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19th Century Timeline

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1. The Pony Express started.






2. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






3. The Expatriation Act of 1868 is approved by the U.S. Congress - one of the early blows which would eventually lead to the death of the common law doctrine of perpetual allegiance






4. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






5. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






6. Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising against Ottoman rule.






7. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






8. Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism published.






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






10. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






11. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






12. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






13. Peru declares its independence from Spain.






14. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






15. The Mexican-American War leads to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-day Southwestern United States.






16. The massive expansion in population - territory - industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.






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






18. First gramophone record






19. Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time






20. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






21. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.






22. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






23. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






24. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






25. Aspirin patented.






26. Greco-Turkish War.






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






28. Wilhelm R






29. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






30. TheFirst Boer War.






31. The Communist Manifesto published.






32. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






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






34. Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence.






35. 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).






36. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






37. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






38. Cairo falls to the British.






39. Telegraphy patented.






40. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






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






42. Victorian gold rush in Australia






43. The cardboard box is invented.






44. First Republic in Spain.






45. Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.






46. 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.






47. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






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






49. Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat.






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