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19th Century Timeline

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1. Muhammad Ali modernizes Egypt.






2. Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars






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






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. 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.






6. 13 million Chinese die of famine in northern China.






7. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






8. Muslim Rebellion in northwest China.






9. Discovery of Antarctica






10. Crimean War between France - the United Kingdom - the Ottoman Empire and Russia






11. Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.






12. France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance






13. American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy






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






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






16. Dreyfuss Affair






17. 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.






18. William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas - the 'first practical steamboat'.






19. Greater Colombia dissolved and the nations of Colombia (including modern-day Panama) - Ecuador - and Venezuela took its place.






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






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






22. New Zealand is founded - as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.






23. Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of C






24. TheFirst Boer War.






25. Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb






26. Ten Years' War between Cuba and Spain






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






28. First Transcontinental Railroad completed in United States on May 10.






29. Volleyball is invented






30. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is approved.






31. The Paraguayan War ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.






32. Russo-Turkish War - Treaty of Bucharest.






33. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






34. The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation of Belgium.






35. The cardboard box is invented.






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






37. Missouri Compromise






38. Austro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy.






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






40. The Expatriation Act of 1868 is approved by the U.S. Congress - one of the early blows which would eventually lead to the death of the common law doctrine of perpetual allegiance






41. Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.






42. First gramophone record






43. Revolutions of 1848 in Europe






44. 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).






45. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






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






47. Russia conquers Finland from Sweden in the Finnish War.






48. After the final Russo-Persian War - the Persian Empire took back territory lost to Russia from the previous war.






49. Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile






50. Wilhelm R