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19th Century Timeline

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1. World's first oil refinery in Romania






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






3. 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.






4. Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.






5. Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.






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






7. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






8. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






9. Discovery of Antarctica






10. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






11. The New Zealand Land Wars






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






13. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






14. Famine in Finland.






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






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






17. Reconstruction in the United States; Slavery is banned in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.






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






19. Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.






20. Gojong - or Emperor Gwangmu - proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire - lasts until 1910.






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






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






23. Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist






24. Invention of the phonautograph - the first true device for recording sound.






25. Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published






26. Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to stalemate and the establishment of the Durand line






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






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






29. World population reaches 1 billion.






30. Victorian gold rush in Australia






31. SpanishInquisition officially ends.






32. 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.






33. Suez Canal is constructed.






34. 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.






35. Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the death of General Custer and victory for the alliance of Lakota - Cheyenne and Arapaho






36. Basketball is invented.






37. First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven - Connecticut.






38. First isolation of aluminum.






39. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






40. 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.






41. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is established on April 6 - 1830.






42. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






43. Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British Empire assumes control ofIndia from the EastIndia Company.






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






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






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






47. Greco-Turkish War.






48. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






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






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







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