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19th Century Timeline

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1. 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.






2. The University of Berlin is founded. Among its students and faculty are Hegel - Marx - and Bismarck. The German university reform proves to be so successful that its model is copied around the world (see History of European research universities).






3. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






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






5. The New Zealand Land Wars






6. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.






9. The Soci






10. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






11. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






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






13. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.






14. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






15. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






16. Dreyfuss Affair






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






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






19. Independence of Chile






20. Independence of Chile






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






22. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






23. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






24. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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






26. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






27. United States Commodore Matthew C. Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with gunships - demanding that they agree to open trade.






28. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






29. Wilhelm R






30. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






31. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






32. Carlist Wars in Spain.






33. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






34. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






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






36. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






37. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






38. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






40. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






41. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






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






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






45. Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift






46. World's first oil refinery in Romania






47. First Republic in Spain.






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






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






50. The Pony Express ended.