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19th Century Timeline

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1. July Revolution in France.






2. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






3. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






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






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






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






7. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






8. Wilhelm R






9. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom






10. Victorian gold rush in Australia






11. 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.






12. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






13. World's first oil refinery in Romania






14. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






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






16. Suez Canal is constructed.






17. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






18. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.






19. The Pony Express ended.






20. Peterloo massacre in England.






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






22. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






24. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






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






26. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






27. Second Anglo-Sikh War






28. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






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






30. The Decembrist revolt






31. First isolation of aluminum.






32. Slavery banned in Brazil.






33. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






34. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






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






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






37. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






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






39. The French invasion of Russia is a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.






40. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






42. The Congress of Vienna redraws the European map. The Concert of Europe attempts to preserve this settlement - but it fails to stem the tide of liberalism and nationalism that sweeps over the continent.






43. France annexes Cambodia.






44. Black War in Tasmania leads to the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines






45. Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.






46. Volleyball is invented






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






48. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






49. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






50. The Pony Express started.







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