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19th Century Timeline

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1. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






2. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






3. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






4. The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European 'scramble for Africa'.Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.






5. 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.






6. The British Parliament passes the Great Reform Act.






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






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






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






10. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






11. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






12. Greco-Turkish War.






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






14. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






15. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






16. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






17. Kingdom of Belgium declared.






18. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






19. The Bront






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






21. The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.






22. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






23. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






24. Navarino Massacre






25. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






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






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






28. Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to stalemate and the establishment of the Durand line






29. The Cisplatine War results in the independence of Uruguay.






30. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






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






32. Yellowstone National Park - the first national park - is created.






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






34. Independence of Argentina






35. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






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






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






38. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






39. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






40. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






42. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






43. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






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






45. Peterloo massacre in England.






46. Shaka rises to power over the Zulu Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane (






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






48. Suez Canal is constructed.






49. The Chincha Islands War was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies.






50. Carlist Wars in Spain.