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19th Century Timeline

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1. July Revolution in France.






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3. Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858.






4. Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture of General Santa Anna.






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






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






7. Independence of Luxembourg.






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






9. Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain from the Ottoman Empire. Officially independent in 1867.






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






11. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






12. The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.






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






14. Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony






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






16. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






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






18. Chilean Civil War.






19. Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.






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






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






22. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






23. The Principality of Serbia passes a Constitution which defines its independence from the Ottoman Empire.International recognition followed in 1878.






24. Cape Colony becomes part of the British Empire.






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






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






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






28. The safety pin and the gas mask are invented






29. Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.






30. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premi






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






32. The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas - a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.






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






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35. First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming - Britain.






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






37. Morphine first isolated.






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






39. Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.






40. Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the United States House of Representatives - following a tie in the Electoral College (United States)






41. French intervention in Mexico and the creation of the Second Mexican Empire - ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his consort Carlota of Mexico.






42. US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii






43. Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.






44. First publicly funded telegraph line in the world






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






46. Regency period ends in the United Kingdom






47. First Republic in Spain.






48. 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.






49. Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night






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