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19th Century Timeline

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1. First section of the London Underground opens.






2. British defeat French at the Second Battle of Abukir






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






4. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






5. Independence of Bolivia.






6. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






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






8. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy - the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism.






9. France invades and occupies Algeria.






10. Russia abolishes serfdom.






11. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






12. The German Customs Union is formed.






13. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






14. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






15. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






16. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






17. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






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






19. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






20. After theFirst Sino-Japanese War - China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.






21. Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice






22. Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of Guatemala - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - and Costa Rica.






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






24. Death of Alexander Pushkin






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






26. Persian Prophet the B






27. Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.






28. Morphine first isolated.






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






30. Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana)






31. Wilhelm R






32. Ethiopia defeats Italy in theFirst Italo






33. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






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






35. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






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






37. Famine in Finland.






38. TheFirst Boer War.






39. Napoleon escapes exile and begins the Hundred Days before finally being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena. His defeat brings a conclusion to the Napoleonic Wars and marks the beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until 19






40. Greco-Turkish War.






41. Serbian revolution erupts against the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia recognized in 1817.






42. After two Opium Wars - France - the United Kingdom - the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.






43. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






44. Tsar Alexander II is assassinated






45. World population reaches 1 billion.






46. Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.






47. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






48. Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.






49. Cro-Magnon man first identified.






50. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.