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19th Century Timeline

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1. Canadian Confederation formed.






2. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






3. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






4. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






5. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






6. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






7. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






8. The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.






9. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






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






11. France annexes Cambodia.






12. The contest between the British Empire and Imperial Russia for control of Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.






13. Greco-Turkish War.






14. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






15. First gramophone record






16. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






17. The British EastIndia Company is dissolved.






18. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






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20. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






21. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






22. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






23. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






24. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






25. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






26. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.






27. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






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






29. New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage






30. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






31. The Decembrist revolt






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






33. Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to the British.






34. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






35. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






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






38. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






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






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






41. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






42. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






43. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






44. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






45. Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.






46. First Anglo-Sikh War






47. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






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






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






50. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance