






7. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






8. The Trumpet gets valves.






9. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






10. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






11. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






12. Death of Alexander Pushkin






13. Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).






14. Second Anglo-Sikh War






15. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






16. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.






17. End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic






18. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






19. July Revolution in France.






20. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






21. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






22. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






23. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






24. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






25. Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.






26. Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.






27. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






28. Egyptian






29. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






30. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






31. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






32. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






33. Independence of Luxembourg.






34. Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific.






35. Victorian gold rush in Australia






36. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






37. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






38. Indian famine begins.






39. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






40. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






41. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






42. Canadian Confederation formed.






43. By this time - 46000 Native Americans have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears.






44. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






45. First Republic in Spain.






46. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






47. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






48. Discovery of Antarctica






49. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






50. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.