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19th Century Timeline

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1. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






2. The Pony Express ended.






3. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






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






5. Seneca Falls Convention is the first women's rights convention in the United States and leads to the battle for suffrage and women's legal rights.






6. Indian famine begins.






7. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






8. California Gold Rush






9. Canadian Confederation formed.






10. Victorian gold rush in Australia






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






12. Germany gains control of Camaroon






13. Peterloo massacre in England.






14. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






15. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






16. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






17. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






18. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






19. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






20. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






21. Uruguayan Civil War






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






23. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






24. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






25. Cairo falls to the British.






26. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






27. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






28. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






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






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






31. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






32. California Gold Rush






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






34. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






35. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






36. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






37. Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel - London






38. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






39. Siege of Khartoum






40. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






41. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






42. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






43. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






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






46. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






47. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






48. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






49. War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom






50. TheFirst Boer War.