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19th Century Timeline
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1. Suez Canal is constructed.
1832
1819
1877
1859
2. Cairo falls to the British.
1801
1837
1818
1810s
3. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.
1851
1898
1881
1840
4. Germany gains control of Camaroon
1884
1849
1868
1834
5. First commercial film release by Jean Aim
1892
1808
1825
1894
6. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America
1837
1866
1805
1870s-1890s
7. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.
1816
1885
1837
1804
8. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.
1878
1835
1805
1837
9. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.
1856
1831
1833
1862
10. Basketball is invented.
1848
1892
1825
1851
11. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'
1868
1873
1880
1898
12. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.
1897
1808
1888
1886
13. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed
1861
1886
1844
1893
14. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1814
1894
1836
1817
15. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt
1858
1822
1876
1882
16. HMS Challenger surveys the deepest point in the Earth's oceans - the Challenger Deep
1851
1867
1875
1876
17. First section of the London Underground opens.
1863
1861
1806
1825
18. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest
1815
1895
1854
1873
19. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.
1847
1874
1863
1876
20. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.
1831
1873
1843
1845
21. Olympic Games revived inAthens.
1896
1876
1890
1830
22. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.
1870
1894
1817
1849
23. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia
1874
1853
1862
1806
24. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.
1846
1802
1805
1884
25. Famine in Finland.
1860
1820
1814
1866
26. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds
1801
1898
1825
1896
27. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.
1819
1825
1816
1817
28. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.
1844
1899
1853
1804
29. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.
1808
1883
1876
1830
30. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C
1805
1881
1821
1863
31. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.
1813
1840
1803
1876
32. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin
1881
1837
1839
1897
33. The New Zealand Land Wars
1845
1848
1852
1896
34. The Bront
1847
1884
1825
1856
35. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.
1890
1893
1854
1825
36. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.
1839
1861
1892
1817
37. First Anglo-Sikh War
1845
1814
1868
1817
38. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.
1877
1841
1837
1886
39. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.
1866
1837
1865
1820
40. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia
1862
1881
1845
1827
41. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.
1823
1801
1831
1825
42. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.
1820
1876
1885
1876
43. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.
1854
1814
1802
1804
44. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia
1831
1841
1862
1894
45. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.
1863
1854
1832
1831
46. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen
1874
1895
1841
1872
47. Bah
1888
1863
1896
1825
48. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada
1805
1868
1844
1840
49. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.
1820
1874
1804
1801
50. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.
1892
1863
1886
1845