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19th Century Timeline

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1. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






2. Greco-Turkish War.






3. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






4. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26 -765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse - Virginia - effectively ending the American Civil War.






5. Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada






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






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






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






9. The United States gains control of Cuba - Puerto Rico - and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.






10. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






11. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






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






13. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.






14. Egyptian






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






16. The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing






17. Millerite movement awaits the Second Advent of Jesus Christ on October 22. Christ's non-appearance becomes known as the Great Disappointment.






18. Year Without a Summer - Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere - likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.






19. Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene - the earliest surviving film.






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






21. First Anglo-Sikh War






22. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






23. Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle' which would become the Model T of sewing machines.






24. Thomas Edison invents the phonograph






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






26. First Republic in Spain.






27. First Mexican Empire - as Mexico's first post-independent government - ruled by Emperor Agust






28. Cairo falls to the British.






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






30. The Little Ice Age ends around this time.






31. Carlist Wars in Spain.






32. Second Anglo-Sikh War






33. Russia commences its conquest of the Caucasus.






34. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






35. Earliest recorded air raid - as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance against Venice.






36. TheFirst Boer War.






37. Discovery of Antarctica






38. 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.






39. The Great Auk is rendered extinct.






40. The Decembrist revolt






41. Short stories A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart published.






42. 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.






43. Bessemer process enables steel to be mass produced.






44. The first wagon train sets out from Missouri.






45. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






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






48. Suez Canal is constructed.






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






50. War breaks out between Britain and France; this is considered by some to be the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.