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19th Century Timeline

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1. Suez Canal is constructed.






2. Cairo falls to the British.






3. The Platine War ends and the Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South America.






4. Germany gains control of Camaroon






5. First commercial film release by Jean Aim






6. Long Depression in Western Europe and North America






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






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






9. Neanderthal man first identified. Age still unknown.






10. Basketball is invented.






11. Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'






12. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.






13. TheInternal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed






14. Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.






15. The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt






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






17. First section of the London Underground opens.






18. Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest






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






20. Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.






21. Olympic Games revived inAthens.






22. 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.






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






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






25. Famine in Finland.






26. H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds






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






28. Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.






29. Queen Victoria becomes Empress ofIndia.






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






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






32. Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin






33. The New Zealand Land Wars






34. The Bront






35. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the AmericanIndian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.






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






37. First Anglo-Sikh War






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






39. At least 5000 Mexicans die in Apache raids - and 100 settlements are destroyed.






40. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






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






42. Liberia founded by the American Colonization Society for freed American slaves.






43. Elisha Haydon Collier invents the Flintlock Revolver.






44. French gain first foothold in Southeast Asia






45. Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman rule occurs.






46. The word 'dinosaur' is coined by Richard Owen






47. Bah






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






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






50. Formation of theInternational Red Cross is followed by the adoption of theFirst Geneva Convention in 1864.