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19th Century Timeline

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1. 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).






2. Barbary Wars between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa






3. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






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






5. First Seminole War begins in Florida.






6. Anaesthesia used for the first time.






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8. The Convention of Kanagawa formally ends Japan's policy of isolation.






9. Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.






10. Crazy Horse surrenders and is later killed






11. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






12. 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.






13. Mormon migration to Utah.






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






15. The first boatloads of gold prospectors arrive in California - giving them the nickname 49ers.






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






17. California Gold Rush






18. Polish uprising against the Russian Empire.






19. The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.






20. French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar






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






22. The Sino-French War led to the formation of FrenchIndochina.






23. 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.






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






25. The Home Rule Movement is established in Ireland.






26. The Texas Revolution in Mexico resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.






27. Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of inheritance






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






29. 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.






30. The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.






31. Aspirin patented.






32. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






33. Cuban War forIndependence results in Cuban independence from Spain






34. Russo-Persian War.






35. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






36. The first recognised international soccer match - between England and Scotland - is played.






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






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






40. The Communist Manifesto published.






41. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






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






44. TheFirst Boer War.






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






46. Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.






47. TheFirst Boer War.






48. Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.






49. The Pony Express ended.






50. Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.