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19th Century Timeline

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






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






3. Krakatoa volcano explosion - one of the largest in modern history.






4. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






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. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






7. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






8. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






9. Cairo falls to the British.






10. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






11. Imam Shamil's rebellion in Russian-occupied Caucasus.






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






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






14. The Pony Express started.






15. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






16. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






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






18. The quagga is rendered extinct.






19. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






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






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






22. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; JJ Thompson identifies the electron - though not by name.






23. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






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






25. TheFirst Boer War.






26. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






27. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






28. Independence of Luxembourg.






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






30. The Decembrist revolt






31. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






32. The cardboard box is invented.






33. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






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






35. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






36. The Communist Manifesto published.






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






38. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






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






40. Mormon migration to Utah.






41. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






42. Greece becomes the first country to break away from the Ottoman Empire after the Greek War ofIndependence.






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






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






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






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






47. Following the Russo-Turkish War - the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal independence of the Principality of Serbia - Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes autonomous.






48. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






49. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






50. July Revolution in France.