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19th Century Timeline

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1. Russo-Persian War.






2. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






3. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






4. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






5. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






6. First Anglo-Sikh War






7. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






8. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






9. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






10. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






11. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






12. Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first performed in its entirety.






13. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






14. July Revolution in France.






15. Paris Commune - Around 30000 Parisians were killed - and thousands more were later executed.






16. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






17. Frederick Douglass delivers his speech 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' in Rochester - New York.






18. Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.






19. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






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






21. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.






22. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






23. First gramophone record






24. Germany gains control of Camaroon






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






26. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






27. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






29. The Wahhabis of theFirst Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina.






30. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






31. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






32. Chilean Civil War.






33. Canadian Confederation formed.






34. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






35. Great Railroad Strike in the United States may have been the world's first nationwide labor strike.






36. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






37. Britain amends the Poor Law demanding that any paupers requesting assistance must go to a workhouse.






38. SecondIndustrial Revolution






39. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






40. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






41. First steam locomotive begins operation.






42. Independence of Argentina






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






44. Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.






45. SecondIndustrial Revolution






46. Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Service - the first modern police force.






47. Morphine first isolated.






48. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






49. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep






50. First isolation of aluminum.