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19th Century Timeline

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1. Canadian Confederation formed.






2. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






3. The Irish Potato Famine leads to the Irish diaspora.






4. World population reaches 1 billion.






5. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






6. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






7. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






8. The Caste War of Yucat






9. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






10. SecondIndustrial Revolution






11. Dreyfuss Affair






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






13. The Soci






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






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






16. California Gold Rush






17. Morphine first isolated.






18. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






19. 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.






20. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






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






22. The German Customs Union is formed.






23. Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists.






24. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






25. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein






26. First gramophone record






27. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






29. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.






30. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






31. 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.






32. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






33. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






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






35. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






36. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






37. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






38. Slavery banned in Brazil.






39. Slavery banned in Brazil.






40. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






41. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






42. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






43. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






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






45. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






46. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






47. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






48. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






49. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






50. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.