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19th Century Timeline

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1. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






2. First Anglo-Sikh War






3. Erie Canal opened connecting the Great Lakes to theAtlantic Ocean.






4. The British Empire annexed Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three Anglo-Burmese Wars.






5. 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).






6. Queen Victoria's reign is considered the apex of the British Empire and is referred to as the Victorian era.






7. Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the Expedition of the Thousand






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






9. Chilean Civil War.






10. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story - A Study in Scarlet.






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






12. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.






13. Prince Pedro of Portugal proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7. On December 1 - he was crowned as Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil.






14. 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






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






16. The samurai class is abolished in Japan.






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






18. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic.






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






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






21. Siege of Khartoum






22. Death of William Blake - Ludwig van Beethoven






23. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






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






25. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






26. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






27. The German Customs Union is formed.






28. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






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






30. Missouri Compromise






31. Dreyfuss Affair






32. Persian Prophet the B






33. Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.






34. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






35. United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while attending a performance atFord's Theater - Washington - D.C.. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15 - 1865.






36. Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.






37. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






38. Volleyball is invented






39. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






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






41. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






42. Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.






43. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.






44. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






45. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






46. First electric motor built.






47. The quagga is rendered extinct.






48. Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes the largest in Southern Africa.






49. Carlist Wars in Spain.






50. 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.







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