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19th Century Timeline

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






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






3. The Mahdist War in Sudan.






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






5. Aspirin patented.






6. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






7. The German Customs Union is formed.






8. Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.






9. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






10. 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






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






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






13. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






14. The Suez Canal opens linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.






15. Wilhelm R






16. Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table






17. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






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






19. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






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






21. The Grito de Dolores begins the Mexican War ofIndependence.






22. First electric motor built.






23. 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.






24. Louis Napoleon assumes power in France in a coup.






25. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






26. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






27. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






28. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






29. 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.






30. The One Thousand Days war in Colombia breaks out between the 'Liberales' and 'Conservadores' - culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.






31. Chilean Civil War.






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






33. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






34. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.






35. The Stockton and Darlington Railway - the first public railway in the world - is opened.






36. November Uprising ends with crushing defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.






37. Missouri Compromise






38. Spanish guerrillas fight in the Peninsular War.






39. Independence of Luxembourg.






40. The New Zealand Land Wars






41. Dominican War ofIndependence from Haiti.






42. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






43. Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.






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






45. The British Empire takes over Balochistan






46. Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.






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






48. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






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






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